Senior Health Specialist

World Bank Group•Washington, DC

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The World Bank Group (WBG) is seeking a Senior Health Specialist to join the People Vertical, specifically within the Health Department and the Global Financing Facility (GFF) for Women, Children and Adolescents. The WBG is dedicated to ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity by investing in human development. The Health Department supports countries in achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by strengthening primary health care systems and reducing financial risks associated with ill health. The GFF is a multi-stakeholder global partnership focused on ensuring women, children, and adolescents can survive and thrive, particularly in low and lower-middle income countries. This role will focus on maternal and newborn health (MNH), overseeing co-financing and technical assistance to countries, representing the GFF in global partnerships, and contributing to knowledge management activities.

Requirements

Doctorate degree in medicine, public health or related field with a focus on Maternal and/or Newborn Health, or demonstrable equivalent expertise gained through work experience.
At least 10 years of work experience in MNCH in low income and complex settings with specific knowledge and experience implementing evidence based MNCH tools, interventions, approaches, into large scale programs.
Experience at integrating MNCH into World Bank operations would be an advantage.
Experience working at or in support of primary health care, particularly the front-line provision of high-quality services.
A firm understanding of primary health care in the context of broader health systems and health financing reforms.
Experience working across sectoral, practice and disciplinary boundaries and with multiple stakeholders – both public and private – in building collaborative alliances for results.
Track record of successful partner engagement and collaborating within teams and across organizations to deliver high quality products.
Experience and knowledge of the World Bank’s operations and business processes is an advantage.
Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
Ability to speak French an advantage.

Nice To Haves

Ability to speak French

Responsibilities

Provides advice to country clients, World Bank task teams and the GFF secretariat team on evidence-based and scale-able approaches to address issues related to maternal, newborn and child health and stillbirth prevention (MNCH).
Translates technical evidence and best practice into high quality investment case and large scale World Bank program development in the context of a health systems approach to RMNCH-N.
Supports the development of relevant metrics and evaluation approaches to enable results and performance-based financing approaches which can be used to improve MNCH performance with a focus on service quality.
Advises on GFF collaboration with internal and external stakeholders on MNCH, including links to education, social protection, and labor market opportunities.
Contributes to knowledge products including development and dissemination of tools, analytical work, country case studies and workshops at regional and global level, in collaboration with the other teams within the GFF Secretariat.
Support the GFF in routine reporting to stakeholders and responding to ad hoc requests for information on MNH and stillbirth prevention programming across the GFF portfolio and in ensuring the successful operationalization of the GFF strategy, Transform 2030: Transforming health Systems, Saving Lives.
Represents the GFF on global MNH donor and technical partnerships and at relevant events.
Serves as a GFF Focal Point in one to two partner countries to support the country led processes of investment case development and implementation and stakeholder alignment through a functional country platform.
Engages with World Bank regions, country management units and task teams in the development and implementation of IDA/IBRD operations in support of the investment case and facilitates Bank access to GFF trust funds in support of strategic technical assistance, advisory services, and analytics.