International Consultant-

**Contractual Arrangement**: External consultant

**Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days)**: 2 months

**Job Posting**: Jan 21, 2025, 3:26:23 AM

**Closing Date**: Jan 28, 2025, 4:59:00 PM

**Primary Location**: Egypt-Cairo

**Organization**: EM/UHS UHC/Health Systems

**Schedule**: Full-time

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**1.** **Purpose of the Consultancy**:
The main purpose of this consultation is to provide technical input to the regional flagship initiative on investing in a resilient health workforce, especially on areas of strengthening primary care workforce, monitoring framework for the flagship initiative as well as the monitoring of the implementation of the Code of Practice on International recruitment of Health Personnel.

**2.** **Background**:
The Department of UHC/Health Systems is a technical department which envisions the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC) in all countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, thereby ensuring improved health outcomes through strengthened health systems. The overarching mission of the Department of UHC/Health System is to improve the performance of health systems in the Region by providing evidence-based policy advice, building individual and institutional capacity, and supporting priority programmes through better governance, financing, workforce, technologies and services.

The Health Workforce unit of UHC/Health Systems Department works in strengthening the capacities of member states to develop and manage a competent health workforce and thereby improve the access of the population to quality health care, through health workforce strategic planning and implementation, building governance and education capacities, improving health workforce information and knowledge and capacity building for priority health interventions. The team contributes to health workforce strategies oriented towards universal health coverage implemented in countries.

The Regional Committee also endorsed the Regional Flagship Initiative on investing in a resilient health workforce. The consultant will contribute to taking forward the implementation of the flagship initiative.

Start date: 10 February 2025

End date: 10 April 2025

**4.** **Work to be performed**:
**Deliverables**
- Perform secretariat function for the flagship initiative
- Contribute to the development of the monitoring framework for the flagship initiative in collaboration with DEME working group
- Map and analyze the primary workforce in EMR countries.
- Follow up on the 5th round monitoring of WHO code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel and analyze the submissions from EMR countries and develop a regional report.

**Outputs**
- Monitoring framework for flagship initiative
- Mapping of primary care workforce in EMR countries
- EMR report on 5th round monitoring of WHO code of Practice on International Recruitment of Health Personnel

**5.**Technical Supervision**

The selected Consultant will work on the supervision of:
Responsible Officer:
Dr Fethiye Gulin Gedik

Manager:
Dr Awad Mataria

**6. Specific requirements**
- Qualifications required:
Essential: First university degree in health sciences

Desirable: Master’s degree in public health, health or health workforce policies management.
- Experience required

Up to 5 years of relevant experience including international experience in public health workforce policies, planning, education or health labour market
- Skills / Technical skills and knowledge:
Specific technical knowledge in public health and health workforce policies
- Language requirements:
Excellent knowledge of English

**7.** **Place of assignment**

Cairo, Egypt

8. **Medical clearance** Medical certificate of fitness to work should be provided in case of travel or working onsite

**9.** **Travel**

The Consultant is expected to travel.
- All _**_travel arrangements_**_ will _be made_ by WHO - WHO will not be responsible for tickets purchased by the Consultant without the express, prior authorization of WHO. While on _mission_ under the terms of this consultancy, the Consultant will receive _**_subsistence allowance_**_._
- Visas requirements: it is the consultant’s responsibility to _fulfill _**_visa_**_ requirements_**_ and ask for visa support letter(s) if needed._

**Additional Information**:

- A written test may be used as a form of screening.
- WHO is committed to workforce diversity.
- WHO has a smoke-free environment and does not recruit smokers or users of any form of tobacco.
- Applications from women and from nationals of non and underrepresented Member States are particularly encouraged.
- WHO prides itself on a workforce that adheres to the highest ethical and professional standards and that is committed to put the WHO Values Charter into practice.
- Consultants shall perform the work as independent contractors in a personal capacity, and not as a representative of any entity or authority. The execution of the work under a consultant contract does not create an emplo