Health Governance Analyst, NPSA9 – Poltava, Ukraine – National Position

• Government at all levels continues to function effectively, with reinforced capacities to lead crisis response, sustain public service provision, and coordinate delivery of assistance and recovery efforts that leave no one behind.
• Ukraine’s high human capital, productive capacities, and natural resources are leveraged to meet the immediate humanitarian needs of diverse groups and strengthen social and economic recovery. 
• Ukrainian institutions and civil society have the capacity and resources to maintain and strengthen the social fabric, uphold human rights for all people, and ensure the inclusion, protection, and empowerment of all, including population groups with intersecting and multiple vulnerabilities. 

In this context, UNDP Ukraine invites applications from highly qualified and experienced Ukrainian professionals for the post of the Health Governance Analyst, who will provide capacity development support and technical assistance on Health care system to regional and local authorities, and hromadas of conflict affected regions.

• Facilitate technical advisory support to local authorities and communities.

Provide expert and technical advisory support to local authorities and communities in the development and implementation of the strategy of health through informational, educational and capacity development activities for regional and local authorities, staff of the hospitals and population, develop and conduct the health reform implementation plan on the regional level of conflict affected regions; 

• Ensure accurate analysis and disaggregation of data.

Collect and analyze the official annual data, disaggregated by sex, on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), Communicable Diseases (tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, etc.) for adopting the implementation plan, provide expert supporting of implementation infection control programme in hospitals, infection laboratories and primary health care level; conduct workshops and trainings on infection control in collective centers, shelters for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and hospitals;

• Ensure advisory support.

Provide analytical advisory support to communities in the implementation of the health programmes in rehabilitation and palliative care, using best international practices in the conflict affected regions;

• Organize and facilitate workshops on gender-responsive good governance, budgeting and financial planning.

Conduct workshops on gender-responsive good governance, budgeting and financial planning of local health care expenditure for local authorities/doctors in profile departments, provide and conduct the training, seminar, webinar using the international best practices and guidelines for the local authorities, doctors, health care managers, paramedics, students at medical colleges/ universities, nurses; 

• Contributes to networking and partnership building focusing on achievement of the following result. 

Contribute to develop the professional platform for networking and partnership building with national and regional authorities, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), private sector and international development organizations or projects and prepare reports, memoranda, briefs, DocuSign Envelope ID: E96B44FA-ABDE-409A-8416-C80BE14D8193 3 presentations and other materials related to health policy and reform; ensure the development of cross-project linkages with other relevant UN projects and programmes and other stakeholders’ projects in order to create synergies; 

• Ensure knowledge building with best practices focusing on achievement of the following result. 

Provide the best practice point in hospital clusters and share their experience for other clusters in other region and provide a clear interaction of authorities of territorial communities (hromad) with authorities of hospital clusters. Ensure the mainstreaming of gender equality and women’s empowerment considerations in the field of expertise and use the principles of gender-responsive communications in line with the UNDP corporate standards and support the promotion of team culture and zero tolerance to any sexual misconduct in the team through leadership and personal example. 

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization. 

Institutional Arrangement 

Health Governance Analyst will work under the direct supervision of the Programme Coordinator of the Local Governance and Decentralization Reform (LGDR) Component.
 

• Business direction and strategy: System Thinking:

 • Ability to use objective problem analyses and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system 

• Business direction: Strategic:

• Ability to develop effective strategies and prioritized plans in and strategy Thinking line with UNDP’s objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, potential risks, and opportunities, linking the vision to reality on the ground, and creating tangible solutions.

• Ability to leverage learning from a variety of sources to anticipate and respond to future trends: to demonstrate foresight in order to model what future developments and possible ways forward look like for UNDP.

• Business Development: Knowledge Facilitation:

• Ability to animate individuals and communities of contributors to participate and share, particularly externally.

• Business management: Resource Management:

• Ability to allocate and use resources in a strategic or tactical way in line with principles of accountability and integrity. 

• Business management: Communication: 

• Ability to communicate in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication: to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience.

• Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media, and other appropriate channels.

• Partnership management: Relationship management: 

• Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust, and mutual understanding.

• Ethics UN policy knowledge – ethics: Knowledge and understanding of the UN Staff: 

• Regulations and Rules and other policies relating to ethics and integrity.

• Planning and organizing, self-management, communication, problem solving and teamwork.

Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section:

• Working with Evidence and Data – Ability to analyze necessary data and statistical information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making will be an asset. 
• Gender Mainstreaming – Knowledge of gender issues and the ability to apply to strategic and/or practical situations, including analysis and implementation of projects from a gender perspective is an asset.

• Fluency in English is required. Fluency in Ukrainian is required for local staff.