National Project Coordinator (One Health)

The National Project Coordinator (One Health) will coordinate the implementation and monitoring of FAO's One Health projects in Angola, focusing on strengthening integrated surveillance, zoonotic disease prevention, antimicrobial resistance control, and multisectoral collaboration. The role supports national efforts to enhance pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response capacities under the One Health approach.

Responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day management, coordination, and implementation of One Health projects (UTF, GCP, TCP), ensuring compliance with FAO rules and procedures, adherence to work plans, and alignment with national One Health and health security priorities.
• Provide comprehensive technical, operational, and administrative support to ensure the timely delivery of outputs, effective implementation of activities, and efficient and accountable use of project resources.
• Contribute to detailed planning, coordination, and monitoring of One Health interventions, including work plan development, progress tracking, identification of implementation bottlenecks, and the proposal of corrective measures.
• Support the design, review, and implementation of integrated One Health strategies and action plans addressing zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), food safety, and environmental and climate-related health risks.
• Strengthening integrated surveillance systems, including IDSR implementation, community-based surveillance, event-based surveillance, and interoperability of digital health information systems for real-time data reporting and decision-making.
• Support preparedness, prevention, and response mechanisms for zoonotic and epidemic-prone diseases, working closely with national authorities and relevant technical institutions to strengthen outbreak detection and rapid response capacity.
• Promote climate-resilient, ecosystem-based, and cross-sectoral One Health approaches that strengthen linkages among human, animal, plant, and environmental health systems and resilience-building.
• Facilitate effective multisectoral coordination and collaboration among government institutions, UN agencies, research institutions, civil society, and development partners to ensure coherent One Health implementation.
• Ensure close technical collaboration with FAO technical teams (Country Office, RAF, SFS, Lead Technical Officers) and support quality assurance, technical backstopping, and performance monitoring for implementing partners and consultants.
• Support the preparation, review, and quality assurance of technical and operational documents, including project proposals, concept notes, work plans, budgets, procurement plans, technical specifications, and progress reports.
• Facilitate capacity development initiatives, including training sessions, workshops, simulation exercises, field missions, and awareness campaigns for surveillance officers, health professionals, and community actors.
• Promote inclusive, gender-responsive, and community-based approaches, ensuring the active participation of women, young people, vulnerable groups, and hard-to-reach populations in One Health interventions.
• Support collection, validation, analysis, and dissemination of One Health data and information to inform surveillance systems, programmatic decision-making, and national reporting frameworks.
• Contribute to the development of technical guidelines, manuals, training materials, and knowledge products, while documenting lessons learned, best practices, and innovative approaches for scaling up.
• Support reporting, visibility, and communication of project achievements, including preparation of donor reports, FAO internal reporting, success stories, and knowledge-sharing products.

Requirements

• Advanced university degrees in Veterinary Medicine, Public Health, Epidemiology, Environmental Health, Animal Sciences, One Health, Integrated Pests Management, Natural Resources Management, or a related field.
• At least seven (7) years of relevant professional experience in One Health, public health, veterinary public health, epidemiology, zoonotic disease surveillance, Integrated Pests Management or related fields, including proven experience in project coordination, multisectoral collaboration, capacity development, and implementation of integrated human, animal, and environmental health programmes.
• Working knowledge of English and Portuguese (Level C).
• Angolan nationality or resident of the country with a valid work permit

Skills

• One Health
• Project Coordination
• Zoonotic Disease Surveillance
• Public Health
• Veterinary Public Health
• Epidemiology
• Integrated Pests Management
• Capacity Development
• Multisectoral Collaboration
• Antimicrobial Resistance Control
• Surveillance Systems
• Epidemic Preparedness
• Program Implementation
• Environmental Health
• Animal Sciences

Languages

English, Portuguese