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Job Title:    District Field Coordinator – Gulu (Entry Level UN Jobs)

Organization:  United Nations World Health Organization (WHO)

Duty Station:  Gulu, Uganda

Salary: UGX 184,847,000 /=

Grade: NOB

About US:

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system.  WHO is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

Job Summary:  The incumbent will report to the District Health Management cluster in the Country office and under the overall guidance of the WHO Representative in the Country office. The officer will collaborate with relevant technical officers in the Country to agree on best strategies to advocate WHO’s work, goals and achievements. The first line responsibility involves leading and coordinating the technical guidance to the district authorities and establishing resilient health system at the district level.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Inform, and monitor strategic decision making, planning and implementation through the health sector response in support of national and local health authorities’ identified priorities.
• Support the District Task Force and its sub-committees to effectively coordinate Outbreak Preparedness efforts in the district, ensuring collaboration and coordination of partners supporting the preparedness activities in the district with the district task force, and collective results.
• Manage operational planning and implementation of WHO’s incident management system at the district level in the region, coordinate the technical, normative, and operational support in cooperation with district team members, ensuring fulfilment of WHO’s critical functions.
• Make recommendations on WHO response staffing needs; liaise with WHO country office to ensure timely mobilization of the required human resources.
• Provide leadership, motivation, guidance, and performance management of staff and experts, build dynamic and efficient teams and efficient management of WHO resources
• Support the systematic and regular identification and monitoring of health risks and needs and the planning and implementation of the most effective prevention, control and response measures. This includes the dissemination of risk communication messages, the strengthening of early warning and surveillance systems, the delivery of quality health services and the undertaking of operational and scientific research to improve interventions as needed in response to affected populations, at the district level.
• Co-develop and co-implement a relevant monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning processes.
• Guide the WHO’s field support team on a continued self-assessment and reflection on planning, budgeting, operational service delivery.
• Contribute to building the national capacity through need identification, development, operationalization and implementation of a capacity building and training plan.
• Conduct regular and frequent coordination meetings with all district health and other sectors’ partners, convene internal meetings to monitor and evaluate programme implementation, district work plans, facilitation of resource mobilization ,prioritization, accountability of all stakeholders and effectivedecision-making.
• Engage with other relevant local authorities and civil society to facilitate and ensure the smooth implementation of the agreed strategy. 10. Provide the WHO country office with briefings, situation reports and event management information through the WHO Country office Coordinator; to enable the overall continuous monitoring and planning process would feed into WHO’s communication and advocacy products, situation reports, etc.
• Bring issues and concerns to the attention of the Cluster lead District Health Management with a recommended course-of-action.
• Perform any other incident-specific related duties, as required by the functional supervisor (such as resource mobilization and advocacy).

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate for the World Health Organisation (WHO) District Field Coordinator – Gulu job must hold a First university degree (Bachelor’s) public health, management or public administration or related field from an accredited/recognized institute.
• Desirable: Medical degree. Specialized training in emergency incident management; training in health systems and specific training in humanitarian response
• A minimum of two years of relevant work experience, at the national and international levels in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of emergency incident management and response programmes. Considerable experience in managing teams, budgets and resources including developing and promoting collaborative actions with national authorities.
• Desirable: Prior humanitarian working experience at field level with WHO, other UN agencies, health cluster partners or an international non-governmental or recognized humanitarian organizations with expertise in disaster and outbreak response.
• Proven experience working with sub-national health authorities (province, region, and/or district) at the country level.
• Sound knowledge in planning, management, monitoring and evaluation of health programmes, including budgeting and resource management.
• Sound knowledge and experience in Health systems strengthening
• Proven skills in working with partners and strengthening their technical, management and operational capacity within the incident management system.
• Demonstrated skills in strategic planning, organization and guiding actors and groups towards agreed goals.
• Ability to take the perspective of a national partner to support their needs and challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to produce results, while respecting WHO’s professional, ethical and legal framework.

WHO Competencies

• Teamwork: Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
• Communication: Building and promoting partnerships across the organization and beyond
• Ensuring the effective use of resources
• Creating an empowering and motivating environment
• Language Skills: Expert knowledge of English.

Remuneration: Remuneration comprises an annual base salary starting at UGX 184,847,000 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable) and 30 days of annual leave.

How to Apply:

All candidates are encouraged to apply online through the World Health Organization career portal at the link below.

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Deadline: 21^st July 2023

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