Internship - Health M&E, Programme Group Health, PG, NYHQ

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, health

UNICEF works in diverse contexts across the globe. To best tailor resources to country needs, UNICEF examines and classifies country contexts according to income and government effectiveness, and periodically assesses the context (s) and prioritizes actions accordingly.

UNICEF’s vision for health is “a world where no child dies from a preventable cause and all children reach their full potential in health and well-being.” Integral to all UNICEF’s work in health, working together with global and local partners, UNICEF promotes three integrative approaches: addressing inequities in health outcomes; strengthening health systems, including emergency preparedness, response and resilience; and promoting integrated, multi-sectoral policies and programmes. In the new 2022-25 Strategic Plan, UNICEF is deeply committed to making progress on ending preventable maternal and newborn deaths. At the global level, UNICEF has prioritized 46 high-burden countries for high-impact survival programmes to help countries accelerate the scale up of essential packages of MNCH services and Immunization. These countries account for 87%+ of the global child mortality, 85%+ of the global neonatal mortality and 92%+ of the global maternal mortality. Not surprisingly, they also account for 86%+ of UNICEF average global spending on health at country level. These countries also include 25 of the 29 HIV high-burden countries emphasizing further the rationale to pursue the integration agenda. The list includes Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal and Philippines due to >10,000 child deaths and high UNICEF programme expenditure even though they are on-track on the ending preventable deaths target. Bangladesh and Nepal are also off-track in terms of still births, in addition to Venezuela and Syria who have had marked mortality increase in recent years. 15 of the 46 countries are countries in protracted humanitarian crises.

How can you make a difference?

The Health Programme narrative is clear: ending preventable deaths requires the delivery of quality high-impact child survival interventions and this is contingent upon strong primary health care that reaches the most vulnerable – the zero dose communities. Beyond the narrative, however, a deeper analysis is required for a more informed global and regional engagement in support of countries. This requires a review of country context, current programme coverage, health system bottlenecks/barriers, external/domestic financing for health and current UNICEF programmes in each country. This analysis is expected to improve knowledge management and provide useful recommendations for UNICEF’s engagement across a set of typologies of countries – including resource mobilization. The internship will be carried under the overall supervision and guidance of the Senior Programme Manager and in collaboration with Health teams, DAPM and ROs/COs.

The key duties and tasks:

• Contribute to the development of an analytical framework and typology of countries for analysis.
• Pilot the analysis for 3 high-burden countries utilizing country profiles, IHME data on health financing, UNICEF spending, SMQ data, UNICEF office situation analysis and country reporting.
• Based on inputs to the analytical framework, extend the analysis to all 46 countries. Prepare short narratives and PowerPoint slides for each country.
• Synthesize analysis based on the established typology of countries and present to relevant teams.
• Prepare an overall narrative report for summary analysis and presentation.

Benefits to Intern:

The intern will gain a deeper understanding of UNICEF’s Global Health Programme 2022-25, and the programme and health system bottlenecks in high-burden countries. The intern will be given an opportunity to develop analytical skills to connect programme coverage, health sector financing and ODA. The intern will be given an opportunity to enhance communication and presentation skills.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Completed or ongoing an advanced university degree (Master's) in Public Health.
• Multi-disciplinary academic background in international development and a demonstrable understanding of health systems.
• Data analysis and research skills.
• Based in the US and able to work in the US time zone.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. The candidate may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid).