Partner Coordination Officer

Volunteering

Overview

Strengthen partner coordination for COVID-19 response activities

You have:

• Minimum age: 25 years old.
• Bachelor degree or equivalent
• A minimum of five years of relevant experience in public health preparedness.
• Fluent in English (mandatory)
• Essential: Experience with the UN system or other international organizations is an advantage.

Contract

This is a UNV International Specialist contract. This kind of contract is known as International UN Volunteer. It is normally internationally recruited only. More about UNV International Specialist contracts.

Eligibility criteria

Minimum age: 25 years old. Nationals of the country of assignment are not eligible, except the assignments in Headquarters duty stations.

Description of task

Under the overall supervision of the WHO Country Office COVID-19 Incident Manager and working with the IMST Partner Coordination Pillar in WPRO, the UN Volunteer will strengthen the partner coordination at the national, regional and provincial levels.

The UN Volunteer will be assigned to:

• Work in coordination with the Incident Management Team to ensure partner coordination priorities and activities are managed effectively and in compliance with the WHO technical guidelines.
• Act as the point of contact for representatives of assisting and cooperating agencies. Liaise on collective actions and collective results from internal and external actors, including those deployed as part of the WHO response team (staff, consultants, GOARN deployees, or stand-by partners) and those deployed otherwise (independent governmental and nongovernmental agencies (NGOs) within and outside the health cluster and emergency medical teams).
• Respond to requests or concerns from non-health stakeholders and address inter-organizational issues. Bring issues and concerns to the attention of the Incident Manager with a recommended course-of-action.
• Develop and maintain rosters of participating response agencies with the Partner Coordination team and other stakeholders.
• Conduct regular coordination meetings with all relevant partners and non-health actors to facilitate the overall health response, exchange information, produce and circulate minutes, related decisions and tracking the latter.
• Communicate priorities, plans, needs and concerns related to the health response to non-health actors; provide, to the Incident management team, information pertaining to the health sector response and specific challenges that require non-health related solutions.
• Actively participate in the assessment, monitoring and evaluation of the humanitarian health situation, recommending appropriate actions and innovative approaches, to fill the identified health service delivery gaps.
• Provide expert advice to other partners through the health cluster approach; identify effective tools to bridge the gaps between needs and capacities for affected population, strategies to overcome obstacles for their access to health services, attain their safety and the respect of their dignity.
• Support the communications pillar to recognize and communicate about partners’ contributions to the response.
• Coordinate the COVID-19 Partners Platform and requestor on the Supply Portal.
• Perform any other incident-specific related duties, as required by the Incident Manager or WHO Country Representative.

Qualifications/Requirements

Required degree level:

Bachelor degree or equivalent

Education - Additional Comments:

First university degree in medicine, public health, management, business or public administration or other social sciences from an accredited/recognized institute.

Required experience:

60 Months

Experience remark:

• Essential: A minimum of five years of relevant experience in public health preparedness at the national and international levels in planning, developing, managing and monitoring technical programmes or operations research and reporting, in a public health or a humanitarian international context.
• Desirable: Experience with the UN system or other international organizations is an advantage.

Language skills:

• English(Mandatory), Level - Fluent

Area of expertise:

Public health, Monitoring and evaluation, Development programme management

Area of expertise details:

Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Excellent communications and writing skills
• Excellent analytical, planning and organizational skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work in a team with limited supervision
• Ability to work under pressure

Competencies

• Building and promoting partnerships across the organization and beyond
• Moving forward in a changing environment
• Ensuring the effective use of resources
• Fostering Integration and teamwork
• Communication in a credible and effective way

Driving license:

No

Competencies values:

Accountability, Adaptability and Flexibility, Building Trust, Client Orientation, Commitment and Motivation, Commitment to Continuous Learning, Communication, Creativity, Empowering Others, Ethics and Values, Integrity, Judgement and Decision-making, Knowledge Sharing, Leadership, Managing Performance, Planning and Organizing, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity, Self-Management, Technological Awareness, Vision, Working in Teams

Application procedure:

* Not yet registered in the UNV Talent Pool?

First register your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/signup.

Important: After creating your account, complete all sections of your profile and submit it. Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink. Lastly, select the special call to which you would like to apply.

* Already registered in the UNV Talent Pool?

First update your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/profile.

Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink to select the special call to which you would like to apply.

Application deadline: 06 April 2021

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