Overview
The Technical Advisor (Quality Healthcare) serves as UNOPS principal focal point and thought leader for the quality healthcare mission, driving mission-led innovation and strategic partnerships to strengthen mission readiness and accelerate progress toward the SDGs.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as UNOPS principal focal point and thought leader for assigned mission(s), strengthening UNOPS visibility and positioning.
- Define UNOPS expertise, comparative advantage and value proposition within the assigned mission(s).
- Serve as internal and partner-facing technical expert for the assigned mission(s), including on related knowledge, innovation and foresight.
- Develop, contribute to and disseminate mission-aligned materials, such as thought-leadership and knowledge management products for use internally and with partners.
- Bring mission-led intent to partnership development, reinforcing mission readiness and the strategic alignment of UNOPS portfolio.
- Provide technical expert input in high-level discussions with partners and UNOPS colleagues, including in collaborative opportunity development.
- Support partner-facing colleagues in project ideation discussions with partners.
- Provide advice on the strategic alignment, value and balance of UNOPS portfolio across assigned missions.
- Drive the integration of mission-driven knowledge, innovation and foresight into UNOPS policy framing through Management and Policy, and service offering refinement and delivery through Delivery and Partnerships.
- Provide advice on mission-aligned outcomes and indicators to support corporate and partner-facing performance frameworks.
- Provide business partnering support on missions to HQ groups, service lines and geographic offices, fostering coherence, coordination and learning.
- Collaborate with PFG and UNOPS colleagues to strengthen mission-led knowledge and innovation systematically and sustainably, through the establishment and enhancement of processes and operating mechanisms for knowledge and learning and for innovation.
- In collaboration with PFG foresight colleagues, link internal knowledge and learning with long-term external perspectives and trends to develop new ideas, support ideation and drive innovation.
- Create, foster and role model a culture of trust, empowerment, and accountability.
- Build engagement and foster a diverse and inclusive work environment, respectful of all, and ensure that the highest standards of conduct are observed.
- Create, foster and role model a culture of respect and zero tolerance for discrimination, abuse of authority, harassment, sexual harassment and sexual exploitation and abuse.
- Ensure accountability for actions and perform duties in accordance with protection mechanisms and action plans, as expected by UNOPS policies, standards and commitments.
- Promote teamwork, collaboration and diversity, by providing timely guidance and supervision to the team to enable them to perform their duties responsibly, effectively and efficiently.
Required Experience
Demonstrated experience providing technical advisory support related to healthcare, sustainable development, or related thematic areas. Experience conducting foresight and trend analysis, developing case studies, and extracting lessons learned in relation to healthcare. Experience facilitating stakeholder engagement and collaborative approaches to healthcare issues. Experience in development or humanitarian contexts. Experience of working in multicultural environments. Application of thematic knowledge in healthcare and services in an infrastructure and/or procurement context. Experience working on issues related to one or more of: just digital transformation, SIDS resilience and sustainability, food systems transformation, and humanitarian, development and peace nexus. Experience of working in UN system organizations.
Qualifications
Required Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in healthcare, sustainable development or any related discipline with 9 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree (or equivalent) in any of the above disciplines with 7 years of relevant experience is required. Desired Specialized training or certification related to healthcare, sustainability, innovation, foresight, or partnership development is desired.
