Advisor, Maternal Health
( 2409814 )
Grade : P4
Contractual Arrangement : Fixed-term appointment
Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days) : One 12 months, First 12 months probationary interval. Post of restricted period
Job Posting: Dec 17, 2024, 8:31:05 PM
This requisition is for employment on the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO)
The Department of Health Systems and Services (HSS) is accountable for selling, coordinating, and implementing the Organization’s technical cooperation in well being techniques and providers improvement to attain Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage (Universal Health), based mostly on the Primary Health Care strategy. HSS promotes evidence-based insurance policies, methods and plans to rework nationwide well being techniques to enhance fairness and resilience, as well being techniques transfer in the direction of the achievement of Universal Health, strengthening governance and stewardship, growing and bettering well being financing and social safety, and supporting the event of built-in networks of well being providers based mostly on a extremely resolutive first degree of care. HSS strengthens nationwide capability within the group of people-centered well being providers, integrating the wholesome life course strategy, guaranteeing high quality of care and affected person security, and the efficient deployment and administration of human assets.
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES
Under the final supervision of the Director, Health Systems and Services (HSS), and the direct supervision and technical steerage of the Unit Chief, Women’s, Maternal, Neonatal and Reproductive Health (WR), the incumbent is accountable for, however not essentially restricted to, the next assigned duties: a) Advise nationwide authorities within the improvement of strategic actions, insurance policies and plans to observe and consider, and enhance girls’s and maternal well being contemplating the multiethnic range and inequities within the Region;
b) Promote energetic assortment and evaluation of maternal well being knowledge, together with however not restricted to maternal deaths and close to misses, supporting the disaggregation of information that can help focused methods to enhance maternal well being in particular territories and populations, and the evaluation of the impression of social determinants on maternal well being;
c) Support the preparation, implementation and analysis of regional actions in areas of advocacy, promotion and safety of maternal well being; promote the technology and alternate of finest practices in maternal well being;
d) Provide technical cooperation in creating nationwide insurance policies, laws, packages and providers for girls specializing in maternal well being, built-in with perinatal and reproductive well being methods;
e) Promote the event and implementation of nationwide methods to speed up the discount of maternal mortality based mostly on Primary Health Care together with the variation of the technique in native territories and populations with greater maternal deaths;
f) Facilitate and help collaborative motion inside HSS, and throughout technical areas inside the Organization, to leverage the required technical competencies required in well being techniques and providers group, high quality of care and affected person security, well being workforce capability, illness management and administration, danger elements, proof and data, in addition to within the social determinants of well being, to make sure a coordinated and built-in response organization-wide to enhance maternal well being;
g) Support capability constructing in maternal well being on the main care degree, selling capability improvement in midwifery that’s culturally acceptable; help the coaching of obstetricians and different vital specialised well being employees within the administration of obstetric emergencies, together with by way of sensible and simulation workouts;
h) Promote the supply of well being applied sciences which can be particular to make sure high quality maternal well being care, together with within the administration or obstetric emergencies; leverage innovation in well being care supply, together with digital well being, to enhance entry and continuity of care;
i) Coordinate the maternal well being CLAP Network utilizing knowledge from the Perinatal Information System (SIP plus), take part in cooperation actions for the usage of the totally different modules of the SIP plus with the intention to strengthen its implementation and use to enhance the standard of care within the nations of the Region;
j) Contribute to the coaching of human assets in nationwide coaching workshops on the usage of the Perinatal Information System and contribute to the evaluation of information generated from the talked about sources on the nation and regional degree;
ok) Promote the mobilization of nationwide assets and worldwide help for packages and tasks in Maternal Health; preserve an up-to-date stock of worldwide assets that may be made out there to the Organization and nations for the promotion and help of analysis, coaching and repair actions within the discipline of human replica and sexual and reproductive well being with a life cycle strategy;
l) Participate within the identification of WHO/PAHO Collaborating Centers, help them in defining their work plans and reviewing its success;
m) Coordinate the actions of PAHO’s community of sentinel facilities for maternal well being surveillance, strengthening the capability of those facilities for surveillance and response to maternal mortality and morbidity, closing present data gaps in maternal well being and bettering the standard of care for pregnant girls and newborns;
n) Coordinate with WHO within the space of maternal well being, in joint actions with UNFPA, UNICEF, USAID and different UN Agencies, NGOs, civil society to strengthen maternal well being packages in nations;
o) Participate within the preparation of the annual program of labor, price range and analysis reviews of the HSS, together with the participation in useful resource mobilization actions;
p) Perform different associated duties and actions assigned.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Education :
Essential: A bachelor’s diploma in medication or well being science with a specialised diploma in obstetrics, gynecology or midwifery, and a grasp’s diploma from a acknowledged college, in public well being, household and group well being, well being providers group, maternal well being and/or sexual and reproductive well being or another discipline associated to the features of the put up.
In the occasion that your candidature is retained for an interview, you can be required to offer, prematurely, a scanned copy of the diploma(s)/diploma(s)/certificates(s) required for this place. PAHO, solely considers official levels obtained from an establishment accredited/acknowledged within the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a listing up to date by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The record might be accessed by way of the hyperlink: http://www.whed.net/ . PAHO will even use the databases of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation http://www.chea.org and College Navigator, discovered on the web site of the National Centre for Educational Statistics, https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator to help the validation course of.
Experience :
Essential: Nine years of mixed nationwide and worldwide expertise in managing well being or inter-sectoral well being tasks and packages in lady, maternal, perinatal, and sexual and reproductive well being. Of these, at the very least 5 years ought to embrace improvement of insurance policies, capability to barter and coordinate with all related sectors of presidency, the personal sector, worldwide companies and arranged group teams
SKILLS :
PAHO Competencies:
Overall perspective at work : Maintains integrity and takes a transparent moral strategy and stance; demonstrates dedication to the Organization’s mandate and promotes the values of the Organization in every day work and conduct; is accountable for work carried out in keeping with personal function and obligations; is respectful in the direction of, and trusted by, colleagues and counterparts.
Respecting and selling particular person and cultural variations : Relates nicely to range in others and capitalizes on such range. Treats all individuals with dignity and respect. Relates nicely to individuals with totally different cultures, gender, orientations, backgrounds and/or positions; examines personal conduct to keep away from stereotypical responses; considers points from the attitude of others and values their range.
Teamwork: Works collaboratively with group members and counterparts to attain and construct rapport; helps others when requested; accepts joint accountability for the group’s successes and shortcomings.
Communication: Foresees communication wants of viewers and targets message accordingly. Facilitates open communication; encourages others to share their views overtly and takes time to grasp and take into account their views. Writes down concepts in a transparent, structured, logical and credible means; drafts and helps the event of tips, insurance policies and procedures. Shares related info overtly and ensures that the shared info is known; considers data sharing as a constructive working methodology and demonstrates consciousness of the Organization.
Creating an empowering and motivating setting: Manages particular person and group tasks and ensures that roles, obligations and reporting strains are clearly outlined, understood and accepted; delegates work appropriately to attain finest outcomes.
Producing Results: Monitors personal and others’ work in a scientific and efficient means, guaranteeing required assets and outputs. Aligns tasks with Organization’s mission and goals. Consistently solves personal and group’s issues successfully as wanted. Proactively engages in tasks and initiatives, accepting demanding objectives, in keeping with Organizational Strategies and Program of Work. Demonstrates accountability for work of group and units an instance, whereas explicitly articulating classes learnt for personal and group’s profit.
Moving ahead in a altering setting: Actively helps Organizational change initiatives and demonstrates private dedication to them, together with when confronted with new calls for; proposes workable options to difficult conditions. Engages in optimistic responses to a altering setting and promotes workable options to attain personal and group’s outcomes. Welcomes, and actively seeks to apply, new concepts, approaches and dealing strategies and applied sciences with the intention to enhance personal and/or group’s work processes and outcomes; demonstrates dedication to Organizational change initiatives.
Setting an instance : Works ethically to attain particular person work goals underneath ‘PAHO Regulations and Rules and the Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service. Maintains confidentiality and treats delicate info with discretion; ensures that insurance policies and procedures are adopted in accordance with the Organization’s skilled, moral and authorized requirements. When others behave in an unprofessional or unethical means, promotes acceptable requirements and offers suggestions with the intention to treatment the state of affairs; escalates as vital. Stands by personal choices and actions and accepts accountability for them. Acts in an open and clear method when coping with others; stands by personal and/ group’s choices or actions and accepts accountability for them. Acts to advertise the Organization’s success.
Ensuring efficient use of assets: Sets particular, measurable, attainable, practical and well timed goals for personal group and/or the Organization; systematically analyses and anticipates precedence tasks for personal group and allocates vital assets to attain them; identifies the cross-Organizational assets wanted for large- scale tasks in keeping with key Organizational goals. Anticipates foreseeable adjustments and adapts personal and group’s tasks within the face of unexpected circumstances and/ or challenges; creates measures and standards to observe progress of total tasks in opposition to key Organizational goals; creates cost-effective options for the Organization.
Technical Expertise:
Demonstrated managerial expertise, strategic considering, and technical data with sturdy communication expertise.
Ability to barter and coordinate with all related sectors of presidency, the personal sector, worldwide companies, organized group teams and WHO/PAHO colleagues.
Keep abreast of the most recent applied sciences for processing info related to the work program.
Expert data of maternal, perinatal sexual and reproductive well being and household well being packages and the group of nation well being techniques with give attention to main well being.
Familiarity with the medical elements and important interventions to help the wholesome development and improvement of all members of a household.
Technical experience in formulating and creating instruments for monitoring and evaluating maternal well being methods.
Languages:
Very good data of Spanish or English with a working data of the opposite language. Knowledge of French and/or Portuguese could be an asset.
IT Skills:
Demonstrated capability to successfully use present know-how and software program, spreadsheets and shows, in addition to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and administration info techniques. Other IT expertise and data of software program packages resembling Microsoft Excel, Outlook, OneDrive, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and Word are thought-about important.
REMUNERATION
Annual Salary : (Net of taxes)
USD $77,326.00 + put up adjustment
Post Adjustment : 70.2% of the above determine(s). This proportion is to be thought-about as indicative since variations might happen every month both upwards or downwards as a consequence of foreign money alternate price fluctuations or inflation.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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