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Objective of the Programme:

The objective of the WHO Nepal Country Office is to implement the Country Cooperation Strategy by supporting the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), Government of Nepal (GoN) in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of national health policies, strategies and plans and developing and managing WHO's technical cooperation programmes at the country level. The Country Office collaborates with the Government of Nepal and relevant stakeholders in support of their efforts of achieving national health goals; of ensuring the attainment of universal health coverage and of contributing to global and regional public health action by providing need-based technical assistance in national level policy formulation, setting norms and standards, improving knowledge dissemination and management, monitoring country health situation and building sustainable institutional capacity, to play a greater leadership role in different national level policy technical forums. WHO provides guidance and technical support in organizing the humanitarian health response following multi-hazard emergencies and in revitalizing the capacity of the health sector to recover and rebuild from emergencies in appropriate and sustainable ways. In the inter-emergency period the objectives are to increase the capacity and resilience of the Nepal Health System to reduce risk, prevent and prepare for disasters, to mitigate adverse health consequences, through supporting the Emergency Risk Management interventions prioritized in the national plan for the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030); and the health security interventions for enhancement of core capacities required to comply with the International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005 as prioritized in the National Action Plan on Health Security (NAPHS), National Action Plan on Anti-Microbial Resistance (NAP-AMR) and National Pandemic Preparedness and Response Plan (NPPRP).WHO strives to integrate and harmonize the actions undertaken for enhanced ERM and Health Security with the interventions implemented to achieve the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and health systems strengthening through appropriate capacity building and co-ordination mechanisms and partnerships. The WHO Health Emergencies Programme (WHE) supports the MoHP, GoN to direct and coordinate the rapid provision of life-saving emergency health interventions at scale in the aftermath of multi-hazard emergencies and disasters and subsequently assists in the rapid recovery of the health system in collaboration with national and international partners. Thereupon it provides technical support to the MoHP and partners to enhance health sector emergency risk management through prevention risk reduction or mitigation; preparedness and response readiness to build a health system that is resilient to multi-hazard disasters including public health emergencies.

Summary of Assigned Duties:

Under the overall supervision of Team Lead – WHO Health Emergencies Programme (TL-WHE), coordination with Relevant technical officers, National Professional Officer – IHR and direct supervision of National Professional Officer – Health Information, WHE Programme the incumbent performs the following duties:

• Ensure effective functioning, installation, operation, and maintenance of the servers with software systems.
• Assist in managing the Data Center and Data Recovery Centre for safety and security of the data.
• Work in close coordination with the technical teams of the software systems at the global level (open-source community) and other technical teams at the national level.
• Ensure effective implementation of various IT initiatives initiated by WCO Nepal.
• Regularly monitor GitHub/other platform for updates; test and implement the updates in the system.
• Perform all necessary software maintenance, including coding, testing, debugging, upgrading and modifications of software.
• Provide the necessary technical support to develop systems and modules in JAVA and other Object-Oriented Programming and implement the tasks.
• Support continuous improvement, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review.
• Contribute technical and professional knowledge and experience to improve software operations and technical platforms.
• Develop and provide a monthly software project status report describing the development of the activities and any issues that may emerge, with conclusions and recommendations.
• Provide trainings and ensure the deployment of the system to test server and live server.
• Work on the mobile version to be used at the field level for event-based surveillance system.
• Document user manual and the system implementation report that will include the maintenance plan.
• Support in development of Surveillance Outbreak Response and Management System (SORMAS) system (https://github.com/hzi-braunschweig/SORMAS-Project)
• Maintain privacy and confidentiality of the documents shared during this assignment
• Perform other duties and tasks as assigned by the Technical Officers and National Professional Officers- WHE and overall guidance from the Team Lead -WHE. This includes duty travel or duty-station reassignment on short notice as per the program requirements.

Qualification requirements:

Education:

Essential: University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or relevant degree from an accredited/recognized academic institution.

Desirable: Postgraduate degree (Master’s) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or relevant degree from an accredited/recognized academic institution.

Experience:

Essential: At least two years of relevant experience in Java and Object-Oriented Programming for system/ technology design, development or implementation.

Desirable: Experience of working with IT sectors, especially with Government Departments. Experience in Information technology related to data management, particularly in health sectors etc. Knowledge of working of social media and website design.

Functional Skills and knowledge:

• Excellent advocacy and inter-personal skills, tact and diplomacy.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities with excellent organizational and independent working skills.
• Ability to work as a team player in a cross-functional setting and challenging environment.
• High level of integrity and commitment to professional responsibilities.
• Technical expertise: Overall attitude at work is also required mandatory competencies.

Other skills:

Ability to design client-side & server-side architecture and build front-end application, knowledge on HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery for frontend development, knowledge RDBMS, SQL & ORM technologies in Windows and/or Unix/Linux based platforms would be an advantage. Ability to coordinate with the government, manage projects, build partnerships with multiple partners in the context of health emergencies. Preferably in JAVA programming language.

Competencies:

• Teamwork
• Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
• Communication
• Knowing and Managing Yourself
• Producing Results

Use of Language Skills: Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English and Nepali.

REMUNERATION:

Monthly Salary: (Net of tax) NPR Rs 142,427.00 at single rate (taxable as per Nepal Government laws and appointment will be through Special Services Agreement, SSA)

Grade: Level 7

Duty Station: Kathmandu

Additional Information

• This Vacancy Notice may be used to fill similar positions at the same level.
• Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.

• A written test and interviews will be used as a form of screening

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• WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.
• This post is subject to local recruitment and will be filled by persons recruited in the local commuting area of the duty station.
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