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For each child, well being
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The Health Specialist (System Strengthening) stories to the Chief, Health & Nutrition for strategic steerage and supervision. The Health Specialist (System Strengthening) helps the event and preparation of the Health and Nutrition and HIV programme and is accountable for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of well being system strengthening part of the well being and vitamin and HIV programme inside the nation programme. The Health Specialist gives technical steerage and administration assist all through the programming processes, with deal with institution of monitoring and analysis framework, growth of analysis and analysis designs, info/knowledge assortment, statistics and knowledge evaluation, and preparation of stories, in assist of accomplishment of concrete and sustainable outcomes in accordance to the work plans, outcomes primarily based-administration approaches and methodology (RBM), organizational Strategic Plans and targets, requirements of efficiency, and accountability framework.
Summary of Key Functions/Accountabilities (with deal with Health Information):
- Support to strategic programme growth and planning and system strengthening.
- Support to programme administration, monitoring, and supply of outcomes.
- Technical and operational assist to programme implementation.
- Networking and partnership constructing for system strengthening.
- Innovation, data administration and capability constructing.
If you desire to to know extra about this place, please evaluate the entire Job Description right here:
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
Minimum necessities:
- Education: An superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: public well being/vitamin, growth, pediatric well being, household well being, well being analysis, international/worldwide well being, well being coverage and/or administration, environmental well being sciences, social sciences, planning, biostatistics, demography, well being schooling, epidemiology, or one other related technical discipline. Additional coaching in HSS can be a bonus.
- Work Experience: At least 5 (5) years of related work expertise in a number of of the next areas is required: public well being/vitamin planning and administration; programme growth, implementation, monitoring and analysis of developmental programmes in well being, vitamin and HIV sector; maternal and neonatal well being care, or well being emergency/humanitarian preparedness.
- Experience working in a growing nation is required.
- Experience with modern well being and vitamin techniques strengthening.
- Relevant expertise in a UN system company or group is taken into account as an asset.
- Proven expertise in Health System Strengthening together with group techniques s can be a bonus
- Other expertise:
- Professional technical data/ experience in well being and vitamin techniques strengthening, together with within the areas of proof-primarily based, fairness-centered planning and budgeting and well being administration info system amongst others comparable to Health care financing and HRH.
- Professional technical data/ experience in methodology of monitoring and analysis, together with theories, requirements and fashions, quantitative/ qualitative/ blended strategies, validity/reliability testing of knowledge, knowledge evaluation and interpretation, and statistical inference strategies.
- Professional technical data/ experience in Activity Monitoring & Evaluation, Evaluation Design, knowledge evaluation, and reporting.
- Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.
Desirables:
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
For each Child, you reveal…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-consciousness and moral consciousness
(3) Drive to obtain outcomes for affect
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
(8) Nurtures, leads and manages others
Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges.
This place has been assessed as an elevated threat function for Child Safeguarding functions as it’s both a task with direct contact with youngsters, a task that works immediately with identifiable youngsters’s knowledge, a safeguarding response function, or an assessed threat function. Additional vetting and evaluation for elevated threat roles in child safeguarding (probably together with further prison background checks) apply.
UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, spiritual or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to change into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF affords paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations. Click here to study extra about versatile work preparations, nicely-being, and advantages.
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), individuals with disabilities embrace those that have lengthy-time period bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with varied obstacles, could hinder their full and efficient participation in society on an equal foundation with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has dedicated to enhance the variety of staff with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-associated assist necessities of candidates and staff with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you might be an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility assist in finishing the web application, please submit your request via the accessibility electronic mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to youngsters (individuals below 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination primarily based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, spiritual or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to promote the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and might be anticipated to adhere to these requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to present further info to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.
UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station is required for IP positions and might be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments might also be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both should be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice might be canceled.
Remarks:
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the employees is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF’s energetic dedication to range and inclusion is important to ship the very best outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine candidates or individuals residing with disabilities are inspired to apply.
Government staff who’re thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.
UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing price at any stage of its recruitment, choice, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and coaching). UNICEF won’t ask for candidates’ checking account info.
Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and only shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the stage of the submit within the related purposeful space, or an inside/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the submit, with out evaluation of different candidates.
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Health Specialist (Systems Strengthening), P-3, Freetown, Sierra Leone, #131224 – open to non-Sierra Leonean nationals only
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