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Environment Officer - NOA job Post
Location: Jobs in Uganda 2024 - 2025
Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day
Salary:
UGX
No. of vacancies: 01
Deadline: 18 June 2024
Hiring Organization: World Health Organisation
Job Details:
Purpose of the Post:
In the context of the WHO at the country level, the incumbent will provide support with planning, monitoring, evaluating, coordinating the environmental health interventions with a focus on provision of safe drinking water, adequate sanitation, hygiene, infection control and climate change. Provide technical advice and on-site support to develop national technical and institutional capacities for the implementation of primary prevention interventions, particularly those related to safety of drinking water, safe sanitation, waste management, chemical management, and climate change.
Objectives of the Programme and of the immediate unit or field activity (Overview of the programme):
The objective of the Environment and Health program is to contribute to the reduction of the environmental burden of disease, through regular assessments of the environmental risk factors to human health and the deployment of cost-effective preventive interventions in the context of the Libreville Declaration on health and environment in Africa and in pursuit of attaining Sustainable Development Goals.
Organizational Context
The incumbent will be working as an NPO for Environment and Health under the direct supervision of Cluster Lead for SMO Cluster. The incumbent will work with all Clusters in close collaboration with other disease prevention and control programmes and on cross-cutting climate change areas to ensure the effective consideration and inclusion of primary prevention interventions in their strategies. He will closely interact with AFRO to streamline the work related particularly to the normative functions. He will also relate to other partners working on health and environment issues to coordinate country support efforts. The incumbent will also provide support for coordination of all WHO activities in the environment and health projects.
Under the supervision of the Cluster Lead - SMO, the incumbent is responsible for supporting the MOH and the Environmental Health.
Summary of Assigned Duties
Under the supervision of the Cluster Lead – SMO, the incumbent will perform the following tasks:
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Date Posted: 2024-05-26
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