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For every child, health.
UNICEF South Africa - there for every child.
Since 1995, South Africa has made substantial progress in transforming its health sector, making primary healthcare services available to millions who were previously denied access.
Yet access to healthcare remains a challenge, with vital healthcare interventions not reaching the areas and people that need them.
UNICEF is committed to ensuring that every child survives and thrives.
Our approach to South Africa's health challenge is three-fold: contributing to the evidence-base for policy, advocacy and programming delivering innovative programmes with partners – especially in high-burden and low-performing districts supporting the Government to develop and implement policies and strategies to take vital action to scale.
How can you make a difference?
The Health Specialist reports to the Chief of Health and Nutrition for guidance and general supervision.
The Health Specialist supports the development and preparation of the health programme and is responsible for managing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the programme progress of a sector of the health programme (e.g.
health system strengthening especially on strengthening primary health care system, maternal, neonatal, child survival/development) within the country programme.
The Health Specialist provides technical guidance and management support throughout the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable results according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), organizational Strategic Plans and goals, standards of performance, and accountability framework.
Summary Of Key Functions/accountabilities 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 Impact of Results The efficiency and efficacy of support provided by the Health Specialist to programme preparation, planning and implementation facilitates the delivery of concrete and sustainable results that directly impact the improvement of the health of the most marginalized and vulnerable women and children in the country.
This in turn contributes to maintaining and enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to continue to provide programme services to protect the rights of children, and to promote greater social equality to enable them to survive, develop and reach their full potential in society.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have...
Minimum Requirements Education: An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: public health, pediatric health, family health, health research, global/international health, health policy and/or management, socio-medical, health education, epidemiology, or another relevant technical field.
Experience: A minimum of five years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas is required: public health planning and management, health system strengthening, maternal and neonatal health care, or health emergency/humanitarian preparedness.
Experience working with national and subnational level government of South Africa is considered as an asset.
Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.
Knowledge of a local language is an asset.
Desirables Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency.
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.
The UNICEF Competencies Required For This Post Are...
Builds and maintains partnerships Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness Drive to achieve results for impact Innovates and embraces change Manages ambiguity and complexity Thinks and acts strategically Works collaboratively with others Nurtures, leads and manages people 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.
Remarks As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF's active commitment to diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children.
For this position, eligible and suitable are encouraged to apply.
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