Junior Public Health Professional (JPP) - Fellowship

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME : 1. To provide an opportunity to young health professionals to strengthen their practical skills and knowledge essential to participate in public health works at the national level. 2. To expose them to WHO programmes and thereby contributing to them, and 3. To enable the countries to benefit from the knowledge the young professional has acquired, upon completion of the assignment.

Description of duties: 1. To compile data and information and prepare monitoring framework based on national, regional and global indicators on child health. 2. To participate in regional and national capacity building activities (pre-service and in-service) on IMCI, home-based newborn care, community case management of sick child and early childhood development. 3. To assist in supporting activities related to surveillance and prevention of birth defects in Member countries. 4. To participate and contribute to research and training in newborn health activities supported by WHOCC under regional/national network of institutions. 5. To submit six-monthly report to the supervisor.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education: University medical degree with Master degree in Public Health.

Skills: I.T. Skills: Excellent knowledge of MS Office applications and computer skills for making high quality technical presentations including data analysis. Competencies: Ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which includes willingness to try, understand and be tolerant of different opinions and views.

Experience: Two to five years' of relevant working experience related to newborn and child health and development at national level.

Languages: Excellent knowledge of spoken and written English.

Additional Information: APPLICATIONS ONLY FROM THE NATIONALS OF THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES OF THE SOUTH-EAST ASIA REGION WILL BE CONSIDERED: BANGLADESH; BHUTAN; INDIA; INDONESIA; DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA; MALDIVES; MYANMAR; NEPAL; SRI LANKA; THAILAND AND TIMOR-LESTE. AGE: BETWEEN 30 AND 35 YEARS. Annual Salary: (Net of tax) US$46,669 at single rate

Online applications are strongly encouraged to enable WHO to store your profile in a permanent database. Please visit WHO's e-Recruitment website at: www.who.int/employment. The system provides instructions for online application procedures.

All applicants are encouraged to apply online as soon as possible after the vacancy has been posted and well before the deadline stated in the vacancy announcement.