Senior Public Health Associate

Hardship Level (not applicable for home-based)

A (least hardship)

Family

UNOPS LICA7

2024-09-15

September 15, 2024

Organizational Setting and Work Relationships

The Senior Public Health Associate is a member of a multidisciplinary team and contributes to ensuring that UNHCR’s public health programmes meet minimum UNHCR and global health standards to minimise avoidable morbidity and mortality among forcibly displaced and stateless persons and towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Public health programmes include primary health care, secondary health care, sexual and reproductive health (including HIV), communicable diseases, nutrition, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS). The incumbent provides effective guidance and support to partners on UNHCR’s responses in public health. The Senior Public Health Associate is normally supervised by a more senior public health staff or in the absence thereof, by operations/programmes staff.

All UNHCR staff members are accountable to perform their duties as reflected in their job description. They do so within their delegated authorities, in line with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which includes the UN Charter, UN Staff Regulations and Rules, UNHCR Policies and Administrative Instructions as well as relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, staff members are required to discharge their responsibilities in a manner consistent with the core, functional, cross-functional and managerial competencies and UNHCR’s core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for diversity.

Duties

– Contribute to public health programming and support the implementation of public health interventions with health authorities in a multi-sectoral and coordinated manner.
– Support gathering information for relevant assessments and identification of needs.
– Support the technical integrity of health care services and that they are based on Ministry of Health, UNHCR and/or internationally recognized and most up-to-date standards and policies.
– Work closely with programme and other units as applicable in programme planning and monitoring.
– Monitor and support compliance with UNHCR Public Health Administrative Instruction/standard operating procedures.
– Ensure implementation of relevant UNHCR Health Information System suite of tools and surveys to support in analysis, interpretation, reporting.
– Ensure decision making is risk-based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).
– Provide briefings and prepare reports as required.
– Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Education & Professional Work Experience

Medicine Nursing Public Health Epidemiology

(Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk* are essential)

Relevant Job Experience

Essential
Experience in public health programming as well as understanding of health systems and health system building blocks. Experience with data collection and analysis and in position(s) where the ability to draft clear, concise documentation was essential.

Desirable
Experience in public health emergency preparedness and response. Experience in refugee settings. Experience with coordination and stakeholder engagement to achieve public health goals. Experience with health information systems. Experience with the provision of quality-assured medicines and medical supplies.

Functional Skills

PM-Project monitoring and evaluation
PH-Public Health Epidemiology 
MD- HIV/AIDS situation management
MD-Reproductive Health
PH-Community Health – Health Data Collection/Analysis/Interpretation 

(Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential)

Language Requirements

Knowledge of French, English, and Arabic

Competency Requirements

All jobs at UNHCR require six core competencies and may also require managerial competencies and/or cross-functional competencies. The six core competencies are listed below.

Core Competencies
Accountability
Communication
Organizational Awareness
Teamwork & Collaboration
Commitment to Continuous Learning
Client & Result Orientation

 

Standard Job Description

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Desired Languages

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Additional Qualifications

Skills

Education

Certifications

Other information

This position doesn’t require a functional clearance

Home-Based

No