Junior Consultant is needed at the World Health Organization (WHO)
JOB TITLE: Junior Consultant (Mitigating indirect impacts of Covid-19 on Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent and Aging Health (MNCAAH) services in Nigeria)
Ref No: 2003099
LOCATION: Abuja
Grade: No grade
Contractual Arrangement: Special Services Agreement (SSA)
Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days): 6 Months
Schedule: Full-time
Junior Consultant: NOA Step 1 grade
Purpose
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- Support Nigeria to deliver optimal response to COVID-19, while reducing the indirect effects on pregnant women, newborns, children, adolescents and older adults (MNCAAH) due to service disruption.
Goal:
- Prevent decrease in utilization of essential services for RMNCAAH/N, in order to prevent increase in mortality, morbidity, malnutrition, mental and physical ill health
Requirements
Education:
- Essential: First university degree in medicine, nursing, midwifery, public health, epidemiology, or other related and relevant fields; And a master’s degree or equivalent post-graduate training in public health, statistics, epidemiology, demography or any other related and relevant field.
- Desirable: Additional training in statistics, monitoring and evaluation, advanced data management, programme management and health emergences response would be an added advantage.
Experience:
- Essential: At least 5 years’ experience in health sector planning and governance, emergency response, public health, epidemiology, health systems management, monitoring and evaluation, public-private partnership, and related.
- Desirable: Any additional experience related to the field would be an asset.
Compensation
- The consultant hired for full-time – 20 working days per month) to support the national MNCAAH technical working group (s), which will interact with groups involved in COVID response.
- Will work for a period of 6 months.
- The rates for junior consultant will be in line with the standard WHO local rate for junior consultants.
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Deadline: August 5, 2020
Job Features
Job Category | Consulting / Business Strategy/ Planning |
Deadline | 5th August, 2020. |