UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives.
The Office of Innovation is a creative, interactive, and agile team in UNICEF. We sit at a unique intersection, where an organization that works on huge global issues meets the start-up thinking, the technology, and the partners that turn this energy into scalable solutions.
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation creates opportunities for the world’s children by focusing on where new markets can meet their vital needs. We do this by:
Creating new models of partnership that leverage core business values across the public, private and academic sectors in order to deliver fast, and lasting results for children.
For every child…innovate
How can you make a difference?
Through a problem-driven approach guided by the respective UNICEF Programme Groups (PG), each innovation portfolio is committed to supporting the identification, development and scale-up of country-level innovative solutions, to meet the demands and priorities in line with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025, and ultimately the attainment of related SDGs.
UNICEF’s Health Innovation portfolio strives to accelerate the UNICEF health programme results for children through game-changing innovations, focusing on priority areas where innovation can make a huge difference including immunization, community health, community health worker support, and strategic partnerships. This position is focused specifically on the use of AI in immunization.
UNICEF’s role in innovation for health is to leverage industry, the private sector, funders and donors to ensure when developing solutions they build with the most marginalized children in mind, this is who UNICEF must reach by working hand in hand with government partners. UNICEF does not develop AI solutions beyond prototypes, but having the expertise required within our organization to identify, adapt, co-create, validate and safely scale solutions for health outcomes is crucial.
Objectives
The consultant will be responsible for supporting the health innovation team in leading our AI for Public Health and Immunization initiative. This will include supporting the engagement with external stakeholders: private sector, start-ups, donors and the internal: UNICEF Health Programme Group, regional offices (ROs) and country offices (COs), facilitating consultations to identify needs and opportunities, supporting horizon scanning for needs and emerging health innovations, and supporting partnership efforts to ensure impactful and scalable health solutions.
The primary use cases under consideration include, but are not limited to:
Your main responsibilities will be:
Please see detailed (TOR) Terms of Reference ToR Health innovation consultant.pdf
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Travel:
How to apply:
General Terms and Conditions:
Please review UNICEF’s General Terms and Conditions for Consultants here for important information regarding contract obligations, including medical insurance, SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) vaccination, and income tax requirements.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
To view our competency framework, please visit here.
UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.
Contact: For any queries, please contact: swe-ooi-recruitments@unicef.org
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: No requirements