Health Specialist

The Health Specialist supports the development, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of health programmes within the country programme. The role provides technical guidance and management support to achieve sustainable results aligned with organizational goals and standards.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and preparation of the health programme.
• Manage, implement, monitor, evaluate, and report the progress of a sector of the health programme (e.g. gender, maternal, neonatal, child survival/development).
• Provide technical guidance and management support throughout programming processes.
• Facilitate administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results according to plans, allocation, results-based management approaches and methodology (RBM), organizational Strategic Plans and goals, standards of performance, and accountability framework.
• Support programme development and planning.
• Manage programme monitoring and delivery of results.
• Provide technical and operational support to programme implementation.
• Engage in networking and partnership building.
• Promote innovation, knowledge management and capacity building.

Requirements

• Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in public health/nutrition, pediatric health, family health, health research, global/international health, health policy and/or management, environmental health sciences, biostatistics, sociomedical, health education, epidemiology, or another relevant technical field.
• A minimum of five years of professional experience in public health/nutrition planning and management, maternal and neonatal health care, or health emergency/humanitarian preparedness.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in programme planning, health systems strengthening, technical health expertise, data analysis, and monitoring and evaluation.
• Ability to support the design, implementation, and performance monitoring of health programmes to achieve measurable results.
• Fluency in French is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, English, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is desirable.
• Experience working in a developing country is considered an asset.
• Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered an asset.
• Demonstrated experience in health program management, monitoring and Results-Based Management (RBM).
• Relevant experience in maternal, newborn and child health, child survival and/or immunization programs.
• Experience in health emergency preparedness and response, particularly in humanitarian or complex operational settings.
• Proven experience in partnership building and coordination with government, UN agencies, NGOs, donors and other health-sector stakeholders.
• Experience in field program monitoring, addressing implementation bottlenecks and strengthening the capacities of government and implementing partners.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

Skills

• Public Health Planning
• Nutrition Management
• Maternal and newborn health
• Health Emergency Preparedness
• Programme Planning
• Public Health Systems Strengthening
• Technical Health Expertise
• Data Analysis
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Health Program Implementation
• Performance Monitoring
• Result-Based Management
• Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child Health
• Vaccination Programs
• Partnership Building
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Field Program Monitoring
• Capacity Strengthening
• Health Policy Management

Languages

French