Overview
Provides technical leadership and managerial support in Regulatory Systems Strengthening, aiming to build regulatory capacity in Member States for access to safe, effective, and quality-assured medical products.
Key Responsibilities
- Provides technical leadership and managerial support within the Department/Programme in the area of Regulatory Systems Strengthening.
- Develops and proposes technical health policies and strategies.
- Manages the programme area in delivering its objectives through efficient management of staff, financial resources, and work planning.
- Leads and conducts research on best practices and dissemination of information.
- Manages the monitoring and evaluation and reporting of the subject area of work.
- Serves as the technical reference among the peer community, UN Agencies and other stakeholders.
- Liaises with and utilizes partnerships in other UN Agencies, Donor, or research institutions.
- Represents the programme area of work at various meetings.
- Coordinates global strategies for the strengthening of national regulatory systems.
- Provides leadership in development and maintenance of WHO Listed Authorities (WLA) Framework and Coalition of Interested Parties (CIP).
- Coordinates and endorses responses to country requests for benchmarking of national regulatory systems.
- Monitors the impact of WHO policies and strategies and proposes changes or new initiatives.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 10 years of professional experience in the management of the regulation of medical products.
- Experience in regulatory cooperation, convergence, harmonization, reliance and work-sharing initiatives at the regional or international level.
- Relevant experience working with low- middle-income countries.
- Experience in the development of health and regulatory policies and strategies.
- Demonstrated experience managing human and financial resources.
- Demonstrated experience at the international level.
- Experience in leading or coordinating audits/benchmarking of regulatory systems (desirable).
- Experience in working with WHO guidelines and other internationally recognized technical standards and norms (desirable).
- Familiarity with WHO regulatory strengthening as well as regional and international regulatory harmonization, networking and convergence and/or WHO Prequalification programmes (desirable).
Qualifications
- An advanced level university degree (master's level) in medicine, pharmacy, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, microbiology, or health science related to the functions of the position.
- A university degree in another of the above-mentioned fields (desirable).
