Programme Specialist, Global Health Economics; Quality Programming Branch, Programme Division - P4   - Tenders Global

Programme Specialist, Global Health Economics; Quality Programming Branch, Programme Division – P4  

United Nations Population Fund

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UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.

UNFPA Supports:

  1. Reproductive health care for women and youth in more than 150 countries – which are home to more than 80 per cent of the world’s population
  2. The health of pregnant women, especially the 1 million who face life-threatening complications each month
  3. Reliable access to modern contraceptives sufficient to benefit 20 million women a year
  4. Training of thousands of health workers to help ensure at least 90 per cent of all childbirths are supervised by skilled attendants
  5. Prevention of gender-based violence, which affects 1 in 3 women
  6. Abandonment of female genital mutilation, which harms 3 million girls annually
  7. Prevention of teen pregnancies, complications of which are the leading cause of death for girls 15-19 years old
  8. Efforts to end child marriage, which could affect an estimated 70 million girls over the next 5 years
  9. Delivery of safe birth supplies, dignity kits and other life-saving materials to survivors of conflict and natural disaster
  10. Censuses, data collection and analyses, which are essential for development planning

 

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The Position:

The Programme Specialist, Global Health Economics, reports to the Adviser for Financing for Development, in the Quality Programming Branch of the Programme Division.
 

How you can make a difference:

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.  UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths, end unmet need for family planning, and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments to accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff who embody these international norms and standards and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates who transform, inspire and deliver high-impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, and exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.
 

Job purpose: 

The key activities of the post include:

  • Developing economic models for evidence-generation in support of the UNFPA’s Transformative Results.
  • Reviewing, validating, and strengthening existing tools for assessing economic costs and outcomes of interventions in the UNFPA’s scope.
  • Designing, testing, improving, and disseminating methodologies, guidelines, and templates for applying available evidence-generation tools, such as a) Investment cases, b) budget briefs, c) Financing dashboards, d) Open Budget Surveys, e) Public Expenditure Reviews, f) Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys, g) fiscal space analysis, and h) other Macro-economic and demographic analysis.
  • Preparing reports, collecting and using economic evidence in support of the UNFPA’s Transformative Results.
  • Quality assuring on economic evidence developed by UNFPA at headquarters, regional, and country offices. Provide technical assistance to UNFPA RO, CO, governments and other relevant stakeholders in the costing of PHC, particularly the operational costs of integrated SRHR.
  • Provide guidance to regional offices, country offices and consultants on development of investment cases direct support to country offices when required. This support may include detailed reviews of the modeling assumptions, outputs, analysis and the projections themselves.
  • Providing institutional thought leadership and guidance in the finalization and communication of global level costing and impact work.
  • Providing technical assistance in health financing to regional offices and countries including capacity building initiatives.
  • Supporting the development of economic impact estimates for the Three Transformative Results for the global level as well as guidance on additional analysis such as secondary analysis and applications at the country level 

 

Qualifications and Experience: 

Education:  

Advanced University Degree (a Master’s and/or PhD) in Health Economics, Demographic Economics, Public Policy Econometrics, Quantitative Research, Evaluation and Measurement and/or other related social science disciplines applied to Economic modelling.

 

Knowledge and Experience: 

  • At least 7 years of relevant experience preferably in modelling and developing quantitative assessments in health, gender and welfare policies and projects.
  • Knowledge and skills in developing programmes on issues related to SRHR expenditures and financing policies, on the inter relationships between macroeconomic policies and SRHR.
  • Expert in measuring the relations between health and development, the economic determinants of health and the impact of health investments on national economies, preferably for sexual and reproductive health, including family planning.
  • Background on policy and academic writing in health economics and SRHR released in peer-reviewed journals or as grey literature would be an asset.
  • Experience working on projects for UNFPA or other UN agencies would be an asset.

 

Languages: 

Fluency in English is required. Working knowledge of another official UN language is an added advantage.

 

Required Competencies: 

Values:

  • Exemplifying integrity,
  • Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system,
  • Embracing cultural diversity
  • Embracing change

 

Core Competencies: 

  • Achieving results,
  • Being accountable,
  • Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen,
  • Thinking analytically and strategically,
  • Working in teams/managing ourselves and our relationships,
  • Communicating for impact

 

Functional Competencies:

  • Skills for writing and preparing reports, infographics, and presentations.
  • Skills for training high-level professionals in a diverse cultural environment.
  • Domain on Spectrum (Fam Plan, LiST, Dem Proj and RAPID), Impact2, FP Market Analyzer, other tools by FP2030, WorldBank Data, UN Population Portal, World Population Dashboard, and other online platforms as a data source.
  • Expertise in using, measuring, and interpreting economic, epidemiologic, and demographic indicators.

 

Compensation and Benefits:

This position offers an attractive remuneration package including a competitive net salary plus health insurance and other benefits as applicable.

 

UNFPA Work Environment:

UNFPA provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, diversity, integrity and healthy work-life balance. We are committed to ensuring gender parity in the organization and therefore encourage women to apply. Individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community, minority ethnic groups, indigenous populations, persons with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups are highly encouraged to apply. UNFPA promotes equal opportunities in terms of appointment, training, compensation and selection for all regardless of personal characteristics and dimensions of diversity. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is at the heart of UNFPA’s workforce – click here to learn more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Working hours (%): 80-100% / 100%

Type of contract: Staff (Permanent and Fixed Term)

Macro-area: Sub-Saharan Africa

Level of experience: Senior Professional, more than 5 years

Area of work Definition: Social Development and Social Protection

Type of organisation: Multilateral Organisations

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