Overview
Provide high-level strategic and technical advisory support to UNICEF and its national partners on sugar-sweetened beverage taxation and healthy food fiscal policies.
Required Experience
- Minimum 15 years of professional experience in health taxation, fiscal policy, public finance, nutrition policy or related areas.
- Demonstrated expertise in sugar-sweetened beverage taxation and/or health taxes.
- Proficiency in fiscal modeling, price elasticity analysis, or health impact projection models and ability to appraise complex economic data and simulation results.
- Experience supporting governments, WHO or international organizations on fiscal policy design and implementation.
- Familiarity with the socio-economic and fiscal context of China or similar high/middle-income countries.
- Excellent analytical, strategic advisory and policy writing skills.
- Experience contributing to WHO/global normative guidance highly desirable.
Qualifications
• Advanced degree in Economics, Public Finance, Public Health, Nutrition Policy, Health Financing or related fields.
