Overview
Promote best practices for health workforce interventions in countries and support the development of tools for improving technical capacity on health workforce international mobility.
Tasks Summary
- Promote best practices for health workforce interventions in countries.
- Support the development and drafting of tools for improving technical capacity of regions and countries on health workforce international mobility.
- Contribute to the Department's normative and technical work on the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel.
- Provide implementation support to the Department's projects and programmes.
- Collate and analyse, or commission the development of evidence, in operational research activities.
- Prepare initial drafts of technical documents and global policy analyses/flagship reports.
- Follow-up on dissemination and implementation of recommendations and policy advice.
- Provide technical support for capacity building for an effective HRH agenda.
- Support technical cooperation activities with countries on health workforce issues.
- Contribute to the organization and follow-up of global meetings and events.
- Cooperate with other international agencies, international professional associations, countries and partners in advocacy and resource mobilization activities.
Experience Requirements
- A minimum of five years of progressive professional experience in health system strengthening, management, education, regulation of health personnel, including at national and international levels, with demonstrable focus on human resources for health, including on international mobility of health personnel.
- Progressive professional experience in working on collaborative national and international projects with United Nations agencies and/or international organisations/NGOs.
Qualification Requirements
- A first university degree in health sciences, economics, international relations, international law or relevant field.
- An advanced university degree in health sciences or law
