[Hiring] Health Specialist - Community Health Delivery Partnership @AGORA

Role Description

UNICEF’s fundamental mission is to uphold the rights of every child, everywhere—across programmes, advocacy, partnerships, and operations. Guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF places equity at the heart of its work, recognizing that the most disadvantaged and excluded children must be prioritized to achieve sustainable development for all.

The Global Programme Division (GPD) provides global strategic leadership and policy direction, develops and monitors frameworks and standards, and ensures coherence and alignment across sectors, regions, and partners. GPD strengthens country-level implementation through integrated technical support, linking global policy with on-the-ground action to deliver results for children at scale.

Under the supervision of the P4 Health Specialist, Integrated Service Delivery (Community Health) of the MNCAH CoE team, the incumbent is responsible for providing technical support to the CHDP platform as a global/regional partnership fostering coherent and increased investments for community health aligned to country priorities.

• Advocacy & partnerships
• Coordinated technical assistance
• Measurement & Knowledge Management
• Monitoring and reporting
• Other assigned duties and responsibilities

Qualifications

• An advanced university degree (Master's of higher) in the area of Environment, Environmental Applied Engineering, Environmental Science/Health, Public Health is required.
• A minimum of eight (8) years of professional experience at the national and/or international level in community or primary health care, including health planning, programming, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of health programmes relevant to the Child Survival, Thrive, and Transform agenda is required.
• Partnership development, technical assistance, Coordination and facilitation, Knowledge management, Resource mobilization, Stakeholder engagement.
• Fluency in English is required.

Requirements

• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language.
• Professional work experience in a managerial position, or a technical expert position in community health programming and other relevant technical areas of primary health care.
• Developing country work experience or field work experience.
• Background/familiarity with Emergency.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Breastfeeding breaks
• Reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities