Health Cluster Coordinator

The Health Cluster Coordinator leads and coordinates health emergency response efforts in Somalia, managing rapid health needs assessments, strategic planning, partner coordination, resource mobilization, monitoring and evaluation, and advocacy to minimize health consequences of emergencies and build resilient health systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coordinate, and lead rapid health needs assessments and participatory assessments within the Health Cluster or at Inter-Cluster level.
• Collect and consolidate information on partner activities and feed the UN-OCHA 4Ws database, providing feedback to partners and clusters.
• Lead development of health sector components of Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO), Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), contingency planning, and ensure linkages with incident management and national health plans.
• Ensure compliance with national and international norms and standards and mainstream cross-cutting issues in Health Cluster plans.
• Facilitate health partner coordination in assessments, planning, information sharing, interventions, monitoring, and quality assurance.
• Identify urgent training needs related to technical standards and protocols for health service delivery.
• Ensure links between humanitarian actions and longer-term health sector recovery plans, incorporating risk reduction.
• Convene and facilitate consultative and results-oriented meetings and organize joint support missions to field operations.
• Oversee development of Information Management strategy and mechanisms for the Health Cluster, producing regular updates and reports.
• Liaise and manage resource mobilization efforts, oversee initiation of CERF and pooled fund proposals, and establish prioritization criteria for partner projects.
• Coordinate development and implementation of an Indicators' Monitoring Framework and promote peer exchange of experiences and lessons learned.
• Identify core advocacy concerns and develop joint cluster/inter-cluster initiatives for advocacy to the RC/HC and Humanitarian Country Team.
• Represent the Health Cluster in inter-cluster coordination mechanisms and advocate for health sector priorities including protection for health workers and facilities.
• Act for the WHO Representative during absence or upon request and perform additional cluster-related incident-specific duties as required.

Requirements

• An advanced university degree (Master's level or above) in Public Health, Medicine, or International Health or related field.
• Specialized training in emergency management, international aid, humanitarian principles, health system recovery, and health cluster coordination is desirable.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience at the national and international level, in developing and promoting collaborative partnerships in emergency and humanitarian relief operations, including experience in managing and coordinating health programmes in chronic and acute, sudden-onset emergencies.
• Relevant work experience in WHO, other UN agencies, relevant non-governmental or humanitarian organizations is desirable.
• Demonstrated knowledge of rapid response operations and their implementation in emergencies related to public health.
• Ability to identify and manage difficult situations, lead and direct multidisciplinary and multinational staff.
• In-depth knowledge of emergency relief policies and practices within the UN, other UN Specialized Agencies, donor agencies, national and international NGOs.
• Sound knowledge and experience about disaster prevention and preparedness programs and the incident management system.
• Excellent negotiation skills and ability to convene stakeholders and facilitate a policy process among UN, NGOs, national health authorities and donors.
• Expert knowledge of English is essential.
• Intermediate knowledge of WHO official language is desirable.

Skills

• Public Health
• Emergency Management
• Health Cluster Coordination
• Health System Recovery
• Humanitarian Principles
• Collaborative Partnerships
• Health Programme Management
• Rapid Response Operations
• Emergency Relief Policies
• Disaster Prevention
• Preparedness Programming
• Incident Management
• Negotiation Skills
• Multi-Stakeholder Facilitation
• Resource Mobilization
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Strategic Planning
• Multi-disciplinary Team Leadership
• Multinational Staff Management
• Health Needs Assessment

Languages

English, WHO official language