Programme Manager, Governance for Health

Description of duties:
Under the guidance of the Director, Policy and Governance for Health and Wellbeing, the incumbent will assume the following responsibilities and achieve the following objectives:

A. Core responsibilities in assisting Member States in relation to leadership and governance for health include:

• dialogue with and strategic advice to policy makers on Health in All Policies, Whole of Government and Whole of Society approaches for health and wellbeing;
• technical assistance including the development of mechanisms, instruments and tools such as national strategies for inter-sectoral action, policy dialogues, assessment of performance for health as well as sustainable capacities for shared governance; and
• advocacy and advice for the enhancement of the leadership capacities and skills of health ministries and senior officials in reaching out other sectors and their pursuit to put health high on the social and development agendas of their countries.

B. Core responsibilities in providing intellectual and technical leadership and guidance in directing the development of a European policy and knowledge on governance for health and well being include:

• acting as the WHO EURO senior technical expert and focal point for governance for health and well being;
• coordinating and ensuring coherence of the work on governance across the WHO Office for Europe in close cooperation with the Venice Office (WHO European Office for Investment for Health and Development) and the Division of Health Systems and Public Health;
• updating the Health 2020 Implementation Package components relating to governance;
• systematically identify European and other experiences and knowledge in the area of governance for health ( e.g. relevant to Health in All Policies, health outcomes and policies performance assessment, influencing other sectors to incorporate health concerns in their policies, institutional changes and mechanisms for working with other sectors and engaging civil society and people empowerment), and documenting gaps to stimulate further research in this area;
• producing and synthesizing knowledge related to the health policies, strategies and plans, and related processes and mechanisms to build the evidence for dissemination to Member States;
• producing evidence based guidance, resource materials and tools as well as case studies and authoritative and relevant policy papers and briefs on the subject matter; and
• documenting and rendering explicit the pros and cons of various governance options in the context of the socio-political and organizational context of the diverse countries of the European Region.

C. Core responsibilities as a Programme Manager:
C.1. technical nature:

• to ensure technical quality in the technical programme;
• to ensure consistency and cohesiveness with the WHO guidelines and approaches, and messages, contributing to the WHO normative function;
• to be responsible for the overall timeliness and quality of all programme deliverables of both country and inter-country workplans;
• maintaining a pool of accredited consultants.

C.2. managerial nature:

• to provide leadership and managerial oversight to the work of all programme staff;
• to mobilize resources to efficiently deliver services/products within country and inter-country workplans;
• to be responsible for the planning and allocation of resources within country and inter-country workplans in consultation and coordination with the Director of the Division;
• to act as 1st level supervisor for assigned staff of the programme including monitoring of performance through reporting & evaluation, monitoring of workload, coordination within the division regarding travel, holidays, funds availability.

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