Unit Head - Lyon, France - World Health Organization

World Health Organization

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Lyon, France

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Sophie Dupont

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Description

Grade:
P6

Contractual Arrangement:
Fixed-term appointment

Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days): 2 years

Job Posting:
Jan 27, 2023, 3:38:20 AM

Closing Date:
Feb 17, 2023, 4:59:00 PM

Primary Location:
France-Lyon

Organization:
HQ/CRS Country Readiness Strengthening

Schedule:
Full-time

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME:

The mission of WHO's Health Emergencies Programme (The Programme) is to build the capacities of Member States to manage health emergency risks and, when national capacities are overwhelmed, to lead and coordinate the international response to contain outbreaks and to provide effective relief and recovery to affected populations.

The Programme supports countries and coordinates international action, to prevent, prepare for, detect, rapidly respond to, and recover from outbreaks and emergencies.

The objectives of the Country Readiness Strengthening Department include the development and strengthening of core national capacities necessary to mitigate and respond to emergency risks and vulnerabilities.

The Department prioritizes support to the most vulnerable and low capacity countries.

The Public Health Laboratory Strengthening (PHL) Unit develops global strategies, mechanisms, guidance documents, manuals, and learning programmes aiming at strengthening public health laboratory policies,governance and regulations, infrastructure, workforce, networking, quality,safety, and diagnostic capacity for epidemic-prone diseases.

The unit provides leadership and coordination across partners and regional offices to propose interventions aiming at ensuring that public health laboratory systems areready to operate in a safe, secure, timely and reliable manner for the detection of, and response to disease outbreaks and other emergencies.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:

Generic duties

Coordinates and provides senior technical leadership in establishing new approaches, evidencebased policies and strategies, and capacity building initiatives for implementation across Regional and Country Office programmes in the respective area of work.
Provides senior level health technical expertise and advice to the Director and Senior Management in the area of public health laboratories, as part of new health strategies and policies.
Ensures effective coordination, management, and accountability of the programme area in delivering its objectives through efficient managing adverse team of technical experts, 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 and evaluation and reporting of the Department's area of work of key performance indicators and global reporting requirements and mechanisms to optimize performance of Department deliverables.
Serves as the scientific/technical reference among UN Agencies and the peer community on public health laboratory issues for health emergencies.
Builds technical partnerships with other UN Agencies, Donors, research and public health agencies and institutions and other stakeholders in the strengthening of public health laboratories, notably in the area of animal and environmental health to support a One-Health approach to position the technical area of work and implementation into respective policies.
Represents the programme area of work in global fora and capacity building activities.
Performs all other related duties as assigned.

Specific duties

Designs and oversees the implementation of an operational framework and time bound projects to strengthen public health laboratories capacity, quality management and networks at national, regional and global level for health emergencies preparedness, readiness and response, with a focus on low and middle income priority countries.
Promotes the development and dissemination of innovative technologies to support laboratory detection of emerging and highthreat pathogens.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

Essential:

An advanced level university degree (Master's level and above) in a health-related field, with a specialization in a discipline related to health laboratory sciences.

Desirable:
A training in public health or epidemiology.

Experience:

Essential:

A minimum of 15 years of professional experience in the management of public health laboratory related programmes and/or laboratory components of disease-specific control programmes in the area of infectious diseases including experience providing senior level advice and guidance to Senior Management/Decision makers, managing human and financial resources, as well as experience in the area of developing and establishing policies and strategies.

Demonstrated experience at the international level,including working on-site and remotely with low and middle income countries.

Desirable:
At least 5 years of experience working with inter-agency initiatives