Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of Leads of the Injuries function within the Public Health Programs & Policies Unit in the execution of the following activities:
• Develop and maintain a Regional Public Health Survey to understand public health priorities, needs and capacity (infrastructure, expertise, programs, resources) at the country level.
• Develop public health strategies within Injuries in collaboration with CLOs
• Collaborate with disease and risk factor-specific working groups to identify, develop, adapt, and implement practices and policies of relevance to priority areas
• Establish of disease and risk factor-specific working groups and committees with representatives from all member states to tackle public health threats
• Collaborate with the Health Information function to analyze data and publish reports on topics of relevance to regional public health priorities and the Training and Capacity function to disseminate information effectively to representatives within member states
• Support the Director, Public Health Programs & Policies in working with the Technical Committee (including Country-Level Officers) and other Gulf-CDC units to ensure communicable disease activities are well aligned with the needs and expectations of the member states
• Prepare Injuries Unit progress reports and documents for the Director, Public Health Programs & Policies

Qualification

• A level of education which corresponds to completed university studies attested by a Master’s degree or higher in the field of public health, epidemiology, medicine, or another related area
• Nationality of one of the Gulf-CDC Member States

Experience

• At least 5 years of professional experience acquired in positions relevant to the job description
• Experience in managing small teams and/or in coordinating cross-organizational activities
• Proven people management experience and leadership
• Public health experience at national or international level, preferably in Injuries
• Advanced experience in the coordination of multi-organizational activities
• Advanced experience in scientific communication to authorities, peers and community