Capacity Building Officer

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WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme (The Programme) aims to build the capacity of Member States to manage health emergency risks, and lead and coordinate the international health response to contain outbreaks and to provide effective relief and recovery to affected populations. Risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) is a core capacity under the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) that countries are required to establish and maintain for proper preparedness, readiness and response.
Summary of Assigned Duties:
The Capacity Building Officer RCCE-IM will be the focal point within the RCI Unit to build RCCE-IM capacities in countries of the WHO European Region, with special focus on:

Creating and rolling out innovative solutions for RCCE-IM capacity building
Maintain and update the RCCE-IM tools (RCCE-IM Capability Mapping tool and RCCE-IM Plan Creator)
Roll out the RCCE-IM tools at sub-regional and country levels to support RCCE-IM country implementation roadmap
Work with external experts and academia to identify, develop and deliver innovative solutions and tools
Manage suppliers and service providers
Developing and maintaining standing RCCE-IM capacity in the Region
Advocate for investment in RCCE-IM capacities and capabilities
Support national authorities, partners and stakeholders to conduct lessons learnt exercises to identify RCCE-IM gaps
Implement the RCCE-IM School to improve RCCE-IM regionally, nationally and locally under the IHR (2005), working with partners and stakeholders
Designing and delivering capacity building activities
Assess needs, design and deliver trainings, SIMEX and other capacity building activities for individual countries or sub-regions of the European Region
Support the development and/or adaptation of materials for capacity building events and their adaptation/translation
Liaise with Hubs, COs, organizing agencies and other relevant actors as needed to support on-site organization of events or their virtual delivery
Establish a roster of trained consultants/WHO staff who can replicate platform training across the region build and/or build local capacities
Document capacity building interventions through reports and visibility activities

Coordinating RCCE-IM University project:

Engage with EUR Universities to embed RCCE-IM in health and communication faculties curricula
Ensure Universities and WHO internal procedures are met for each project (e.g. FENSA, legal)
Coordinate the development of curricula together with the Universities
Coordinate WHO support to train the professors and deliver the curricula

Ensure WHO/Europe is rightly credited:

Monitor project’s outcomes and communicate internally and externally
Coordinating with partners and stakeholders including within WHO
Start-up a community of practice on RCCE-IM capacity building
Coordinate with external partners and stakeholders to deliver joint or collaborative activities, ensuring WHO Europe gets the appropriate credit of the initiatives
Support RCI technical teams to review the RCCE-IM capacity building offering and adapt/update where/when necessary.
Liaise with other WHE and EURO Programmes to embed RCCE-IM modules in overall emergency and/or health capacity building activities
Liaise with HQ to ensure EURO provides input in global capacity building plans and tools and on any joint activities.

Measuring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL):

Monitor client’s satisfaction and training outcomes for follow up actions and improvements
Monitor and Evaluate RCCE-IM capacities and actions under the IHR (2005) framework.
Represent RCI within IHR MEL mechanisms (JEES, AARs, IARs and others) as needed
Share best practices and coach other topic specialists/trainers.

Education (Qualifications):
Essential:

University degree in training, education, instruction, behavioural sciences, public health, or related fields

Desirable:

Master’s degree in a relevant subject or studies and training in risk communication, community engagement, infodemic management, digital communications, public health particularly in an emergency setting.

Experience:
Essential:

Minimum 5 years’ experience in training curricula instructional design and delivery based on needs assessment, development and delivery of simulation exercises, production and adaptation of innovative capacity building tools in the area of health behavioural sciences, developing training guidance, education and teaching, and MEL of training results for sustainable outcomes.

Desirable:

Experience with risk communication, community engagement, infodemic management, digital communications, public health in emergency settings, project management, processes and workflows, scaling and rolling out research findings, technical guidance. Experience with WHO or other UN organizations or Civil Society Organizations working on health.

Languages:
Essential:

Expert knowledge of English

Desirable:

Working/intermediate knowledge of either French, Russian or German.

Source: https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2400115

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