Innovations Consultant (Roster)

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners' peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world.  UNOPS supports partners to build a better future by providing services that increase the efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of peace building, humanitarian and development projects.  Mandated as a central resource of the United Nations, UNOPS provides sustainable project management, procurement and infrastructure services to a wide range of governments, donors and United Nations organizations. 

The Stop TB Partnership (STBP) is a unique and innovative global health organization that takes bold and smart risks to serve the people, communities, and countries affected by tuberculosis (TB). We bring together country and global stakeholders and partners and leverage our comprehensive range of strategic and technical expertise in our shared mission to end TB by 2030. UNOPS has hosted the STBP Secretariat (“Secretariat”), since 2015, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Specific expertise is sought in the following areas:

1. Health financing.

• Conduct a comprehensive situational analysis and assessment and create a preliminary framework regarding the feasibility of innovative financing models to increase country and global investments in TB, including leveraging of money market instruments (i.e., bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, etc.), digital currencies, etc.
• Conduct a comprehensive situational analysis and assessment and create a preliminary framework regarding the feasibility of health insurance models to cover health care benefits and health system expenses, including social health insurance and social protection programs.

• Support in the development of frameworks and metrics to enable organizations to incorporate PCD approaches into their daily work;
• Equip teams with new tools and methods to gather and articulate an even richer understanding of communities and other critical stakeholders;
• Empower teams to collaborate more often with communities, innovators, health system stakeholders, and others;
• Provide teams ways to better translate people’s needs and desires into solution features;
• Encourage teams to rapidly ideate, test and iterate to get to solutions that are more people-centric, more quickly;
• Provide teams tools and frameworks to adapt solutions that are even more relevant to local contexts; and
• Facilitate ways for teams to co-create solutions with communities and other key stakeholders to ensure that solutions are locally owned and led.

• Help define and articulate a vision for country partners to invest and build end-to-end, integrated, interoperable, and modern digital ecosystems for health
• Advise on technical integration strategies, data storage and privacy policies, structuring technology teams, and working across public-private sector partnerships;
• Develop or oversee the development and maintenance of innovative digital health systems such as AI applications and evaluation services, DevOps to deploy and manage servers, DHIS2 implementations, web back- and front-ends, interactive web applications, Shiny and similar applications, or digital health tools; and,
• Consult and suggest novel innovations to incorporate into digital health systems from other domains, diseases, or emerging areas of development such as AI, financial transfers, social media and collaboration, etc.

• Provide support related to designing and conducting  economic evaluations, research studies and protocols and undertaking modelling and statistical analysis.
• Undertaking focused analysis on TB projects to advance the strategic goals of the Stop TB Partnership;
• Designing and conducting TB research studies, including publishing findings in peer-reviewed journals, producing white papers for policymakers, and coordinating technical symposia at regional and global levels. 

• Assist STBP and / our country stakeholders and partners in supporting the planning for and execution of the concrete and practical roll-out of TB vaccines;
• Draft various content and resources, including white papers and journal articles; and,
• Support the organization of country and global consultations, including the drafting of the agenda, participants lists, presentation materials, and synthesis reports.

• Assist STBP and / or country stakeholders and partners in supporting the accelerated and sustainable roll-out of innovations;
• Conduct market research, assessing market readiness, identifying target end-users, monitoring trends, and providing strategic insights;
• Develop and supporting the monitoring of comprehensive innovation launch plans, including realistic schedules and timelines, channel strategies, etc.; and
• Identify and support the continuous improvement in the accelerated and sustainable roll-out of innovations. 

• Develop and update STBP’s innovation-wide approach through a portfolio of current and future strategic initiatives, including the development of a theory of change,  workplans, and key performance scorecards and indicators.
• Identify and support mapping, intelligence-gathering, and outreach to potential and relevant donors, funders, and investors.
• Develop and update innovation related pitch decks and concept notes.
• Develop proposals and support the grant-making processes.   

Candidates should indicate in their UNOPS profile their specific area(s) of expertise. 

• Advanced degree (Master’s) in business administration, computer science, economics, engineering, finance, medicine, public health, social science, economics, engineering, or other relevant fields is required.
• University degree (Bachelor’s) in the above-mentioned subjects with an additional two (2) years of relevant professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced degree.

• Please note that UNOPS does not accept unsolicited resumes.

• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

• Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process, which involves various assessments.

• UNOPS embraces diversity and is committed to equal employment opportunity. Our workforce consists of many diverse nationalities, cultures,  languages, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities. UNOPS seeks to sustain and strengthen this diversity to ensure equal opportunities as well as an inclusive working environment for its entire workforce. 

• Qualified women and candidates from groups which are underrepresented in the UNOPS workforce are encouraged to apply. These include in particular candidates from racialized and/or indigenous groups, members of minority gender identities and sexual orientations, and people with disabilities.

• We would like to ensure all candidates perform at their best during the assessment process.  If you are shortlisted and require additional assistance to complete any assessment, including reasonable accommodation, please inform our human resources team when you receive an invitation.

Terms and Conditions 

• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post. 

• For retainer contracts, you must complete a few mandatory courses ( they take around 4 hours to complete)  in your own time, before providing services to UNOPS. Refreshers or new mandatory courses may be required during your contract. Please note that you will not receive any compensation for taking courses and refreshers. For more information on a retainer contract here.

• All UNOPS personnel are responsible for performing their duties in accordance with the UN Charter and UNOPS Policies and Instructions, as well as other relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, all personnel must demonstrate an understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a manner consistent with UN core values and the UN Common Agenda.

• It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential personnel. Recruitment in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.