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1.Background and Justification
To provide expertise in the areas of programmatic monitoring and evaluation to support improving maternal and newborn health. The incumbent will be responsible for developing indicators, tools, and other resources to improve monitoring and measurement of maternal and newborn care. The incumbent will also lead, coordinate and provide crucial support on the monitoring of maternal and newborn health coordinated by the Department. The position is in the Newborn Health Unit of the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, and will work with both the Newborn and Maternal Health Units.
2.Job Description
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- Objectives of the Programme and of the immediate Strategic Objective
The Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing supports a world where by 2030, every woman, newborn, child, adolescent and aging person in every setting realizes their rights to physical and mental health and well-being. This will be achieved by supporting WHO’s General Programme of Work and universal health coverage for all. The department provides support to countries with a focus on high burden countries to ensure evidence-based policies and strategies are in place to achieve universal access to high quality health services for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and ageing (MNCAH&A), and increase coverage and quality of effective MNCAH&A interventions among pregnant women, newborns, children, adolescents, young adults and older people, and to create mechanisms to measure the impact of those strategies.
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- Organizational context (Describe the individual role of incumbent within the team, focusing on work environment within and outside the organization)
The Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing (MCA) Department sits within the Division of Universal Health Coverage-Life Course (UHL). The Universal Health Coverage across the Life course division brings together the building blocks for UHC – ensuring alignment between the systems, the financing and health workforce needed. The work is aimed at strengthening service delivery at the country level for more impact, with a people-centred focus which is built from strong primary health care, and emphasizes key areas around reproductive and sexual health and rights; maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health; and a strong focus on healthy ageing, with the aim to achieve that 1 billion more people benefit from universal health coverage. Within this Division, the specific purpose of the MCA department is to enable countries to strengthen their health systems to address population-specific health needs, reduce risk factors for ill health and address barriers to equity, across the life course and through multisectoral action.
The MCA department is made up of six units:
– Maternal Health unit
– Newborn Health unit
– Child Health and Development unit
– Adolescent and Young Adult Health unit
– Ageing and Health unit
– Epidemiology, Monitoring and Evaluation unit
The units work across four cross-cutting teams:
– Research and Guidelines
– Policies, Standards and Programmes
– Epidemiology, Monitoring and Evaluation
– Life-course trajectories
Within the Newborn Health unit, working under the supervision of the NBH Unit Head and with support from the Maternal Health Unit Head, the incumbent provides technical support to assess progress and increase accountability in tracking progress in maternal and newborn health and survival. This includes working with several global initiatives such as Countdown to 2030, Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP), Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM) and other monitoring groups. The Technical Officer undertakes responsibility in supporting the development and implementation of public health approaches for strengthening monitoring of maternal and newborn health with a focus on routine data systems; and in development of evidence-based tools and guidance in these areas. The Technical Officer undertakes responsibility developing, adapting and implementing of cost-effective interventions, and the identification of gaps to support member states in monitoring evidence-based interventions on quality of care. Specifically, he/she advises member states and partners on the technical and practical aspects of promoting public health approaches to strengthen maternal and newborn monitoring and measurement, and promotes WHO’s work in this area through advancing collaboration with relevant academic and research international and national institutions, and partners.
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- Summary of Assigned Duties (Describe what the incumbent has to do to achieve main objectives; include main achievements expected)
- Support the updating and further development of the MCA’s technical strategic approach, guidance and tools to improve measurement and monitoring of maternal and newborn health including for the ENAP and EPMM initiatives;
- Provide high-level, specialist technical support with a focus on regions and countries to advance MCA’s work in the area of maternal and newborn measurement;
- Build capacities and provide technical assistance to the regions and countries in the area of maternal and newborn health monitoring and measurement, support implementation of key strategies and interventions aimed at improving monitoring and measurement; working in collaboration with other WHO programs, Regional Offices and partners;
- Coordinate, facilitate and monitor departmental projects related to maternal and newborn measurement; and monitor implementation of planned activities including preparation of technical reports;
- Liaise with other UN Agencies, donors, research and academic institutions and other relevant partners to advance the MCA agenda on maternal and newborn measurement and its translation into global, national and/or subnational policies and programmes;
- Advocate and mobilize resources for WHO’s work on maternal and newborn measurement; and
- Performs all other related duties, as assigned.
Achievements expected include:
- Small set of maternal and newborn indicators developed and implemented through routine systems in selected countries.
- Guidance and tools to support monitoring and measurement of maternal and newborn health updated or developed, including for ENAP and EPMM.
- Capacities built for monitoring and measurement of maternal and newborn health in selected countries.
- Best practices distilled and sharing of learning across countries facilitated.
- Maternal and newborn health monitoring and measurement activities coordinated.
3.Recruitment Profile Competencies: Generic
Select up to two additional core, management and leadership competencies. See the Enhanced WHO Global Competency Model Guidelines.
- Teamwork;
- Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences;
- Communication;
- Producing results;
- Building and promoting partnerships across the organization and beyond.
Functional Knowledge and Skills
* Describe the essential knowledge and the skills specific to the position
- Good knowledge of global health issues with in-depth knowledge of issues related to monitoring and measurement of maternal and newborn care, including programmatic monitoring through routine data systems.
- Ability to identify priorities, develop technical guidance and tools in the field of maternal and newborn monitoring and measurement, and to build consensus on indicators, meta-data, and data collection tools.
- Proven ability in contributing to measurement initiatives.
- A good communicator with skills to present information clearly, both orally and in writing and able to make judgments using available evidence with ability to work within and contribute to a team.
- Ability to identify priority issues to improve maternal and newborn measurement, in particular in the context of low- and middle-income countries and national/sub-national monitoring for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health.
- Good knowledge of and experience in engaging a diverse group of international, regional and national stakeholders, including professional associations.
- Proven ability in convening or facilitating events at national and international levels.
- Skills and experience in developing proposals for resource mobilization, and in writing, editing of reports, technical guidance or advocacy materials.
- Demonstrated skills in project implementation and monitoring.
Education Qualifications
Essential: A Master’s level university degree in public health, epidemiology, monitoring/evaluation or related discipline from a recognized university
Desirable: Advanced university degree in medicine, public health or related discipline.
Experience
* Essential
A minimum of 7 years of progressive responsibility at the national and international levels in the field maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, public health, monitoring and evaluation, research, of which at least 4 years’ demonstrated professional experience working at the country in low and middle-income countries and/or regional level on monitoring and evaluating health programmes preferably in maternal, newborn and child health. Experience in monitoring and evaluation and support or managing initiatives, collaborations or relations with external stakeholders; experience in management of projects and supporting health assessments, reporting and learning systems, capacity building for maternal and newborn health measurement and monitoring; experience in managing partnerships and coming to consensus on complex topics; experience with data analysis; producing well-written documents, requiring excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Desirable
Experience in developing maternal and newborn indicator guidance materials and tools.
- Use of Language Skills
Languages
English
Read: Expert knowledge [Yes] Required [] Desirable
Write: Expert knowledge
Speak: Expert knowledge
French
Read: Intermediate knowledge [] Required [X] Desirable
Write: Intermediate knowledge
Speak: Intermediate knowledge
Other UN Language
Read: Intermediate knowledge [] Required [X] Desirable
Write: Intermediate knowledge
Speak: Intermediate knowledge
Other Skills (e.g. IT)
Working knowledge of spreadsheets, statistical analysis software (both qualitative and quantitative), and management of references.
DATE LIMITE : 06/04/2022.
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