Primary Health Care Specialist at UNICEF, Nairobi, Kenya

Deadline: 03 July 2023

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is currently seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Primary Health Care Specialist in Nairobi, Kenya.

UNICEF works for a world in which every child has a fair chance in life.

Key Jobs Responsibilities

The Primary Health Care Specialist will perform the following functions:

• Coordinate and provide technical support to COs for Health Financing
  • Oversee regional office technical support to UNICEF Country Offices (COs) for the costing of their PHC packages and advocacy to increase domestic funding for PHC.
  • Support UNICEF COs to prepare, present and summarize PHC financing findings for advocacy and use at country, regional and global levels.
• Develop materials and guidance documents for economic analyses for health
  • Develop package of guidance, tools, terms of reference for defining and estimating the costs of PHC packages, measuring PHC progress and financing, ensuring alignment with UNICEF and WHO joint global guidance and comparability across countries/regions.
• Strengthen health financing partnerships at regional level
  • Engage actively with existing mechanisms (such as HHA), regional level UN entities, public and private sector partners, to advance health financing best practices.
• Contribute to health systems’ strengthening agenda within UNICEF Regional Office
  • Provide technical assistance to countries in the region on PHC integration of services and delivery, including Kenya (BMFG Joint Investment Mechanism Grant).
  • Oversee grant reporting, budgeting, and provide technical oversight from regional office.

Eligibility Criteria

• Advanced University Degree (Master’s or higher) in health economics or public health with a focus on health economics or health financing, or an advanced Degree in economics or financing with a focus on Health Systems Strengthening and/or another related field is required.
• Prior experience developing costing /using costing tools (OneHealth Tool, CHPCT, EQUIST).
• Minimum 8 year’s experience at the national and international levels in a relevant discipline, such as international public health or global development is required.
• Prior experience working with UNICEF country offices in Africa is required particularly in areas of economic analysis
• Knowledge of analyses of global health financing issues and trends
• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit their applications through online process.

For more information, visit UNICEF.