Senior Public Health Specialist

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Description

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• Oversee technical and managerial coordination in the designated areas under the Universal Health Coverage/Healthier Populations portfolio (that is, environment, climate change and health; health promotion, social determinants of health and health equity; nutrition and food safety; tobacco and reduction of other noncommunicable disease risk factors; violence, injuries, or health and migration; demographic change and ageing), through a One-health approach, ensuring that the activities are carried out efficiently and effectively.
• Directly provide and/or advance the coordination of technical expertise to advise the government and national stakeholders on the development of national strategies and policies and the formulation, management, and implementation of the respective disease prevention and health promotion work programme(s).
• Lead and coordinate the adaptation and implementation of WHO evidence-based norms, standards, guidelines and tools in the broad programme areas.
• Develop and monitor work plans and budgets, and follow up on the implementation of planned activities, in consultation with national counterparts.
• Advance data analyses and knowledge, and information on best practices and partners’ experiences in healthier populations programmes.
• Lead the mobilization and optimization of resources for the respective projects and programmes including through partnerships with donors and development partners (United Nations, other multilateral and bilateral organizations as well as nongovernmental organizations). Coordinate the engagement with UN partners and other stakeholders on matters relevant to the purpose of the position.
• Lead the development, coordination and implementation of programmes for capacity building in the respective areas of healthier populations and the management and financing of the systems.
• Engage with other sectors beyond health that are key to healthier populations (environment, transport, agriculture, urban, energy, water, etc.) in order to identify and advance common objectives that improve people’s lives, health, and well-being.
• Serve as a leading technical resource concerning the multisectoral integration of programmes in healthier populations and mainstreaming of cross-cutting themes (such as health equity, commercial determinants, urban health, or migration and health) and/or the use of behavioural sciences in implementing disease prevention and health promotion approaches.
• Represent WHO in designated forums and function as a technical focal point for healthier populations’ programme areas.
• Promote and establish new and innovative community outreach activities to facilitate the expansion of networks that advance and/or focus on healthier populations-related programmatic work.
• Support the establishment of monitoring and surveillance systems and lead the collection of data and evidence in the areas of interest.

• Knowledge of innovative approaches and solutions in healthier populations.
• Knowledge and expertise in technical aspects of healthier populations systems development and management at country level.
• Knowledge of the relevant country’s public-health needs, priorities, and policies
• Skills to develop and revise policies and objectives of assigned programme and activities.
• Skills to facilitate consensus and achieve results in resource mobilization activities.
• Excellent communication skills to author reports, technical documents, and deliver presentations for high level audiences.

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