Public Health Specialist (Emergency Management)

HANOI-2022-35  Public Health Specialist (Emergency Management) position

Requirement:

Experience:  A minimum of three years’ experience working with projects or programs supporting public health emergency management in Viet Nam is required.

Education:  A minimum of Master’s degree in public health, disaster and/or environmental management, business administration or international equivalent is required 

JOB KNOWLEDGE: 

In order to support the host Government and implementing partners in the development and strengthening of effective disease detection and response systems, a professional knowledge foundation in public health emergency management is required. This includes a thorough understanding of disease surveillance and outbreak responses, incident management systems, and coordinated management of emergency response.

A good working knowledge of program management techniques to plan, organize and direct complex activities with multiple stakeholders is required.   

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Good program management and systems analytical skills and be able to communicate issues and developments between the CDC team and partners within MOH and other technical, development and implementing partners, both orally and in writing. It is critical to maintain effective, sustainable working relationships with national and international working partners and to accomplish reporting requirements.

Good managerial skills are required to operate independently with limited direct supervision of day-to-day activities and to lead results-driven project teams and workgroups. Ability to analyze, understand and discuss data, program and systems design and revision, and management and implementation approaches is required. Intermediate user-level of word processing, spreadsheets and databases is required.

Strong skills in the interpretation of program monitoring and evaluation data are required, including the ability to understand and synthesize numerical data.

Applications should be submitted through Electronic Recruitment Application (ERA) by August 22, 2022 to be considered. Guidance on how to apply is available on the Embassy’s website.