World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:

Job Title: Project Officer (HSS/EU Project)
Ref Id: 1804450
Location: Enugu
Duty Station: Awka-Anambra
Grade: NO-B
Contractual Arrangement: Individual service contractor
Contract duration: 12 Months
Organization: AF_NGA Nigeria
Schedule: Full-time
Purpose of the Position
• The World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office of Nigeria entered into a funding arrangement with the European Union (EU) whereby, for a period of three years (April 2017 through March 2020), WHO will support the project titled: ‘Strengthening the Nigerian Health System towards achieving Universal Health Coverage’.
• The project focuses on improving the health situation in Nigeria, through improved data analysis and information dissemination capabilities, health expenditure estimation, reduction in financial barriers to health care at the federal level in selected states.
Description of Duties
Under the overall Guidance of the WHO Country Representative, and direct supervision of the Health Systems Adviser at the WHO Country Office in Abuja, the incumbent will carry out the following duties:
Collaborate with the state authorities in strengthening state-level Health Information and Health Financing functions including:
• Support the Ministry of Health to develop a harmonized data quality process
• Support for coordination of actors in health information through the relevant technical working group in the selected states
• Support the building of capacity of the State Ministry of Health research and statistics division and the state Monitoring and Evaluation/Health Information System (M&E/HIS) units on the analysis of health information, both from routine systems and from surveys
• Support to the Government for monitoring of the level of coverage of risk protection schemes at various levels of the health system
• Support to the Government to conduct annual health accounts estimation as well as other expenditure tracking processes
• Analyze information from these processes in 5 above alongside health outcomes data to assess efficiency of health spending
• Contribute towards WHO and EU’s visibility


Job Title: Planning & Performance Management Lead, P-4 (multiple duty stations)
Ref. ID: 1803918
Location: Abuja
Grade: P4
Contractual Arrangement: Fixed-term appointment
Contract duration: 12 months
Schedule: Full-time
Summary of Assigned Duties
• Coordinate a systematic collection of information pertaining to the joint operations plans (4Ws), from relevant WHO offices and key operational partners, to generate a consolidated overview of needs and requirements.
• Co-develop, with relevant internal WHO teams and key operational partners, the strategic response framework and joint operations plan (4Ws) to outline the response strategies to the emergency incident.
• Design and/or adapt a system to analyse and document, WHO performance in line with the ERF and based on the WHO emergency response framework, ensure the implementation of remedial actions for the implementation of effective health interventions for emergency response.
• Oversee the development of WHO’s emergency workplans and associated budgets outlining the required response activities and resources (staffing, equipment).
• Undertake regular planning reviews, with HQ teams and the relevant regional office when necessary, to provide periodic estimates and forecasts on response requirements based on technical needs.
• In close coordination with the Resource Mobilization Officer and Budget and Finance Officer, actively participate in internal and external communication activities and support resource mobilization efforts through providing overall analyses of needs and technical contributions to the development of project proposals and identifying budget needs.

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