The Health & Nutrition Innovation Specialist reports to the Chief of Health & Nutrition for supervision. The Specialist provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the Health & Nutrition Program within the Country Program from the development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative program tasks to facilitate program development, implementation, program progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting of results.
Purpose of the Job: The Health & Nutrition Innovation Specialist reports to the Chief of Health & Nutrition for supervision. The Specialist provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the Health & Nutrition Program within the Country Program from the development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative program tasks to facilitate program development, implementation, program progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting of results.
II. Key function, accountabilities and related duties/tasks
2.1. Support to programme development and planning
2.2. Program management, monitoring and delivery of results
2.3. Technical and operational support to programme implementation
2.4. Networking and partnership building
2.5. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
III. Impact of Results
The efficiency and efficacy of support provided by the Health and Nutrition Innovations Specialist to programme preparation, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health and nutrition programmes/projects facilitates the delivery of concrete and sustainable results for the Health and Nutrition programme that directly impacts the improvement of the health and nutrition of the children and women in the country, and this in turn contributes to maintaining/enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to continue to provide programme services to protect the rights of children, promote greater social equality to enable children to survive, develop and reach their full potential in society.
IV. Competencies And Level Of Proficiency Required
Core Values
Core competencies
Functional Competencies
V. Recruitment Qualifications
Education
Advanced university degree in Informatics, Statistics, Economics, Social Sciences, Public health/nutrition, pediatric health, Business administration, or other health related informatics programming is required (or a bachelor Degree plus at least 7 years of demonstrated professional experience in the field of informatics, Statistics, Economics, Social sciences, Public health / nutrition, Business administration, or other health related informatics programming).
Experience
At least 5 years of professional experience in informatics programing and management and/or in relevant areas of maternal and neonatal health, nutrition, informatics or statistics at the international level and/or in a developing country is required. Experience in health/nutrition program/project in UN system agency or organization is an asset.
Language Requirements
Fluency in French and working knowledge in English are required. Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the duty station is considered as an asset.
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