Technical Officer

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom World Health Organization Full time

**Grade**: P1

**Contractual Arrangement**: Fixed-term appointment

**Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days)**: 1 year

**Job Posting**: Mar 21, 2024, 10:46:47 AM

**Closing Date**: Apr 11, 2024, 4:59:00 PM

**Primary Location**: United Kingdom-London

**Organization**: EU/OBS - European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

**Schedule**: Full-time

**OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME**:
The Division of the Regional Director (RDD) provides the visionary leadership and, together with BOS, supports the Country Offices and all the other Divisions in the efficient delivery of the EPW through agile transformation and implementing WHO Value Charter. RDD has the overall responsibility for the planning, execution and evaluation of WHO programmes at the regional and country levels and in strengthening the alignment and joint work across the three levels of the organization. It is the safeguard of the WHO Values Charter. It encompasses the enabling functions of resource mobilization and alliances, external relations and communications, and support to governing bodies of the European Region, in addition to organization development, staff development and learning, and transformation. It also specifically includes the representative function of WHO with the institutions of the European Union., the EURO Ombudsman who reports directly and independently to the Regional Director, and the committee on staff health and wellbeing.

The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies is at the forefront of international evidence generation and knowledge brokering for health policies and systems. Its mission is to support and promote evidence-informed health policy-making through comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the dynamics of health systems and policies in Europe.

The Observatory's aim is to generate evidence and broker knowledge so that policy makers can take better health systems decisions and improve population health. Its objectives include:

- Describing and analysing health systems and the changes they undergo;
- Mapping trends and making comparisons(including with relevant countries outside Europe) to support European policymaking;
- Mobilizing experience from practice across Europe to give insights into policy issues;
- Working in partnership with governments, international organisations, academics, policy-makers and practitioners to provide evidence and evidence-informed policy options to national and European policy-makers;
- Employing (and developing) a range of knowledge brokering tools to communicate effectively with policy-makers;
- Feeding evidence into the wider health policy debate.

The Observatory is a partnership hosted by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. It includes the Governments of Austria, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom; the Veneto Region of Italy; the French National Union of Health Insurance Funds (UNCAM); the World Health Organization; the European Commission; the World Bank; the Health Foundation; the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

The Observatory consists of a Steering Committee, senior management team and staff. Its core Secretariat is in Brussels and it has offices in London at LSE and LSHTM and Berlin (TUB).

**DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES**:
The purpose of this position is to support country monitoring, research and analysis in the area of health systems and policies in the European Region through a mix of research activities, drafting and editing and to contribute to dissemination so as to enable evidence informed decision making. The post-holder will also contribute to the wider work of the Observatory.

**Key duties**:
The post-holder works under the supervision of senior staff (based in Brussels), with the Observatory team and with academics, national experts and practitioners and;
carries out literature reviews and web search, collects data and conducts qualitative interviews;
- collates data for and helps deliver studies, evidence briefings, and country monitoring (as part of one of the three Observatory series);
- drafts/writes and edits papers/chapters with author teams;
- contributes to initial analysis;
- edits technical content of drafts;
- draws together summaries and abstracts of completed work;
- supports day to day organization and project management of agreed studies and profiles including by: monitoring links with authors/contributors, supporting review procedures, monitoring budgets and supporting reporting;
- contributes to wider analysis and policy briefs in support of the Observatory's work plan.

The job also entails contributing to the dissemination of Observatory evidence:

- drafting presentations, speaker notes and information packs;
- supporting rapid evidence responses;
- contributing to launch plans and to the organization and delivery of workshops;
- preparing summaries;
- drafting and editing articles for journals; and

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