National Consultant - Digital Health Governance
Position Summary Expectations - Duties, Responsibilities
Contractual Arrangement: External consultant
Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days): 6 months and 15 days
Organization: WP_KHM Cambodia
Purpose of the consultancy
Under the guidance of the Coordinator of Health Systems Development of WHO Country Office for Cambodia, provide support to the Department of Digital Health (DDH) of the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Cambodia in its Governance and leadership role as outlined by the Terms of Reference of the National Digital Health Steering Committee.
- Output 1: Coordination of DDH to finalize the digital health strategy, develop the digital health enterprise architecture blueprint and the 5-year costed action plan
- Deliverable 1.1: Map and develop a national digital Health stakeholder list to then initiate and coordinate a national digital stakeholder workshop
- Deliverable 1.2: Provide technical support to the digital health secretariat for the stakeholder consultation process, including coordination and facilitation of workshops, providing technical inputs for agenda setting, materials development, documentation, and contributing to the development of recommendations to guide the secretariats actions for finalizing and developing the key digital health documents.
- Output 2: Serve as secretariat of the National Digital Health Steering Committee, including convening of routine meeting of stakeholders, drafting and disseminating minutes, following up on action points etc.
- Deliverable 2.1: Support DDH to establish and convene regular meetings of the National Digital Health Steering Committee and the Technical Working Group, including providing technical inputs and supporting the leadership and governance function of DDH’s secretariat role to set the agenda, document recommendations, and manage follow-up actions, etc.
- Deliverable 2.2: Contribute to DDH’s regular reporting to the National Digital Health Steering Committee on progress made in finalizing the digital health strategy, developing the digital health architecture blueprint and the 5-year costed action plan.
- Output 3: Develop a systematic architecture for the digital health secretariat’s record keeping and support DDH’s governance and leadership role within the national digital health ecosystem.
- Deliverable 3.1: Provide technical support DDH to establish systematic processes for managing funded activities, including donor proposals and progress reports, monitoring and evaluation of activities, etc.
- Deliverable 3.2: Guide DDH’s systematic tracking and recording of all of the Ministry’s digital health activities as a key contribution to the functioning of the national digital health ecosystem and improve overall coordination and management.
- Educational qualifications
- Essential: First university degree (bachelor’s degree) in business administration, project management, information technology particularly in software engineering, or in a related field.
- Desirable: Advanced university (master’s degree) in business administration, project management, information technology, or in a related field
- Experience
- Essential: Minimum 5 years' work experience in project management, business administration. Experience in coordination and stakeholder engagement at national level.
- Desirable: Experience in working with an international organization. Specific project management in information technology (IT) related work.
- Skills/Knowledge
- Expertise in project management
- Strong reporting and communication skills
- Knowledge in IT project management
- Languages and level required
- Essential: Advance written and spoken fluency in English and Khmer is essential
- Desirable: Proficiency in other local languages in Cambodia.
