Job Opportunity as a Technical Officer for the Emergency Operations Center in Egypt at the World Health Organization
By: World Health OrganizationLast update:
Applicant criteria
NationalityNo specific nationality required
SpecialityComputer and Information Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and Medical Sciences, Information Technology
Skillsمهارات التواصل, مهارات العمل ضمن الفريق, التخطيط والتنظيم والتفكير التحليلي
Age
- No specific age required
Years of Experience
- 5+
Gender
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Job Type
- Full time
Job FieldsSales, procurement, and logistics
Opportunity FieldMarketing, Business and Finance
Job locationEgypt
Needed documentsCV, Application form
Deadline2023-11-01
Opportunity description
The World Health Organization offers a job opportunity as a Technical Officer for the Emergency Operations Center in Egypt. The mission of the WHO Health Emergencies Program is to help countries, and coordinate international action, to prevent, prepare for, detect, rapidly respond to and recover from outbreaks and emergencies.
Duties & responsibilities
You will be responsible for:
- Manage the day-to-day operations of the Emergency Operations Center, ensuring that all Emergency Operations Center functions, systems, hardware, software, and staff support tools are well maintained and operational throughout the full cycle of an incident.
- Develop and implement technical and operational procedures and structures for health emergency response management, which includes liaising with the Incident Management Team, global customs organizations, headquarters and Emergency Operations Center members in member states when needed.
- Ensuring information exchange and providing technical support for information management, communications, geospatial information systems and security management.
- Participate in operational support responses to health emergencies.
- Categorize events, briefings, documents and notes.
- Contribute to the management of EOC communications, ensuring the best possible planning, quality and security of web conferences.
- Taking appropriate measures to demobilize the operations center, this includes: returning borrowed equipment to its respective locations. Replace broken or missing items. Restock supplies and equipment.
- Perform any other incident-related duties, as required by your job supervisor.
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Eligibility criteria
You must have:
- Education:
- Basic qualifications: First university degree in the field of management, public administration, business administration, health, information management, computer science or any related field from an accredited/recognized institute.
- Desirable Qualifications: Professional training in emergency management, incident management, and/or public health. Postgraduate studies in one of the above-mentioned fields.
- Experience:
- Essential Experience: At least five years of relevant experience, with international work, in support of emergency operations involving the application of public health emergency planning and management systems.
- Desirable experience: Work experience in developing countries. Previous humanitarian work experience at field level, with WHO, other UN agencies, health cluster partners or an international NGO.
- Employees at other duty stations are encouraged to apply for this opportunity.
- Required skills:
- Knowledge and experience in operational support responses to disease outbreaks, health emergencies and incident management.
- Strong analytical, planning and organizational skills.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Commitment to tight deadlines.
- Tact, diplomacy and courtesy when working in a multicultural and multidisciplinary environment.
- Skills of working within a team.
- Respect and promote individual and cultural differences.
- Communication skills.
- Ability to move forward in a changing environment.
- Proficiency in English.
- It is preferable to have an intermediate knowledge of the French language.
Benefits:
- WHO salaries for Professional staff are calculated in US dollars. You will receive an annual basic salary starting at US$64,121 (taking into account mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance where applicable).
- A living allowance of up to $1,485 per month.
- Other benefits will include 30 days annual leave, allowances for dependent family members, home leave, and an education grant for dependent children.
About WHO:
The organization's goal is to build a better, healthier future for people all over the world. Working through offices in more than 150 countries, WHO staff work side by side with governments and other partners to ensure the highest attainable level of health for all people. They strive to combat diseases; infectious diseases like influenza and HIV and noncommunicable ones like cancer and heart disease. They also help mothers and children survive and thrive so they can look forward to a healthy old age, and ensure the safety of the air people breathe, the food they eat, the water they drink, and the medicines and vaccines they need.
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