**Job Identification**
- 18561

**Locations**
- Geneve, Switzerland**Posting Date**
- 05/30/2024, 04:15 AM
- 06/23/2024, 04:59 PM

**Job Schedule**
- Full time

**Agency**
- World Health Organization

**Grade**
- P2

**Vacancy Type**
- Fixed Term

**Practice Area**
- Health

**Contract Duration**
- 1 Year with Possibility for extension

**Education & Work Experience**
- Master's Degree - 2 year(s) experience

**Other Criteria**
- This position is open only to nationals of France

**Required Languages**
- English

**Vacancy Timeline**
- 3 Weeks

**Mobility required/no mobility**
- no mobility required

**Background**

**Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and **inspiring stories.**

**Programme/Department**:Health and Migration Programme, WHO Headquarters

**Objective of the WHO Programme/Department**:
As part of the Healthier Populations Division, the Health and Migration Programme (PHM) represents the Organization and provides global direction on the technical area of health and migration. PHM’s work includes implementation of the Global Action Plan, promoting the health of refugees and migrants within the overall framework of WHO's Constitution, GPW13, SDGs, and maximizing the Member States' Organization-wide contribution in achieving significant health status gains for refugee and migrant populations. PHM also works with countries in the light of their priorities, legal frameworks, and individual circumstances, bringing together countries of origin, transit, and destination with the following five core functions:
1) Provide global leadership, high-level advocacy, and dialogue to raise awareness and political commitments and coordinate and policy development on health and migration.

2) 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.

3) Monitor trends, strengthen health information systems, and develop an accountability framework and indicators for progress monitoring and reporting on the Global Action Plan implementation.

4) 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.

5) 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.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

**Assignment Summary**:
As part of the PHM, the Junior Professional Officer will mainly support the workstreams related to management of projects on health and migration and improve health workers competencies to serve refugee and migrant populations.

**Duties, Responsibilities and Output expectations**:

- Review and analyse health workers competency gaps, needs and programmes in the target countries.
- Support development of competency strengthening programmes in line with Refugee and migrant health: Global Competency Standards for health workers.
- Conceptualize and contribute to the implementation of competency development programmes in consultation with global, regional, national stakeholders.
- Assist in developing, disseminating, and regularly engaging refugee and migrant health policy dialogues in close collaboration and consultation with regions and countries.
- Support translation of relevant programmatic knowledge on health workers competencies into learning programs on applicable WHO platforms such as WHO Academy, openwho.org, or other massive open online course platforms.
- In collaboration with other teams across three levels support implementation of specific projects on refugee and health.
- Perform all other related duties as assigned by the Director.

**Competencies**

**WHO competencies required for the assignment**:
1. Teamwork

2. Communication

3. Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences

4. Producing results

**Skills and knowledge required for the assignment**:
Interpersonal skills, using tact, patience and courtesy. Strong skills for policy design, planning and implementation. Excellent skills for drafting, commu