Technical Officer

provide technical leadership on human rights, violence against women and gender to countries in developing policies, strategies and frameworks that are gender responsive and human rights based. To oversee and support the development and uptake of evidence, tools, and advocacy efforts to a) capacity building of WHO staff and technical counterparts, and b) facilitate and monitor advances in the implementation of the GRE WHO Roadmap. Under the guidance of the Senior adviser on gender and human rights, the incumbent carries out the following core responsibilities and tasks:

• Act as WHO lead expert on health human rights and on gender-based violence.
• Design and carry out multi-country capacity building and know-how exchanges in the form of various events such as visits, meetings, seminars, conferences, etc. aimed at strengthening human rights based approaches and the health systems response to violence against women.
• Provide advice to Member States on specific issues where human rights, including gender equality, need special attention across the work of WHO, such as sexual and reproductive rights, patients’ rights, the health rights of migrants, the human rights aspects of violence against women and the trafficking of human beings, right to health of minorities such as LGBTIQ. This would include producing clear and authoritative written materials such as policy briefings, presentations, and synthesis reports.
• Strengthening advocacy and partnership building efforts including developing and maintaining networks of knowledge sharing inside WHO and across Member States.
• Key partnerships include UN agencies and IBC Gender, EIGE and other EU players, Global Campus on Human Rights and national bodies and collaborating centers.
• Facilitate and monitor the development and implementation of the EURO Action Plan of the WHOGRE Roadmap across technical programmes and country offices. This would include building capacity and strengthening networks of focal points, share knowledge and produce evidence and tools on gender, human rights and health equity, and be the EURO focal point in the GRE Global network as required by the Senior Adviser.
• Represent the WHO European Office for IHD at regional meetings and events, specifically to present evidence and best practices to policymakers.
• Perform any other duties within the technical area of responsibility as assigned by the supervisors.

Required Qualifications:

Education:

Essential:

• University degree (Master’s level) in Public Policy, Political &Social Sciences, Law or Public Health.

Experience

Essential:

• At least 7 years of professional experience in the field of human rights,gender and violence against women. Demonstrated experience in capacity building in countries and internationally.Demonstrated experience of Project Management of health-relatedprojects/initiatives.

Skills:

• Excellent knowledge of the current trends, evidence and policies on gender based and human rights approaches to health, with a deep knowledge of health systems response to violence against women.
• Strong written and presentation skills including a proven ability to understand and translate complex conceptual frameworks and evidence on human rights and health into understandable language for a broad audience of multi-sectoral policymakers.
• Broad knowledge of European countries’ priorities and challenges in gender, equity and rights at national, sub-national and Pan European levels. Knowledge of key stakeholders on gender and human rights at the European and international level.
• Emotional intelligence: Ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions, as well as helping others to do the same.

Language Skills

Essential:

• Expert knowledge of English.

Source:  https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2402496