Community Health and Emergency Preparedness Specialist
Category | Grade:Professional | CONDeadline:3 Aug 2026Job ID:594611Posted on:21 Jul 2026
Overview
The consultant strengthens UNICEF Chad’s community-health services and emergency readiness, supporting outbreak preparedness, programme and financial monitoring, partner coordination and field missions while applying vaccination, nutrition and maternal-child health evidence to improve response in fragile settings.
Department: Health Section
Languages
Required: French
Desired: English, Local language
Job Areas
- Clinical, Health & Medical Services
- Emergency & Disaster Response
Minimum Experience
5 years
Estimated Salary
Not available
Responsibilities
- Support community-health interventions and service delivery
- Prepare and coordinate responses to health emergencies and outbreaks
- Monitor programme implementation, finances and partner performance
- Collect and analyze health data for planning and reporting
- Coordinate government, NGO and cluster partners
- Supervise community activities and undertake field missions
- Track monitoring indicators and recommend corrective action
Requirements
- Advanced degree in public health, medicine, epidemiology or a related field
- At least five years of experience in community health or health-emergency management
- Experience monitoring programmes and coordinating partners
- Field experience in fragile or humanitarian settings
- French proficiency
- Proficiency with monitoring, evaluation and data-analysis tools
Skills
Community healthHealth emergency managementOutbreak responseProgramme monitoringHealth data analysisPartner coordination
Tools
DHIS2KoboToolboxMicrosoft Excel
Additional info
- National consultancy based in the office with field missions