UN Volunteers are called to serve with the WHO in Brazzaville, Congo to improve health and gender equity.
Start Date: 01 August 2020
Duration: 24 months
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Description of task
During deployment, the duties may be modified, based upon the technical needs of the Programme.
Reporting to the Technical Cluster at the Regional level, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
- Provide technical support to the Member States to develop and implement national policies, plans and programmes to prevent violence against children and women (including gender-based violence), and traffic injuries and deaths
- Build the capacity of national officials and country staff to develop and implement national policies, legislation, strategies, programmes, and initiatives on violence and injury prevention
- Provide guidance on the prevention of violence against children and women (including against gender-based violence) and on road safety and sustainable transportation interventions
- Document and disseminate best practices on injury prevention, road safety and mobility through the WHO website, factsheets, policy briefs and other publications; and where appropriate through meetings, workshops and conferences.
- Provide technical input into the global road safety status survey and report and other surveys
- Collaborate with relevant Teams within AFRO, HQ and other partners in road safety, documenting and disseminating best practices on Prevention of Injuries and Violence
- Collaborate on cross-cluster initiatives on violence and injury prevention within WHO/AFRO, HQ and Country Offices
- Perform other related responsibilities as assigned.
Benefits
- UN Volunteers are paid Daily Subsistence Allowance at the UN rate for official travels, flight tickets for a periodic home visit and for the final repatriation travel (if applicable).
- Resettlement allowance is paid for satisfactory service at the end of the assignment.
Eligibilities
- Required degree level: Bachelor degree or equivalent
- Education – Additional Comments:
- Essential
- First University Degree in Social science, Health Promotion, Public health, Health Policy, Health Education, or Injuries’ prevention.
- Essential
- Required experience: 36 Months
- Experience remark:
- Essential
- At least 3 -5 years of work experience in the prevention of violence or experience in implementing programmes/interventions on gender-based violence and violence against children or other relevant public health experience.
- Essential
- Language skills:
- English(Mandatory), Level – Fluent
- French(Optional), Level – Fluent
- Portuguese(Optional), Level – Fluent
- Area of expertise: Gender equality and the advancement of women
- Area of expertise details:
- Computer skills:
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office software applications.
- Functional Knowledge and Skills:
- Technical and programmatic knowledge of Prevention of Violence against children and women
- Demonstrated ability to provide clear advice and guidance to multiple stakeholders and partners on the prevention of injury and violence
- Broad knowledge of public health.
- Computer skills:
Application Process
- If you are not yet registered in the UNV Talent Pool, First, register your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/signup.
Important: After creating your account, complete all sections of your profile and submit it. Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink. Lastly, select the special call to which you would like to apply.
- If you are already registered in the UNV Talent Pool, First, update your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/profile.
- Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink to select the special call to which you would like to apply.
- This assignment is in the framework of the Africa Women Health Champions to improve health and gender equality initiative. African female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Application Deadline: July 22, 2020
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