World Bank Group
Health Care
Nursing
Addis Ababa
5 years
1 Position
2025-02-01
to
2025-02-15
promote health in specialised care
review patient's medical data
write reports on emergency cases
Nursing Science
Full Time
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Job Description
Health Services Specialist, Field Health
Job #:req31412
Organization:World Bank
Sector:Health & Safety
Grade:GFTerm
Duration: 3 years 0 months
Recruitment Type:Local Recruitment
Location:Addis Ababa,Ethiopia
Required Language(s):English
Preferred Language(s):
Closing Date:2/10/2025 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank consists of two entities – the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). It is a global development cooperative owned by 189 member countries. As the largest development bank in the world, the World Bank provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries, and coordinates responses to regional and global challenges. Visit www.worldbank.org.
HSD consists of three functional units:
Personal Health and Wellness:
Facilitates and enables the delivery of health services and preventive health / health promotion programs to WBG staff and families living in HQ and over 120 Country Offices (COs) outside the United States, to include moving people temporarily or permanently to regions when needed services are not available locally
Occupational Health and Safety
Informed by a comprehensive risk register and through collaboration with sister units, provides an ongoing assessment of personal, occupational, and psychological health and safety risks for staff across the entire Bank, and recommends implementation of controls to mitigate such risks
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Provides direct short-term counseling and facilitates long-term counseling through external providers as needed by staff, and provides a variety of mental health resiliency training through seminars, educational series, and large group activities
General Accountability:
The Field Health Specialist is organizationally located within the Personal Health and Wellness Unit (PHW) and reports to the Senior Field Health Specialist in HSD HQ located in Washington DC. The incumbent reports directly to the Senior Health Specialist. As such, the incumbent is responsible for technical work as assigned by the SHS for all general and day to day nurse specific duties and responsibilities, and for Hub specific operational tasks as assigned by the Hub Team Lead in accordance with guidance from the HSD Manager of Operations in HQ who oversees all Hub activities through the Team Lead. The incumbent engages in collaborative multi-disciplinary health and safety efforts across HSD.
Dimensions:
The incumbent possesses the technical expertise to deliver services and support to staff who work in CO locations with a high level of independence and professional autonomy. As such, the incumbent requires minimal oversight while functioning in HSD programs, projects, and outreach efforts. The incumbent is able to balance the work assigned by the SHS (technical supervisor) as well as the Hub TL (operational supervisor) and where and when applicable.
Engages in meetings between key players in the various regions and when assigned, participates in multi-disciplinary mission travel efforts by providing occupational health risk assessments as part of the information gathering and dissemination that take place during mission. Contributes to BTORs by submitting follow-up recommendation based on assessments conducted during missions
Personal Health and Wellness:
Contributes to and participates in the activities of the nurse managed programs:
Medical Evacuation
Nurses appropriately review medical information on emerging cases, communicate with staff members and treating physicians as needed, and help confirm that needed care cannot be delivered locally
When appropriate medical care cannot be delivered locally, nurses will ensure that for all eligible cases, Intl SOS may be engaged through an established activation process
The nurses will coordinate with ISOS to help determine:
Appropriate destination of care – center of medical excellence
Appropriate travel recommendations
The need for ongoing ISOS case management at the center of medical excellence including medical monitoring and discharge instructions
Recommendations regarding follow up care once back at the duty station.
Preventive Health and Wellness Promotion
Nurses work collaboratively with all members to establish and sustain a culture of health and safety in the WBG and in country offices.
Promote Country Office staff engagement and in myriad health, safety, and wellness/wellbeing outreach efforts such as vaccination campaigns, education about chronic disease management, and so forth
Motivate staff engagement in various HSD outreach offerings such as CPR/AED training, the Employee Health and Wellness Program, and MHW Unit educational lectures and webinars
Country Office Oriented Travel Medicine:
Promulgates the importance of pre-travel consultation with HSD to all staff members throughout regions covered
Delivers travel medicine services in Hub locations as well as regions with no direct on the ground HSD assets
Provides guidance and expertise when needed regarding specific health and safety risks that must be addressed in preparing staff for relocation to specific regions
Provides programmatic risk assessment and medical surveillance when appropriate to include infectious disease outbreaks
Occupational Health and Safety:
Collaborates with colleagues from OHS on multi-disciplinary joint mission planning, and participates in missions as needed
As directed, engages standardized and rational approach to PHW mission travel:
Follows managerial guidance regarding planning and coordination of periodic multi-disciplinary team missions to various country office (CO) locations within the regions covered by the various Hub teams
During mission visits, PHW staff will assess the level of medical care locally as well as the CO medical emergency response plan, be present where and when appropriate to join environmental health and safety assessments, psychosocial health risk assessments, preventive health education and screening, promotion of the Bank’s Employee Health and Wellness Program, and psychoeducational programming and presentations to include domestic abuse prevention.
Mental Health and Wellbeing:
Collaborates with colleagues from MHW during joint health and wellness program and MHW program outreach efforts
Job Requirements:
Selection Criteria
Master’s degree with 5 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
Bachelor’s degree in nursing
Strong theoretical base in subject area, combining a broad grasp of relevant theory and principles and of involved practices and precedent.
Ability to translate theory into practical applications in context of Bank work.
Ability to participate in multi-disciplinary teams.
Valid and current Registered Nurse licensure, certification, or other professional recognition per local public health authority requirements
Able to take 24-hour nurse call duty assignment.
Proficiency in written, spoken, and clinical English.
Ability to travel internationally as required.
Preferred Experience:
5 or more years of experience working as in-house nurse for a large employer
Demonstrated excellence in clinical judgement and decision-making
Experience working with international organizations / multicultural populations
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural team environment
Proficiency in two or more language
World Bank Group Core Competencies
Interested and qualified applicants can apply online using THIS LINK
The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
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Fields Of Study
Nursing Science
Skills Required
promote health in specialised care
review patient's medical data
write reports on emergency cases
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