World Bank is hiring a Senior Health Specialist
Description
The World Bank Group (WBG) is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for development solutions. The vision of the World Bank Group (WBG) is to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity by fostering sustainable and inclusive growth, building human capital, and strengthening the resilience of the countries it serves. To achieve that vision the WBG leverages the strengths of its global presence and partnerships to deliver customized development solutions backed by finance, world-class knowledge and convening services. It has three components: (1) maximizing development impact by engaging country clients in identifying and tackling the most difficult development challenges; (2) promoting scaled-up partnerships that are strategically aligned with the goals; and (3) crowding in public and private resources, expertise and ideas.
The Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, with a central mandate to enable the achievement of universal health coverage, is one of thirteen Global Practices working in concert with the WBG regions to design solutions to address clients’ most pressing developmental challenges, and ultimately, enabling the WBG to meet its twin goals of eliminating extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. The Global Practices perform the following functions:
Defining Strategic Direction: (i) define strategic priorities to deliver solutions and achieve results based on country and regional demands and interactions and global priorities; (ii) define/implement integrated resource strategies, (iii) engage in selected, high-priority partnerships, and (iv) establish robust monitoring and reporting systems.
Developing and Deploying Expertise Globally: (i) lead the development and delivery of solutions to clients by deploying the right technical staff where and when needed; and (ii) invest in developing technical talent.
Delivering Integrated Solutions: (i) deliver operations, while Regions ensure fit for purpose; (ii) develop public-private integrated solutions that draw on GPs, CCSAs, MIGA and IFC; and (iii) hold the “Concurrence” role in all project/AAA approval steps, ensuring that all technical quality, safeguard and fiduciary requirements (if applicable) are met.
Capturing and Leveraging Knowledge Effectively: (i) ensure that knowledge is used effectively to deliver solutions to clients; (ii) assign staff roles and accountabilities in creating, capturing, sharing and using knowledge’ (iii) reward knowledge sharing and learning, in performance management and career development; and (iv) develop knowledge base around key development challenges and solutions sets.
Global Financing Facility Context
The global community has made considerable progress over the past 25 years in improving the health and well-being of women, children, and adolescents. Rates of preventable death have dropped significantly in many countries and improvements have been seen across a range of key measures of health and well-being. But the progress has not been enough: too many women, children, and adolescents have been left behind, dying and suffering from preventable conditions, in considerable part because of a large financing gap.
The Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) was launched at the Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa in July 2015 as part of a global conversation about how to finance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which requires a shift from thinking about billions of dollars to recognizing that we need trillions to achieve the ambitious targets that we have agreed upon. This shift is only possible through new approaches to financing that recognize that countries themselves are the engines of progress and that the role of external assistance is to support countries both to get more results from the existing resources and to increase the total volume of financing.
Over the past three years, the GFF has created a new model with countries in the driver’s seat that brings together multiple sources of financing in a synergistic way to support national priorities. A key element of this model is drawing on the other sectors that influence health and nutrition outcomes, such as education, water and sanitation, and social protection. The GFF supports countries to get on a trajectory to achieve the SDGs by:
- Strengthening dialogue among key stakeholders under the leadership of governments and supporting the identification of a clear set of priority results that all partners commit their resources to achieving;
- Getting more results from existing resources and increasing the total volume of financing from four sources: domestic government resources, financing from IDA and IBRD, aligned external financing, and private sector resources; and
- Strengthening systems to track progress, learn, and course-correct.
The GFF recently held its first replenishment for the GFF Trust Fund to respond to the demand from countries that want to be part of the GFF. It has to date mobilized an additional US$1.05 billion to enable the GFF process to be expanded over the period 2018–23 to 50 countries facing the most significant needs. The opportunity for impact is enormous: these countries collectively account for 96 percent of the US$33 billion annual financing gap and 5.2 million maternal and child deaths each year, with billions of dollars lost each year to poor health.
The GFF partnership, including its external relations strategy, is led by the GFF Director; the day-to-day management of the GFF team is the responsibility of the GFF Practice Manager. The GFF Secretariat, which is based at the World Bank and is situated in the HNP Global Practice, works to deliver on the GFF objectives. This includes working with countries to develop quality investment cases, managing the GFF Trust Fund, technical assistance to regional teams, and support to the GFF Investors Group, the governance mechanism for the GFF.
Results driven approach
The GFF is dedicated to improving country-level health data collection and financial information management systems (resource tracking) to improve advocacy efforts and program management decisions at all levels in the healthcare system. Our aim is to increase the demand for high quality data and meaningful country driven data-use for improved RMNCAH-N outcomes and health financing reforms. Our focus is to strengthen national systems, working in collaboration with other health stakeholders to avoid duplicity and invest in catalytic systems areas to increase data quality, use and demand.
Responsibilities of the Unit
The GFF Secretariat is responsible for supporting the activities of the GFF, including managing the GFF Trust Fund and supporting the GFF Investors Group, the governance mechanism for the GFF. The Secretariat is based at the World Bank, situated in the HNP Global Practice. The GFF team is responsible for supporting countries to develop and monitor their RMNACH-N investment case by assessing the cost-effectiveness of RMNCAH-N program and identifying areas for improvement during implementation for real-time course correction, as well as to ensure accountability to those affected by RMNCAH-N outcomes as well as to those providing resources (governments at all levels, CSO, donors, other stakeholders).
Duties & Responsibilities
The main objective of the GFF Country Focal point is to support the national government of a country in the implementation of the GFF process in a manner that will meet its needs to improve the health and nutrition of women, adolescents and children. This involves both advice and assistance to catalyze and harmonize support from a range of stakeholders engaged in-country (civil society organizations, private sector, bilateral and multilateral financiers, technical partners, etc.) as well as coordinating the various streams of support that is provided by the GFF Secretariat within a country. The specific objectives of the GFF Country Focal Point are to:
- Define GFF value proposition: Enable the government to develop, along with key stakeholders, a common vision of the specific areas of value addition and focus of the GFF in the country;
- Institutional arrangements: Work with the national government to define the institutional arrangements that will guide the GFF process.
- Country platform: Work closely with the GFF Liaison Officer to ensure that there is a functioning national platform that serves to guide the GFF process in the country.
- Investment case preparation process: Guide the development of a roadmap for the preparation of the investment case. Ensure that all aspects of the roadmap are financed, either directly by the GFF trust fund or by the government and its partners.
- Health financing work plan: Ensure the Secretariat works with the government and stakeholders to develop a health financing work plan that complements the investment case.
- World Bank relations: Manage the overall Secretariat relationship with the World Bank TTL(s) and other staff working in the country.
- GFF-financed project(s): Play an active role as team member in the preparation and supervision of the GFF co-financed World Bank operation(s) in the country.
- Communications: Work with the Liaison Officer to ensure there is adequate communication about the GFF process in-country.
- Monitoring: Given the centrality of data for decision making to the GFF value proposition, the Focal Point will coordinate systematic support from the Secretariat in this area.
Selection Criteria
The successful candidate will have:
- Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., health, health financing, public administration) and at least 8- 12 years of relevant experience in supporting large scale development programs in low and low-middle income countries;
- Experience working with the World Bank or experience working on supporting the design and implementation of World Bank-financed projects in low and low-middle income countries;
- Experience working with governments to strengthen health systems;
- Experience having developed and/or facilitated complex partnerships, including between NGOs, CSOs, private sector, multi-lateral institutions and governments; strong relationship builder with excellent interpersonal skills is essential for this position;
- Experience disseminating analytic information with multiple stakeholders and translating data in action and improvement in interventions and outcome;
- Knowledge of issues affecting fragile states and experience working in these settings an advantage;
- Expertise in key areas of the GFF value proposition (data for decision making, health financing, private sector, etc.) an advantage;
- Ability to work effectively in situations of uncertainty and under time pressure;
- Passion for the GFF mission and goals, and the strategic vision for the successful implementation and rollout of GFF objectives;
- Ability to innovate and work within and across WBG institutions on monitoring solutions for development;
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English; Ability to speak French an advantage;
WBG Competencies :
- Lead and Innovate – Develops innovative solutions.
- Deliver Results for Clients – Proactively addresses clients’ stated and unstated needs.
Collaborate Within Teams and Across Boundaries – Collaborates across boundaries, gives own perspective and - willingly receives diverse perspectives.
- Create, Apply and Share Knowledge – Applies knowledge across WBG to strengthen solutions for internal and/or external clients.
- Make Smart Decisions – Interprets a wide range of information and pushes to move forward.
Poverty has no borders, neither does excellence. We succeed because of our differences and we continuously search for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds from around the globe.
Closing Date: 5/7/2020 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC
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