National Professional Officer (Health System Strengthening) – (1703131)
Grade: NO-B
Contractual Arrangement: Fixed-Term Appointment
Contract duration: 2 years
Job Posting: Sep 17, 2017, 1:10:40 PM
Closing Date: Oct 8, 2017, 11:59:00 PM
Primary Location: Egypt-Cairo
Organization: EM_EGY WHO Representative’s Office, Egypt
Position number 359430
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME
To provide support to Egypt in the area of health system strengthening through
- Supporting the government of Egypt’s strategic universal health coverage (UHC) agenda of ensuring equitable delivery of quality health services without the risk of financial hardship especially for the poor and marginalised;
- Promoting evidence-based policy-making, through supporting comprehensive health system review and through contributing to drafting high level documents that would be used as evidence for high level policy actions on health system development; and
- Supporting the MoHP in its efforts to further strengthen its health workforce, health financing, health technology management and health information system.
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES
- Draft and give input to technical documents which serve as methodological background to the health system reviews and assessments, including, but not limited to, National Health Accounts, review of financial risk protection, review of the health service delivery arrangements, review of the health information system, review of the health workforce situation and review of the medicine situation.
- Liaising with all the stakeholders (including but not limited to the Ministry of Health and Population staff) involved in the health system review processes.
- Ensure constant monitoring of the health system assessment processes, notably by verifying that these assessments are conducted according to agreed methodologies and that they progress in a timely manner.
- Analyze the data and information from the health system assessments, draft documents, organize workshops and other events and uphold proactive and effective communication with all the relevant stakeholders to ensure the translation of the assessment results into policy as seen relevant to the universal health coverage (UHC) policy dialogue.
- Draft technical documents and training materials, implement capacity development activities aiming to enhance national capacity for health information development and management, including civil registration & vital statistics (CRVS) system, Geographic Information System (GIS), e-health and other applications and software.
- Draft guidance material and organize events/ activities to support the objectives of (i) development of good governance in medicine, (ii) enhancing the pharmaco-vigilance (PV) system, (iii) promoting rational use of medicine and (iv) developing and updating the Essential Medicine List.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Education
Essential: University Degree in Medicine
Desirable: Master’s Degree in other health specilaity or any related degree in other health speciality related to health system strenghthing
Experience
Essential: At least two years of relevant experience in health system strengthening and/or Health Reform.
Desirable
Skills
- Excellent ability to communicate competently towards all relevant individuals and organizations in a culturally diverse environment.
- Ability to provide good quality technical advice to all relevant stakeholders
- Ability to work and collaborate as a team member and to produce results in a challenging and changing environment.
- Ability to maintain a high standard of personal conduct.
- Knowledge: Very good knowledge of health system strategies and policies relevant to the objective of extending health coverage with quality affordable health services.
- Knowledge in producing policy relevant information products, reports, briefs, discussions papers, etc.;;
- Good knowledge of WHO procedures and policies.
WHO Competencies
WHO global Competencies model at http://www.who.int/employment/WHO_competencies_EN.pdf?ua=1
- Communication
- Knowing and managing yourself
- Teamwork
- Building and promoting partnerships across the organization and beyond
Use of Language Skills
Essential
- Expert knowledge of English.
- Expert knowledge of Arabic.
Desirable
REMUNERATION
Remuneration comprises an annual base salary starting at EGP 466,970 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable) and 30 days of annual leave.
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.
- For information on WHO’s operations please visit: http://www.who.int.
- WHO is committed to workforce diversity.
- WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.
- This is a National Professional Officer position. Therefore, only applications from nationals of the country where the duty station is located will be accepted. Applicants who are not nationals of this country will not be considered.
More Information
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