Overview
Provides technical leadership and managerial support within the Department for accelerated disease control and elimination, and outbreak reduction, response, and recovery.
Key Responsibilities
- Develops and proposes technical health policies and strategies.
- Manages the programme area in delivering its objectives.
- Promotes and coordinates research and innovation.
- Manages the monitoring and evaluation and reporting of the subject area of work.
- Serves as the technical reference among the peer community, UN agencies and other stakeholders.
- Liaises with and uses partnerships in other UN Agencies, Donor, or research institutions.
- Represents the programme area of work at various meetings.
- Serves as WHO subject matter expert to lead Measles and Rubella Partnership.
- Leads collaboration between IVB and the Health Emergencies Programme.
- Serves as IVB focal point for shaping vaccine and immunization strategies for VPD outbreak/epidemic/pandemic response.
- Oversees the mobilization, management, and monitoring of financial resources.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience in international global health and communicable disease prevention and control.
- At least 7 years of experience in the area of health policies and strategies related to vaccine-preventable diseases.
- Demonstrated experience with elimination or eradication programmes for vaccine preventable diseases.
- Direct field experience working on vaccine preventable disease control and elimination, with experience addressing outbreaks in a variety of low-resource settings.
- Demonstrated experience managing human and financial resources.
- Demonstrated experience leading the development of policies, guidelines or training materials.
- A proven track record building collaborative and healthy partnerships at global or regional level in public health or vaccine-preventable diseases.
- Experience interacting with a broad range of immunization stakeholders at global and country level.
- Proven experience building and influencing complex multi-stakeholder partnerships, and planning and coordinating multi-stakeholder convenings.
- Proven experience in technical assistance, training and capacity building at country, regional and global levels.
- Demonstrated experience with global and regional partnerships and working with donors.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master's level) in Medicine, Epidemiology, Public Health, Health Policy, Public Policy, Global/International Health, Paediatric Health, or other area related to the function.
- A PhD in one of the above-mentioned fields (Desirable).
