National Consultant-Pipeline Management Lead (PVAC) 12 Months, Abuja Nigeria

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. 

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. 

And we never give up. 

For every child, Health.

In Nigeria, UNICEF works in a complex humanitarian and development setting to fulfill and protect children’s rights in partnership with the government, civil society, children, and families.  UNICEF Nigeria is one of the largest UNICEF Country Offices globally – click the link to learn more about UNICEF in Nigeria: https://www.unicef.org/nigeria/

Background:

The Pipeline Management Lead will play a pivotal role in achieving PVAC’s mission by identifying, structuring, and securing financing for high-impact healthcare transactions in Nigeria. This strategic role is essential for attracting investments into Nigeria’s healthcare sector, fostering innovation, and expanding access to essential healthcare services and products. Given the complexity of healthcare financing and the need for substantial investment in the sector, this role requires a senior professional with deep expertise in financial transactions, investment management, and stakeholder engagement within the healthcare domain

How can you make a difference? 

1. Strategy Development for Opportunity Origination: Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to identify and originate investment opportunities aligned with PVAC’s strategic objectives for Nigeria’s healthcare sector.
2. Team Leadership in Transaction Management: Lead a team of transaction specialists focused on identifying, evaluating, and securing investment opportunities across various healthcare sub-sectors, including therapeutics, consumables, vaccines, diagnostics, and healthcare provision
3. Due Diligence and Compliance Oversight: Oversee due diligence processes, ensuring potential transactions meet financial viability, regulatory standards, and PVAC’s investment principles.
4. Deal Structuring and Negotiation: Manage the structuring and negotiation phases of transactions, collaborating with internal and external legal teams to secure favourable terms for the secretariat and its partners.
5. Stakeholder Relationship Management: Build and maintain a network of potential investors, including domestic and international private equity firms, venture capitalists, and development finance institutions, to foster long-term investment relationships.
6. Inter-Secretariat Collaboration: Coordinate with other secretariat teams (e.g., Healthcare Enabling Team) to address regulatory issues and ensure a supportive environment for investments.
7. Market Research and Trend Analysis: Track industry trends and prepare periodic market insight reports, identifying emerging investment opportunities within the healthcare sector.

Work Assignment:

1. Develop a proactive investor relations strategy to enhance PVAC’s engagement with existing and potential investors, fostering long-term partnerships and aligning investor interests with PVAC’s goals.

Deliverable/Output:

Investor Relations Strategic Plan.

2. Develop and implement a strategy to identify, assess, and originate new high-impact investment opportunities in alignment with PVAC’s strategic priorities in Nigeria’s healthcare sector.

Deliverable/output:

Opportunity Origination Strategy Document.

3. Lead a team of transaction specialists in identifying, evaluating, and securing investment opportunities across healthcare sub-sectors, ensuring a steady pipeline of impactful transactions

Deliverable/Output:

Transaction Management Workflow pipeline report.

4. Identify and cultivate partnerships with organizations and networks that can provide PVAC with access to high-quality deal flows, co-investment opportunities, and thought leadership on healthcare investment in emerging markets.

Deliverable/output:

Partnership Network Map and Partner Engagement Strategy Document.

5. Oversee the due diligence process to ensure that potential investment opportunities are financially viable, meet regulatory standards, and align with PVAC’s impact and financial objectives

Deliverable/Output;

Due Diligence Checklist and Protocol Document

6. Oversee the performance of PVAC’s portfolio transactions, ensuring that investments meet their objectives and contribute positively to the healthcare ecosystem.

Deliverable/output:

Portfolio Performance Report and Portfolio Review Summary

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

• An advanced university degree in Business Administration, finance or a related field.
• A minimum of Five (5) years of relevant professional experience in investment banking, private equity, or a related financial services sector, with a proven track record in healthcare sector transactions.
• Demonstrated expertise in originating, structuring, and closing complex transactions within healthcare or similar sectors.

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required

• Financial and Analytical Skills: Strong understanding of transaction structuring, financial modelling, and investment due diligence processes.
• Negotiation and Communication Skills: Excellent abilities in negotiation and managing communications with diverse stakeholders.
• Leadership and Team Management: Experience in leading transaction teams and managing high-stakes investment projects.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Skilled in relationship-building with investors, regulatory bodies, and healthcare providers.
• Strategic Vision: Ability to develop and implement a sector-specific origination strategy with a focus on sustainable impact
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

To view our competency framework, please visit  here. 

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check. 

Remarks:  

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. 

Applicants must submit their financial and technical proposals along with this application. Applications without these will not be considered. Use this form to provide your financial proposal. 

 All-Inclusive Financial Proposal Form-Current.docx

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws. 

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.