Technical Advisor (Quality Healthcare)

The Technical Advisor (Quality Healthcare) provides technical leadership and serves as the principal focal point for the quality healthcare mission at UNOPS. The role drives mission-led innovation, strategic partnerships, and forward-looking solutions to strengthen mission readiness and accelerate progress toward the SDGs.

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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Specialized training or certification related to healthcare, sustainability, innovation, foresight, or partnership development is desired.
• 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 is desired.
• 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 is desired.
• Experience of working in UN system organizations is desired.
• Fluent English is required.
• Fluent Arabic is desirable.
• Fluent French is desirable.
• Fluent Spanish is desirable.
• Fluent Russian is desirable.
• Fluent Chinese, Mandarin is desirable.

Skills

• Technical Advisory
• Healthcare Expertise
• Sustainable Development
• Foresight Analysis
• Trend Identification
• Case Study Development
• Lessons Learned Extraction
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Collaborative Approaches
• Development Context Experience
• Humanitarian Experience
• Multicultural Environment Experience
• Healthcare Services Knowledge
• Infrastructure Context
• Procurement Context
• Digital Transformation
• SIDS Resilience
• Food Systems Transformation
• Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus

Languages

English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Mandarin