Health Adviser, British Embassy Mogadishu

Main purpose: Somalia is an important global geographic priority and matters to the UK. The UK plays a prominent role among international actors in the country, as the UNSC penholder on Somalia, historically a leading donor, and a major player in training military forces. The Somalia Network operates across four sites: the British Embassy Mogadishu, the British Office in Hargeisa, the British High Commission in Nairobi and the Somalia Team in headquarters. The UK in Somalia brings together approximately 50 staff across a range of disciplines and government departments. This Health Advisor role will play a critical leadership and delivery position within the UK’s humanitarian and development partnerships in Somalia (including Somaliland). It will also support UK Government global health security objectives in relation to disease outbreak risks. The position sits in the British High Commission Nairobi within the Humanitarian, Resilience and Human Development Team but with regular travel and engagement with platforms in Mogadishu and Hargeisa. The postholder will work closely with the ministries of Health in Mogadishu and Hargeisa to shape and deliver the UK’s new approach to development. This means shifting UK partnership from a donor to investor mindset; focusing on systems strengthening no service delivery; utilising deep technical assistance over grant giving; and pivoting from internationally delivered to locally led approaches. A core part of this will be corralling multilateral health financing instruments, of which the UK is a major donor, with bilateral funding investments to strengthen a more coordinated and coherent approach to health financing which has affordability and sustainability at it’s heart. Understanding and engaging with the private sector needs to be a key part of this. The postholder will also lead on the health and nutrition elements of the Somalia Network’s programme and policy approach to humanitarian crisis. This will included advisory oversight for programming, and engagement on disease outbreak surveillance, preparedness and response. Roles and responsibilities: The post holder will provider advisory leadership across policy, programme and disease outbreak risk assessment and surveillance. They will work across all Somalia Network platforms, delivering objectives across UK partnerships in Mogadishu and Hargeisa. This will require regular travel. Specifically this role will be responsible for: Technical leadership for UK health policy and diplomacy in the context of systems strengthening (30%): Oversight and delivery of the UK’s health strategy in Somalia (including Somaliland) covering diplomacy, multilateral finance, and bilateral investment tools to support sustainable health systems strengthening. Lead engagement with the Ministries of Health in Somalia and Somaliland, supporting them to radically rethink their health financing and delivery strategies in the context of radical changes in global financing. Lead UK en