Project Manager Grade: P4

APPS is a WHO Patient Safety initiative that forms a part of the WHO response to the political commitment and momentum for action on patient safety across the African Region. It is a bi-directional initiative working with identified hospitals in the African region and Europe which aims to establish sustainable partnerships focusing on patient safety, aligned with each country's individual health policy framework. The three core objectives of APPS are: 1.To build and strengthen patient safety partnerships; 2.To implement patient safety improvements in partnership hospitals (in 12 key action areas identified by the WHO Regional Office for Africa); and 3.To facilitate the spread of patient safety improvements across each country.
Description of duties: - With guidance from the APPS Programme Manager, be the primary liaison with partnership hospitals participating in APPS to ensure robust work planning, implementation of patient safety initiatives, performance management of activities and resources and extension of patient safety activities across national systems. - Provide technical support to catalyze and facilitate national patient safety improvement in countries where APPS is working, liaising closely with respective WHO country offices and coordinating with the AFRO Regional Office Focal Point for Patient Safety. - Lead the engagement with external stakeholders in the WHO AFRO region to secure commitment to tackle patient safety issues. - Lead the implementation of the communication and advocacy plan for African Partnerships for Patient Safety in the WHO AFRO region, liaising with communication leads at WHO Patient Safety and WHO AFRO. - Lead the implementation of technical support resources for use in hospitals participating in African Partnerships for Patient Safety (working closely with the African Partnerships Program team in Geneva, the UK and France). - Create an information archive of patient safety solutions emanating from APPS activities in the African Region for the benefit of WHO Member States.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Essential: Medical degree from a recognized medical school. Desirable: Completion of postgraduate clinical training.
Skills: Competencies: *1. Building and promoting partnerships across the organization and beyond *2. Producing results *3. Creating an empowering and motivating environment 4. Moving forward in a changing environment 5. Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences Functional knowledge and skills: Expertise in medicine, health administration and project management.
Experience: Essential: - A minimum of 7 years clinical and hospital administration experience with substantive experience in a developing country setting. - Proven project management experience at national and international levels as well as demonstrated ability in managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders. - Experience in stimulating improvements in patient safety at the institutional and national levels. - Experience in utilizing a partnership approach to health system improvement. Desirable: Experience with health systems strengthening projects in developing countries, and in particular in the African Region. Some experience in education and training.
Languages: Excellent knowledge of English with a working knowledge of French desirable.
Additional Information: This vacancy is published in English only. A written test may be used for screening purposes. Other similar positions at the same level may be filled from this vacancy notice. Only applications from WHO candidates will be considered.
Annual salary: (Net of tax) US$67 483 at single rate US$72 467 with primary dependants	Post Adjustment: 46.6 % of the above figure(s). This percentage is to be considered as indicative since variations may occur each month either upwards or downwards due to currency exchange rate fluctuations or inflation.
A written test and interviews may be used as a form of screening
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