Consultant International-Health Policy Advisor-Programme HSS_WCO-CAR
Overview
Provide expert advice to the government and national stakeholders on the design, implementation, and evaluation of health development policies, strategies, and plans for health system strengthening to advance towards universal health coverage.
Key Responsibilities
- - Capacity building of national stakeholders to organize and conduct effective health policy dialogue and reform implementation process.
- - Development of a harmonized vision for service delivery to strengthen public health and primary health care services.
- - Transformation of health financing modalities towards universal health coverage.
- - Costing and budgeting of national health policies, strategies, and plans.
- - Alignment of other essential health system functions.
- - Improvement and implementation of a monitoring and evaluation framework for health system strengthening.
- - Identification of synergies, building alliances, and networking between the WHO country office and other UN agencies, non-state actors, and international donors.
- - Establishing and strengthening links with institutions, associations, NGOs, and scientific bodies.
- - Demonstrating the impact of reforms on health outcomes and universal health coverage.
- - Performing other related tasks assigned by the WHO Representative.
Required Experience
Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in policy development, strategies, and planning in the health sector, with a significant portion acquired at the international level. Specific experience in health financing is required. A minimum of five years of experience is required in a governmental institution or international organization serving either (i) low-resource countries or (ii) middle-income countries. Experience in health sector evaluation, analysis, assessment, and reporting is desirable. Experience in consensus-building and cooperation with diverse national stakeholders is desirable.
Qualifications
Essential: Higher education degree in Medicine with specialization in Public Health, Health Systems/Services Management, Health Policy, Health Planning, Primary Health Care, Health-related Social Sciences, or similar disciplines. Desirable: PhD in Public Health, Social Sciences, or Health Policy in one or more of the above-mentioned fields and/or postgraduate training or specialization in health systems and/or health planning, management or economics.