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Geneve, Schweiz World Health Organization Vollzeit

**Grade**: P6

**Contractual Arrangement**: Fixed-term appointment

**Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days)**: 24 months

**Job Posting**: May 13, 2024, 3:39:50 AM

**Closing Date**: Jun 3, 2024, 4:59:00 PM

**Primary Location**: Switzerland-Geneva

**Organization**: HQ/HFE Health Financing and Economics

**Schedule**: Full-time

***OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME**:
The Health Financing and Economics (HFE) department supports the development of health system financing policies and strategies within the context of national health plans and strategies oriented to the goal of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). It provides technical support on the development of appropriate policies and strategies; develops methods, tools and standards to collect, evaluate and introduce relevant information and evidence into policy debate; builds capacity to use this evidence and engages in partnerships with multilateral and bilateral organizations to help develop financing strategies and policies that help countries move closer to universal health coverage (where all people obtain the health services they need without financial hardship linked to paying for services), achieve health security, and secure equitable health gains. Within the HFE department, the mission of the Health Financing (HEF) unit is to foster the development of equitable, efficient and sustainable health financing systems with the goal of UHC, to be achieved through policy leadership, normative guidance, capacity building, development of tools, generation of information, and policy support to countries. Specific content areas of health financing addressed by the Programme include enhancing links between public finance and health finance, improving the purchasing of health services so that the incentives facing service providers are aligned with UHC goals, financing of public health services and programmes, tracking health expenditures, and assessing and guiding progress with health financing reforms.

***DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES**:
Generic duties:

- Coordinates and provides senior technical leadership in establishing new approaches, evidence-based policies and strategies, and capacity building initiatives for implementation across Regional and Country Office programmes in the health financing.
- Provides senior level health technical expertise and advice to the Director and Senior Management in the area of health financing in the context of the development and establishment of new health strategies and policies for implementation and/or the monitoring and evaluation of national and global policies.
- Ensures effective coordination and accountability of the programme are in delivering its objectives through efficient management of a diverse team of technical experts and financial resources and effective work plan coordination to optimize the programme's deliverables in line with the mandate of the Organization.
- Ensures the coordination and management of the monitoring, evaluation and reporting of the Unit's area of work, in line with key performance indicators and global reporting requirements and mechanisms to optimize performance of Unit deliverables.
- Serves as the scientific/technical reference among UN Agencies and the peer community on health financing.
- Builds technical partnerships with other UN, multi-lateral and bilateral agencies, research institutions and other stakeholders in health financing to position the technical area of work and implementation into respective policies.
- Represent the programme area of work in global fora and capacity building activities.
- Performs all other related duties as assigned.

Specific duties:

- Guide the Unit's work to operationalize WHO's normative guidance on health financing at country level, including through efforts to strengthen national capacities and periodic assessments of country progress on health financing for UHC.
- Ensure coherence of WHO messages on health financing across all programmatic areas.

***REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS**:
***Education**:
**Essential**: An advanced university degree (Master's level degree or above) in economics, health economics, public policy, or related field with evidence of a concentration on health financing or economics.

**Desirable**: A PhD in one of the above-mentioned fields.

***Experience**:
**Essential**:

- A minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible professional experience in the management of work in health financing, including experience providing senior level advice and guidance to Senior Management/Decision makers at national and international levels, managing human and financial resources, and experience in the area of developing and establishing policies and strategies for health financing.
- Demonstrated experience at the international level.

**Desirable**:

- Track record of health financing and health systems publications and presentations, including those for international or national conferences related to health financing, and/or scientific


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