Within delegated authority, the Occupational Safety & Health and Training Specialist will be responsible for the following duties:

Identify, develop, coordinate, implement, and monitor the United Nations and other appropriate medical training courses. Ensure that training operations and development activities are implemented in accordance with the training plan and established standards. Coordinate with trainers to determine training standards to be achieved, reviews country submissions for eligibility of nominees, recommend trainees for selection and maintain a trainee database. Coordinate and report on Training Needs Analysis visits. Organize all activities at the training location(s); liaises between training location(s) and Headquarters staff on all training and administrative matters. Support the organizations of the UN on matters relating to medical training, and acts as a resource person and a training instructor when needed. Identifies risks and develops the risk register. Coordinate with UN Clinic Team and UNDSS on Mass Casualty Incidence training drills in compliance with the standing Mass Casualty Incident SOPs.

Undertake surveillance for preventable health and safety hazards in the work environment.

Provide occupational health support to assess Health and Safety Risks. Progress of the UN’s Occupational Safety and Health Management System. Provide occupational safety and health and Emergency Medical Response training and capacity development by ensuring that personnel are aware of their roles and responsibilities in all aspects of health and safety work, including compliance with health and safety policy. Complete preparedness and implementation of measures for general safety of emergency and disaster incident operations with a specific focus on responder safety. Develop training content and educational materials on Safety & Health and emergency response educational and facilitate and provide trainings to all levels of personnel.

UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.