Overview
Provide technical leadership and managerial support for the UHC Knowledge Hub, ensuring efficient delivery of its workplan and related activities. Co-coordinate and collaborate with partners to implement strategic objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and managerial support for the UHC Knowledge Hub's workplan.
- Co-coordinate and co-lead the UHC Knowledge Hub, collaborating with partners.
- Organize and lead capacity building activities on health financing policy and public financial management.
- Lead and co-organize high-level fora and events.
- Develop and propose technical health financing policies and strategies.
- Lead the collation, analysis, and dissemination of country experiences and evidence.
- Represent WHO and the UHC Knowledge Hub on health financing policy, public financial management, and economics.
- Manage and monitor programme performance, including financial resources and team leadership.
- Develop, adapt, and provide technical approaches and models of good practice.
- Liaise with and utilize partnerships with UN agencies, donors, and research institutions.
- Oversee and manage the financial and human resources of the hub.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 10 years of experience with low and/or middle-income countries of coordinating task teams, undertaking health finance policy analysis, policy advisory work, facilitating policy discussions, and capacity building activities in the area of health financing.
- Demonstrated experience in organising, designing, and facilitating capacity strengthening activities, high-level fora, meetings, conferences, and workshops on health financing policy and public financial management at national and international levels.
- Demonstrated experience engaging in policy dialogue on health financing with senior health policy makers.
- Experience working in UN/international agencies, and experience of working with other agencies active in health financing.
Qualifications
- An advanced university degree in economics, health economics, health policy, public health, medicines or social sciences, with a concentration in health financing or health policy.
- A PhD in economics, health economics, health policy or social sciences - extensive knowledge also at the academic level of health systems analysis, with concentration on health financing.
