Technical Officer (Public Health and Migration)

Contract

This is a P-5 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 10 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 204,886 USD and 256,769 USD.

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OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

The Health and Migration Program (PHM) represents the Organization and provides global direction on the technical area of health and migration.

The PHM work will implement the Global Action Plan: "promoting the health of refugees and migrants," within the overall framework of WHO's Constitution, GPW13, towards achieving SDGs and respecting the WHO values chart. PHM will maximize the Member States' Organization-wide contribution to achieving significant health status gains for the refugee and migrant populations.

The PHM mission will be consistent with the six priorities of the Global Action Plan: "Promoting the Health of Refugees and Migrants". The work of PHM will focus on country impact in partnership with regions and alignment with their strategic and operational planning. PHM will provide technical support to countries and partners to ensure evidence-informed health support and advice on their health and migration priorities. PHM promotes inter-country and inter-regional collaboration along migratory routes by supporting sharing good practices among countries of origin, transit, and destination.

The PHM will operate through five guiding core functions:

1) Provide global leadership, high-level advocacy, and dialogue to raise awareness and political commitments and coordinate policy development on health and migration.

2) Set norms and standards for health and migration, including developing guidance and tools and promoting a research agenda to generate evidence to support decision-making and global guidance for new tools and strategies on health and migration.

3) Monitor trends, strengthen health information systems, and develop an accountability framework and indicators for progress monitoring and reporting on the Global Action Plan implementation.

4) Provide specialized technical assistance, response, and capacity-building support to Member States, WHO technical departments, regional and country offices, and partners to address public health challenges associated with human mobility wherever needed nationally and transnationally.

5) PHM promotes health and migration multilateral actions (inter-country, inter-regional, and global), across United Nations systems, including the United Nations Network on Migration (UN Migration Network) and other intergovernmental and nongovernmental mechanisms.

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DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

• Coordinates the implementation of strategic priorities, provision of programmatic advice, and design of public health interventions to advance refugee and migrant health agenda at local and national levels, in line with the WHO Global Action Plan.
• Provide senior-level strategic advice and support to the Director on the oversight, coordination, and delivery of health and migration programs, tools, and initiatives well-coordinated with the technical department at headquarters, Regional Offices, and in full support of Country Offices in line with the Global Action Plan.
• Provide technical expertise in the area of policy, planning, and programming in response to existing challenges related to health and migration.
• Provide highly competent expertise to the Director for promoting health and migration work across WHO's three levels collaboratively with PHM colleagues, HQ technical departments, and external partners,
• Oversee the project management of the development of country-specific work planning parameters and establish performance standards and indicators for monitoring and reporting the impact of the program's work at the country level.
• Facilitates a coherent and consistent approach to refugee and migrant health among WHO programs and across WHO's three levels.
• Provides technical support and cooperation with national authorities for the development, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and revision of national health and migration programs, actions, and policies, as part of the health systems and for improving access to essential health services guided by current global and regional strategies and action frameworks.
• Ensure sound management of WHO resources and facilitation of the optimal use of WHO financial, technical, logistic, and human resources in the delivery of technical support to countries.
• Leads cross-organization collaboration on health ad migration across the three billion of the GPW13 in line with the WHO value chart and implementation of Global Action Plan and supporting alignments with Regional Action and Agenda on health and migration.
• Ensure health and migration capacity-building through applying public health leadership skills and multiple approaches, including communities of practice, organizational learning, training, mentoring, and example setting, with demonstrated ability to work effectively with the Government and colleagues in a team setting.
• Ensure the substantive technical and quality preparation and organization of briefings and consultations on health and migration that are attended by the Director and Senior Management.
• Perform all other related duties as assigned.

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REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential:

• An advanced level university degree in Medicine, or Health and Migration.

Desirable:

• An advanced level university degree (Masters level or above) in one of the following areas in Epidemiology, health management systems, health equity, health policy.

Experience

Essential:

• At least ten years of professional experience at the global, regional, and country levels in developing and implementing health programs, such as migration, epidemiology, health sector reform, and multisectoral collaboration.
• Within this experience, at least five years of experience in coordinating, developing, and implementing policies, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluating strategized action on the health of refugees and migrants in a leading position at the regional level or Country Office management.
• Demonstrated experience in working at the country level with successful management of resources with clear indicators.
• Demonstrated experience at the international level. [WBA1]

Desirable:

• Experience in relevant UN agencies and or National Health Systems for formulation and mainstreaming of inclusive health and migration strategies, policies and plans in the government plans.

Skills

1. Outstanding skills and expertise in managing complex global health programs, epidemiology, and delivery of demand-driven technical support in complex settings.

2. Technical expertise in health planning, monitoring, and policy formulation.

3. Outstanding managerial, technical, and programmatic skills and knowledge and advocacy skills; demonstrated managerial skills with a proven capacity to coordinate a wide range of stakeholders, working groups, and staff in pursuance of global goals and policy initiatives.

4. Ability to analyze political contexts and knowledge of continuous and ongoing political thinking on national and regional policies impacting the well-being of migrants and refugees.

5. Documented reference of ability to interact effectively with multiple high-level stakeholders at the international and national levels.

6. Demonstrated skills in effective planning, use, and reporting of resources.

7. Proven skills to develop and implement a delivery chain to address challenges on public health aspects through an enabling approach for health system strengthening.

8. Effective skills in building teams and strong working relationships with multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.

9. Personal attributes include integrity, tact, discretion, including others as confidentiality, and promoting a respectful workplace and adequate communication modalities with colleagues.

10. High-level judgment, responsibility, and initiatives to anticipate risks/problems and make proposals to facilitate these.

11. Demonstrated capacity as a strong team player promoting a respectful working environment and support to the team members.

WHO Competencies

• Teamwork
• Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
• Communication
• Promoting innovation and organizational learning
• Ensuring the effective use of resources

Use of Language Skills

Essential:

• Expert knowledge of English.

Desirable:

• Intermediate knowledge of French.
• Intermediate knowledge of WHO official language.

REMUNERATION

WHO salaries for staff in the Professional category are calculated in US dollars. The remuneration for the above position comprises an annual base salary starting at USD 92,731 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable), a variable post adjustment, which reflects the cost of living in a particular duty station, and currently amounts to USD 6043 per month for the duty station indicated above. Other benefits include 30 days of annual leave, allowances for dependent family members, home leave, and an education grant for dependent children.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• This vacancy notice may be used to fill other similar positions at the same grade level

• Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.

• A written test may be used as a form of screening.

• In the event that your candidature is retained for an interview, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for this position. WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and will require individual review.

• Any appointment/extension of appointment is subject to WHO Staff Regulations, Staff Rules and Manual.

• Staff members in other duty stations are encouraged to apply.

• For information on WHO's operations please visit: http://www.who.int.

• WHO is committed to workforce diversity.

• WHO prides itself on a workforce that adheres to the highest ethical and professional standards and that is committed to put the WHO Values Charter into practice.

• WHO has zero tolerance towards sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct (i.e., discrimination, abuse of authority and harassment). All members of the WHO workforce have a role to play in promoting a safe and respectful workplace and should report to WHO any actual or suspected cases of SEA, sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct. To ensure that individuals with a substantiated history of SEA, sexual harassment or other types of abusive conduct are not hired by the Organization, WHO will conduct a background verification of final candidates.

• WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.

• WHO has a mobility policy which can be found at the following link: http://www.who.int/employment/en/. Candidates appointed to an international post with WHO are subject to mobility and may be assigned to any activity or duty station of the Organization throughout the world.

• Applications from women and from nationals of non and underrepresented Member States are particularly encouraged.