Duties

• Support the overall operational strategy and focus of public health programmes including ensuring strategic approaches are developed in a multi-sectoral and coordinated manner in cooperation with government, UN agencies, and NGOs and other humanitarian and development partners with due consideration to the approaches outlined in the Global Compact on Refugees, health-related pledges linked to the Global Refugee Forum and in support of the Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG3.
• Support the development of a coherent strategic approach to public health towards greater inclusion and access of refugees to national health systems including social health protection as applicable.
• Participate in relevant coordination and collaboration structures and lead such structures in the absence of a more senior health staff.

• Support robust and timely emergency responses to new refugee influxes and disease outbreaks with a focus on inclusion and access into national health systems from the onset of an emergency.
• Participate in relevant assessment and identification of needs, recognise and support the contributions of governments and other actors so as to align with and support national health system as much as possible.
• Work with stakeholders, including Ministries of Health, UN agencies, NGOs, development actors and academic institutions in the development of public health response plans including multi-year, multi-partner solutions strategies and funding appeals such as regional refugee response plans or other humanitarian appeals.
• Work closely with programme and other units as applicable in programme planning and monitoring as well as the review and analysis of relevant project proposals and budgetary submissions presented by UNHCR partners within the context of the UNHCR programming cycle and standards.
• Support intersectoral collaboration throughout all stages of programme cycle between public health, and other sectoral areas to promote synergies and maximise impact.
• Support the implementation of relevant UNHCR Health Information System suite of tools and surveys to support in analysis, interpretation, reporting and use of public health data as well as linkage/integration with national data systems including disaggregation by nationality.
• Promote applied research and programme evaluation to enable the identification of gaps in programme implementation and standards, and to further promote evidence-based activities and guidance.

• Undertake and/or support capacity strengthening of UNHCR and its implementing partners to ensure the technical integrity of public health programmes in a coordinated, multi-sectoral way.
• Engage in relevant partnership fora, including in line with UNHCR’s role as a UNAIDS co-sponsor of the Joint Programme on AIDS and co-lead with WFP of the Division of Labour area of HIV in humanitarian settings.
• Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility. Ensure decision making is risk based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).
• Perform other related duties as required.

For positions in country operations

• Perform a leading or a supporting role – in the country public health team – if supervised by a senior public health officer.
• Ensure public health emergency preparedness and response planning at country level and prepare UNHCR’s lead role in response to new emergencies.
• Ensure, in close co-ordination with other humanitarian actors, the technical integrity of health care services and that they are based on Ministry of Health, UNHCR and/or internationally recognized and most up-to-date standards and policies.
• Coordinate with partners, supply and programme for efficient procurement of medicines, supplies, equipment according to UNHCR guidelines.
• Ensure community participation in design and implementation of programmes, fostering ownership and empowerment, ensuring inclusion of vulnerable groups, establishing two-way communication and building on local capacities and resources.
• Monitor and support compliance with, and integrity of, all Public Health Administrative Instruction/ standard operating procedures in conjunction with Project Control and Programme staff and in line with delegated authorities, including flagging to senior managers when these are not in line with global guidance or not being followed.

For positions in regional bureaux

• Perform a leading or a supporting role – in the country public health team – if supervised by a Senior Public Health Officer.
• Ensure the coordination of public health programmes across the regional bureau and with country operations including assimilation and documentation of better practice/lessons learnt for dissemination.
• Ensure solid technical advice and support (including missions) to country operations, in all aspects of public health service delivery, including in emergencies and in line with UNHCR’s policy and guidance.
• Assess, analyse public health data and provide relevant support on the technical quality of public health programming in the operations.
• Review and provide inputs for public health strategies, medicine management and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the operations and coordinate the review and clearance with HQ.
• Ensure effective collaborative approaches across the departments in the bureaux and with HQ.

For positions in headquarters

• Support development of organisation-wide guidance, policies, positioning, and tools, including policy documents, technical guidance, evaluations, lessons learnt, communication and visibility materials, reports, and synthesis.
• Provide sound technical advice and support (including missions) to bureaux and country operations in pursue of greater inclusion and access to national health services as well as health system strengthening.
• Support provision of technical support for the implementation of public health programs to regional bureaux and operations.
• Support public health-related knowledge management, training and learning as well as sharing analytical products and tools with bureaux and country operations to inform policies, programmes and opportunities for inclusion into national public health systems.
• Assimilate and produce better practice/lessons learnt/academic articles for dissemination.
• Support effective collaborative approaches across the team and in between divisions and bureaux.

Minimum Qualifications

Education & Professional Work Experience

For P3/NOC – 6 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 5 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 4 years relevant experience with Doctorate degree

Field(s) of Education

Medicine Medical Science Medical Doctor

Nursing Public Health Epidemiology or other relevant field.

Certificates and/or Licenses

Not specified

Relevant Job Experience

Essential

Experience in public health emergency responses as well as understanding of health systems and health system building blocks. Experience with evidence-based public health programming including data collection and analysis, in order to inform sound decision making. Demonstrated experience in working with internal and external stakeholders to achieve common public health objectives and in position(s) where the ability to draft clear, concise documentation was essential.

Desirable

Experience in coordinating health actors to achieve common objectives in public health. Experience with UNHCR. Experience with managing health information systems. Experience with the provision of quality-assured medicines and medical supplies. Experience working with development partners across the humanitarian-development nexus. Experience with social health protection and social health insurance schemes.

Functional Skills

PM-Project monitoring and evaluation

PH- Public Health Epidemiology

MD-HIV/AIDS situation management

MD-Reproductive Health

PH-Community Health – Health Data Collection/Analysis/Interpretation

CO-Strategic Communication

UN-UN/UNHCR Mandate and Global Strategic Priorities

FO-Complex field emergency operations

(Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential)

Language Requirements

For International Professional and Field Service jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English.

For National Professional jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English and local language.

For General Service jobs: Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English.