National consultant to develop clinical pathways and improve service delivery of priority health conditions

The consultant will work independently with WHO Ukraine Country Office and Ministry of Health of Ukraine to analyze and improve clinical pathways and service delivery for priority health conditions, focusing on emergency medical care and disaster medicine. The role includes legislative review, stakeholder consultations, and field visits to enhance the efficiency and resilience of Ukraine's emergency medical system.

Responsibilities

• Work independently in close collaboration with WHO Ukraine Country Office, Ministry of Health of Ukraine, regional centres for emergency medical care and disaster medicine, and other stakeholders.
• Conduct at least two field monitoring visits jointly with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
• Review and analyze patient pathways and the applicable legal, regulatory, and organizational framework related to emergency medical care and disaster medicine.
• Identify operational bottlenecks and areas for improvement in patient routing, coordination, and emergency response.
• Draft or revise legislative and regulatory acts related to medical care organization and delivery, including patient pathways and emergency medical care.
• Prepare an analytical report identifying gaps, inconsistencies, and regulatory barriers in the current framework.
• Develop consolidated proposals for improving legislative and regulatory provisions related to medical care and emergency response.
• Participate in relevant working meetings, conferences, and consultations, documenting key issues and recommendations.
• Consolidate stakeholder comments and revise draft legislative and regulatory acts accordingly.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in law, health law, public administration, health policy, public health, medicine, or another relevant field.
• Five years of relevant professional experience in legal and regulatory analysis, legislative drafting, health law, health policy, or regulation of health-service delivery.
• Strong knowledge of Ukraine's legislative and regulatory framework governing medical care, including specialized care, emergency medical care, disaster medicine, patient pathways, and continuity of care.
• Demonstrated experience drafting and revising legislation, regulations, ministerial orders, procedures, or other normative legal acts, including supporting explanatory notes and comparative tables.
• Proven ability to identify legislative gaps, inconsistencies, regulatory barriers, and overlapping or conflicting provisions and to develop legally sound and practically feasible solutions.
• Experience reviewing, analysing, and consolidating stakeholder comments on draft legal and regulatory documents and documenting decisions regarding their incorporation.
• Experience participating in working groups and consultations with government authorities, health institutions, professional organizations, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Previous experience collaborating with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, other government authorities, WHO, or national and international health organizations (desirable).
• Excellent legal research, analytical, legislative drafting, stakeholder-engagement, and report-writing skills, including proficiency in Ukrainian legal terminology.
• Ability to work independently, manage several drafting and analytical tasks simultaneously, and deliver high-quality outputs within agreed deadlines.
• Ukrainian (Expert)
• English (Expert)

Skills

• Legal and Regulatory Analysis
• Legislative Drafting
• Health Law
• Health Policy
• Regulation of health-service delivery
• Knowledge of Ukraine medical legislation
• Drafting ministerial orders
• Drafting normative legal acts
• Legal Research
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Report Writing
• Reviewing Legal Documents
• Consolidating stakeholder comments
• Consultations with government authorities
• Collaboration with Ministries of Health
• Clinical pathways analysis
• Service Delivery Improvement
• Emergency medical care regulation
• Disaster medicine regulation
• Ukrainian legal terminology

Languages

Ukrainian, English