National Professional Officer

3 months ago

القاهرة, Egypt World Health Organization Full time

**Grade**: NO-B

**Contractual Arrangement**: Fixed-term appointment

**Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days)**: 1 year (Subject to availability of funds and satisfactory performance)

**Job Posting**: Sep 23, 2024, 4:10:27 AM

**Closing Date**: Oct 7, 2024, 4:59:00 PM

**Primary Location**: Egypt-Cairo

**Organization**: EM_EGY WHO Representative's Office, Egypt

**Schedule**: Full-time

**OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME**:
To ensure that effective WHO country presence is established to implement WHO country cooperation strategies that are aligned with Member State's health development agendas and emergency/resilience programmes and harmonized with the United Nations country teams. AMR programme supports the Ministry of health to (refresh) implement and monitor the National Action plan and scale up systems to prevent diagnose and manage infection.

**DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES**:

- Provide technical input to the development, implementation, and monitoring of One Health AMR operational plan of action with budget allocation.
- Provide technical contribution in line with WHO guidance and policies to the following areas: Surveillance of Antimicrobial resistance in the health sector with support for collection, analysis, and reporting of data on antimicrobial resistance Antimicrobial stewardship programmes at national and hospital levels Monitoring Antibiotic consumption at national and facility level wand the use of data to monitor trends and guide policies and actions Microbiology lab strengthening Infection prevention and control - including support and monitoring of the national programme, guideline development, training and the establishment of multimodal strategy to enhance practice at facility level
- Make explicit links with AMR to the following programmes and advocate for their scale up as part of the AMR/IPC agenda Immunization food safety patient safety Medicine supply chain - and Programmes to address substandard and fake medicine
- Support campaigns and awareness raising activities, including World Antibiotic Awareness Week Ensuring that messaging is technically sound and in line with WHO advice.
- Draft the response to key surveys such as TRACSS and submit data to the Global Antimicrobial Surveillance System GLASS.
- Collaborate with FAO and facilitate links with WOAH and UNEP to support and strengthen a One Health approach to addressing AMR and reducing inappropriate use of AM in all sectors.
- Provide technical and advocacy support to enhance the inclusion of AMR into relevant sectoral and development plans and budgets (common country analysis and UNSDCF) and proposals on funding instruments, such as the Pandemic Fund and GFATM.
- Work with the regulatory authorities (Health Care Commission, Provincial Drug Control Organization, etc.) to encourage assurances on access to safe lab diagnostic services, quality, and safety of healthcare in public and private sector and availability of quality antimicrobials.

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS**:
**Education**:
**Essential**: University degree in medicine, public health, microbiology, pharmacy or related field.
**Desirable**: Specialist qualification in public health. Master's level degree in public health, microbiology, or infectious disease

**Experience**:
**Essential**: At least two years' experience in areas related to control of antimicrobial resistance (AMR program management, AMR surveillance, Microbiology, Antimicrobial stewardship, IPC)
**Desirable**: Work in a UN or other international or development organization.

**Skills**:
Excellent understanding of Egypt's health system,implementation challenges and political sensitivities with clarity and abilityto effect change and achieve results in this context.Excellent understanding of AMR situation and issues in Egyptto be able to support AMR prevention and control interventions under the AMRNAP strategic objectives and key priorities.ability to work independently and proactively. ability to work in challenging and multidisciplinary settings.Sound knowledge of public health.Excellent presentation and writing skills.

**WHO Competencies**:
Teamwork
Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
Communication
Producing results
Building and promoting partnerships across the organization and beyond

**Use of Language Skills**:
**Essential**: Expert knowledge of English. Expert knowledge of Arabic.

**Other Skills (e.g. IT)**:
Proficiency in MS Office.

**REMUNERATION**:
**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION**:

- This vacancy notice may be used to fill other similar positions at the same grade level
- A written test and/or an asynchronous video assessment may be used as a form of screening.
- According to article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity. Due regard will be paid to the importance of recruiting the staff on as wide a geographical ba

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