NPO (Public Health and Environment) Professional

Job Summary

Under the overall guidance of the WHO Representative, and the direct supervision of Deputy Head of WHO Country Office, and in collaboration with relevant technical units in the Country Office, the incumbent will perform the following duties.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to the country in planning, monitoring and evaluating environmental health interventions with a focus on drinking water safety, sanitation and hygiene, air quality, climate change and health, health care waste management, and the sound management of chemicals and pesticides throughout their life-cycle.
• Collaborate with partners to develop national strategies and institutional capacities on primary prevention interventions, particularly those related to the safety of drinking water, sanitation, waste management, occupational health and to mitigate the health impact of air pollution and climate change.
• Provide support to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) and other related Ministries, Government of India (GoI) for development of Strategies on Environmental Health, Water and Sanitation, air pollution, and climate change based on national context.
• Advocate and facilitate inputs to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP), Global Analysis and Assessment of drinking water and sanitation (GLAAS), air pollution and climate change in the context of sustainable development goals.
• Manage the Public Health and Environment workplan including prioritisation, preparation of work plans, programme budget, implementation and monitoring the progress of work.
• Advocate with MOHFW and line Ministries and Agencies on development of policies and implementation of drinking water safety and air quality monitoring and surveillance as appropriate.
• Support capacity-building of national program managers to promote safe water, sanitation, hygiene and sound waste management in the community, in health-care facilities and in the workplace, and to support capacity-building in other priority areas of environmental health.
• Liaise with concerned National counterparts of the technical units/departments, WHO/SEARO and WHO/HQs, collaborate with other clusters in areas i.e. communicable and non-communicable diseases, family, gender and life-course, health systems development for coordination of various health-related activities; and with donors and development partners (bilateral and UN) to harmonise recommendations on policies and strategies relating to environmental health to ensure these are suitably adopted to the Indian context.
• Promote development of studies and research on the environmental health areas, including water, sanitation, air quality and climate change, in close coordination and collaboration with national authorities, WHO collaborating centres, national centers of excellence and national R&D institutions, dissemination of research information to all stakeholders.
• Coordinate and participate in inter-agency working group meetings/workshops and strengthen inter-agency collaboration and liaise with external/donor agencies.
• Support information brokering/exchange function of WCO India through contributions to the health repository at the WCO India by collation, analysis and sharing of relevant information and statistics.
• Prepare technical reports, as necessary and perform any other duties as may be assigned by WR India and DWR.

Required Qualifications

Education

Essential: University Degree in environmental sciences such as water and sanitation and environmental engineering from a recognized University.

Desirable: Post graduate degree or training in Public Health or related field.

Experience

Essential: At least five (5) years of experience working in Public Health and Environment programme at national level.

Desirable: Experience of work in WHO or other UN Agencies in the areas of healthcare waste management.

Skills

• Environmental health
• Drinking water safety
• Sanitation
• Air quality
• Climate change
• Waste management
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Policy development
• Capacity-building

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