Senior Adviser Health, PHC - HSS (P5), FT, PG - Health outposted to Nairobi

Contract

This is a P-5 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 10 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 165,084 USD and 206,888 USD.

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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.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child, is the basis for the mission of UNICEF to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, primary health care and health system strengthening is fundamental to reaching every woman and every child including overcoming the barriers at the last mile, so that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential. Primary health care is critical for acceleration of SDGs, strong health system that is pandemic resilient, and people centered health service delivery. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries.

For every child, good health…..

Under the overall guidance of the Associate Director, MNCAH section, the incumbent provides policy, technical and programme guidance in the design, implementation and scale up of national and sub-national effort for strengthening of PHC-HSS using the Astana Declaration on Primary Health Care, the UNICFE-WHO PHC Operational and PHC Measurement Frameworks and indicators, as well as other relevant methods, tools and approaches to identify and address critical determinants of the provision of sustained, effective, equitable and quality health care and provide overall leadership and management of the PHC oriented Implementation Research agenda of the Health team at global, regional and country levels.

The post will provide overall leadership to the PHC-HSS unit, provide policy guidance and technical support on UHC for SDG3 with a particular focus on strengthening of Primary Health Care and Health systems for sustainable health outcomes for children and their families as well as jointly with WHO lead the secretariat of the SDG3-GAP PHC accelerator.

Strong interaction is expected between the incumbent on this post and staff in other functional units in the Health team (particularly the Maternal, Newborn and Adolescent Child Health, HIV/AIDS, Immunization as well as Polio teams). The incumbent will also interact with other technical clusters within the Programme Group, Supply Division, the Data and Analytics team in DAPM, the Evaluation Office, Office of Research, Regional and Country Offices, as well as key external partners.

How can you make a difference?

Overall technical leadership on Primary Health Care and Health systems strengthening and coordinate the PHC-HSS Unit's work on planning, service delivery, equity and UHC

• Be the technical lead for UNICEF to advance Health team’s leadership and advocacy efforts in Primary Health Care and Health Systems Strengthening, to build resilient health delivery systems for integrated essential public health functions that assures Universal Health Coverage with a focus on the most deprived and supports countries achieve SDG3.
• Coordinates and manages the PHC-HSS Unit's work on equity-focused, evidence-based planning to ensure quality universal health coverage (UHC) through PHC strengthening for key reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) interventions, using EQUIST, PHC oriented Implementation Research and PHC Operational framework, PHC measurement framework and indicators and other relevant tools and methods. Ensure that the priorities and strategies laid out in the UNICEF Strategy for Health 2016-2030 and the UNICEF Strategic Plan are pursued.
• Provides guidance and technical input on the methodologies applied. Conceives strategies on the further technical refinement and use of these methodologies. including PHCPI and EQUIST, oversees the realisation of these ideas, and ensures that their implementation is contextualized. Promotes the scale up of national and sub-national equity-focused, evidence-based RMNCAH programme management and monitoring, especially in high maternal and child mortality and morbidity-burden countries.
• Provides technical and methodological leadership and ensures quality in the development, costing and budgeting of investment cases for strengthening Primary Health Care, RMNCAH, especially promoting rights-based and pro-poor approaches through partnership with major investors (World Bank, GFF, GAVI, Global fund, Pandemic Fund etc.).
• Lead the PHC-HSS Unit on behalf of UNICEF, in its engagement with the Global Financing Facility, the Global Fund and GAVI on various efforts for accelerating support to Primary Health Care and Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health.

Documentation and research

• Lead and oversee the documentation and reporting on UNICEF's equity-focused, evidence-based approach to quality UHC for achieving SDGs through PHC strengthening and PHC oriented Implementation research for children and women, particularly the role of UNICEF Health team-led strategies and approaches.
• Contributes to implementation research that aims to generate evidence on and identify local solutions to reduce bottlenecks for taking MNCAH to scale.
• Ensures high standards of policy and research work on equity, including through the publishing of papers and overseeing information dissemination.

UNICEF Regional and Country Office Support

• Interpretation and roll-out of the UNICEF Strategy for Health 2016-2030 and accompanying HSS Approach at Regional and Country Office level. Focuses particularly on the development, costing, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of equity-focused, evidence-based national and sub-national health policies and programs that aim for UHC of quality RMNCAH services.
• Coordinate support to UNICEF Regional and Country Offices to provide policy guidance and support to and ensures quality in the formulation of national and sub-national health strategies, management approaches and monitoring. The objective is to promote country-level acceleration and scale-up of equity-focused, evidence-based child survival and maternal health interventions, including within the framework of UNICEF's involvement in global initiatives.

Partnership and Representation

• Lead jointly with WHO the PHC-Accelerator secretariat for the SDG3-GAP (of 13 agencies) efforts to engage, align, accelerate and account on country level support for implementation of Primary Health Care strategies and collaborate with focal points of other global health organizations leading on Sustainable Financing for Health (SFH), Data and digital health (DDH), Fragile Contexts and Vulnerable populations (FCV), R&D Innovations and Access Accelerators.
• Collaborates with governments, SDG GAP, H6 and bilateral partners, foundations and other partners on the development, testing and validation of approaches and methods that facilitate the identification of bottlenecks and solutions for the achievement of quality UHC.
• Prepares for and represents UNICEF in meetings and policy fora on the promotion of equity and use of evidence in RMNCAH planning and priority-setting for UHC.

Fund-raising and Management

• Supports the mobilization and use of financial resources for these duties, as well as issues related to human resources and contracts required for the attainment of the Unit's objectives.
• Leads required inputs to the development and annual review of the Section's work plan in the above areas of focus.

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Public Health, Medicine or Social Sciences is required.
• A minimum of 10 (ten) years relevant professional work experience in a senior capacity at national and international levels in health programme or related programmes is required.
• Supervision skills will be an asset.
• Diverse field programme experiences an asset.
• Prior experience working in low- and middle-income country context with experience in policy, programme design and implementation.
• Experience working in the UN system is an asset.
• Fluency in English (written and verbal) is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, or Spanish) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

Please click Here to view UNICEF's core values and Here to view our competency framework.

UNICEF competencies required for this post are.

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (1)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to including everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, 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 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 is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

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.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.

Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid).

Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF.

UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

“UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”

For more information on remuneration and benefits, please visit UNICEF’s Entitlements’ page. If you would like to find estimates for entitlements, you may use the online Salary Estimate Calculator

• Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.