L’UNICEF recrute un Agent de santé, Bangladesh
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
With UNICEF Bangladesh you are at the center of the change you want to see.
In one of the largest UNICEF Country Offices in the world, you will be working with dynamic colleagues who have helped deliver remarkable results for children: Net enrolment in primary education rose from 61 per cent in 1987 to 98 per cent in 2019. Stunting fell from 42 per cent in 2013 to 28 per cent in 2019. Fully vaccinated children increased from 52 per cent in 2001 to 84 per cent in 2019.
Join us as we go the next mile for the nearly 60 million children in Bangladesh, including half a million Rohingya refugee children.
In a country undergoing rapid economic and demographic transition, be part of tackling malnutrition and stagnant wasting. Help protect children from child marriage, child labour and violence. Support the country to invest more in health and education, and to extend safe water to the children who are furthest left behind.
For every child, opportunity.
Cox’s Bazar Field Office work for both emergency and development programme as part of UNICEF Bangladesh Country Programme. UNICEF Humanitarian Strategy (Response to Rohingya Crisis) is to reduce the risk for communicable disease outbreaks and its consequences among refugees and host communities and improve access to life saving interventions through strengthening of systems to provide comprehensive quality and equitable primary and secondary health services for crisis affected population for both refugees and host communities, using government systems where possible. Five years after the influx, the Rohingya crisis has shifted to protracted crisis. While some improvements were made e.g., increased immunization coverage and more babies delivered in the health facilities assisted by skilled birth attendants, many things still need to be improved. The refugees are still living in overcrowded settlements and are prone to disease outbreaks. In the host communities, there are gaps in the health care services including availability and skilled health workforce availability and readiness of the health facilities, and still low demand among the host population in accessing the health care. It is very important to UNICEF to continue supporting GoB in strengthening the health systems, in both refugees’ context and development setting.
How can you make a difference?
Under the supervision and the technical oversight of the Health Specialist, Team Lead, Cox’s Bazar, the incumbent will support the health programme in Cox’s Bazar both for Emergency and Development Programme, both for the refugees and the host communities, in collaboration with partners on the ground.
Major duties and responsibilities:
- 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
For details please see attached TOR: 
JD_ Health Officer.pdf
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
– Medical Doctor/MBBS. An advance degree in one of the following fields is an advantage: public health/nutrition, pediatric health, family health, health research, global/international health, health policy and/or management, environmental health sciences, biostatistics, socio-medical, health education, epidemiology, or another relevant technical field.
– 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.
- Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
- Experience working in humanitarian or emergency context is an advantage
- Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
– Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues
UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others. the 8th competency (Nurtures, leads and manages people) for supervisory role]
During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.
UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
*UNICEF does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
*Internal candidates may be given preference over external candidates. The term “Internal” refers to all staff members with fixed term, continuing or permanent appointments.
*Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
*The complete vacancy announcements can be reviewed via UNICEF Careers website at https://jobs.unicef.org/en-us/listing/
Advertised: 04 Dec 2022 Bangladesh Standard Time
Deadline: 18 Dec 2022 Bangladesh Standard Time