ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT

WHO-WMO Climate and Health Joint Office, Climate Services
Services Department

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the overall guidance of the Director of the Services Department (D/S), and the direct supervision of the Head of the WMO-WHO Climate and Health Joint Office. The role of the associate programme officer will support the WHO-WMO Joint Office for Climate and Health and WMO subsidiary bodies responsible for the WHO-WMO Implementation Plan for Integrated Climate Science and Services.

The Associate Programme Officer will work within a multi-disciplinary team, and focus on helping establish new climate services for health technical coordination and implementing mechanisms, managing project activities, and supporting priorities within two thematic nexus areas of climate and urban health risks (air quality and extreme heat); and climate and infectious diseases.

The incumbent will perform the following duties:

1. Provide Coordination and Technical Support for the Expert Team on Integrated Health Services (SERCOM – SC-Cli) and two affiliated expert task teams on digital health and integrated information systems; and Climate and Health Education Training and Workforce Development:
• Support chairs of the teams with expert recruitment, organization of regular virtual and in-person meetings, including drafting of agendas, slides, follow up and announcement to members, minutes, reporting, and website updates;
• Organize preparatory meetings of the chairs, and with consultants as needed;
• Support open call and selection processes for partner activities and subcontracting, including management of applications, organization of review processes, and liaison with legal and other departments across WHO and WMO for related contracting of consultants and institutions;
• Manage contracted activities and technical consultants, and support contractors to achieve objectives and deliverables;
• Support drafting and review of workplans, technical reports, progress reports
and submission of peer-reviewed papers, in coordination with others;
• Support preparation and organization of in-person expert meetings and workshops.

2. Monitoring Progress:
• Support the development of a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Monitoring Science and Service Progress in cooperation with WHO and the Lancet Countdown;
• Manage and ensure reporting requirements to WMO subsidiary bodies and WHO-WMO Management committee are met in a timely manner.

3. Assist the Joint Office with day-to-day scheduling, project management, external relations and communications, including outreach to scientific and non-scientific communities, including:
• Support communications colleagues to maintain related web pages on climahealth.info and WMO Community Platform;
• Support relevant media campaigns and responses to public and media inquiries;
• Maintain communication with Health Focal Points Network, including preparation of a quarterly newsletter and brokering relevant information to and from the Network.

4. Carries out all other relevant duties as required and or requested by the supervisor related to the role, including participate in regular team meetings of the Joint Office, coordinate with the Global Heat Health Information Network Technical Support Unit, and WMO and WHO teams and projects, as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education
Master's degree or equivalent in environmental studies or a closely related field (Public Health, Medicine, Environmental Science, Meteorology, or applied sciences relevant to climate and health applications, such as data science, physics or engineering. A first level university degree with two (2) additional years of relevant experience will be accepted in lieu of a master's degree.

Experience
A minimum of 2 years of progressively responsible experience in project management and coordination in public health, disaster management, humanitarian programmes, public policy, climate science, or climate research.
Experience in scientific communication, knowledge brokering, and stakeholder engagement is required.
Experience writing reports, and correspondence required.
Project management experience developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating assigned projects is required.
Experience in a local or national government setting, such as the National Health System/Service, or National Meteorological Service would be an advantage. Experience with United Nations projects or international cooperation would be an advantage.


Other requirements
Knowledge of multi-sectoral health and climate issues, and the production and application of climate and related weather, water and environmental information and services in the health sector.
Desirable skills include demonstrated ability to plan, organize and manage the work with minimum supervision.
Excellent analytical and communication skills with strong ability to draft clear and succinct communication items, reports, and correspondence.
Maturity of judgement, initiative and creativity.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a range of diverse experts and partners.
Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced multicultural environment and to foster diversity and team spirit.


Languages
Excellent knowledge in English is required (oral and written);
Knowledge of another UN official language is an advantage (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish).

(Note: The official languages of the Organization are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.)