Health Adviser Job British High Commission
- Nairobi
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Oversight and delivery of the UK's health strategy in Somalia (including Somaliland) covering diplomacy, multilateral finance, and bilateral investment tools to support sustainable health systems strengthening.
- Lead engagement with the Ministries of Health in Somalia and Somaliland, supporting them to radically rethink their health financing and delivery strategies in the context of radical changes in global financing.
- Lead UK engagement with the Global Health Institution in Somalia (including Somaliland) where the UK is a major donor (e.g. GAVI, Global Fund, World Bank) ensuring their are well integrated into wider donor positioning, linking to Headquarter teams on this.
- Represent the UK in the Health Donor Group, potentially taking on the chair role at the next appointment cycle.
- Lead UK engagement with a wider set of Somali health stakeholders, including the private sector, think tanks and civil society.
- Providing high quality technical information and advice in a timely manner for briefings, communications pieces, analyses, case studies and results data.
- Increase the UK's ability to achieve outcomes through health diplomacy and networking, using politically informed approaches linked to the work of UK seniors and other teams across post especially humanitarian, governance and climate.
- Lead advisor on approx £10M per annum bilateral humanitarian and basic services programming covering health, nutrition, and WASH.
- Lead on engaging in the design of process of the next phase of World Bank health financing in Somalia, including an assessment of UK readiness to invest and evaluation of the UK instruments to channel pooled finance and ongoing influence of the World Bank in this fragile setting.
- For bilateral programming, working closely with a lead programme manager to ensure high quality technical programming; robust partner oversight; and effective finance, risk and results management. Ensuring concepts of system strengthening within humanitarian programmes and the humanitarian-development nexus are considered from the outset.
- Engage with FCDO and wider Centrally Managed Programmes working in Somalia (including Somaliland). This included UK supported work on Sexual and Reproductive Rights (WISH-D).
- Understanding and tracking disease surveillance systems across Somalia (including Somaliland). Ensuring robust analysis and timely early warning, and supporting systems strengthening.
- External engagement with national health security partners in Somalia (including Somaliland) across Government, UN, NGO and Red Cross, fostering greater coordination and collaboration.
- Internal engagement within FCDO and across UK home departments
- Lead on disease outbreak risk assessment for BEM and BOH internal Crisis Management Plans, and support internal disease outbreak preparedness and responses.
- Health sector relevant degree level qualification (or over 10 years of experience at an expert level in the sector).
- Over 12 years of professional experience in roles relevant to this job specification.
- Must have the right to live and work in Kenya.
- Experience of designing and delivering health programmes at scale in fragile and conflict affected developing country contexts.
- Experience of working with a range of stakeholders including government, donors, implementing partners and multilaterals on health policy and programming.
- Strong health system strengthening experience.
- Experience of delivering health outcomes at expert level in the health technical competencies.
- Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills;
- Personal resilience
- A demonstrable track record of resilience or experience in Somalia or very similar country contexts
- Ability to work at pace and under pressure to tight deadlines.
- Ability to prioritise against multiple demands.
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