United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Recruitment 2024
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is currently seeking to recruit competent professionals suitable to fill the position of a Health Officer. Eligible candidates are welcomed to apply using the link provided in the article below.
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.
Job Title: Health Officer (NOB)
Job ID: 570017
Location: Bauchi
Job type: Full-time
Level: NO-2
Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment
Categories: Health and Nutrition
Job Description
- The Health Officer reports to the Health Specialist, under the overall guidance of the Chief Field Office Bauchi Field Office, for supervision.
- The Health Officer supports professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the Health Programme within the field office, from development planning to delivery of results, by preparing, executing, managing, and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, and evaluating and reporting of results.
Responsibilities
- Support to Programme development and planning.
- Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results.
- Technical and operational support to Programme implementation
- Networking and partnership building
- Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
Support to Programme development and planning:
- Conduct and update the situation analysis for the development, design and management of health-related programmes. Research and report on development trends (e.g. political social, economic, health) for higher management use to enhance Programme management, efficiency and delivery of results.
- Contribute to the development and establishment of sectoral Programme goals, objectives, strategies, and results-based planning through analysis of health needs and areas for intervention and submission of recommendations for priority and goal setting.
- Support the development and/or domestication of national health strategies, State Strategic Health Development Plans for primary health care, reproductive maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH), and immunization.
- Prepare required documentation and materials to facilitate the Programme review and approval process.
- Provide technical and operational support throughout all stages of programming processes by executing and administering a variety of technical Programme transactions, preparing materials and documentation, and complying with organizational processes and management systems, to support Programme planning, results-based planning (RBM), and monitoring and evaluation of results.
Application Deadline for the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Recruitment 2024
The application portal closes on the 1st of April, 2024.
