Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, May 07, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
WHO is providing financial and technical assistance to the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MOHCDGEC) as well as the MOH in Zanzibar to strengthen response measures aimed at mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on human lives. A critical component of response in COVID-19 is Logistics Management. In this regard, WHO wants to recruit temporary staff to support logistics activities for COVID-19 response at the national level, and sometimes at sub national levels when needed. In the context of the WHO Health Emergencies incident management system, at the country level, the incumbent will implement technical activities directed towards logistics of outbreaks and health emergencies, support quantification and forecasting of health products needs of the country, maintain overall situational awareness of the event as well as the location and status of all deployed resources as well as Facilitate procurement of supplies including treatment kits (local or international). Recruited staff may be deployed to the regions (as per needs) to support the regions as per the TORs below. In the country of assignment, reporting to the Team Lead, and based on priorities set by the Incident Manager and the WHO Head of Country Office, and working closely with other logisticians, the incumbent will act as a logistics expert for the WHE programme. The incumbent will work in close collaboration with relevant technical officers at the national level. .

Summary of Assigned Duties:
• Provide technical and operational support to overall Health Education/RCCE subcommittee activities in strengthening and mainstreaming community engage¬ment and social mobilization strategies; aligning with technical and operational priorities and objectives; and delivering through existing national ana local structures.
• Ensure community engagement and social mobilization strategies and implementation plans are evidence-based, coordinated, and well executed, drawing upon anthropology and related behavioural and social sciences so that community concerns, sociocultural beliefs and practices impacting public health inter¬ventions are addressed.
• Work closely with technical teams to assess the integration and effectiveness of community engagement practices within technical SOPs according to the context
• Collaborate with partners to ensure appropriate monitoring and evaluation tools and mechanisms for community engagement and social mobilization are in place at the national and subnational level and ensure the findings are integrated into technical and operational decision-making.
• Contribute to building the national capacity through needs identification, development, operationalization and implementation of a capacity building and training plan.
• Ensure tnat there is strong linkage and communication between the risk communication group and the other working groups including case management, surveillance, logistics, research and development and coordination
• Provide regular feedback to the incident management team, national authorities and partners on the adaptation of response strategies for effective and feasi¬ble community engagement in affected areas.
• Where necessary, conduct formative research, and/or liaise with stakeholders/partners conducting sociocultural research.
• Perform any other incident-specific related duties, as required by the functional supervisor.

Job Skills: Not Specified

Education:
• Essential: University degree in health promotion/health education, medicine, sociology or medical anthropology from an accredited/recognized institute.
• Desirable: Advanced University degree in Public Health. Specialized training in participatory approaches, strategic communication planning, social mobilization, participatory research, training and impact evaluation of community engagement/social mobilization interventions.
• Essential: At least two years of relevant experience in applying multidisciplinary approaches in health promotion, community engagement and social mobilization programmes. Experience in emergency and/or health outbreak context. Proven experience in the application of participatory models of engagement in the health context and the ability to adapt and innovate in emergency situations.
• Desirable: Experience in operational research in social sciences. Prior humanitarian working experience at field level, with WHO/UN, health cluster partners, recognized humanitarian organizations or with an international nongovernmental organization.
• Excellent communication skills: the ability to clearly present ideas and concepts both orally and written.
• Knowledge and understanding of public health approaches related to: risk communication, community engagement; social mobilization
• An understanding of emergency response and ability to coordinate multidisciplinary and technical inputs into designing community engagement strategies and plans
• Strong strategic planning and organizational skills: ability to generate, analyse and appropriately apply findings from qualitative research to planning and project design; the ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary and multicultural environment with tact and diplomacy
• Ability to meet tight deadlines; to efficiently and effectively coordinate activities and tasks to meet specific objectives.
• Excellent interpersonal skills: the ability to build relationships and work with stakeholders and partners.

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Interested and qualified applicants should send cover letter and comprehensive resume to the WHO Country Representative via the following email addresses afwcotzremit@who.int ; afwcotz@who.int  or use the following link to apply online https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobsearch.ftl  

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