Public Health Officer

The Public Health Officer will manage data collection and analysis, capacity building initiatives, and coordinate implementation of health emergency activities in Libya. The role supports the country's capacity to implement International Health Regulations and strengthens public health surveillance and emergency response.

Responsibilities

• Manage data collection and analysis including developing and reviewing technical reports focused on strengthening the country's capacity in implementing International Health Regulations (IHR).
• Coordinate teams working on maintaining, assessing, improving and developing public health surveillance systems and registries.
• Design, implement, follow-up and report on assessments relevant to the health of displaced people or other population groups affected by crisis.
• Conduct technical reviews of programme plans, reports, proposals and other documents relevant to the programme.
• Prepare comprehensive qualitative and quantitative periodic reports according to WHO indicators on activities in public health facilities.
• Manage capacity building initiatives for health personnel including identification of training needs, development of training materials, delivery of capacity building activities, and follow-up impact analysis.
• Assure regular briefings of Ministry of Health on international health regulations and its requirements.
• Support the ministry of health in organizing reviews of the country's capacity to implement IHR requirements and after action reviews.
• Monitor and coordinate implementation of planned activities, national campaigns and field actions in collaboration with health partners.
• Identify priority health and nutrition-related issues among affected populations and ensure integrated primary healthcare approaches.
• Plan and deliver interventions to solve urgent problems identified during analysis.
• Conduct meetings with national counterparts and UN stakeholders for planning, conducting and reprogramming collaborative actions.
• Prepare reports, recommendations and lessons learnt from meetings.
• Provide technical guidance for prevention and control of disease outbreaks during and after emergency situations.
• Perform other related responsibilities including replacing and backstopping for others as required.

Requirements

• University degree in Medicine or public health.
• Master degree in Public Health or epidemiology and/or a health-related field (desirable).
• At least two years of relevant experience in public health field with emphasis on emergency and humanitarian response.
• Field experience in surveillance and/or control of acute public health events in resource limited countries (desirable).
• Experience of working with event-based surveillance and risk assessment (desirable).
• Demonstrate knowledge of health sector activities in the context of emergency response relief.
• Broad knowledge of Emergency programmes, policies and interventions.
• Proven knowledge of the International Health Regulations (IHR).
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Knowledge of WHO and UN programmes.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Proven skills in capacity building.
• Expert knowledge of English.
• Expert knowledge of Arabic.

Skills

• Public Health
• Epidemiology
• Emergency Response
• Humanitarian Response
• Public Health Surveillance
• Event-based Surveillance
• Risk Assessment
• Health Sector Knowledge
• International Health Regulations
• Capacity Building
• Data Collection
• Data Analysis
• Health Emergency Coordination
• WHO Programmes
• UN Programmes
• Presentation Skills

Languages

English, Arabic