Health & Nutrition Specialist

The Health & Nutrition Specialist will support the UNICEF–Mastercard Foundation community health programme focusing on community health workforce, health information systems, and partnerships. The role also includes technical support to health, nutrition, and early childhood development in Sahrawi refugee camps and other Health and Nutrition programme components.

Responsibilities

• Programme development and planning.
• Technical support and programme implementation.
• Health emergencies and resilience.
• Monitoring, evidence and reporting.
• Partnerships, coordination and resource mobilization.
• Knowledge management and capacity strengthening.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree in Public Health, Child Development, Water Sanitation, Public Administration, Social Policy, Social Development, Community Development, or other relevant disciplines.
• Minimum five years of professional work experience at the national and international levels in planning, programming, implementation monitoring and evaluation of technical cooperation programmes related to Health and Nutrition.
• Professional work experience in a managerial position, or a technical expert position in child survival & development, health and nutrition care.
• Developing country work experience and background/familiarity with Emergency is required.
• Demonstrated experience in health-system strengthening, primary health care, maternal and child health, immunization and/or public health emergency preparedness and response is required.
• Experience in community health programmes and in health information systems (e.g. DHIS2, community health information systems, health workforce registries), including the use of data for decision-making, is required.
• Expertise in Adaptability, Ambiguity Management, Self Awareness, Emergency Preparedness, Health Systems Strengthening and Community Health Programmes.
• Fluency in English and French is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is desirable.
• Knowledge of Arabic and Spanish (for engagement with the Sahrawi authorities and partners in Tindouf) are strong assets.
• Experience in humanitarian or refugee settings is highly desirable.
• Experience providing technical assistance to government, coordinating multi-partner programmes, using evidence for decision-making, and preparing high-quality technical and donor reports is highly desirable.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, writing, negotiation and partnership-management skills; ability to work effectively in multicultural teams and under time pressure; and proficiency in standard office and data-presentation tools, including basic data analysis and visualization are considered as assets.
• Command of UNICEF’s evidence-based planning and bottleneck analysis approach, and the capacity to train others in it, is an asset.
• Familiarity with UNICEF or another UN organization is an asset.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

Skills

• Public Health
• Child Development
• Water Sanitation Hygiene
• Social Policy
• Community Development
• Health and nutrition programming
• Program Implementation
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Technical Cooperation
• Child Survival and Development
• Health Service Strengthening
• Primary Health Care
• Maternal and Child Health
• Immunisation
• Health Emergency Preparedness
• Community Health Programmes
• Health Information Systems
• DHIS2 Knowledge
• Health Workforce Registries
• Data Driven Decision Making
• Emergency Preparedness
• Humanitarian Settings
• Technical Assistance
• Multi-Partner Coordination
• Evidence-Based Planning
• Bottleneck Analysis
• Report Writing
• Data Analysis
• Data Visualization
• Partnership Management
• Negotiation
• Facilitation
• UNICEF Programming

Languages

English, French