Project Coordinator- Mercury Project

**Grade**: No grade

**Contractual Arrangement**: Special Services Agreement (SSA)

**Contract Duration (Years, Months, Days)**: 12 months

**Job Posting**: Jan 28, 2025, 3:57:46 AM

**Closing Date**: Feb 12, 2025, 4:59:00 PM

**Primary Location**: India-New Delhi

**Organization**: SE_IND WR Office, India

**Schedule**: Full-time

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**Overview of the programme**

WHO India Country Office collaborates with the Government of India and relevant stakeholders within the framework of the collaborative Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS), to actively support the development and implementation of national health policies, strategies and plans aiming at promoting access to and utilization of affordable and quality health services and improving financial protection against health-related risks.

WHO Country Office for India is supporting the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to strengthen the existing health systems to cater to the growing needs of mental health and substance abuse, palliative care and elderly care in the country.

**Underlying Values and Core Functions of WHO**

WHO’s mandate revolves around six (6) leadership priorities specifying (i) advancing universal health coverage (ii) health related sustainable development goals (iii) addressing the challenge of non-communicable diseases and mental health, violence and injuries and disabilities (iv) implementing the provisions of the International Health Regulations (2005) (v) increasing access to quality, safe, efficacious and affordable medical products (vi) addressing the social, economic and environmental determinants of health.

The South - East Asia Region (SEAR) of WHO is made up of 11 countries, with over 1.9 billion people, with India’s population of 1.4 billion. All the Member States of WHO/SEAR (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste), share the common value of the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental human right. All WHO actions are based on this and rooted in the underlying values of equity, solidarity and participation.

**Mission of the WHO Country Office for India**

The mission of WHO India is to improve quality of life people in India by supporting the government in prevention and control of mental health and substance use disorders, psychosocial issues during health emergencies, palliative care and elderly care in the country etc and strengthening health systems for UHC.

**Description of Duties**:
The Project Coordinator
- Mercury Project will be responsible for the following tasks under the

managerial guidance of Deputy WHO Representative and under direct supervision of NPO (Public Health & Environment):

- Act as day-to-day national technical focal point for the project and perform daily requests for technical information and project implementation.
- Together with MOEFCC coordinator, support the constitution of Project steering committee and support organize the inception workshop and regular national project steering meetings, including drafting agenda, invitation letters; communication materials; and meeting reports.
- In consultation with MOEFCC coordinator and WHO India, facilitate identification and prepare draft annual workplan including stakeholders and their roles.
- Support in organising national capacity-building, and waste management meeting in coordination with national stakeholders.
- Support in conducting a national situational analysis of phasing out of mercury from health facilities.
- Work with the project team in preparing draft national and state phase out plan.
- Prepare information on technical, progress and other information about the project and disseminate it through relevant channels including those MoHFW, MoEFCC, medical device manufacturers and other technical networks.
- Support in preparing policy documents for phase out of mercury in the healthcare sector and work with hospital/other professional networks for wide dissemination.
- Work with standardization bodies to ensure market availability of standardized equipment.
- Support in the identification and implementation of Pilots for substitution of mercury in health care devices and preparing case studies for dissemination.
- Prepare an inventory of standardized and approved mercury alternate medical devices in the Indian market to aid healthcare facilities.
- In coordination with MOEFCC, develop models for waste management and safe disposal of Mercury as per the Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules 2016 and Mercury Guidelines of CPCB.
- Provide input to quarterly project status reports, including progress on workplan, budget reports and contribute to forecasting of expenditure.
- Prepare a summary report for mid-project and end-project review.
- Liaise with WCO India and give inputs for developing communication products related to the project and aid in their distribution nationwide through various channels and networks of professional