TB Policy Officer

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The vision of the United Nations hosted Stop TB Partnership is to realize the goal of elimination of Tuberculosis (TB) as a public health problem and, ultimately, to obtain a world free of TB by ensuring that every TB patient has access to effective diagnosis, treatment and cure; The Stop TB Partnership is uniquely positioned to act as a coordinator and catalyst for the range of partners engaged in the fight against TB, which has now become the leading global cause of death from an infectious disease.

To meet the ambitious global goal to end TB by 2035 and the targets proposed in the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Plan to End TB 2016-2020, implementation of the latest tools and approaches in the fight against TB is essential. Ensuring the most up-to date policy frameworks, tools, and guidelines are adopted is a critical starting point for ensuring countries are able to achieve the major scale up needed to reach the ‘end TB’ goal.

This project will give the successful applicant the opportunity to work at the intersection of policy and advocacy and to employ research, analytical, and advocacy skills to produce a report for two of the world’s leading organizations in the fight against TB.

In partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), this is project will have two phases:

• To continue development of an advocacy tool kit to accompany the 2015 Out of Step report, including creating a landscape of events for presentation of the Out of Step 2015 results, and generation of talking points appropriate for the audience.
• To document national Tuberculosis policies in key areas (previous examples included Scale-up TB diagnosis and drug resistance testing, Optimize models of care, Upgrade DSTB treatment protocols, Update regulatory framework and DR-TB treatment policies)   in a minimum of 25 TB endemic countries in order establish areas where policies need revision to match global standards The policy review requires working with multiple partners to gather responses, including National TB Program managers, TB experts and activists.
• The result of this project is the Annual Out of Step report, which will be released in March 2017.

1. Support advocacy engagement and policy change for the 2015 Out of Step report
2. Oversee the process of gathering data for the Out of Step report
3. Search and secure as much data as possible from open sources
4. Interact with partners in countries (MSF and others) to facilitate the data gathering process, feedback, and corrections, and ensure all data is delivered by the deadline
5. Liaise with MSF and other contributors/partners and keep them informed about progress and seek input
6. Organize and tabulate the data for analysis
7. Organize regular meetings with key Stop TB and MSF staff to coordinate progress
8. Lead the drafting of the Out of Step report
9. Oversee the design, lay-out and printing of the report
10. Coordinate the launch of the report
11. Some travel may be required to be undertaken during the assignment

1. Data received by deadlines
2. Comprehensive organization and tabulation of data to facilitate analysis
3. Regular briefings and updates of partners
4. Ensure all data validated and accurately reflected
5. Write and edit the Out of Step report content, including management of review process from first draft through to final sign off.

• Advanced university degree (Master level) in public health,medicine, epidemiology, statistics, political science, economics or similar.
• A Bachelor degree in in public health,medicine, epidemiology, statistics, political science, economics or similar, with 2 years of relevant experience, will be excepted in lieu of a Master's degree

• A minimum of 5 years' experience in public health, advocacy, and policy (ideally some experience in all three areas).
• Excellent writing skills in English and previous report writing experience.
• Experience in health policy and data collection.
• Experience in project management.
• Knowledge of data analysis and command of Excel and,
• Attention to detail (essential)
• Administration and management skills (essential)
• Work under pressure (essential)
• Tact, diplomacy and teamwork (essential)
• Data evaluation, analysis and reporting skills
• Conducting surveys

• Fluency in English. 
• Knowledge of other UN languages will be considered an asset. 

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time (CET)
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.