Public Health Traineeship

UNITAR is an autonomous body within the United Nations that was established in 1965 pursuant to a UN General Assembly resolution. UNITAR’s mission is to develop the individual, institutional and organizational capacities of countries and other United Nations stakeholders through high-quality learning solutions and related knowledge products and services to enhance decision-making and to support country-level action for overcoming global challenges.

UNITAR hosts the Defeat-NCD Partnership and other relevant strategic initiatives working in the field of noncommunicable diseases and addressing related risk factors - such as road crashes, deaths and injuries, and assisted technologies for improved health outcomes. The Defeat-NCD Partnership is a multi-stakeholder partnership anchored in the United Nations and includes Governments, multilateral agencies, civil society, academia, philanthropies, and the private sector. It was established in January 2018 to help tackle the most significant global health problems of the age: premature death, sickness, disability, and the associated social and economic impacts of selected non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It is based on expert guidance and the technical norms and standards issued by the World Health Organization for managing NCDs.

The strategy of the Partnerships directs actions around four interconnected pillars that, taken together, constitute a comprehensive service package to tackle the most common gaps and constraints that challenge the 90 plus focus low-resource countries of the Partnership. This assignment will prepare the trainees to pursue a leading career in public health and NCDs. The trainee will support the Defeat-NCD Partnership in its efforts to lead the design, implementation, resource mobilization and reporting of its programme activities, in support of the Sustainable Development Goal 3.4. 

Eligibility Criteria

• Master's degree or equivalent in public health, global health, and/or Graduate degree in Medicine or equivalent, from an accredited and recognized academic institution is required.
• Applicants must be enrolled in an undergraduate/graduate/postgraduate degree or be a recent graduate of the aforementioned qualifications (if selected, they must commence the traineeship within two years of graduation).
• Candidates should also have demonstrated, interest in event planning, customer service, administrative support, research and drafting, communications and marketing.

Languages

• Fluency in spoken and written English is required.