Project Manager (Smart Facilities for Health)

Senior Medical & Health

Contract

This is a IPSA-11 contract. This kind of contract is known as International Personnel Services Agreement. It is normally internationally recruited only. It usually requires 7 years of experience, depending on education. More about IPSA-11 contracts.

Background

The following documents shall be required from the applicants:

1. Personal CV or P11, indicating all past positions held and their main underlying functions, their durations (month/year), the qualifications, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate, and at least three (3) the most recent professional references of previous supervisors. References may also include peers.
2. A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page) indicating why the candidate considers him-/herself to be suitable for the position.
3. Managers may ask (ad hoc) for any other materials relevant to pre-assessing the relevance of their experience, such as reports, presentations, publications, campaigns or other materials.

Office/Unit/Project Description:

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan. Within the GPN, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP's Strategic Plan. BPPS works closely with UNDP's Crisis Bureau (CB) to support emergency and crisis response. BPPS ensures that issues of risk are fully integrated into UNDP's development programmes.

The 2030 Agenda for SDGs and the pledge to leave no one behind reflect the interconnectedness of health and sustainable development, including widening economic and social inequalities, the climate crisis, rapid urbanization, the continuing burden of HIV and other infectious diseases (e.g., malaria, tuberculosis), the growing burden of non-communicable diseases and the emergence of health threats. The scope and scale of delivering health and well-being for all demands innovative partnerships and financing. As affirmed in the Political Declaration of the 2019 High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and others are critical partners for delivering on the health-related goals of the 2030 Agenda. Stronger Collaboration, Better Health: Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All outlines how a dozen multilateral health, development and humanitarian agencies, including UNDP, the Global Fund, Gavi and others will collaborate to be more efficient and effective in supporting countries to deliver UHC and achieve the health-related SDG targets. UNDP is a founding cosponsor of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), a partner of the Global Fund.

UNDP’s work on HIV, health and development leverages UNDP’s core strengths and mandates in sustainable development, governance, poverty reduction and climate. UNDP delivers support to countries in three areas of HIV and health: reducing the inequalities that drive disease, promoting effective and inclusive governance for health and building resilient and sustainable systems for health. UNDP helps countries to mainstream attention to HIV and health into action on gender, poverty, governance, financing, and the broader effort to achieve and sustain the Sustainable Development Goals. The UNDP/Global Fund partnership is an important part of this work, facilitating access to resources for action on SDG 3 by countries that face constraints in directly receiving and managing such funding and is managed by the Global Fund Partnership Team, HIV, Health and Development Group, BPPS/GPN (Global Fund Partnership Team). UNDP partners with countries, WHO and other partners in responding to health emergencies and HIV and health dimensions of crisis/post-crisis situations.

UNDP also has a long track record of supporting health systems in countries around the world, from sustainable procurement to logistics management information systems, to green energy solutions in its Solar for Health portfolio. Building on this latter body of work which serves over one thousand health units, HHD Group is partnering with our Information and Technology Management (ITM) and Istanbul International Center for Private Sector and Development (IICPSD) units to bring UNDP’s own Smart Facilities models to serve health systems at this critical time of unprecedented burden.

The Smart Facilities for Health solution is based on the integration of four elements into physical infrastructure: (1) Energy & Mobility for fully-green energy independence (2) ICT, Business intelligence & Artificial Intelligence for a built-in connectivity solution (3) Big data & Internet of Things (IoT) to enable data collection and remote or centralized monitoring and (4) Security for comprehensive cyber and physical security solutions. These four elements provide critical enabling infrastructure for health systems that can be integrated across a variety of critical health system points, with a priority for large health facilities such as hospitals, medical warehouses, and laboratories.

Institutional Arrangement

The Project Manager will report to the Manager, Global Fund Partnership Team, in coordination with the IICPSD Director.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Project Manager (Smart Facilities for Health) shall steward the Smart Facilities for Health project into its full elaboration as a global programme, including:

Strategic Leadership and Programme Development :

• Facilitate strategic alignment across multiple internal stakeholders in terms of impact, partnerships, and resource mobilization;
• Elaborate architecture of global programme based on service offer, support modalities, and governance, identifying key success drivers, dependencies, and priority gaps to be addressed;
• Coordinate and synthesize across multi-functional (technical, policy, programmatic) teams in terms of vision for collaboration, respective roles, and responsibilities to ensure project success;
• Support integration with partner teams’ broader portfolios of work; and
• Oversee the development of supporting programmatic infrastructure including a capacity development portfolio, analytical tools, and solution standardization (e.g., guidelines and standards).

Partnership Development :

• Develop and steward the partnership strategy including identifying key partnerships required, approach to engagement and leading outreach and relationship management;
• Mobilize, foster and strengthen strategic partnerships with UN entities and other relevant bodies and stakeholders (internal and external), including WHO, WB, the Global Fund and provide substantive inputs to those partnerships in support of UNDP initiatives and achievement of results;
• Represent UNDP with the aim to advance UNDP’s strategic agenda on Smart Facilities; and
• Advocate policy and positioning of this thematic area in various fora, including academia and civil society.

Innovative Finance and Resource Mobilization :

• Facilitate alignment on a portfolio of financing, key partners, and outreach strategy, including coordination with innovative finance and DFI experts; and
• Develop and steward resource mobilization strategy through multistakeholder consensus, including defining targets, priority partners, outreach and proposals.

Knowledge Management:

• Guide and coordinate cross-regional exchange of knowledge by collaborating with policy teams in Regional Hubs to research, develop and share knowledge-based tools and guidance to help influence/advance policy dialogue on Smart Facilities;
• Anchors advocacy activities, information-sharing, and stakeholder management with the aim of keeping the public well informed of UNDP activities;
• Strengthens UNDP’s visibility with potential stakeholders through conventional media as well as digital and social media channels; and
• Oversee the knowledge extraction, analysis, documentation, codification of results/lessons learned in the specific thematic area, ensuring that knowledge sharing and content management is in line with guidelines and performed using corporate tools.

Competencies

Core

Achieve Results:

LEVEL 3: Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact

Think Innovatively:

LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems

Learn Continuously:

LEVEL 3: Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences

Adapt with Agility:

LEVEL 3: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands

Act with Determination:

LEVEL 3: Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results

Engage and Partner:

LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

LEVEL 3: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies (insert up to 7 competencies)

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

Business Direction and Strategy

Strategic Thinking

Ability to leverage learning from a variety of sources to anticipate and respond to future trends; to demonstrate foresight in order to model what future developments and possible ways forward look like for UNDP

Business Development

Knowledge Facilitation

Ability to animate individuals and communities of contributors to participate and share, particularly externally

Digital & Innovation

Connectivity and the digital divide

Knowledge of how connectivity and the digital divide work, understanding of the opportunities and challenges for governments and society

Partnership management

Relationship management

Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust and mutual understanding

Partnership management

Resource mobilization

Ability to identify funding sources, match funding needs (programmes/projects/initiatives) with funding opportunities, and establish a plan to meet funding requirements

Partnership management

Strategic engagement

Ability to capture and sustain attention, interest and agreement of high-level, influential policy and decision makers and secure their buy-in of high-level vision and objectives

Finance

Development finance expertise

Ability to develop and work with innovative financing mechanisms and instruments, e.g. social/development impact bonds, guarantees, climate finance, etc.

Health

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

Knowledge of access to treatment and services policy and principles and strategic and/or practical situations for communicable and non-communicable diseases

Required Skills and Experience

Min. Education requirements

Master’s degree in Global Health, International Affairs, Development, Business Administration, Economics, or related field.

Min. years of relevant work experience

A minimum of 7 years’ relevant experience in programme development and management.

Required skills

• Established track record in global health, including support to health systems.
• Experience in strategy development, innovative financing, and supporting effective partnerships, including public-private.
• Demonstrated excellent analytical and writing skills.
• Experience in engaging with internal and external senior level stakeholders.

Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section

• Familiarity with technology-driven solutions.
• Experience of working with UN or UNDP.
• Knowledge of Global Fund’s processes and procedures.
• Experience in the development of financing proposals.
• Experience in coordination of technical experts.
• Knowledge of another UN language.

Required Language(s)

• Fluency in English, both written and oral.

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