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Young Professionals Programme - Partnership Officer (Product Design and Impact)

Geneva

  • Organization: WHO - World Health Organization
  • Location: Geneva
  • Grade: Junior level - P-2, International Professional - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Development Cooperation and Sustainable Development Goals
    • External Relations, Partnerships and Resource mobilization
    • Project and Programme Management
    • Public, Private Partnership
    • Innovations for Sustainable Development
    • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
    • Design (digital, product, graphics or visual design)
  • Closing Date: Closed

The Young Professionals Programme

WHO Headquarters offers opportunities for young professionals from Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to engage in WHO’s work and build skills and competence in key public health areas. This is a structured programme which incorporates additional exposure and experience at country level and career support.

Young Professionals will be assigned to regular WHO positions and will be fully immersed in WHO’s technical work. Young Professionals will benefit from career support, networking, mentoring and tailored learning opportunities throughout this period to support them in achieving their personal career goals. To enhance their knowledge and widen their professional network, the YPP may be posted in a different WHO office on short term learning assignments.

Eligibility criteria

The following eligibility criteria in addition to the minimum requirements of the position will be used to shortlist candidates:

  • To be no older than 35 years on 31 December of the year of application.
  • To be a national of a country eligible for the Programme: List of Eligible Countries.
  • To hold a relevant university degree obtained in your home country or other eligible country.

Exceptions will be considered where no institute of higher education exists offering the degrees required for eligibility to this Programme as per the World Higher Education Database.

We invite eligible candidates to register for our virtual Young Professionals Programme event taking place mid-November 2021. More information is available at: https://www.impactpool.org/campaigns/who_young_professionals_programme_campaign

Objectives of the Programme and of the immediate Strategic Objective

The Product Design and Impact (PDI) Unit of the Quality Assurance, Norms & Standards (QNS) sits within the Science Division (https://www.who.int/our-work/science-division/quality-assurance-norms-and-standards). The overall mission of the Science Division, established in 2019, is to harness the power of science and innovation in a systematic way, by ensuring the excellence, relevance, and efficiency of WHO’s core technical functions, including NSP and research. Within the Science Division, the specific purpose of QNS is to provide support to Technical Departments in close consultation with Regional Offices, by ensuring norms and standards are produced to a consistently high standard, in a timely way, driven by what Member States need, and designed and delivered to have a real impact on the health of people. QNS has a central coordinating role of WHO’s organization-wide effort to assure quality of the Organization’s normative and standard-setting products (NSPs) as well as monitoring their uptake and contributing to organization-wide efforts to evaluate their impact at country level. QNS aims to ensure that guidance and recommendations from NSPs that WHO’s technical programmes develop are indeed delivering health impact at country level. One of the key mechanisms that contribute to achieving these objectives is actively monitoring and reporting on key performance indicators related to NSP access, uptake and influence.

Organizational context

Within the QNS, the Product Design & Impact (PDI) Unit is specifically dedicated to:

Supporting Technical Departments, in consultation with regions, for setting outreach, uptake and impact targets of their NSPs via the impact monitoring plan developed in collaboration with Technical teams.

Monitoring the process efficiency (data collection & analysis using pre-defined KPIs) and propose continuous improvement plans.

Providing support to technical departments, in consultation with regions, to develop NSPs to optimize the clarity and relevance of WHO content.

Designing content & format templates, and ensuring multilingual production through publishing partners.

Supporting technical departments by helping them develop the most fit for purpose digitized products to support the dissemination of their core NSP.


Summary of Assigned Duties

  • Plans and works with technical teams, regional and country offices, implementing partners and WHO Collaboration Centers on outreach material and it’s dissemination.
  • Works closely with regional offices and relevant technical departments during the development and roll-out of Department’s digital outreach and related events and initiatives.
  • Works with service providers on the development of the QNS Design Lab content and its roll-out.
  • Engages with QNS Design Lab platform developers and contributors on the smooth running of Lab’s operations, including monitoring and responding to support requests.
  • Supports the preparation for and roll-out of virtual and face-to-face Advisory Group and other partner meetings.
  • Provides inputs on communication products for outreach and donor reporting activities.
  • Performs any other related duties as assigned.

Competencies

Teamwork

Respecting and promoting individual and cultural difference

Communication

Producing results

Promoting innovation and organizational learning

Functional Knowledge and Skills

  • Ability to think strategically; to express ideas clearly; to work independently and in teams.
  • A strong commitment to international public health; an interest in adapting to varied physical and professional environments; and a desire to work with people with different language, national and cultural backgrounds.
  • Sound knowledge of strategic partnership management and digital outreach strategies and processes.
  • Awareness of the public health arena.
  • Concrete skills in stakeholder management and engagement skills.
  • Good workflow management skills & great attention to detail.
  • Analytical mindset and ability to analyze and synthesize information to produce concise writing outputs.

Education Qualifications

Essential

An advanced university degree in International Relations, Strategic Communication, Digital Marketing or related field relevant to the position. A university degree in a relevant subject must have been obtained in your home country or other eligible country.

Desirable

Additional qualification or training in public health, diplomacy, project management, community engagement or similar.

Experience

Essential

A minimum of two years' experience developing public health partnerships and a proven history of successful partnership outcomes. Demonstrated experience of project management, ideally in the field of marketing/strategic communication.

Desirable

Prior experience planning for and managing partnership networks. Exposure at the international level.

Use of Language Skills

Essential

Intermediate knowledge of English.

Desirable

Expert knowledge of English. Intermediate knowledge of French or Portuguese.

Other Skills

Strong computer skills in Online Collaboration Systems (such as Sharepoint), office applications including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

Additional Information

Candidates may apply to one or more vacancies advertised under the YPP; candidates should ensure they meet the vacancy and programme eligibility criteria.

The selection process may include asynchronous video assessment, technical evaluation and interview.

If your candidature is retained for interview, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for this position. WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and will require individual review.

Should you have any questions, please check our FAQs available at https://www.who.int/careers. If your question is not listed, please contact us at YPP@who.int

For information on WHO's operations, please visit: http://www.who.int.

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.

WHO has zero tolerance towards sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct (i.e., discrimination, abuse of authority and harassment). All members of the WHO workforce have a role to play in promoting a safe and respectful workplace and should report to WHO any actual or suspected cases of SEA, sexual harassment and other types of abusive conduct. To ensure that individuals with a substantiated history of SEA, sexual harassment or other types of abusive conduct are not hired by the Organization, WHO will conduct a background verification of final candidates.


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