Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, June 15 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
How can you make a difference?
The Health Officer (Adolescent) reports to the Adolescent Health & HIV Specialist (P-3) for supervision. The Officer provides professional technical, operational, and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the health programmes, specifically the adolescent health related issues such as ASRH, Substance Abuse, and Mental Health programming, within the Country Programme, from development planning to delivery of results, by preparing, executing, managing, and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, and evaluating and reporting of results.

Key function, accountabilities, and related duties/tasks
• Support to programme development and planning
• Programme management, monitoring, and delivery of results
• Technical and operational support to programme implementation
• Networking and partnership building
• Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
• Please review the details in the attached job Profile for the position:Download File GJP – Health Officer (Adolescent) NO2, Lusaka, Zambia.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
• Education: A university degree in one of the following fields is required: public health/nutrition, paediatric health, family health, health research, global/international health, health policy and/or management, biostatistics, socio-medical, health education, epidemiology, or another relevant health related technical field.

Experience:
• A minimum of two years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas is required: public health/nutrition planning and management, maternal and neonatal health care, or health emergency/humanitarian preparedness.
• Work experience in ASRH is considered as an asset.
• Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
• Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
• Language: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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