Community Health Emergency Officer Vacancy-Job Ref: JKZMUNICEF/1002/202475

Community Health Emergency Officer Vacancy-Job Ref: JKZMUNICEF/1002/202475
Lusaka (Zambia)

JOB DESCRIPTION

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.

UNICEF Zambia is a medium-sized Country Office, with just over 100 staff. The Country Programme 2023-2027 promotes the rights of every child and reaches the most disadvantaged children in Zambia. UNICEF works with the Government of the Republic of Zambia to improve social policies and systems, and on the ground to make sure that these systems reach all children, with a particular emphasis on the most vulnerable.

The UNICEF Programme of Cooperation with the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) is designed to address and mitigate the threat of poverty the country’s children face while responding to the needs with interventions addressing the multiple causative factors.

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The UNICEF Programme of Cooperation with the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) is designed to address and mitigate the threat of poverty the country’s children face, while responding to the needs with interventions addressing the multiple causative factors.

How can you make a difference?

The incumbent will provide quality technical support to key The Ministry of Health and other partners for the planning, implementation and monitoring of the community response to cholera with a special focus on Community Case Management. The incumbent will also support strengthening of accountability mechanisms established at decentralized levels to facilitate the delivery of an integrated community-based package of promotive, preventive and basic curative interventions across all pillars of the response (Case Management, WASH, RCCE, etc. with a focus on the Community Case Management of Cholera at ORCs/ORPs, stabilization centers, and District CTUs focusing on the hard-to-reach and vulnerable communities and with multisectoral, gender and disability lenses.

Key function, accountabilities, and related duties/tasks

Provide technical support in all components of strengthening community health systems as it pertains to implementing the multisectoral community health emergency strategy, in collaboration with government and partners.
Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results.
Networking and partnership building especially with the Provincial Health Offices and District Health Offices and other partners working at the decentralized level.
Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building for health care workers and Community based Volunteers (CBVs) and other actors within the community structures such as Neighborhood Health Committees (NHCs), among others.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education:

A university degree in one of the following fields is required: public health/nutrition, pediatric health, family health, health research, global/international health, health policy and/or management, environmental health sciences, biostatistics, socio-medical, health education, epidemiology, or another relevant technical field.
A minimum of two years of professional experience in one or more in the following areas is required: public health/nutrition planning and management, maternal and neonatal health care, or health emergency/humanitarian preparedness.
Good understanding of health system and community health and community system, MNCH, knowledge of primary health care and health in developing countries
Good knowledge of the application of the equity lens and human rights perspectives to programming.
Good ability to support translation of analytical findings and evidence into a cohesive programming.
Excellent communication (writing and oral), negotiation, and other human relation skills.
Excellent ability to collect, aggregate, analyze and use data for decision making. Advanced computer literacy expected in Word, Excel and Power Point.
Excellent oral and written communication and report & proposal writing skills.
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