The objectives of the Departmental Programme are to take forward the prevention of NCD agenda by:
(i) providing strategic leadership, engaging in partnerships where joint action is needed;
(ii) shaping the research agenda and stimulating the generation, translation and dissemination of valuable knowledge;
(iii) setting norms and standards and promoting and monitoring their implementation;
(iv) articulating ethical and evidence-based policy options, including providing vision for scaling up proven interventions;
(v) providing technical support, catalyzing change, and building sustainable institutional capacity; and
(vi) monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends. The purpose of the programme is to support delivery of the WHO Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs and the Comprehensive Global Monitoring Framework, and the Voluntary Global Targets for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, and to support Member States in the technical implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The programme has the principle of health equity at its heart and advocates for a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach for the prevention of NCDs as well as Health in All Policies and the role of health services and systems being structured in a way that promotes health.
The incumbent provides clerical and secretarial assistance and backup within the Department. The duties and responsibilities include one or more of the following:
1. To provide support to staff members within the Department for the organization of one or more of the following: meetings, workshops, seminars, etc. e.g. photocopying documents and preparing briefing files, including labels and dividers, collecting documentation from various sources.
2. To type correspondence, format documents, tables and reports from plain and corrected copies, dictating machine, forms, handwritten or rough drafts and printed matter. Reviewing and correcting style, spelling and presentation in line with WHO and departmental styles.
3. To maintain correspondence logs, and update manuals, files and simple office records.
4. To answer telephone calls, responding to routine queries and/or forwarding such to the appropriate staff members, as necessary.
5. Using GSM, to assist with the preparation of travel authorizations, flight and hotel reservations.
6. As requested and/or instructed, to obtain documents and information from departmental and cluster staff, and from other clusters, programmes and agencies/institutions, and disseminate such information as required.
7. To maintain, in close collaboration with colleagues, a comprehensive filing system for all documents, reports, presentations and other materials related to meetings, seminars and workshops and other areas of work, including related lists to facilitate searches.
8. During meeting, workshops, seminars and other, to provide assistance and backup to colleagues in the department/programme.
9 . To perform other related duties as required or instructed, including providing secretarial support to other areas of work and teams or the department as necessary.