Job Opportunity in the USA: Health Specialist

The World Bank Group offers a job opportunity in Washington, United States for the position of Health Specialist for a one-year, renewable for an additional one year, at the discretion of the World Bank Group. This provides a unique opportunity for you to help the World Bank Group clients solve their greatest development challenges. As such, you should possess enough technical expertise to deliver services and support to staff working in HQ and CO locations with high independence and professional autonomy.

You will be responsible for:

• Deliver expert nursing services and support to HSD management, Hub TTLs, and stakeholders external to HSD when appropriate, and when requested and/or required. 
• Serves as a member of one or more of four nurse-managed programs:
• Medical Evacuation Team
• Preventive Health and Wellness Promotion Team
• Country Office-Oriented Travel Medicine Team
• Occupational Health and Safety Nurse Program
• Collaborate with colleagues from OHS during joint integrated health and safety events and program outreach efforts. 
• Collaborate with colleagues from MHW during joint health and wellness program and mental health and wellbeing program outreach efforts.
• Execute all HQ and CO-oriented nursing services for the WBG and IMF. 
• Execute both short- and long-term goals, and provide insights to inform decisions by higher management regarding program execution.  
• Respond to queries, provide proactive health and safety outreach support, effectively deal with situations, and provide cutting-edge information and suggestions on complex health and safety issues.
• Under the direction of HSD’s Manager of Operations, collaborates with colleagues from other HSD Domain areas on multi-disciplinary joint mission planning, and participates in missions as needed.
• Following managerial guidance regarding planning and coordination of periodic multi-disciplinary team missions.
• During mission visits, PHW staff will assess the level of medical care locally as well as the CO medical emergency response plan.
• Be present where and when appropriate to join environmental health and safety assessments, psychosocial health risk assessments, promotion of the Bank’s Employee Health and Wellness Program, and psychoeducational programming and presentations to include domestic abuse prevention.  

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You must have:

• Master's degree with 5 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to translate theory into practical applications in context of Bank work.
• Ability to participate in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Valid and current US Registered Nurse licensure, certification, or other professional recognition per local public health authority requirements.
• Able to take 24-hour nurse call duty assignment. 
• Proficiency in written, spoken, and clinical English.
• Ability to travel internationally as required.
• You are preferred to have:
• Demonstrated excellence in clinical judgement and decision-making.
• Experience working with international organizations/ multicultural populations.
• Proficiency in two or more languages.

About the World Bank Group:

The World Bank Group is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. It is the largest and most well-known development bank in the world and is an observer at the United Nations Development Group. The bank is based in Washington, D.C. and provided around $61 billion in loans and assistance to "developing" and transition countries in the 2014 fiscal year. The bank's stated mission is to achieve the twin goals of ending extreme poverty and building shared prosperity. Total lending as of 2015 for the last 10 years through Development Policy Financing was approximately $117 billion.

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