Technical Officer

**Grade**: P4

**Contractual Arrangement**: Temporary appointment under Staff Rule 420.4

**Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days)**: 24 months

**Job Posting**: Mar 14, 2024, 7:27:21 AM

**Closing Date**: Apr 4, 2024, 4:59:00 PM

**Primary Location**: Italy-Venice

**Organization**: EU/CPS Division of Country Health Policies and Systems

**Schedule**: Full-time

**OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME**:
The Division of Country Health Policies and Systems (CPS) assists countries in the Region with the design and implementation of appropriate health policies and systems to strengthen universal health coverage. It works to strengthen data-driven, evidence-informed, contextually tailored health policy development and implementation at national, regional, and local levels, taking an inclusive approach across the life course. The Division advocates strengthening of public health leadership, focusing on implementing policies that are people-centred, promote health, prevent illness, and address the social and economic determinants of health while fostering leadership on equity, human rights, and gender mainstreaming in health. It focuses on building capacity for health systems innovation to enable the sustainable delivery of high-quality primary health and community services that are effectively linked to hospitals, mental health, public health, and social care services. To do so, CPS supports country efforts to facilitate access to leave nobody behind, to improve financial protection, to strengthen the health workforce, to increase access to affordable medicines and technologies, and to promote the uptake and implementation of digital technology. The WHO European Office for Investment in Health and Development (IHD) based in Venice is a center of excellence in the areas of health equity, gender, rights and social and economic determinants of health. It plays a key role in promoting investment for health and wellbeing, in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the European Programme of Work (EPW). The IHD Office develops metrics, evidence, tools, partnerships and advocates for people-focused investment in health equity, public goods for health and health systems. It supports Member States and partners to implement solutions where people's health and well-being are firmly at the center of fiscal and economic decision-making and policy development. At country level it works to strengthen awareness of the links between health, social and economic policies and the impact of social and health inequities on achieving inclusive growth, sustainable development and resilient health systems. Particular attention is given to inclusiveness and promotion of gender equality and human rights, in line with GPW13, EPW and WHO discussions with Member States. Implementation and support at country level is facilitated through direct country technical assistance and the coordination of scientific research, multi-country policy networks, innovation pilot sites, learning exchange and capacity building at local, regional, national and sub-regional levels. The Venice Office acts a focal point and technical lead on the implementation of the WHO Roadmap on gender equality, human rights. The Venice office also provides backstopping to HQ on the evidence, best practices and impact of nondiscriminatory, healthy fiscal and economic policies as inputs to UN and WHO Multilateral Partnership, priority initiatives and fora. 2023-2030

**DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES**:
To provide technical leadership on human rights, violence against women and gender to countries in developing policies, strategies and frameworks that are gender responsive and human rights based. To oversee and support the development and uptake of evidence, tools, and advocacy efforts to a) capacity building of WHO staff and technical counterparts, and b) facilitate and monitor advances in the implementation of the GRE WHO Roadmap. Under the guidance of the Senior adviser on gender and human rights, the incumbent carries out the following core responsibilities and tasks:

- Act as WHO lead expert on health human rights and on gender-based violence.
- Design and carry out multi-country capacity building and know-how exchanges in the form of various events such as visits, meetings, seminars, conferences, etc. aimed at strengthening human rights based approaches and the health systems response to violence against women.
- Provide advice to Member States on specific issues where human rights, including gender equality, need special attention across the work of WHO, such as sexual and reproductive rights, patients' rights, the health rights of migrants, the human rights aspects of violence against women and the trafficking of human beings, right to health of minorities such as LGBTIQ. This would include producing clear and authoritative written materials such as policy briefings, presentations, and synthesis reports.
- Strengthening advocacy and partnership building efforts incl