Programme Management Officer World Health Organization Experience: 3 to 5 Years Phnom Penh, Cambodia Apply By: 30-01-2025

The WHO country office provides policy guidance, strategic assistance and technical support to the Royal Government of Cambodia to provide, promote and protect health and wellbeing for all. The WHO country office operates within the framework of the Fourteenth General Programme of Work (GPW14), the Cambodia-WHO Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) 2024-2028, and the Regional Vision ‘Weaving health for families, communities and societies in the Western Pacific Region: Working together to improve health and well-being and save lives’. 

The incumbent will guide the adoption of result-based management principles in the planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of WHO programmes at country level.

Duties:

• The incumbent will perform all or part of the following, and other related responsibilities as required by the needs of the office.
• Support and promote technical dialogue between the WHO country office and WHO regional office during strategic and operational planning, including the country cooperation strategy.
• Work closely with the senior health policy advisor to promote integrated approaches and cross-programme collaboration throughout the results-based management cycle.
• Coordinate and provide support to the head of the WHO country office and senior staff on the implementation of the one-planning and monitoring approach anchored in the country cooperation agreement at the country level.
• Coordinate the overall results-based management of the country office, including grants management, budget, work planning, and allocation to ensure the effective execution of the WHO country office public health programmes.
• Collaborate with resources mobilization focal point on resources mobilization activities.
• Ensure appropriate use of funds, especially the thematic funding and specified voluntary contributions (VCS) to achieve results.
• Administer the planning, inclusion of critical programme performance measures, monitoring, analysis, and reporting of programme initiatives for the country office for quality results and strategic decision making including in emergency settings.
• Prepare related elements for briefings, proposals, reports, communications, and advocacy documents required for strategic decision-making.
• Organize various programme management meetings, capacity-building programmes, and relevant activities, supporting and ensuring follow-up on agreed action points with relevant stakeholders.
• Administer the implementation of flexible and creative solutions to deficiencies in WHO country office management processes, towards enhanced results-based management, in line with the standard operating procedures (SOPs). Propose revisions to corporately generated SOPs.
• Administer the capacity-building programme or initiatives of the country office for all results-based management processes and tools.
• Apply the WHO Emergency Response Framework (ERF) to analyse and document WHO performance while ensuring the implementation of remedial programme management actions for effective emergency-response, health interventions.

Education:

• Essential: A bachelor’s degree (or above) in public health, public administration, management, administration. For those who do not hold a degree in the areas of public health, public administration, management, administration or similar, an accredited academic course, training and/or certification in programme planning or development implementation or monitoring and evaluation is required.
• 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/ .

Experience:

Essential:

• A minimum of five years of work experience, including relevant international exposure, in providing programme or project management services in public-sector, international development or public health programmes.

Skills:

• Delivering public health programmes
• Facilitating strategic planning processes.
• Results-based management/ work planning, monitoring and evaluation.
• Analytical skills and logical thinking.
• Excellent oral and written communication, including for reports, presentations and technical documents.
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Language Skills:

Essential:

• Expert knowledge of written and spoken English.

Source: https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2500331