Who-sub-national Health Cluster Coordinator-p4

**Receiving Agency**: WHO
**P Level**: P4
**Location**: Cairo, Egypt (oPt response)
**Duration**: 3 months
**Language**:English is required, Arabic is an asset
- Background and Justification
- **Purpose of the Position**:
To promote and uphold the humanitarian and public health principles by leading a coordinated and effective health sector response together with the national and international community, with specific attention to vulnerable and marginalized populations, through effectuating WHO's commitment to work within the framework of the Interagency Standing Committee (IASC) and the cluster approach. The incumbent will be responsible for performing a dedicated coordination, health needs assessment, strategy development and resource mobilization, supporting the implementation and, monitoring the joint incident management system and advocacy function.- Job Description
- **Objectives of the Programme and of the immediate Strategic Objective**

The mission of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme (The Programme) is to help countries, and to coordinator international action, to prevent, prepare for, detect, rapidly respond to, and recover from outbreaks and emergencies.
- support the regional partner coordination and Egypt-based partner coordination for the humanitarian response in the oPt
- serve to backstop HCC functions through direct deployment and/or remote support to Gaza and the West Bank as well as spillover countries

**Organizational context **:Reporting to the National Health Cluster Coordinator and under technical guidance of the WHO Country Office, the incumbent is expected to discharge WHO’s lead role in the health cluster and to impartially represent the interests of the members of the health cluster at the subnational level in Xxx, including the provision of active support to working groups of the cluster which may be coordinated by other agencies. The sub-national Cluster Coordinator leads an interagency team in an environment that requires high standards of accountability and demonstrable leadership, coordination, negotiation and conflict resolution skills, and in which the principles of partnership, collaboration and collective results are essential.
- The health cluster coordinator plays a strong role in promoting agreed national and international standards in all areas of healthcare and strives for the best attainable health status for the populations served by the cluster. S/he identifies and engages with health sector stakeholders and utilizes existing coordination mechanisms, including national health authorities, national and international organizations and civil society; represents the health cluster in inter-cluster coordination mechanisms and oversee the representation of the health cluster in other relevant sectors/clusters such as WASH, logistics, nutrition, protection, maintaining neutrality vis-a-vis all partners including WHO.
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**Summary of Assigned Duties**:
**During deployment, the duty station may change, and duties may be modified, based upon the technical needs of the Programme.**:
**Needs assessment and gap analysis**
- Manage, coordinate and be the overall lead within the health cluster or at inter-cluster level for rapid health needs assessments, as well as participatory assessments (multi cluster/sector initial rapid assessments and humanitarian needs overviews, post-event risk assessment post disaster/post conflict needs assessment); be familiar with and ready to choose from existing tools to confirm that the health cluster covers all identified humanitarian health needs of the affected population.
- Collect information from all health partners on Who’s Where, since and until When, doing What (4Ws), and regularly feed the database managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA). Provide consolidated feedback to all partners and the other clusters.

**Strategic planning**
- Lead the development, in cooperation with the health cluster members, of the health sector components of the coordinated assessments and humanitarian response and development plans as well as contingency planning for potential new events and other interagency planning, ensure proper linkages with the incident management system, disaster risk reduction, relief and recovery to complement national health sector preparedness/response plans.
- Ensure full compliance with national and international norms and standards, oversee that cross-cutting issues are mainstreamed in the health cluster response and implementation plans, taking into account the need for local adaptation.

**Coordination of the health cluster in **XX Hub**
- Facilitate health partner coordination and involvement in health and other related sector assessments (e.g. nutrition, WASH), planning, information, interventions, monitoring and quality assurance, and regularly report on health services delivered to the affected population.
- Ensure appropriate links among humanitarian actions