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Purpose of the job:
The Global Child Health and Nutrition Advocacy Team is responsible for delivering UNICEF’s Global Advocacy Priority focused on children’s health and survival. The team works on immunization, malnutrition, and community health.
In 2022, global immunization data revealed that the three years of the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in the biggest sustained backsliding in childhood immunization levels in a generation – with almost 30 years of progress wiped out. The tens of million children who missed out on their essential and routine vaccines over the last three years are at risk of deadly disease and infectious disease outbreaks are on the rise. This is a red alert for child health and global health security.
Amongst the diseases that started to break out more frequently post-pandemic, polio.
The next few years provide a significant risk and opportunity for the eradication of polio. Polio eradication is within reach, but the progress is fragile, and we must remain laser focused,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell in October 2024. This new role signifies the urgency for updated approaches and innovation in polio communications and advocacy.
Recognizing the critical importance of polio eradication efforts in 2024 and 2025, the increasing challenges and risks posed by polio outbreaks, and the need for better integration across polio and routine immunization, this role aims to strengthen UNICEF’s advocacy and communications on polio as a central piler and integrated priority with our Global Immunization Advocacy Strategy.
The Advocacy Manager (Polio) will report to the Head of Advocacy Community Health and Nutrition and will work closely with the Advocacy Manager (Immunization) to ensure strategic integration and alignment of our polio and immunization advocacy at a global, regional and country level.
The Advocacy Manager (Polio) is responsible for UNICEF’s strategic advocacy approach and strategies for polio eradication and polio outbreaks within the Advocacy Section in UNICEFs Division of Global Communications and Advocacy (GCA). Based in the Child Health and Nutrition Advocacy team, they will work closely with GCA colleagues and UNICEF’s polio and polio outbreak teams to achieve positive outcomes for children’s health.
The selected candidate will be expected to be the leading global reference and adviser on polio advocacy within UNICEF and drive strategic global communications initiatives as part of our Global Immunization Advocacy Strategy.
However, central to delivering results on polio eradication and outbreaks is change at the national level and this role also provide dedicated support to several regional and country offices on a day-to-day basis. Critical to success on polio advocacy and communications is strategic collaboration and integration with wider immunization advocacy activities and plans, and comprehensive coordination and collaboration with regional and national initiatives.
To support offices in a comprehensive way, the Advocacy Manager (Polio) will also provide surge support and provide capacity building initiatives to offices which will require travel.
The Polio Advocacy Manager will:
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