[Hiring] Health Innovation Consultant @AGORA

Role Description

This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF's health innovation portfolio by advancing the development and scale-up of innovative solutions that improve child health outcomes, with a particular focus on:

• AI-enabled community health worker programmes
• Innovative approaches to childhood noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)
• Sustainable financing models
• AI-enabled diagnostics

Working closely with governments, UNICEF offices, implementing partners, academia, and the private sector, the consultant will:

• Support country engagement
• Assess readiness and demand
• Guide solution design
• Facilitate the integration of innovation into primary healthcare systems

The assignment will also contribute to expanding the portfolio through resource mobilisation, including:

• Development of funding proposals
• Investment cases
• Strategic partnerships

Additionally, the consultant will strengthen the health innovation ecosystem through:

• Evidence generation
• Market intelligence
• Knowledge sharing

This will help governments identify, adopt, and scale sustainable, government-owned innovations that improve health outcomes for children and communities worldwide.

Qualifications

• Advanced university degree (Master's or higher) in public health, health sciences, health systems, innovation management, biomedical sciences, international development, engineering, business administration or a related discipline.
• A first-level university degree with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.

Requirements

• At least five years of relevant professional experience in health innovation, programme implementation, innovation management or health systems strengthening innovations.
• Demonstrated experience translating innovation concepts into practical workplans and outputs.
• Experience applying lean innovation, iterative experimentation or adaptive management.
• Ability to coordinate technical partners, innovators and implementing organisations.
• Ability to independently deliver defined work packages, identify bottlenecks and adapt activities based on evidence.
• Prior experience supporting deployment of innovations at the frontline and supporting resource mobilisation to sustain those innovations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; proficiency in additional UN languages is an asset.

Benefits

• Diverse opportunities for professional and personal development.
• Attractive compensation and benefits package.