Job Vacancy For Health Specialist, Maternal And Neonatal Health (National Officer Category).

VN No.:  VN-12-06
Post Level:   NO-C
Duty Station:  Accra
Type of Contract:  Fixed Term

Purpose Of The Job

Accountable for formulation, design, planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of cost effective maternal and neonatal health intervention packages and contribute to the programme component on maternal neonatal and child health of the country promgramme.

Key Accountabilities Duties & Tasks

a) Provide technical and operational guidance with scaling-up maternal and neonatal health interventions to government and non-government partners including regular data-driven situational analyses (including epidemiological, genfer equality and emergency assesments)

b) Provide specific technical expertise on maternal and neonatal health policies and other issues, including advocacy in
gender equity, emergency preparedness and response, as appropriate and as defined by supervisors

c) Conduct regular field visits to monitor related programmes and participate in periodic programme reviews with government counterparts and other partners with particular emphasis on under-served populations.

d) Contribute to the development and implementation of detailed sectoral work-plans and budgets for scaling-up assigned and specific health interventions and contribute to UNICEF country office's readiness to deliver on the health-related Core commitments for children (CCCs).

e) Collaborate with supervisor and colleagues to timely, efficiently, rigorously and transparently monitor, evaluate and
report on related health programmes and contribute to the preparation of relevant sections of the annual health sector status reports.

f) In close collaboration with operations and supply staff, regularly monitor and report on use of related supplies and other resources provided to partners and collaborate with the operations section and Government authorities to maintain sound internal controls supportive of specific health interventions as well as to ensure accountability.

g) Establish active and participatory partnerships with related health sector stakeholders (Government, NGOs, Multilateral and bilateral agencies) and interact with them at different stages of health programme design and implementation and identify opportunities for leveraging resources

h) Implement country-specific training and capacity building activities and document and disseminate lessons learned.

Qualification And Competencies Education

Advanced degree in one of the disciplines relevant to the following areas:  Public Health, Medicine, Health Research,
International Health, Health Policy and Management, Environmental Health Sciences, Family Health, Biostatistics, Socio-medical sciences, Epidemiology, Health Education, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Educational Interventions in Health Care, Nursing or a field relevant to international development assistance in Health.

Work Experience

Five years of relevant professional work experience including in the implementation of large scale public health programmes for maternal and neonatal health. Awareness of the technical support required in health related
emergency and humanitarian preparedness. Experience working in the UN or other international development organization, and field work experience an asset. Background / familiarity with emergency and gender mainstreaming desirable.

Competency Profile

Commitment, Integrity, Diversity and inclusion, Communication (II), Working with People (III), Drive for results (II),
Formulating strategies and concepts (II), Analyzing (III), Applying Technical Expertise (III) Relating and Networking (II), Deciding and Initiating Action (II), Leading and Supervising (I)

Remuneration

Competitive and attractive

If you have experience working in a similar capacity and want make an active and lasting contribution to build a better world for children and match the profile outlines, semd a brief application letter supported by detailed curriculum vitae, UN Personal History Form (Which can be downloaded from: (http://www.unicef.org/about/employfiles/p11.doc) and photocopies of other supporting documents to:

The Human Resources Officer
UNICEF,
P.O. BOX 5051,
Accra-North

Location:  4 - 8 Rangoon Close, Cantonments, (Behind UNDP, near Ghana National Fire Service Headquarters on the Ring Road)

Closing Date: 1 June 2012

Only Short-listed candidates will be contacted.

QUALIFIED FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE ESPECIALLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.