Senior Occupational Health Physician

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. Visit www.worldbank.org.

The mission of the joint World Bank Group (WBG) / International Monetary Fund (IMF) Health and Safety Directorate (HSDDR) is to protect staff health and safety wherever they may be, taking account their individual health status, working environment and job demands. HSDDR serves the staff of two international organizations as they strive to reduce global poverty, enhance shared prosperity, and sustain economic growth globally. The two organizations employ more than 30,000 staff, with around half being based in Washington DC Headquarters (HQ), and the rest in Country Offices (CO) globally in more than 150 locations.

Occupational Medicine focuses on the interface between the workplace and individual health. It considers health trends within the workplace and provides support to individuals to optimize health and workplace function. Occupational Health physicians are experts in the complex web of factors that affect health and safety in the workplace, helping all types of organizations ensure the health of their employees, productivity of the workplace, and advancement of the overall economy.

Current Duties and Responsibilities

As an Occupational Health physician, you are a key member of the Occupational Health and Safety Unit, working closely with our nurses, workplace safety specialists and ergonomists providing support and services to the staff of the World Bank Group and the IMF. As part of the Health and Safety Directorate, you work collaboratively with other parts of our directorate including the Personal Health and Wellness Unit, the Health Promotion Unit and the Mental Health and Wellbeing Unit.

This role includes an advisory component to headquarter and country office staff and managers on sick leave, disability and disability accommodation related matters, including optimizing return to work through the accommodations center of excellence and enhancing programmatic support; fitness for work medical examinations (including driver’s medicals) and tracking and reporting health trends and impacts.

It includes being part of the implementation of health management/population health and risk identification strategies such as staff health and wellness programs and occupational environmental medicine research. As such, the incumbent should enjoy applying evidence-based best practices, outcome measurements and continuous quality improvement.

The role requires leadership and project management skills, the incumbent will lead working groups and projects that relate to many different aspects of occupational medicine and preventive medicine in a global workforce. Being able to self-motivate and motivate others to drive projects to completion is essential.

Communication is an essential aspect of this role, requiring the incumbent to convey key medical concepts, effectively teach, and competently write and organize ideas related to occupational medicine and workplace safety.

Having a risk management mindset including the proactive identification and evaluation of risks to a global workforce as well as being able to identify, recommend and implement preventive measures is essential to this function.

The Occupational Health Physician reports to the Manager, Occupational Health and Safety and is accountable for delivery of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) services as designated within this work program.
When dealing with confidential medical information, the Occupational Health Physician adheres to the confidentiality standards in the policies of the World Bank Group and Health and Safety Directorate.

Additional responsibilities will be assigned in accordance with the individual’s education, training, and experience.