Team Leader - Global Fund and Country Support

UNOPS supports the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to serve people in need by expanding the ability of the United Nations, governments and other partners to manage projects, infrastructure and procurement in a sustainable and efficient manner.

Working in some of the world’s most challenging environments, our vision is to advance sustainable implementation practices, always satisfying or surpassing our partners’ expectations.

With over 7,000 personnel spread across 80 countries, UNOPS offers its partners the logistical, technical and management knowledge they need, wherever they need it.

A flexible structure and global reach means that we can quickly respond to our partners' needs, while offering the benefits of economies of scale.

Stop TB Partnership

UNOPS hosts the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership Secretariat (STBP) as of 1 January 2015, in Geneva, Switzerland. The purpose of STBP is to realize the goal of elimination of tuberculosis as a public health problem and, ultimately, to obtain a world free of tuberculosis. In order to achieve this, STBP manages the Global Drugs Facility (GDF), the TB REACH, and the Challenge Facility, which provide a broad range of procurement, grants and advocacy activities, as well as a leading coordination role at national, regional and global levels. The vision of the 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, stop transmission of TB, reduce the inequitable social and economic toll of TB, and developing and implementing new preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic tools and strategies

Founded in 2001, the Stop TB Partnership's mission is to serve every person who is vulnerable to TB and ensure that high-quality treatment is available to all who need it. Our partners include international and technical organizations, government programmes, research and funding agencies, foundations, NGOs, civil society and community groups and the private sector.

Jobs Specific Background:

Stop TB Partnership works closely with the Global Fund to ensure adequate investment is made in high TB burden countries in a manner to maximize the impact and effectiveness of the Global Fund TB grants towards ending TB. Recognizing the importance of communities, key populations, rights, gender and stigma; the Stop TB Partnership works with partners and civil society networks to support countries in addressing these issues in their national TB responses.

This position will be leading Stop TB Partnership’s work on Global Fund and Country Support. 

Under the guidance of Stop TB Deputy Executive Director and Stop TB Executive Director, the incumbent will be responsible for the following:

Country Support

• Lead Stop TB Partnership’s work on support to high burden countries on planning, monitoring and effective utilization of Global Fund grants.
• Work together and in collaboration with all relevant Global Fund and Stop TB teams to maintain an updated summary of information for a set of priority countries on grant absorption, key challenges and Global Fund related activities/opportunities, such as review missions, national strategic planning process, development of funding request, etc.
• Coordinate and ensure the participation and representation of all relevant actors such as Stop TB Partnership, Global Fund, USAID, WHO and Technical Agencies/Communities are represented in missions to priority countries and  ensure that the scope of such missions are comprehensive and addresses the need of the country context.
• Work with the Stop TB Executive and Deputy Director to ensure that all resources and mechanisms available within Stop TB Partnership for Global Fund related country support are effectively used in a harmonized manner to maximize impact. Such resources and mechanisms include the platforms of TB REACH and Global Drug Facility (GDF), the work of the Community, Rights and Gender (CRG) and advocacy teams
• Ensure the country fund requests to Global Fund are ambitious and consistent with End TB Strategy and Global Plan to End TB.
• Proactively flag countries with low absorption and seek to identify the bottlenecks. Propose solutions to overcome low absorption rate using existing mechanisms such as the TB Situation Room.
• Work with Global Fund and Stop TB CRG team to expand the Roster of Consultants and build their capacities to ensure requested countries receive good quality technical support.

Communities, Rights and Gender

• Lead the team of consultants working on Communities, Rights, Gender and stigma to ensure that these areas are adequately addressed in the country response to TB.
• Ensure countries use tools already developed by Stop TB and Partners on these areas and the tools are improved as needed.
• Guide and facilitate the work of development of tools in the areas where none are available.
• Coordinate the training and roll-out of CRG related tools in selected high priority countries and ensure documentation of lessons learned and country plans adequately address key populations, rights, gender and stigma.

Team Management

• Initiate and follow up on human resource actions as needed to ensure that the team of Global Fund and CRG are maintained and vacancies are filled in a timely manner.
• Facilitate team work and ensure that the team members are motivated and empowered to deliver results.

Other related functions

• Facilitate the dissemination of information and collection of feedback from Stop TB Partners through mechanisms such as the Core Group.
• Ensure that all donor reporting requirements are met and donor interest in this area is sustained. 
• Summarize for the Stop TB Coordinating Board and other stakeholders the progress, challenges and upcoming priorities for Stop TB work related to Global Fund grants.
• Participate in Situation Room meetings and the Core Group calls.
• Support the Executive Director and the Deputy Executive Director in effective participation and representation of the TB stakeholders in the Global Fund Board, Committees and Working Groups.
• Working across teams and being a good team player and colleague.
• Perform any other related duties as assigned by the Executive Director, including replacing and backstopping.

• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in public health sector.

Desirable/considered as an advantage:  

• Work experience working with Global Fund
• Experience of working on tuberculosis.

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• 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.