In a launch, UNV and World Health Organisation (WHO) initiate to recruit African Women who are middle career professionals in Africa to promote health and boost gender equity across 47 countries in the region.
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Why United Nations Volunteer?
UNV will recruit nationals from Africa continent and international UN Volunteers from around the world, with a special focus on the recruitment of female professionals, who have at least two years of professional experience related to public health, epidemiology, health research, health emergency management, data management, statistics or other health related fields, as well as information management, innovation, communications or external relations.
In a region with some of the highest rates of disease in the world, the Africa Women Health Champions initiative will provide women with the opportunity to serve to improve the health and well-being of people in Africa.
Application Deadline
The application is currently open for 2020 UN Volunteers application.
Value/Worth
Applicants will be provided with job pay monthly living allowance covering house, basic needs and utilities; settling-in-grant; life, health and permanent disability insurance; return airfares. while on an assignment for the duration period. Check your entitlements here: https://www.unv.org/become-volunteer
Eligibility and Requirements
The following eligibility and requirement will be followed.
- Be a female professional from the African region
- Be at least 22 years old for national UN Volunteer assignments, and at least 25 years old for international UN Volunteer assignments.
- Have at least two years of professional experience related to any of the following:
- public health
- epidemiology
- health research
- health emergency management
- data management
- statistics or other health related fields
- information management
- innovation
- communications or external relations.
Languages
English and French for Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, Guinea Conakry, Madagascar, Mali, Rwanda and Togo.
English and Portuguese for Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe.
French and Arabic for Algeria.
English for Eritrea, Eswatini, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.
Assignment information
Duration: 12 months (or until 31 Dec 2020, with possibility of extension)
Starting date: Any time during 2020, with ideally a large number of UN Volunteers taking up their assignment in July 2020
Conditions of service: monthly living allowance to cover housing, basic needs and utilities; settling-in-grant; life, health and permanent disability insurance; return airfares.
More details will be included in the specific descriptions of assignments and may vary depending on the volunteer category (national or international UN Volunteer; Specialist or Youth assignment).
How to Apply
Follow the procedure to apply for WHO/UN Volunteers Africa Women Health Champions 2020.
Application Procedure
Do you meet the eligibility criteria, if yes:
Click Here to Apply, Get More Information on the Website
Apply by registering (or updating) your profiles on UNV’s web application system
Click Here to apply by registering or update profile and then clicking on the corresponding link below to apply:
Algeria (Algiers)
- International: UN Volunteer External Relations & Partnerships
Benin (Cotonou)
- International: UN Volunteer Communications Officer
Botswana (Gaborone)
- International: UN Volunteer for Surveillance & Emergency Risk Management
Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou)
- International: UN Volunteer for External Relations
Cameroon (Yaounde)
- National: UN Volunteer Communications Officer
Chad (N’Djamena)
- International: UN Volunteer for External Relations
- National: UN Volunteer Communications Officer
Congo (Brazaville)
- International: UN Volunteer Technical Officer for Environmental Health Promotion
- International: UN Youth Volunteer in Public Health
- International: UN Volunteer Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
- International: UN Volunteer Resource Mobilization Officer
- International: UN Volunteer Procurement Officer
- International: UN Volunteer Data Manager
- International: UN Volunteer Nutrition and Food Safety Officer
- International: UN Volunteer Laboratory Officer
- International: UN Volunteer Non-Communicable Diseases Risk Factors Officer
- International: UN Volunteer for Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- International: UN Volunteer Communications Officer
- International: UN Volunteer for Project Management
Eritrea (Asmara)
- International: Emergency Country Preparedness Officer
Eswatini (Mbabane)
- National: UN Volunteer External Relations Officer
Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)
- International: UN Volunteer Emergency Country Preparedness Officer
Gambia (Banjul)
- International: UN Volunteer for External Relations and Communication
Ghana (Accra)
- National: UN Volunteer Communications Officer
Guinea (Conakry)
- National: UN Volunteer Communications Officer
Liberia (Monrovia)
- International: UN Volunteer Communications Officer
Malawi (Lilongwe)
- International: UN Volunteer Communications Officer
- National: UN Volunteer Communications Officer
Mali (Bamako)
- National: UN Volunteer Communications Officer
Namibia (Windhoek)
- International: UN Volunteer Communications and Partnerships Officer
Rwanda (Kigali)
- International: UN Volunteer Communications Officer
- International: UN Volunteer Human Resources for Health
Sao Tome and Principe (Sao Tome)
- International: UN Volunteer for Strategic Health Information
- International: UN Volunteer for Resource Mobilization
- National: UN Volunteer Communications Officer
Uganda (Kampala)
United Republic of Tanzania (Dar-es-Salaam)
- International: UN Volunteer Communications Officer
IMPORTANT: Please ensure the registeration is complete and profile duely updated.
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