COMPANY PRESENTATION
WHO began when our Constitution came into force on 7 April 1948 - a date we now celebrate every year as World Health Day. We are now more than 7000 people from more than 150 countries working in 150 country offices, in 6 regional offices and at our headquarters in Geneva.
- Our primary role is to direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations system and our main areas of work are health systems; health through the life-course; noncommunicable and communicable diseases; preparedness, surveillance and response; and corporate services.
- We support countries as they coordinate the efforts of governments and partners - including bi
- and multilaterals, funds and foundations, civil society organizations and the private sector.
- Working together, we attain health objectives by supporting national health policies and strategies.
- WHO works worldwide to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable.
- Our goal is to ensure that a billion more people have universal health coverage, to protect a billion more people from health emergencies, and provide a further billion people with better health and well-being.
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**OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME**
- To provide technical and coordination support to Ministry of Health on health systems areas in collaboration with other technical units of WHO Country Office Indonesia.
**DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES**
- Under the supervision of WHO Representative to Indonesia and in collaboration with the respective departments in SEARO and HQ, the incumbent will perform the following duties:
- 1. Provide technical leadership and managerial support to the WHO Country Office team working towards progressive realization of UHC through strengthening of health systems building blocks - leadership/governance; health information systems; health financing and service delivery; medical products, vaccines and technologies; and health workforce;
- 2. Facilitate the development, implementation, and monitoring of relevant work plans, promote the integration of health programmes with health systems approaches while mainstreaming gender, equity and human rights in national health strategies, programmes and ;
- 3. Ensure technical quality and relevance of contractual engagements with partners and institutions, as well as make recommendations to the supervisors regarding WHO's support;
- 4. Promote the generation of evidence on health systems, contribute to informed national policy decisions towards UHC, and support communication and advocacy work of the WCO;
- 5. Liaise and coordinate with concerned units/ departments of Ministry of Health, WHO/SEARO and WHO/HQ as well as with development partners to harmonize technical support on policies/ strategies related to health systems and universal health coverage;
- 6. Contribute to the management of WCO's knowledge and advise on matters regarding health system reforms across all functions and building blocks such as stewardship/governance (leadership and coordination, strategy development, regulations and laws as well as influencing other sectors to incorporate health concerns in their policies, monitoring and evaluation for public accountability of policy/implementation improvement); financing (revenue raising, risk and resource pooling, resource allocation and methods of payment); resource generation (technologies including pharmaceuticals, health workforce and knowledge management, health facilities, country health information systems and health metrics networks); and personal and population-based service delivery (primary health care, hospitals, public health services, etc.);
- 7. Contribute to evaluating the impact of WHO's collaboration with Indonesia (aggregated and area specific) and to developing evaluation tools;
- 8. Collaborate with relevant ministries and other stakeholders in undertake gap analyses in relevant areas of work and support capacity building efforts in these deficient areas to ensure that priorities are fulfilled;
- 9. Contribute to the external relationships, representation, communication and advocacy work of the WHO Country Office aimed at improving health system transparency and accountability;
- 10. Represent WHO in inter-agency meetings related to Health System Strengthening and Universal Health Coverage; and
- 11. Undertake other relevant duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.
**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS**
**Education**
**Essential**: Advanced university degree in health policy, health systems or public health, health financing, health economics, management or related field.
- **Desirable**: Doctorate degree (PhD, DrPH, or et cetera) in health systems development or health financing or health economics, or a related field.
**Experience**
**Essential**: At least 10 years of relevant experience including considerable experience obtained in an international context, with progressive r