WHE Global Emergency External Roster - Emergency Operations Support and Logistics (OSL) Management Officer at World Health Organization

Generic OSL duties:

• Identify and propose proactively solutions to improve logistics and operations.
• Share adequately information, tools and knowledge with colleagues, relevant partners, and recipients, contribute to situation reports, activity dashboards and other communication products.
• Contribute to the performance of emergency procurement activities with relevant actors.
• Coordinate activities with partners and recipients whenever relevant and possible.
• Prioritize sustainable activities with capacity building and transfer of knowledge to national actors and partners, whenever possible.
• Apply and demonstrate WHO emergency competencies (cf. WHE learning strategy-companion document on competency framework).
• In line with UN charters, promote diversity, gender equity, environmentally friendly solutions, and humanitarian localisation principles whenever possible.
• Beyond deployment initial terms of reference, be flexible and perform other related OSL incident-specific duties, as required by the evolution of the emergency context, and as expected by the functional supervisor.
• Know and apply UN principles for Duty of Care of personnel, SPHERE standards, WHO Charter and values, as well as UN policies for the prevention sexual abuse and exploitation.

Specific duties:

• Support Health Emergency Operations and Logistics activities within the Incident Management Team for any of the key roles of the Operations Support and Logistics (OSL) team i.e. Field Support, Emergency Supply, Health Logistics, or Leadership and Management.
• Participate in the management of the human resources of health emergency Operations Support and Logistics activities including but not limited to staff deployment or re-deployment based on needs assessment.
• Support Financing and Administration Operations Supports and Logistics activities including sourcing, supplying, contracting, purchasing, storage, delivery and transfer of good and services and cash management for Health Emergency Operations Support and Logistics activities.
• Participate in the assessment, planning and monitoring of Health Logistics field activities.
• Collect, compile and report data regarding the operational needs pertaining to Health Emergency Operations Support and Logistics activities during health emergencies.
• Support the elaboration/adaptation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to streamline the implementation of the Health Emergency Operations Support and Logistics activities within the IMT and the country office during Emergencies.
• Support development and implementation of Learning and Capacity Development trainings for WHO and other emergency teams.    
• Ensure the deployment and implementation of Health Emergency Operations Support and Logistics standards, and best practices including for water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and infection prevention control (IPC), Clinical management, Laboratory and Health Facilities operations standards and requirements.

Competencies

• Teamwork
• Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
• Communication
• Producing results
• Moving forward in a changing environment
• Ensuring the effective use of resources

Functional Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrated knowledge of operations and health logistics specialities in emergency context, with proven ability to identify and solve technical problems in difficult circumstances.  
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills.
• Proven ability to share information and knowledge, and to strengthen recipients’ capacities.  
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work and collaborate under pressure.  
• Proven ability to promote cohesive action, teamwork and to convince with tact and diplomacy.

Education

Essential

• A degree, in Public Health, Logistics, Engineering, Pharmacy, Business Administration, Management or other related fields from an accredited/recognized institute. Additional years of experience can be considered in lieu of university degrees. 
• For P3 grading a first level university degree and a minimum of 5 years of experience are required.
• (Candidates without a first level university degree can apply if they can demonstrate at least 8 years of professional experience in relevant activities)
• For P4 grading a master’s degree and a minimum of 7 years of experience are required. 
• (Candidates without a master's degree, but with a first level university degree can apply if they can demonstrate at least 11 years of professional experience in relevant activities.

Desirable
Professional certification/qualification/training in areas such as:  Management, Finance, Customer service, HR, Information Management, Learning and development, Monitoring & Evaluation.