# Public Health Officer (Emergency Health) (P)

**Company**: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
**Location**: Kabul, Afghanistan
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## 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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## Skills

### Required
- public health
- emergency health
- vaccination
- polio interventions
- project management
- proposal development
- reporting
- disease surveillance
- early warning systems
- coordination
- technical support
- vulnerability assessments
- risk mapping
- preparedness/contingency planning

### Nice to have
- clinical medicine
- tropical medicine
- maternal and child health
- UN
- IOM
- International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs)
- cluster experience
- hardship duty stations
- emergency settings
- complex operating environments
- migration
- refugee
- displaced persons related programming

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