New Job Opportunity at UNICEF Tanzania – Health Emergency Specialist TA
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in Tanzania 2021: New Job Opportunities United Nations at UNICEF, 2021
Job no: 537679
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Level: NO-3
Location: Tanzania,Uni.Re
Categories: Health, Emergency Programme, NO-3
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UNICEF
works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most
disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To
help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child,Care
71,051,805
cases were recorded due to the Covid-19 pandemic by 14th December 2020
and 1,608,648 deaths. The COVID-19 outbreak was declared by WHO Director
General a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on
30 January 2020 and a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. A total of 509
cumulative COVID-19 cases were reported by April 29th and May 7th for
Tanzania Mainland (375) and Zanzibar (134) respectively. The Government
of Tanzania declared a significant reduction of COVID-19 cases in June
2020, and the Ministry of Health professed the end of the first wave but
suggested that the country may experience a second wave which requires a
robust continuity of readiness to respond to any re-emerging disease
outbreak UNICEF is currently reviewing COVID-19 response plan to realign
it to the National COVID response plan focusing on supporting the
Government to access COVAX, PPE and strengthening RCCE. In addition,
institutional WASH, System strengthening, and Continuation of Essential
Services will be emphasised in the revised COVID-19 response plan.
UNICEF
Tanzania CO is seeking to engage an experienced Health emergencies
specialist, to support urgent planning, implementation, and monitoring
of the TCO COVID-19 response plan for Health.Under the direction and
guidance of the Chief of Health, the incumbent will coordinate overall
Tanzania Country Office health emergency preparedness and response, in
response to COVID-19 and other public health related emergencies. The
incumbent will be responsible for health sector preparedness and
response and for coordinating and monitoring interventions
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How can you make a difference?
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS
- Provide
technical support to UNICEF and partners including contributing to the
development of or sharing relevant standards, protocols, guidelines and
training materials for Health in emergencies. - Support the
UNICEF Country offices in the development/update on health emergency
response plans and other relevant documents as needed. - Be deployed on a short notice in the framework of UNICEF staff surge mechanism to support outbreak or other health emergencies.
- Conduct joint field visits and evaluations with relevant health sector/cluster partners.
- Contribute
to UNICEF’s Health Emergencies response strategy, work planning,
contingency planning processes with other sectors to ensure cross
sectoral response programming and resilience building. - Oversee
project supply chain in coordination with UNICEF operations staff to
ensure that essential medicines, COVAX and other medical supplies are
provided to government and NGO partners as needed.
Expected Deliverables
- Weekly
analytical technical report covering achievements, gaps and
recommendations for improvement. The report should cover actions taken
and results and include updates on epidemiological data. - Inputs for other UNICEF updates – CO, RO – weekly or as needed.
- Support
other sections to review and package technical information, develop
monitoring tools, job aids and training packages as needed. This support
should extend to MoH and partners if required/necessary. - Final report on the completion of the surge mission where relevant
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To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- Advanced university degree in Public Health, Health Sciences, Community
Health or related fields (preferably with specialised training on
public health in complex emergencies, in epidemiology and/or disease
control). - Five years of professional work experience in public
health, with field experience in responding to health emergencies. This
includes coordination & partnerships, risk assessments, planning,
programming, implementation monitoring and evaluation of public health
emergency programs relevant to communicable disease control. - Background/familiarity
in emergency preparedness and response, preferably in the control of
COVID-19 and other VHFs considered an asset. - Working experience with UNICEF, WHO or international health NGOs in emergency health an asset.
- Fluency
in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language
(Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an
asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s
values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA)
and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive
for Results.
The functional competencies required for this post are…
View our competency framework at here
committed
to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all
candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic
backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to
become a part of the organization.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance
policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of
the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse,
sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also
adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates
will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will
therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background
checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and
employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide
additional information to conduct a background check.
Advertised: 11 Feb 2021 E. Africa Standard Time
Deadline: 25 Feb 2021 E. Africa Standard Time
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