[Hiring] Child and Adolescent Mental Health Consultant @AGORA

Role Description

UNICEF’s expanding mental health portfolio has generated substantial technical guidance, tools, partnerships, and country implementation experience. Dedicated support is now needed to address technical and financing gaps, make global tools and guidance easier to apply, and draw lessons from country implementation to guide future work.

Under the Global Mental Health Lead, the consultant will deliver a defined set of technical products covering:

• Strategic partnerships and investment opportunities
• Practical guidance and learning resources for country-level systems strengthening
• Evidence synthesis and publications

These outputs will strengthen UNICEF's capacity to support countries in planning, integrating and scaling child and adolescent mental health services within health and community systems.

Qualifications

• PhD - Doctoral degree in public health, global health, mental health, counseling, psychology, child and adolescent development, health systems, health policy or a related field.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in global health, mental health or health systems, including significant experience in child and adolescent mental health.
• Experience developing or applying global technical guidance, tools and implementation approaches across health and community-based systems.
• Demonstrated experience in strategic technical partnerships and program or investment development with academic, technical, philanthropic and/or funding partners.
• Strong experience in evidence translation, implementation learning and knowledge generation, including technical and/or peer-reviewed publications.
• Experience providing technical capacity strengthening and mentoring to specialist teams.

Skills

• Demonstrated expertise in child and adolescent mental health programming, service planning and systems strengthening, particularly in LMIC settings.
• Excellent analytical, technical writing, facilitation and communication skills.

Language Requirements

• Fluency in English required.

Desirables

• Familiarity with UNICEF Country Office programming environments and Global Program.

Benefits

• UNICEF offers diverse opportunities for professional and personal development.
• Attractive compensation and benefits package.

Remarks

• UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes.
• All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.