Overview
Provides technical leadership, coordination, and managerial support within the Global Health Cluster to ensure efficient and effective activities. Develops and proposes technical health policies and strategies for implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Provides technical leadership, coordination and managerial support within the Department/Programme, in the Unit of Global Health Cluster ensuring that activities in this area are carried out efficiently and effectively.
- Develops and proposes technical health policies and strategies for implementation through collaboration with Regional and Country Offices and provides advice in developing further the strategic direction for the Global Health Cluster for strengthening and improving technical capacity of target clienteles.
- Oversees a unit of technical teams specialized in various domains within their area of expertise and facilitates the efficient flow of team synergies.
- Manages the programme area in delivering its objectives through efficient managing a small team of technical staff, financial resources and effective work planning to optimize the programme's deliverables in line with the mandate of the Organization.
- Leads and conducts research on best practices in implementing programmes and activities and dissemination of information for capacity building in the respective area of work.
- Manages the monitoring and evaluation and reporting of the subject area of work of key performance indicators and reporting requirements and mechanisms to optimize performance of Programme deliverables.
- Serves as the technical reference among the peer community, UN Agencies and other stakeholders at the technical levels in the respective area of expertise.
- Liaises with and utilizes partnerships in other UN Agencies, Donor, or research institutions in support of the development and implementation of M&E methods to assess Global Health Cluster performance to best position the technical area of work and implementation into Global and/or National policies.
- Represent the programme area of work at various meetings to advocate for humanitarian bodies to promote health needs, influence policy and practice.
- Perform all other related duties as assigned.
- Oversee the development of capacity building strategies and approaches toward the implementation of best practices on all aspects of the mandate of Global Health Cluster.
- Promote information-sharing, lessons learnt, and documenting progress and resolving insufficient progress while encouraging full inter-cluster collaboration and participation.
- Track surge capacity; technical, operational and coordination capacity.
- Assess global response needs and gaps through analysis and reporting on all aspects of effective health service delivery during emergency response.
Required Experience
A minimum of 10 years of professional experience in the management of emergency/humanitarian operations response, including experience in the area of health policies and strategies. Demonstrated experience managing human and financial resources, complemented with experience in interagency collaboration. Demonstrated experience at the international level. Experience in WHO, UN or IASC, cluster, humanitarian organizations/institutions, international NGOs; experience in team leadership and management.
Qualifications
Advanced level university degree (Master’s level degree) in a clinical discipline, public health, disaster management or a related field. Degree or training in development, humanitarian or international studies.
