Public Health Officer

2 months ago

القاهرة, Egypt World Health Organization Full time

**Grade**: NO-C

**Contractual Arrangement**: Fixed-term appointment

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

**Job Posting**: Oct 13, 2024, 4:12:21 AM

**Closing Date**: Oct 27, 2024, 5:59:00 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 priorities, sustainable development agendas and harmonized with the United Nations country teams and partners to improve health outcomes and progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage.

**DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES**:
The incumbent will perform all or part of the following, and other related responsibilities as required by the needs of the office.
- Work under the direct supervision of the respective (Sr) Public Health Officer and/or the head of the WHO country office.
- Facilitate the efficient and effective management, as well as coordination of expertise, to provide technical advice on the development of sustainable, multi-sectoral, and integrated national strategies, policies, interventions, and plans for improvements in health systems and capacity building in the area of communicable and noncommunicable(C-NCD) diseases control.
- Recommend action plans for the inclusion of disease prevention and control interventions across the life course and continuum of care.
- Coordinate the adoption of norms, standards, guidelines and tools to support the implementation of disease control projects.
- Manage the operational aspects of related operational research, surveillance, epidemiology, and health surveys.
- Facilitate the implementation of projects for the control of the respective diseases, including the procurement of safe, efficacious and affordable medicines and technologies.
- Guide the documenting and dissemination of best practices and partners' experiences.
- Analyse and evaluate a diverse range of data and information related to communicable and noncommunicable diseases and outbreaks; identify disease sources and provide recommendations and reports on the appropriate response to identified risks, and the implementation of preventative and control measures.
- Monitor the national burden of communicable and noncommunicable diseases or factors, especially through health information systems and health research activities.
- Coordinate the development or enhancement of existing information systems on communicable and noncommunicable diseases and the monitoring of progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
- Leverage knowledge of local systems and cultural norms to: serve as technical communication focal point with the public on communicable diseases in the country; and establish new community outreach activities concerning the prevention, control, diagnosis, and treatment of communicable and noncommunicable diseases.
- Advocate, build and strengthen partnerships and networks to enhance multi-sectoral collaboration to address integrated, communicable and noncommunicable disease prevention and control. and contribute to resource mobilization for the work programme.

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS**:
**Education**:
**Essential**: A university degree (bachelor's) in a relevant field (such as public health, epidemiology or statistics).
**Desirable**: Training or specialization in communicable diseases and noncommunicable diseases

**Experience**:
**Essential**: A minimum of five years of work experience relevant to the position (in communicable and non
- communicable diseases, focusing on disease investigation, surveillance, and control, as well as developing strategies and action plans for implementing capacity building and disease prevention programmes).
**Desirable**: Demonstrated professional experience providing technical services to national counterparts, Ministries of Health, and other partners on communicable disease related issues. Relevant work experience, with WHO and/or United Nations agencies, health cluster partners, non
- governmental or humanitarian organizations. Some of the above-listed experience to have been obtained in an international context.

**Skills**:

- Transmissions, specialized methods of diagnosis, development, and treatment of communicable diseases, including HIV infection and other communicable and noncommunicable diseases.
- Technical and programmatic knowledge of the prevention and control of a range of communicable and/or noncommunicable diseases.
- Expertise to strategically plan, coordinate, and support the implementation of health programme interventions.
- Disease prevention and control.
- District hospital care, universal health coverage, in-service and pre-service training, essential noncommunicable disease drugs, primary health care delivery systems.
- Knowledge of country situation in commu

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