Deadline for applications is 16 Nov 2025 Eastern Standard Time
UNICEF is seeking to create a pool of trained experts in health economics and health financing who can provide technical expertise in areas supported by a new cross-cutting team called the Inclusive Health Economics, Financing, and Policy Innovation (IHEFPI) team. Selected experts will work in close collaboration with UNICEF Centers of Excellence and Country Offices, as well as external partners, to deliver specialized expertise in response to country and programme needs.
Scope of Work
The Technical Expert/Consultant will work and provide technical guidance in the following areas:
1.Technical Advisory on strategic planning, policy formulation, and review
- Offer expert guidance and technical leadership to governments in designing, costing, and financing health and immunization strategies.
- Contribute to the development and cost analysis of national health strategies, including key priority areas such as national immunization strategies, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health strategies, and health systems strategy.
- Generate evidence using economic tools (e.g., Integrated Health Tool, National Immunization Strategy costing application, etc.) to assess impact and project costs of health and immunization strategies, including scenario planning.
- Conduct fiscal space analyses using robust methods (including economic forecasts, budget modeling, and scenario analysis) to support domestic resource mobilization and planning for the introduction or expansion of national health and immunization programs.
- Contribute assessments of public financial management in the health sector to identify bottlenecks in health and immunization spending and related absorption capacity issues.
2.Evidence generation, health economics research, and knowledge management
- Perform cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses to guide investments in key health and immunization interventions. Use widely accepted economic models and modeling methods such as LiST, Spectrum, UNIVAC, Markov models, and other decision support or analytical techniques, including newly developed or customized economic models.
- Conduct efficiency analyses of health and immunization programs using data from processes like health sector Resource Mapping and Expenditure Tracking (RMET), national surveys (such as MICs, DHS, etc.), and globally recognized health expenditure and outcomes databases (such as GHE Observatory, NHA, WUENIC, WDI).
- Develop investment cases and support the use of evidence to advocate for expanding health and immunization interventions
