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Our Mission

Join Us Today To Promote A More Peaceful, Prosperous  & Just World

The U.S. Committee for U.N. supports the work of the World Health Organization to improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world by promoting democratic governance, poverty reduction, rural development, crisis prevention and recovery, energy and environmental issues, and reducing the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It accomplishes these aims by building a broad-based American constituency that educates for international development and by identifying US resources for specific U.N. projects that support U.S. national interests. (Positions and Annual Salary)

A. Environmental Officer

Location: Belgium/China/France/Kuwait/Russia/South-Africa/UK/USA

Contract: Fulltime

They are responsible for development oversight, management, and evaluation of programs in the following areas: bio-diversity, conservation, forestry, wildlife management, water and coastal resources management, environmental education, environmental policy, environmentally sustainable agriculture, community based natural resources management, urban and industrial pollution reduction, urban planning and management (including such areas as housing, water and sanitation),urban and housing finance, energy efficiency and conservation, renewable energy applications, clean energy technologies, energy sector planning and global climate change. Environment Officers apply both a technical knowledge of their program area and a variety of management and program evaluation knowledge in order to ensure that projects meet the needs of who-usa partners and customers in a cost-effective manner.

B. Financial Management Officer

Location: Argentina/Germany/Japan/India/Spain/Russia/Portugal/UK/USA

Duration: Full time

They direct the accounting and payment operations worldwide. In addition, they provide significant, levels of advisory services to all levels of the mission and host country governments. This includes administrative, operational and program matters concerning financial, budgetary and resource management and implementation issues.

C. Senior Program Officers for Nutrition

Location: Canada/France/India/Japan/South-Africa/Russia/UK/USA

Contract: Full time

Overall Responsibilities: the Senior Program Officer for Nutrition works closely with Senior Child Survival/Immunization. Program Managers to plan, coordinate, implement, monitor, and evaluate child survival activities, with special attention to strengthening nutrition program activities. Work with the Senior Child Survival/Immunization Adviser and the State Child Survival/Malaria Program Managers to coordinate, implement, monitor, and evaluate the country child survival activity plan. In particular, design, plan, implement, and evaluate nutrition actions as an integral part of COMPASS activities. Coordinate, plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate nutrition activities related to Vitamin A, breast feeding promotion, complementary feeding, nutrition activities related to immunization and National Immunization Days (NIDs), Quality Protein Maize (QPM) related issues, communications/behavior change, and community mobilization. Evaluate the costs and effectiveness of Positive Deviance (PD)/Hearth approaches to improving childhood health and nutrition. Identify and coordinate with partners from The World Health Organization Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Bank, World Health Organization (WHO), Canadian International Development Agency/Micronutrient Initiative (CIDA/MI), Department for International Development (DFID) International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Helen Keller International (HKI),community-Directed Treatment and Ivermectin (CDTI) Program, other academic institutions, Private Voluntary Organizations (PVOs), and Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) for the development of activities at scale to reach high geographical coverage.

D. Program/Project Development Officers

Location: Austria/China/Japan/Spain/Nigeria/Portugal/Taiwan/UK/USA

Duration: Full time

They are responsible for strategy development, policy formulation, performance reporting,project management, and public outreach. They are looked upon to ensure that the Mission's operational procedures are designed to elicit team work, emphasize shared values, make known programming priorities, and reward innovation. Program/Project development officers must be able to apply leadership and management skills in order to ensure that program activities are designed and implemented to achieve stated objectives, within resource constraints and in a timely manner.

E. Executive Officers

Location: France/Germany/Japan/Spain/South-Africa/UK/USA

They oversee a wide range of administrative and logistical support functions including personnel management, contracting, procurement, property management, motor pool management, travel management, employee/family housing and maintenance management. In addition to having direct responsibility for providing the daily support of the agency's field mission, duties include planning for future personnel and procurement requirements at the assigned duty station.

F. Lawyers

Location: Australia/France/Germany/India/S.Korea/South-Africa/UK/USA

They provide legal counsel to planners and administrators of WHO's overseas programs, laws and regulations, Agency directives and delegations of authority, bilateral agreements, loan and grant agreements, contracts and other agreements pertaining to country or regional programs. They advise on reconciliation of problems resulting from differences between DRI. And cooperating country laws. They advise regional personnel on the drafting and promotion of legislation and regulations to be proposed for enactment or adoption by the cooperating country government Ministry of Justice.

G. Education Development Officers

Location: Egypt/France/Netherlands/Japan/India/Russia/UK/USA

They analyze, advise, and assist with the development of host country education human resources and man power planning systems. Strategies are designed to improve existing education programs as well as to promote organizational competencies and skills acquisition related to both individual and institutional development. Duties Include participation in Agency policy formulation, sector analysis, program and project design, program monitoring, and evaluation of activities in education and human resources.

H. Agriculture/Rural Development Officers

Location: Egypt/Canada/India/Japan/Malaysia/N.Korea/South-Africa/UK/USA

They advise senior WHO and host government officials on agriculture and rural development projects. They identify problems and propose solutions, participate in project design and development, and manage and evaluate programs. Duties include coordinating the flow of resources for projects, analyzing the effects of proposed policies, legislation, and programs and advising on interdisciplinary rural development programs.

I. Program Officers

Location: France/Japan/S.Korea/South-Africa/Spain/Italy/UAE/UK/USA

J. Program Team Leader

Location: Algeria/France/Saudi-Arabia/Germany/N.Korea/UK/USA

K. Operations Director

Location: Chile/Spain/Turkey/Russia/Greece/Malaysia/UK/USA

L. HR and Admin Team Leader

Location: China/Sweden/France/Netherlands/Japan/Russia/UAE/UK/USA

M. Economic Affairs

Location:Australia/Brazil/China/Germany/Greece/Japan/Spain/South-Africa/UK/USA

N. Medical

Location: Egypt/China/Japan/Spain/India/Italy/Russia/UK/USA

O. Political Affairs

Location: China/France/Japan/Spain/Nigeria/South-Africa/UK/USA

P. Security

Location: China/Germany/Japan/South-Africa/Spain/Israel/Russia/UK/USA

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS/SELECTION.

Applicants are selected on the basis of academic credentials, experience and other relevant factors. Successful applicants are interviewed on their related knowledge, skills and abilities. Application is open to all interested applicants from any nationality. HOW TO APPLY: Send your resume/CV ONLY to: resume@unittednations.org

Dr. Margherita Venturi PhD,

Recruitment Officer

UN Headquarters

First Avenue at 26th Floor

New York, NY 10017

Fax: +1206-202-3860