Health Officer at UNICEF, Lucknow, India

Deadline: 23 June 2023

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is currently seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Health Officer in Lucknow, India.

UNICEF works for a world in which every child has a fair chance in life.

Key Jobs Responsibilities

The Health Officer will perform the following functions:

• Support to programme development and planning
  • Support conducting/updating situation analysis for the program sector/s for development, design, and management of health-related programs with a focus on maternal and newborn health.
  • Research and report on development trends (e.g. political social, economic, health) for higher management use to enhance program management, efficiency and delivery of results.
• Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
  • Work closely and collaboratively with internal and external colleagues and partners to discuss operational and implementation issues, provide solutions, recommendations and/or alert appropriate officials and stakeholders for higher-level intervention and/or decision.
  • Keep record of reports and assessments for easy reference and/or to capture and institutionalize lessons learned.
• Technical and operational support to programme implementation
  • Conduct regular program field visits and surveys and/or exchange information with partners/stakeholders to assess progress and provide technical support, take appropriate action to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant officials for resolution.
  • Report on critical issues, bottlenecks, and potential problems for timely action to achieve results.
• Networking and partnership building
  • Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with health sector government counterparts and national stakeholders particularly those working on maternal and newborn health through active sharing of information and knowledge to enhance program implementation and build capacity of stakeholders to deliver concrete and sustainable results.
• Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
  • Identify, capture, synthesize and share lessons learned for knowledge development and to build the capacity of stakeholders.

Eligibility Criteria

• University Degree in public health/nutrition, pediatric health, obstetrics, maternal health, newborn health, family health, health research, global/international health, health policy and/or management, socio-medical, health education, epidemiology or other health related sciences is required.
• Minimum 2 year’s professional experience in public health planning and management and/or in relevant areas of maternal and neonatal health care, health emergency/humanitarian preparedness, at the international level and/or in a developing country is required
• Experience in health program/project development in UN system agency or organization is an asset.
• Experience working in a developing country is considered as 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.

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