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Social Policy Specialist Public Finance

United Nations Children's Fund

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This post aims to support UNICEF’s mission in advancing the rights of every child through strategic interventions to improve the size and quality of social sector spending with a particular focus on health and to ensure public financial management systems are responsive to the practical and strategic needs of children, especially the most deprived in both humanitarian and development settings. Through this role, UNICEF aims to contribute to adequate and sustainable universal health financing including critical services such as immunization and also equitable access to other essential services such as social protection, education, child protection, early childhood development, water and sanitation, and nutrition.

The incumbent will provide technical advisory services, including through thought leadership, knowledge management, advocacy and capacity development support to UNICEF teams at HQ, regional and country offices as well as partners in health financing, and also support the global design and implementation of a new Public Finance for Children (PF4C) framework and related interventions. The ultimate objective is to contribute to the creation of an enabling environment for universal health coverage and delivery of other essential services to children at-scale, equitably and sustainably. It is expected that the incumbent will commit an estimated 50 percent of their time to strengthening health financing systems. Accordingly, the position will routinely liaise with health sector colleagues at UNICEF HQ and also with relevant staff and partners at regional and country levels.

The post is global; the incumbent is therefore expected to lead networking, partnership and collaboration with experts and institutions involved in social sector financing, and public financial management more broadly from a child rights perspective. These include the Inter-Agency Task force on Financing for Development, Integrated National Financing Framework partners, and International Finance Institutions, such as the World Bank and the IMF, donors, civil society organizations and other United Nations agencies.

Technical Guidance and Support for delivering the PF4C work across sectors:

  • Provide technical leadership and capacity development across social sectors to UNICEF regional and country offices and partners for the scaling up of UNICEF’s PF4C work globally in line with the revised PF4C framework.
  • Provide advisory support, quality assurance and oversight in the development and delivery of PF4C programme activities across sectors at HQ, regional and country office levels.
  • Support development of guidance document, technical notes and tools where gaps exist to improve social sector financing.
  • Provide specialized technical expertise and capacity development to governments and other partners in the reform of Public Financial Management (PFM) systems related to selected social sectors/ policy areas such as health, education, social protection, nutrition, child protection, social inclusion, and WASH.
  • Provide guidance on how fiscal policies and budgets can be effectively used to improve equity in social services delivery especially in critical areas, such as health.
Knowledge management, networking and collaboration between and across countries:
  • Through engagement across sectors, maintain the global database of sector initiatives, especially on health, and good practices to inspire other countries,
  • Regularly monitor key progresses and developments on sector financing with potential to scale up.
  • Facilitate learning and networking between and across countries on social sector financing.
  • Support health and immunization related taskforces and teams on key emerging financing issues and product development, including an immunization budget database, and with a special focus on addressing financing challenges for primary health care and community health and nutrition workers.
Research and evidence generation:
  • Initiate and support research on relevant topics, including on fiscal space analysis, sector financing and spending reviews, bottleneck analysis
  • Facilitate collaboration with research and academic institutions to strengthen social sector financing
  • Collect, repackage and disseminate relevant research papers, articles and other publications to inform programming by Social Policy and sector colleagues.
Advocacy and partnerships:
  • As the global technical expert for social sector financing, develop and maintain collaboration with the sector teams and focal points in support of sector financing agendas on key area such as health, nutrition, early childhood development, social protection, including shock responsive, child protection, education and WASH
  • Support investment case-making and advocacy for reforms to strengthen PFM systems especially to improve investments in neglected areas such as immunization, nutrition and child protection.
  • Lead strategic engagements with partners involved in sector financing such as WHO, the World Bank, Gavi, Centers for Disease Control and Early Childhood Development Action Network and also develop and strengthen strategic alliances with a variety of international partners, including UN agencies and philanthropic organizations.
  • Facilitate the enhanced integration of social sector stakeholders and partners into relevant financing consultative processes and networks. Represent the organization in global forums, engaging with partners and stakeholders to foster meaningful collaborations and external partnerships.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
  • An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Political Science, or another relevant technical field or any other related field is required.
  • A minimum of 8 (eight) years of relevant progressive, professional work experience in public finance and sector financing, an applied, national or international social development setting is required.
  • Hands-on experience with sector financing issues, particularly related to health, immunization, nutrition and early childhood development, with demonstrated expertise in the Public financial management of health sectors, which will be considered as a plus.
  • Familiarity with UN/UNICEF programming and experience working with UNICEF field offices will be considered a significant advantage, including operating within developing countries.
  • A history of contributing research to international academic journals, which will be viewed as an asset.
  • Experience or familiarity with emergency contexts is highly valued.
  • Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

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