Senior Specialist (Immunization Financing) at UNICEF

Advisory services and technical support

•  Provide technical support to countries on immunization planning, costing, and budgeting. This includes the estimation of costs for National Immunization Strategies (NIS) using the NIS.COST approach
•  Generate evidence and undertake implementation research on costs of vaccine delivery, especially related to interventions for reaching zero-dose children
•  Undertake cost-effectiveness analyses, investment cases and costs of inaction studies related to primary health care and immunization
•  Contribute to work on tracking global immunization expenditures and financing sources
•  Contribute to establishing a database for Government immunization budgets
•  Collaborate with UNICEF Social Policy Specialists on Public Expenditure Reviews and efforts for strengthening public financial management systems in the health sector
•  Advise governments, NGO partners, and UN system partners on policies, strategies, and best practices for sustainable immunization financing

Advocacy, networking, and partnership building

•  Build and strengthen strategic partnerships with donors, NGOs, academia and health sector government counterparts through active networking, advocacy and effective communication of UNICEF’s mission, goals, programmes, and resource mobilizations needs.
•  Participate and/or represent UNICEF in inter-agency discussions and planning for immunization financing activities to ensure organizational position, interests and priorities are fully considered and integrated.

Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

•  Promote critical thinking, innovative approaches, and good practices for sustainable financing of primary health care and immunization
•  Keep abreast of health economic research and implement the best and cutting-edge practices
•  Share best practices and knowledge learned internally and externally
•  Lead, plan and implement capacity-building initiatives to UNICEF country offices on health economic approaches and analyses

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

Education:

•  An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: health economics, economics, public health, business administration, statistics, international health or another relevant technical field.

Experience:

The following is required:

•  A minimum of ten years of professional experience in health economics or public financing at the international level
•  Strong quantitative skills
•  Experience working in a low-income setting
•  Experience in Public Financial Management within the health sector
•  Experience in cost analysis of health interventions
•  Excellent interpersonal skills to develop and maintain good working relationships
•  Ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences

Additional experience considered an asset:

•  Experience in undertaking cost-effectiveness analysis of health interventions
•  Experience in economic analysis of vaccination services
•  Record of research publications in international academic journals Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization