Roster of Consultant/Expert for Social Determinants of Health and Health Promotion

Purpose of consultancy

To support and collaborate with the Member States to strengthen policy coherence and intersectoral actions between health and relevant sectors to:

- promote health and wellbeing throughout the life courses and generate enabling environment for healthy behavior and social cohesion through healthy settings (schools/education facilities, workplaces, communities, cities, and health facilities)

- generate evidence and analysis on social determinant of health and inequities (including unfair conditions, socio-cultural system and governance) impacting health

- provide strategic collaboration and partnership to address social determinants of health through intersectoral actions, policy coherence, and people participation using health in all policies, whole-of-government, or whole-of-society approach

Description of duties

(Note: This is a generic description of duties developed for a roster of consultants/experts. The final terms of reference for the assignment/contract will be based on the actual requirements at the time of assignment).

Under the overall guidance of the Director, Family Health, Gender and Life-course Team Leads in the respective areas, i.e. Regional Adviser/Medical Officer/Technical Officer, the consultant/expert will be expected to carry out time-limited assignments in one or more of the following areas:

1.Social Determinants of Health and equity

• Provide technical assistant to regional / country offices monitoring progress of actions on social determinants of health focus on intersectoral actions in areas of social protections, health and social services
• Strategic investigation of determinants of health of the vulnerable groups, demographic change, and socio-economic situations and policies impacting people’s health.
• Support countries to develop strategic actions to advance understanding of social determinants of health and inequities including advocacy to promote intersectoral collaboration to address SDH
• Document and investigate rural/urban health phenomena, building evidence, and tools to better monitor, map, and guidance for appropriate action
• Strengthen country capacities through trainings, development of tools and strategies, evidence generation, and monitoring frameworks suitable for specific context

2.Promoting health and wellbeing across life-courses and settings

• Provide technical assistant in develop strategic actions/guidance to promote health in all settings (cities, schools, workplaces, and hospital)
• Support countries in implementation of WHO guidance/frameworks addressing health inequities and promote health and wellbeing of target populations (children, women, elderly, people living with disabilities, and urban poor),
• Strengthen country capacities through trainings, development of tools and strategies, evidence generation, and monitoring frameworks suitable for each setting
• Support initiatives to increase awareness on urban governance for health and wellbeing, health promoting schools, health literacy for population and policy makers within the regional and country contexts
• Support coordination for sustainable multisectoral partnerships for health and wellbeing
• Provide technical supports in development of investment cases, resource mobilization, and strategic collaboration within SEARO and with relevant departments and partners beyond WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO) provides ongoing technical support to countries to promote health and well-being throughout the life-courses and in all settings, achieving flagship priority 4 and addressing social determinants of health across health programmes, accelerating UHC leaving no one behind. The SEARO collaborates with the Member States and partners to set the strategies to accelerate actions to address health determinants, strength capacities to improve health literacy, community engagement, and promoting health in all policies in the regional context. The regional office advocate for multisectoral strategies and collaboration on social protection to address health of vulnerable population particularly urban poor, out-of-school children, unemployed youth, differently able population, etc. and linkage between health equity and sustainable developments, with SDG3 and related SDGs.

Deliverables

Specific to individual consultancy and terms of reference.

Qualifications, experience, skills and languages

Educational Qualifications:

Essential:

PAY BAND A, B & C: University degree in public health or community medicine, social sciences (medical sociology/ anthropology), social epidemiology, and health social sciences) or relevant fields from a recognized university.

PAY BAND B & C: Master’s-level university degree in public health, or community health, or medical sciences, or social sciences, as relevant, from a recognized university.

Desirable: Training in relevant field

Experience

Essential:

At least 5 to 10 year of progressive works on multidisciplinary subjects for health and development, social justice, and sustainable development.

Pay Band A – At least five years of experience in the area of specialization, some of which is at the international level

Pay Band B – At least seven years of experience in the area of specialization, some of which is at the international level

Pay Band C – At least 10 years of experience in the area of specialization, including considerable experience obtained in the international context

Desirable:

• Experience in monitoring, situational analysis and producing credible reports,
• Experience in intersectoral planning and programming
• Experience in development of advocacy materials, policy briefs, and translating data to visual messages
• Experience working in developing countries

Skills/Knowledge:

• Sound knowledge of principles of public health and health systems, social protection system and sustainable development.
• Knowledge of proposal development, analysis, programme planning, monitoring and evaluation
• Demonstrated ability in establishment of networking with developmental partners
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Competencies

• Teamwork
• Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
• Communication
• Producing results
• Moving forward in a changing environment

Other skills:

Excellent knowledge of MS office applications and computer skills including to make high quality technical

presentations and for data analysis.

Languages

• Expert knowledge of English with excellent written and verbal communication skills is essential
• Knowledge of regional language(s) would be an asset

Location

On site: FGL Department, SEARO, New Delhi, and Multiple duty stations in SEAR countries.

Travel

New Delhi, India, and regional countries depend on the consultancy

Remuneration and budget (travel costs are excluded):

1.Remuneration: USD 3,955 – 12,500 per month

2.A living expense is payable to on-site consultants who are internationally recruited): Per diem as applicable to the location for the Region will be applied

3.Expected duration of contract: two weeks to 24 months (July 2022-June 2025.)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• This vacancy notice is being issued for establishing Roster of Consultant/Expert for Social Determinants of Health and Health Promotion.
• Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.
• A written test may be used as a form of screening.
• If your candidature is retained for interview, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/ diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for this position. WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and will require individual review.
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• Consultants shall perform the work as independent contractors in a personal capacity, and not as a representative of any entity or authority. The execution of the work under a consultant contract does not create an employer/employee relationship between WHO and the Consultant.
• WHO shall have no responsibility whatsoever for any taxes, duties, social security contributions or other contributions payable by the Consultant. The Consultant shall be solely responsible for withholding and paying any taxes, duties, social security contributions and any other contributions which are applicable to the Consultant in in each location/jurisdiction in which the work hereunder is performed, and the Consultant shall not be entitled to any reimbursement thereof by WHO.