Overview
To promote and uphold humanitarian principles by leading a coordinated and effective health sector response at the subnational level, with specific attention to vulnerable and marginalized populations.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading a coordinated and effective health sector response.
- Performing dedicated coordination, needs assessments, strategy adaptation, resource mobilization, supporting the implementation and monitoring of the joint incident management system, and advocacy function.
- Coordinating rapid health needs assessments and participatory assessments.
- Collecting information from health partners and feeding the database.
- Ensuring compliance with national and international norms and standards.
- Convening and facilitating consultative meetings.
- Supporting the development of a functional information management mechanism.
- Supporting the development of a common funding strategy and resource mobilization efforts.
- Supporting the adaptation and implementation of an indicators' monitoring framework.
- Identifying core advocacy concerns for the Subnational health cluster.
- Supporting the process of identifying technical gaps and training needs.
- Supporting national capacity-building in emergency preparedness and response.
Required Experience
- At least 2 years of cluster coordination experience, in developing and promoting collaborative partnerships in emergency and humanitarian relief operations, including experience in managing and coordinating health programmes in chronic and acute, sudden-onset emergencies.
- Relevant work experience in WHO, other UN agencies, health cluster partners, recognized humanitarian organization, relevant nongovernmental or humanitarian organizations.
Qualifications
- Essential: A first-level university degree (Bachelor degree/or equivalent), in public health, medicine or international relations, social sciences or management or business administration, from an accredited/recognized institute.
- Completion of the offline Health Cluster Coordination training.
- Desirable: An advanced university degree (Master's or above) in Humanitarian Action, public health, medicine or international relations, social sciences or management or related field. Or specialized training in emergency management, international aid, humanitarian principles, health system recovery.
