International Consultant for Health Cluster Coordination Support
Overview
Provide operational, strategic, and field-level support to the WHO-led Health Cluster coordination mechanism in Cox’s Bazar.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate Health Cluster coordination meetings and SAG meetings, including agenda preparation, partner inputs, presentation materials and follow-up.
- Coordinate Health Cluster representation in RCP/inter-sector, donor and partner bilateral meetings.
- Draft and revise situation reports, cluster reports, and cluster bulletins.
- Follow up and review Information Management products, ensuring the team finalizes monthly bulletins on time.
- Undertake joint or Health Cluster field coordination missions to priority camps, health facilities and operational sites.
- Review and refine the JRP strategic objectives, targets and planning assumptions.
- Review and provide Health Cluster inputs to donor briefs, concept notes, allocation narratives, country analyses and related products.
- Maintain the health and nutrition facility-level readiness matrix and contribute to community-level integration planning.
- Coordinate Health and Nutrition taskforce meetings, joint field visits, and follow-up with the Nutrition Cluster and implementing partners.
- Maintain and update the Health Cluster referral-system mapping matrix and coordinate follow-up on PHC/HP handovers, relocations, and funding-related service continuity risks.
- Contribute to multi-sector monsoon preparedness and response checklists, contingency planning and emergency preparedness products.
- Coordinate Health Cluster inputs to RCP Inter-Flash Updates, emergency calls and OCHA response analyses.
- Coordinate rapid response and documentation during acute incidents such as flooding, landslides, outbreaks or other events affecting health service delivery.
Required Experience
5 to 10 years of relevant professional experience with UN agencies and/or international NGOs, including experience in Health Cluster/Health Sector coordination in humanitarian or Refugee Coordination Model settings. Experience in humanitarian emergency preparedness and response, inter-sector coordination, donor engagement, and health service coordination in refugee or complex emergency settings is desirable.
Qualifications
First university degree in medicine, public/health policy, social sciences or related field. Additional training or certification in humanitarian health coordination, emergency preparedness and response, or Health Cluster coordination is desirable.