Description
IOM is seeking a Public Health Officer (Emergency Health) to provide management support, expert technical guidance, and advice to the Migration Health Programme Coordinator. The successful candidate will play a key role in implementing the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005), vaccination and polio interventions, and emergency health programs.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership for vaccination and polio interventions
- Manage and coordinate project activation, implementation, reporting, and evaluation of emergency health programs
- Develop and support the development of proposals and ensure regular reporting requirements are met
- Strengthen national disease surveillance capacity and support the development of early warning systems
- Coordinate with IOM's Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Unit and other units as necessary
- Provide expert technical support and advice for vulnerability assessments, risk mapping, and development of preparedness/contingency planning
- Represent IOM at Health Cluster meetings and other relevant cluster meetings
- Undertake travel duties as required
Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Nursing, Medicine, Health Sciences, Community or Public Health, Epidemiology, or a related field
- Five years of relevant professional experience
- Experience in vaccination programs, polio eradication, or Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPDs)-focused public health interventions
- Experience in proposal development and reporting
- Demonstrated computer background, including experience with databases, Microsoft applications, spreadsheets, word processing, and SPSS/STATA
- Fluency in English required, working knowledge of another official UN language an advantage
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