Job Title: Consultant – Recognition of Learning Achievement in Continuing Education for Health and Care Worker
Purpose of consultancy
- A consultant is sought to develop draft Global standards to recognize learning achievement in continuing education for health and care workers.
Background
- Continuing education, including continuing professional development (CPD) and continuing medical education (CME), is vital for maintaining the competence of all health and care workers, ensuring they remain updated with evidence-based clinical guidelines, essential for the optimization of patient safety and quality of care.
- Yet, there are significant disparities in the availability and delivery of quality continuing education, and systems to recognise learning achievement across countries.
- While education and learning in the health economy has increasingly adopting competency-based approaches in its design and delivery, the landscape of micro-credentials that represent the outcomes of learning are of varying scale and often rooted in time-based awards based on participation rather than learning achievement.
- Global standards to recognize learning achievement do not yet exist in a form that is relevant across occupations and geographies.
- This contributes towards challenges in the efficiency, quality, optimization and impact of education and learning investments for a fit-for-purpose workforce.
- WHO, together with UN partner organizations, plans to develop standards to recognize learning achievement for health and care workers, covering formal education, non-formal education, and informal learning.
- These standards aim to address disparities in the quality of continuing education across diverse occupations and geographies, by leveraging principles of adult learning theory, and be compatible with digitally-enabled systems such as micro-credentials or digital passports.
Deliverables:
- Deliverable 1: Consensus on the concept note, topic areas and initial descriptions
- Activity 1.1: Thematic analysis of literature review to inform the topic areas and descriptions*
- Activity 1.2: Consultation with key stakeholders and experts on the concept note, topic areas and descriptions
NB * A literature review has been conducted and the results will be provided to the appointed consultant.
Expected by: March 2025
- Deliverable 2: Facilitate technical discussions with a Technical Expert Group, stakeholders and other subject matter experts
- Activity 2.1: Provide orientation for new and potential members to the work
- Activity 2.2: Prepare technical documents and other written materials to inform engagement, consultation, feedback, discussion and consensus
- Activity 2.3: Facilitate meetings and consultations with Technical Expert Group members, stakeholders and other subject matter experts
Expected by: July 2025:
- Deliverable 3: Zero draft standards and implementation guidance
- Activity 3.1: Consultation on the template for the standards
- Activity 3.2: Coordinate the approach to building the evidence base to underpin implementation guidance
- Activity 3.3: Preparation of a zero draft standards and an annotated outline of the implementation guidance for consultation
Expected by: July 2025:
Qualifications, experience, skills and languages
Educational Qualifications
Essential:
- Advanced university degree relevant to health workforce, health worker education and training and/or public health.
Experience
Essential:
- Over 10 years of experience in:
- Development and implementation of norms, standards and global guidance for health worker education
- Competency-based continuing education design principles, development and delivery
- Facilitating partnership mechanisms and collaborations
- Applied secondary research approaches including thematic analysis
Skills/Knowledge
Essential:
- Best practices in competency-based continuing education design and delivery in health
- The challenges and approaches to health worker education and training in different contexts (high and low-income settings, digital, blended/hybrid and face to face, short courses and programmes)
- Regulatory frameworks and standards relating to continuing education design, delivery and recognition, ideally as it relates to health
- Stakeholder landscape for the recognition of learning achievement, ideally as it relates to health
- Approaches to partnership building for the development of technical policies, norms and standards
- Commitment to continuous quality improvement
Languages and levels required:
Essential:
- Expert knowledge of English.
Remuneration
Band level C: USD 500 – 625 per day.
Application Instructions:
The application deadline is on 24th December, 2024. Therefore, qualified and interested candidates can “CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT APPLICATION” It is important to visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply successfully for this vacancy.
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