United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Humanitarian Public Health Adviser

Humanitarian Public Health Adviser

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****Job title: Humanitarian Public Health Adviser****

****Location: CHASE OT, London****

****Type of contract: Permanent****

****Salary: £45,850****

****Application deadline: Tuesday 30 June****

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The Conflict, Humanitarian & Security Department’s Operations Team (CHASE OT) is contracted through Crown Agents by the Department of International Development (DFID) and the Stabilisation Unit (SU) to provide support services and an operational team delivering advice and assistance on humanitarian disasters and emergencies.

Humanitarian Advisers are competent humanitarian professionals who can work strategically to influence internal and international processes, and who are able to design and implement programmes on the ground. Advisors provide specialist advice, analysis and support during a response.

Advisors will have strong interpersonal skills and be able to network effectively. They will be able to work in collaboration with a range of partners and disciplines across Whitehall and with humanitarian agencies at country level.

In addition to general humanitarian duties, the Humanitarian Public Health Adviser will be the focal point within the CHASE Operations’ Team for policy and practise within the humanitarian health sector. This fits within a DFID context of strengthening the collaboration between humanitarian and development health partners and ensuring that short-term humanitarian interventions support longer-term development goals.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities of the Humanitarian Public Health Adviser may include:

• Support DFID and/or DFID partner humanitarian impact and needs’ assessments, focusing on public health.
• Recommend programme priorities and strategies as well as appropriate delivery methods, with a specific role for public health priorities and strategies.
• Liaise with DFID staff including field teams (as required), DoH, PHE, FCO, MoD officials, WHO, UNICEF, UNOCHA, other donors, Red Cross/Crescent and NGO personnel as required.
• Support DFID operational engagement with: the UK Surgical Platform; the UK International Emergency Trauma Register; Foreign Medical Teams; International Health Partners; and the WHO Rapid Response Fund.
• Review partner programme concept notes and project proposals (general and health-specific).
• Track global response budgets and donor pledges.
• Monitor and report on the performance of international agencies and DFID’s partners.
• Identify institutional strengths and weaknesses and advise remedial actions.
• Provide humanitarian reports and analysis, with particular reference to health aspects.
• Lead field teams (with responsibility for safety and security).
• Support Field Team Leaders with humanitarian and public health advice as required.
• Represent DFID at international forums, and with overseas governments and authorities.
• Attend and support international coordination mechanisms as required, including engagement with the Health Cluster.
• Provide advice to CHASE OT HQ management.
• Give policy and technical advice as appropriate and as required, particularly public health policy and practise in humanitarian crises.
• Assist the development of DFID business cases for response interventions, particularly health related business cases.
• Liaise closely with DFID health advisers in London and in countries.
• Work to strengthen collaboration between humanitarian and development health partners, to ensure that short-term humanitarian interventions support longer term development goals, and that these longer term development interventions build resilience to conflict and disasters.
• Ensure that humanitarian health responses are working closely, and strengthening national and district systems and local communities, to leave behind expanded and more resilient health systems after an emergency.

Essential Qualifications, skills and experience required

General humanitarian

• Significant experience of leading a response to rapid onset disasters and complex emergencies.
• Extensive senior level experience of working in developing countries and/or in fragile and conflict affected environments
• Strong programme management skills
• Substantial demonstrable experience of working in a senior capacity in humanitarian operational environments, in a head office and field environment.
• Excellent networking and representational skills at all levels, including Government, UN, RC Movement and NGOS.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of humanitarian theory, practice and architecture, humanitarian risk assessment and planning and managing humanitarian responses.
• Exceptional organisational and prioritisation skills, and ability to deal with a varied, demanding, often conflicting and rapidly changing workload.

Public health specific

• At least five years’ experience of designing and leading public health programmes in humanitarian responses in developing countries.
• Good understanding of epidemiology and epidemic responses and, ideally, first-hand experience of these responses.
• Knowledge based on experience of health service delivery in a developing country context, including of health system development challenges.
• Masters’ degree in public health or equivalent qualification.

Technical competences required

• Humanitarian risks assessment and analysis.
• Planning and managing humanitarian responses.
• Humanitarian theory, practice and architecture.
• Disaster resilience theory, practice and architecture, including resilience of health systems.
• Practical experience of running humanitarian operations.
• Knowledge of the development effectiveness agenda, the international development system, and institutional and organisational knowledge.
• Demonstrable understanding of epidemiology, communicable disease control, epidemic responses, disease surveillance, reproductive, maternal and child health, nutrition, behaviour change communication, chronic disease prevention and management.
• Knowledge of multi-sector approaches to tackling health outcomes.
• Understanding of both the global health and humanitarian contexts, including international architecture.
• Knowledge of health service delivery in a developing country context.
• Knowledge and application of wider determinants of health.
• Knowledge and application of evidence, innovation and evaluation.
• Demonstrable safety and security management skills.

Desirable skills

• Coordination of humanitarian response.
• Contingency planning at government level.
• Knowledge of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).
• Senior level communications (including briefing).
• Information Management and reporting.
• Training.
• HR and administration.
• Full driving licence.

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