Job Opportunity in Egypt as a Manager at WHO

WHO offers a job opportunity in Egypt as a Manager in one of its units. The Country Cooperation and Collaboration unit (CCU) is one of the units under the office of the Chef de Cabinet (CDC). It promotes and contributes to the Organization's wider efforts to strengthen WHO's country focus and achieve the organizational objective of responding better to country needs, especially in the context of WHO reform at country level. The program ensures the development, use and monitoring of high-quality country cooperation strategies that address not only national and health development priorities but also the regional and global mandates and agreements to which countries have committed. It analyses data on the political, technical, managerial, and administrative aspects of WHO's country operations, provides strategic information to foster integrated country-focused technical cooperation, contributes to the efficient and effective country presence, and supports the collaboration with United Nations agencies, and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF).

You will be responsible for:

• Provide policy, strategic and programmatic advice to the senior management on strengthening country-level strategic cooperation, and its impact, in the context of the SDGs, GPW 13, EMR Vision 2023, and WHO transformation.
• Lead both internally and externally strategic dialogues for implementing the country's functional review recommendations, designing and advocating for strategies and mechanisms to enhance WCOs' capacities for leadership and strategic planning and cooperation ensuring they become and evolve as fit for purpose.
• Build a network with the HQ team in charge of Country Strategy and Support as well as with the regional CSUs teams, sharing experiences and knowledge and contributing to the global initiatives aiming to enhance WHO's presence and countries' efforts and programs and to achieve the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and the SDGs.
• Overcome silo approaches by drawing on creating synergies in program delivery, analyzing gaps, overlaps as well as opportunities, developing respective workable approaches, and assuming accountability for matrixed solutions by integrating the country offices with the technical, managerial, and administrative units in the Regional Office, to jointly deliver a more coherent approach to the health/technical priorities of the member states.
• Stimulate and guide pertinent research, monitoring, and evaluation and oversee the production and dissemination of relevant strategic information, sharing experiences of successful practices and lessons learned in strengthening country strategic programs and their alignment with national health development objectives for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Establish policies, plans, strategies, and budgets in support of country focus, cooperation among countries for health development, and WHO technical cooperation.
• Identify, promote, establish, maintain and coordinate actions across and within WHO, with other United Nations organizations (through the Program Support Group and other mechanisms), and with other partners.
• Manage the financial, logistic, and staff resources of the unit; prepare and justify program and budget proposals; define staffing needs, including organizational structure, competencies, and terms of reference to facilitate efficient and effective performance; initiate and recommend approval of personnel actions for unit staff and monitor and evaluate the achievements of the unit's agreed results.
• Collaborate closely with other units under the CdC BC, such as GBS, SDG/GER, and Transformation to optimize the performance of the department's deliverables.

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You must have:

Education:

• An advanced university degree (Master's degree) in Medicine, Public Health, Health Systems, or other health-related fields.
• It's preferred to have a Ph.D. in one of the above-mentioned fields. 

Experience:

• At least 15 years of combined national and international senior experience related to health and organizational development, including experience providing senior-level advice and guidance to Senior Management/Decision-makers, as well as experience in developing and establishing health/technical policies and strategies.
• It's preferred to have at least 5 years' experience at the country level with WHO or other UN agencies at the senior/managerial level and/or cooperation with UN organizations/agencies, international institutions, or NGOs.

Skills:

• Strong skills in the area of developing and establishing policies and strategies.
• Proven leadership, good judgement, tact and negotiation skills to maintain good working relationships and dialogue with officials and advisers, both within and outside WHO.
• Ability to engage, build consensus and communicate effectively and diplomatically with the Member States, partners, and media. Commitment to collaborate effectively with other key partners.
• Excellent skills and ability in managing diverse teams and financial resources.
• Teamwork skills.
• Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences.
• Communication skills.
• Building and promoting partnerships across the organization and beyond.
• Producing results skills.
• Expert knowledge of English.
• It's preferred to have an intermediate knowledge of French. Intermediate knowledge of Arabic.
• WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.

Benefits:

• WHO salaries for staff in the Professional category are calculated in US dollars.
• The remuneration for the above position comprises an annual base salary starting at USD 103,660 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable), a variable post adjustment, which reflects the cost of living in a particular duty station, and currently amounts to USD 3110 per month for the duty station indicated above.
• 30 days of annual leave, allowances for dependent family members, home leave, and an education grant for dependent children.

About WHO:

The organization's goal is to build a better, healthier future for people all over the world. Working through offices in more than 150 countries, WHO staff work side by side with governments and other partners to ensure the highest attainable level of health for all people. They strive to combat diseases; infectious diseases like influenza and HIV and noncommunicable ones like cancer and heart disease. They also help mothers and children survive and thrive so they can look forward to healthy old age and ensure the safety of the air people breathe, the food they eat, the water they drink, and the medicines and vaccines they need.

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