Purpose of consultancy

To contribute to the technical work of the Health and Migration Programme in WHO headquarters to ensure the engagement of WHO’ work on Health and Migration in multilateral fora.

Background

As part of the Healthier Populations Division, the Department of Health and Migration represents the Organization and provides global direction on the technical area of health and migration, in line with Global Action Plan on the Promotion of Health of Refugees and Migrants, GPW13, SDG, and other overarching frameworks in achieving significant health status gains for refugee and migrant population. Following are the five core functions of the Department:

Provide global leadership, high-level advocacy, and dialogue to raise awareness and political commitments and coordinate and policy development on health and migration.
Set norms and standards on health and migration, including co-development of guidance and tools and promoting a research agenda to generate evidence to support decision-making and global guidance for new tools and strategies on health and migration.
Monitor trends, strengthen health information systems, and develop an accountability framework and indicators for progress monitoring and reporting on the Global Action Plan implementation.
Provide specialized technical assistance, response, and capacity-building support to Member States, WHO technical departments, regional and country offices, and partners to address public health challenges associated with human mobility wherever needed nationally and transnationally.
Will promote health and migration multilateral, inter-country, inter-regional, and global actions across United Nations systems, including the United Nations Network on Migration (UN Migration Network) and other intergovernmental and nongovernmental mechanisms.

Deliverables

Deliverable 1: Develop following documents for WHO Health and Migration the high-level engagements in multilateral fora, such as United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), World Health Summit (WHS), World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH):
- Concept Note with key messages target audience, draft programme, list of speakers, draft invitations, preparatory meeting minutes, speaker and chair briefings, event summary report, other necessary documents, messages for webpage.
Deliverable 2: Develop the first draft progress report on the implementation of the WHO Global action plan on the health of refugees and migrants.
Deliverable 3: Develop briefings and presentations for, and minutes of interactions, meetings, and discussions with Permanent Missions in Geneva and other stakeholders.
Deliverable 4: Contribute to the team input, prepare meeting documents, participate in discussions and provide regular updates to PHM Director on the progress regarding the implementation the Memorandum of Understanding between WHO and International Organization for Migration.
Deliverable 5: Contribute to the work of the Workstream 3 of the UN Network of Migration (UNNM), and implement WHO-Led activities under the workstream in coordination with the WHO UNNM focal point.

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages

Educational Qualifications:

Essential:

First level university degree in science, economics, pharmacy or other health profession, social sciences, humanities, political science or international development.

Desirable:

Advanced university degree(s) in public health, public policy, management, international relations, social sciences, international development, business administration or related field.

Experience:

Essential:

Up to 5 years of experience in stakeholder management, partnerships, and project management.
Demonstrated experience in organizing high-level events.
Demonstrated strategic writing experience, developing briefing notes and concept papers.
Experience in setting up governance mechanisms and processes.
Work experience in multi-stakeholder environments and working across multi-functional and dynamic teams.

Desirable:

Experience in the field of public health, migration and health, and WHO’s stakeholder environment.

Skills:

Essential:

Strong organizational and planning skills, with ability to guide different team players toward agreed goals.
Ability to upward manage, to anticipate team needs, and to assist senior team members to stay on top of key timelines and deliverables.
Technical skills in public health, with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Demonstration of knowledge and ability to work in a multi-disciplinary, cross-cutting environment and accomplish tasks with multiple objectives and competing deadlines.
Computer skills (Word, PowerPoint and Excel).
Demonstrated ability to produce results.

Languages required:

Essential:

Expert knowledge of English.

Desirable:

Intermediate knowledge of other UN official languages.

Location

Off site: Home-based

Travel

The consultant is expected to travel.

Remuneration and budget (travel costs are excluded):

Remuneration:

Band level A - USD 3,955 - 6,980 per month.

Living expenses (A living expense is payable to on-site consultants who are internationally recruited):

N/A

Expected duration of contract:

6 Months.

Additional Information

This vacancy notice may be used to identify candidates for other similar consultancies at the same level.
Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.
A written test may be used as a form of screening.
If your candidature is retained for interview, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for this position. WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and will require individual review.
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