Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, October 10 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
This position will enable UNICEF Tanzania Country Office to provide technical assistance to the Government of Tanzania to prepare for and rapidly scale up response to public health emergencies, with special focus on infectious diseases epidemics. The candidate is expected to apply the principles of the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) while helping the organization to contribute to prevention of mortality and morbidity among children in Tanzania.

Under the direction and guidance of the Chief of Health, the incumbent will coordinate overall TCO health emergency preparedness and response. The incumbent will be responsible for health sector preparedness and response and for coordinating and monitoring interventions, provide technical advice to the design, implementation and monitoring of response and recovery interventions with a focus on ensuring continuity of essential health services in the region resulting from health system disruption caused by emergencies.

How can you make a difference?
• Provide technical assistance to UNICEF, government, and partners including contributing to the development of or sharing relevant standards, protocols, guidelines and training materials for Health in emergencies.
• Develop and update 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 respond to outbreaks 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 supplies propositioning to ensure that a baseline level of essential medicines and medical supplies are provided to government and NGO partners and is aligned to the office preparedness planning process.
• Monitor the coverage of key health interventions among the beneficiary population and share information for internal communication and external coordination, including with the health cluster and inter-cluster coordination mechanism.
• In close consultation with the M&E team, contribute to the office M&E mechanism, including results tracking.
• Contribute to UNICEF information products related to the response including situation reports.
• Draft funding appeals, donor reports and project proposals related to the response.
• Liaise with the health emergency focal points in the regional office
• Represent UNICEF country office in coordination forums at national and subnational level, participate in internal coordination and technical meeting organized by country office and the section.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Public Health, Health Sciences, Community Health or related fields (preferably with specialized training on public health in complex emergencies, in epidemiology and/or disease control)
• Five years of professional work experience in public health at the national, 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 related to communicable disease control. International level experience is an added advantage.
• Experience in leading response and early recovery to vaccine preventable disease outbreaks
• Working experience with UNICEF, WHO or international health NGOs in emergency health an asset
• Fluency in English and Swahili (verbal and written). Good written and spoken skills in the language of the humanitarian operation and knowledge of another UN language an asset.




Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

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