Position title:
Senior Manager, Health Workforce (temporary)
Location:
Geneva
Purpose of the position:
Support the development and implementation of Gavi’s approach to supporting Frontline Health Workers (FHW) and their supervisors
Department:
Country Programmes
Team:
Health Systems & Immunisation Strengthening
Reports to:
Senior Specialist, Health Systems & Immunisation Strengthening
N° of positions supervised:
N/A
Career step level:
4
Duration:
24 months (starting ASAP)
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is a public-private partnership committed to saving children’s lives and protecting people’s health by increasing equitable use of vaccines in lower-income countries. The Vaccine Alliance brings together developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry, technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private sector partners. Gavi uses innovative finance mechanisms, including co-financing by recipient countries, to secure sustainable funding and adequate supply of quality vaccines. Since 2000, Gavi has contributed to the immunisation of nearly 700 million children and the prevention of more than 10 million future deaths.
BACKGROUND
An adequate number and appropriate distribution of well performing frontline health workers and their supervisors is critical for reaching missed children with safe immunisation services as well as for delivering other primary healthcare interventions. Current programmes and activities to improve their performance, accountability and behaviours, whether funded by Gavi or other donors, are often ad-hoc rather than strategic and follow traditional methodologies with limited use of innovative approaches and unclear impact. Gavi is thus revisiting its approach to investing in health workers.
A key focus of this new approach is how to better support countries to strengthen and maintain frontline health workers’ performance. This requires continued professional education and learning programmes leveraging innovative and digital technologies that are rapidly scalable. It also aims to build capacities for data-driven health workforce planning and management at national, sub-national and facility level.
KEY FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The advertised position is central to developing, testing and scaling up this new way for Gavi to invest in frontline health workers and supervisors over the next two years, to become a central piece of Gavi’s next 5-year strategy. This will involve:
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Note: The essential duties and responsibilities listed in this section are not exhaustive; other duties may be assigned consistently with the department needs.
QUALIFICATIONS
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Gavi is committed to diversity within its workforce and encourages applications from all qualified candidates.
If you wish to apply, please visit our Careers webpage and apply by clicking on “Senior Manager, Health Workforce (temporary)” Deadline for applications is 03 February 2020.
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Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is a public-private partnership committed to saving children's lives and protecting people's health by increasing equitable use of vaccines in lower-income countries. The Vaccine Alliance brings together developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry, technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private sector partners. Gavi uses innovative finance mechanisms, including co-financing by recipient countries, to secure sustainable funding and adequate supply of quality vaccines. Since 2000, Gavi has contributed to the immunisation of nearly 700 million children and the prevention of more than 10 million future deaths.