Overview
The role involves providing added-value, non-implementation support to strengthen coordination, knowledge management, and system-level visibility in border health areas. It aims to enhance multi-stakeholder coordination, facilitate linkages across UN agencies and partners, and improve situational awareness.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate structured coordination and communication among stakeholders involved in border health.
- Support the organization of coordination platforms, meetings, and joint briefings.
- Strengthen functional linkages between health and protection actors.
- Maintain stakeholder mapping and support alignment of roles and engagement mechanisms.
- Document good practices, lessons learned, and operational insights.
- Develop knowledge products, briefs, and summaries.
- Support knowledge exchange between national and subnational levels.
- Conduct regular field missions to gather insights on coordination dynamics, service access challenges, and stakeholder needs.
- Facilitate two-way communication between field actors and Bangkok-based stakeholders.
- Provide structured analytical inputs on trends affecting health service access and system performance.
- Assist in developing coordination briefs, donor updates, and communication materials.
- Strengthen visibility of collective efforts in border health.
- Promote collaboration between WHO and other UN entities operating in border areas.
- Strengthen practical linkages with UN Volunteers deployed by other agencies.
- Support the consolidation and sharing of non-sensitive, aggregated information on health supply flows and operational bottlenecks.
- Facilitate coordination between relevant stakeholders involved in supply chain staging and distribution planning.
- Contribute to improving situational awareness of supply gaps and coordination challenges.
- Perform any other related duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Required Experience
- 3 years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrated experience in multi-stakeholder coordination, partnership engagement, or project support involving government, UN agencies, NGOs, or development partners.
- Experience working in complex or resource-constrained settings, preferably in border areas, migrant/refugee health, or humanitarian contexts.
- Strong skills in documentation, reporting, and knowledge management.
- Familiarity with health systems, public health programmes, or service delivery in low- and middle-income country contexts.
- Basic understanding of health logistics, supply chain coordination, or operational support functions in public health or humanitarian settings is an asset.
- Ability to conduct field missions, engage with diverse stakeholders, and translate field observations into actionable insights.
- Experience supporting or facilitating coordination platforms, meetings, or inter-agency processes.
- Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize effectively, and work under evolving conditions.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to work in multicultural and multidisciplinary environments.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in public health, global health, international development, health systems, social sciences, logistics/supply chain management, or a related field.
- A Master’s degree in a relevant field is an asset.
