Associate Public Health & Nutrition Officer, UNOPS IICA-1, Brazzaville

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is providing a full-time place throughout the Republic of Congo at Brazzaville.

The Associate Public Health & Nutrition Officer place might be inside UNHCR’s Program Section with a practical line to the UNHCR public well being part on the regional Bureau and HQ,

UNHCR is a world group devoted to saving lives, defending rights, and constructing a greater future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless folks. Every yr, hundreds of thousands of males, girls, and youngsters are compelled to flee their houses to flee battle and persecution. We are in over 125 international locations, utilizing our experience to guard and take care of hundreds of thousands.

• Title: Associate Public Health & Nutrition Officer
• Duty Station: Brazzaville
• Duration: One yr (Renewable
• Contract Type: UNOPS IICA-1 (equal to P2)
• Closing date: 04 July 2022
• Start date: 20 July 2022 (tentative date topic to recruitment course of)

Organizational context

UNHCR is a world group devoted to saving lives, defending rights and constructing a greater future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless folks. Every yr, hundreds of thousands of males, girls and youngsters are compelled to flee their houses to flee battle and persecution. We are in over 125 international locations, utilizing our experience to guard and take care of hundreds of thousands.

The UNHCR Operation within the Republic of the Congo was established in 1982, operates from three places: CO Brazzaville, FO Bétou, and FO Gamboma supporting the safety wants of refugees (protracted state of affairs and L1 emergency), IDPs, host communities, and other people vulnerable to statelessness. The majority of refugees/asylum seekers come from CAR (47%) and from the DRC (38%) and 47% of the 62,821 refugees in RoC are situated within the northern a part of the nation underneath the FO Bétou. UNHCR is in parallel main the response to the CAR Situation within the North with an inflow of 8,000 people having arrived in 2021 following the post-electoral violence in CAR.

UNHCR works on the crossroads of emergency response, protracted conditions, and improvement throughout the framework of the Global Compact for Refugees. In 2017, the Government dedicated to advertise the socio-economic inclusion of refugees and to reinforce primary social providers supply to their host communities and has since proven fascinating outcomes. In this context, UNHCR strongly seeks to reinforce partnerships with authorities, humanitarian actors, improvement companions and the personal sector, to proceed strengthening the inclusion of refugees into nationwide techniques and their entry to options.

The Likouala Department, the northernmost division of the Republic of Congo, is situated close to the borders with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. Of the 40,838 refugees residing within the Congo as a complete, 77 p.c (31,404) are situated in Likouala. In 2021, over 8,000 further refugees arrived within the area, having fled post-electoral violence within the Central African Republic. Likouala additionally hosts 23,590 internally displaced individuals and 1,708 asylum seekers. The overwhelming majority of the division’s individuals of concern are to be present in and round Bétou.

Likouala is comparatively remoted and tough to entry, whereas excessive ranges of poverty and vulnerability are noticed amongst all populations. Basic social providers infrastructure is missing.

The place

The Associate Public Health & Nutrition Officer is a member of a Multifunctional group and can be certain that UNHCR’s public well being and diet applications meet minimal UNHCR and international well being requirements with the intention to reduce avoidable morbidity and mortality amongst populations of concern (POC) and in the direction of the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The incumbent offers robust and well timed technical steerage to UNHCR senior administration and companions together with on the design and scope of UNHCR responses in well being and diet, catalyzes the engagement of different actors, helps useful resource mobilization efforts, and screens the response. S/he has shut contacts with inside and exterior stakeholders corresponding to authorities counterparts, UN Agencies and embassies/donors.

The Associate Public Health & Nutrition Officer also needs to guarantee session with communities looking for the various views of males, girls, women and boys, adolescents, youth, older individuals, LGBTI individuals, and individuals with disabilities, together with folks with psychosocial and mental disabilities, in assessing wants, designing, implementing and monitoring responses consistent with UNHCR’s coverage on age, gender and variety mainstreaming.

Public Health applications embrace major well being care, secondary well being care, group well being, reproductive well being (together with HIV), diet, MHPSS and well being info techniques. In addition, the Associate Public Health & Nutrition Officer is anticipated to be conversant with reproductive well being and MHPSS programming and be certain that minimal requirements are met. The Associate Public Health & Nutrition Officer will work with the direct supervision of the Programme Officer on the nation workplace in Brazzaville to help operational collaboration and joint programming with WHO, UNIICEF and WFP on all well being associated points corresponding to diet and meals safety.

The Associate Public Health & Nutrition Officer is supervised by the Program Officer. The incumbent has a practical line with the Public Health Section concerning authoritative steerage and help in technical issues therefore is anticipated to keep up common contact with the Senior Public Health Officer of RBSA and the PHS in HQ.

All UNHCR workers members are accountable to carry out their duties as mirrored of their job description. They accomplish that inside their delegated authorities, consistent with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which incorporates the UN Charter, UN Staff Regulations and Rules, UNHCR Policies and Administrative Instructions in addition to related accountability frameworks. In addition, workers members are required to discharge their duties in a way according to the core, practical, cross-functional and managerial competencies and UNHCR’s core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for range.

Duties and duties

Coordination, Leadership and Partnership

• Coordinate public well being, reproductive well being, diet and HIV actions in help of the federal government’s responses and at the side of different UN businesses, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and different companions, together with improvement actors to make sure the supply of public well being and diet providers to beneficiaries meet UNHCR and /or nationally acknowledged and most recent requirements and insurance policies.
• Support the operation to outline the extent and scope of UNHCR’s involvement in public well being and diet responses by way of general and operational aims throughout emergency conditions and past.
• Support the operations engagement within the public health-related elements of contributions of main donors to refugee responses, together with the World Bank, collaborating in assessments, design of initiatives, monitoring and analysis.
• In line with the Global Compact on Refugees work with governments, humanitarian and improvement companions to make sure a whole-of-government (i.e. related nationwide and native authorities for well being and diet response) multi-stakeholder method and planning to harness the comparative benefits of various companions to fulfill the well being wants of POC.
• Represent UNHCR in public well being coordination and different conferences together with related inter-sectoral teams corresponding to Technical Working Groups (TWGs) for MHPSS and diet, reproductive well being, and group well being, amongst others.
• Engage in related partnership fora, together with consistent with UNHCR’s function as a UNAIDS co-sponsor of the Joint Programme on AIDS and co-lead with WFP of the Division of Labour space of HIV in Humanitarian Settings.
• Support operational collaboration with WFP together with the implementation of Joint Assessment Missions and corresponding Joint Plans of Action consistent with international commitments on focusing on of help to fulfill primary wants and knowledge sharing to help help distribution (in collaboration with programme and safety colleagues).
• Support strong and well timed emergency responses to new refugee influxes or illness outbreaks or different public health-related emergencies consistent with UNHCR’s Public Health Emergency Toolkit, Emergency Handbook and the SPHERE Handbook.
• Strategic planning and improvement
• Contribute to improvement and/or implementation and monitoring of UNHCR’s Strategic Plan for Public Health and adaptation at nation stage.
• Work with others in UNHCR to advocate for refugees, returnees and different POC’s entry to native public well being, reproductive well being (RH) and HIV, MHPSS, diet (together with meals help the place related) and water and sanitation providers and foyer for inclusion of refugees, returnees and different POC as a selected group in authorities insurance policies and plans associated to well being, RH and HIV in addition to main donor programmes such because the Global Fund for HIV, TB and Malaria.
• Provide steerage and make suggestions on the general technique and focus of public well being and diet programmes throughout the Area of Responsibility (AOR), together with guaranteeing public well being strategic approaches are developed in a multi-sectoral and coordinated method in co-operation with authorities, UN businesses, NGOs and different humanitarian companions with due consideration to the approaches outlined within the Global Compact on Refugees and in help of the Sustainable Development Goals, together with SDG3.
• Provide up-to-date evaluation and identification of wants for public well being methods, acknowledge and help the contributions of governments and different actors align with and help nationwide well being system as a lot as potential; embrace healing, preventive, promotive, rehabilitative and palliative care; acknowledge the completely different approaches required for the stage of the humanitarian response (preparedness, emergency, stabilization and longer-term inclusion) in addition to for settlement or camp-based POC and people in city or non-camp conditions.
• Contribute to public well being methods addressing identified gaps in well being and diet programming based mostly on nation/field-specific wants assessments with due consideration to neonatal and maternal well being care, TB, HIV and viral hepatitis, non-communicable illnesses together with psychological well being, palliative care, well being providers for LGBTI people, well being and safety providers for individuals promoting intercourse and programming for individuals with disabilities together with entry to assistive applied sciences and acceptable related providers, adolescents and the aged.
• Support the event and monitoring of country-specific medium to long run inclusion plans in help of the Ministry of Health and different related Ministries (e.g. Social Welfare) and in partnership with improvement and different actors.
• Work with stakeholders, together with Ministries of Health, UN businesses, NGOs, educational establishments, POC and different related companions within the improvement of public well being preparedness and response plans related to refugee actions (together with in repatriation programmes).
• Maintain and replace contingency/ preparedness and response plans throughout the AOR for potential public well being occasions together with illness outbreaks and public well being elements of refugee and returnee actions.

Technical integrity and danger mitigation

• Update and disseminate customary practices on public well being, MHPSS, diet, HIV and reproductive well being amongst companions.
• Support the prioritization of major well being care (together with preventive, promotive, healing, rehabilitative and palliative care)
• Ensure, in shut coordination with different humanitarian actors, that well being care providers supplied to POC are based mostly on Ministry of Health, UNHCR and/or internationally acknowledged and most recent requirements and insurance policies.
• Establish and/or adapt UNHCR inside working procedures together with the general public well being methods, medical referral SOPs and databases, and well being knowledge techniques to make sure they’re consistent with UNHCR and/or worldwide requirements and enhance the effectivity of programme actions; this additional contains – however will not be restricted to – referral well being care, medicines and medical provides procurement and administration, medical resettlement and resettlement of individuals with well being wants, cash-based help for well being care protection and referral between models and inter-sectoral collaboration.
• Monitor and help compliance with, and integrity of, all Public Health customary working procedures at the side of Project Control and Programme workers and consistent with delegated authorities, together with flagging to senior managers when these usually are not consistent with international steerage or not being adopted.

Collaboration

• Work intently with UNHCR programme, technical, area and safety workers to establish precedence well being points and key knowledge necessities for programme planning and monitoring to make sure that minimal UNHCR and worldwide requirements are being met.
• Support linkages of public well being to WASH programmes all through all levels of the programme cycle together with in outbreak preparedness and response, emergency responses to refugee influxes, WASH in well being amenities, group well being training and menstrual hygiene administration.
• Support inter-sector collaboration all through all levels of programme cycle between public well being and diet with WASH, training, power, atmosphere, shelter, and safety with the intention to promote synergies and maximise impression.
• Participate within the overview and evaluation of related challenge proposals and budgetary submissions introduced by UNHCR companions throughout the context of the UNHCR programming cycle.
• Ensure that challenge plans or proposals submitted to UNHCR for funding adhere to internationally accepted requirements, and are based mostly on a complete PHC technique, rights based mostly and meet the wants of susceptible individuals.
• Ensure session with communities looking for the various views of males, girls, women and boys, adolescents, youth, older individuals, individuals with disabilities and LGBTQI in assessing wants, designing, implementing and monitoring responses consistent with UNHCR’s coverage on age, gender and variety mainstreaming.
• Ensure implementation of the UNHCR Health Information System and different related knowledge assortment instruments together with the balanced scorecard, maternal and neonatal demise audits, Health Access and Utilisation Survey and different company instruments the place related; help the evaluation, interpretation, dissemination and use of public well being knowledge.
• Advocate for the inclusion of refugees and different POC in nationwide surveys corresponding to demographic and well being surveys, multi-indicator cluster surveys, AIDS indicator surveys together with the place potential a separate pattern/oversampling to incorporate refugees thus permitting for comparisons and pattern evaluation over time.
• Support nationwide well being techniques to disaggregate knowledge by refugee and nationals in key areas based mostly on nation particular wants consistent with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
• Monitor public well being and diet programmes towards customary UNHCR and worldwide indicators, to make sure that programmes are evidence-based and applied in a complete, cost-effective and environment friendly method.
• Support the planning, implementation, evaluation, dissemination and use of dietary surveys (Standardized Expanded Nutrition Surveys, SENS), health-related surveys and post-distribution monitoring workouts (in collaboration with WFP).
• Promote utilized analysis and programme analysis to allow the identification of gaps in programme implementation and requirements, and to additional promote evidence-based actions and steerage.
• In line with insurance policies for Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) guarantee POC have entry to suggestions and accountability mechanisms regarding public well being and diet providers together with the gathering and evaluation of information on their satisfaction on the subject of public well being and diet providers.
• Prepare common sectoral stories and submit materials for preparation of periodic challenge monitoring stories as required by the workplace at nation stage.
• Ensure satisfactory and correct reporting, well timed updates and briefings to donors and administration.

Capacity Building

• Support capability strengthening of UNHCR and its implementing companions to deal with public well being, diet, reproductive well being, HIV, MHPSS programming in a coordinated, multi-sectoral means and disseminate related tips and data supplies.
• Undertake and/or help capability constructing wants assessments of UNHCR workers and companions and develop approaches to deal with capability gaps together with figuring out inside and exterior coaching alternatives.
• In conjunction with the Senior Public Health Officer of RBSA. Public Health Section in HQ, Global Learning and Development Centre, and exterior actors help the event of capability strengthening instruments and supplies together with webinars, e-learning supplies and on-line studying instruments and contribute to related communities of practices.
• Plan, manage, facilitate and take part in workshops at the side of the Senior Public Health Officer of RBSA, Public Health Section in HQ, Global Learning and Development Centre and exterior actors.
• Perform different associated duties as required. Essential minimal {qualifications} {and professional} expertise required.

Essential minimal {qualifications} {and professional} expertise required

Field(s) of Education

• Medicine, Medical Science, Medical Doctor, Nursing, Public Health or different related fields.

Certificates and/or Licenses

Relevant Job Experience

Essential

• Minimum 3 years related expertise with Undergraduate diploma; or 2 years related expertise with Graduate diploma; or 1-year related expertise with Doctorate diploma
• Knowledge of public well being, reproductive well being, and diet in humanitarian conditions. Exposure to UNHCR mandate, its priorities, and ideas. Good communicator with robust interpersonal and negotiation expertise.

Desirable

• Additional {qualifications} in Nutrition and WASH and a radical understanding of the linkages with public well being and meals safety. Ability to coordinate a spread of numerous actors and actions to realize a typical goal within the space of Public Health.

Functional Skills

• MD-Reproductive Health
• EL-Monitoring and Evaluation
• PG-Programme Monitoring
• PH- Public Health Epidemiology
• PH-Community Health-Health Data Collection/Analysis/Interpretation
• CO-Strategic Communication
• UN-UN/UNHCR Mandate and Global Strategic Priorities
• FO-Complex area emergency operations
• MD-HIV/AIDS state of affairs administration

Location

The profitable candidate might be based mostly with the group in Brazzaville, The Republic of Congo with potential monitoring missions in deep area (primarily to Betou & Gamboma Field Offices)

Conditions

This place is a full-time function with working hours ranging from 8.00 am to 17:30 pm Monday to Friday.

How to use

For a full job description and to use, candidates are requested to go to https://bit.ly/3tuWYsf

The UNHCR workforce consists of many numerous nationalities, cultures, languages and opinions. UNHCR seeks to maintain and strengthen this range to make sure equal alternatives in addition to an inclusive working atmosphere for its whole workforce. Applications are inspired from all certified candidates with out distinction on grounds of race, color, intercourse, nationwide origin, age, faith, incapacity, sexual orientation and gender id.

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