Digital Health Financing and Investment Consultant (Multi-country)

About the role

UNICEF's Health Practice is offering a multi-country consultancy (job no. 596662) for its Digital Health Transformation, Access and Equity (DHx) Section, based in Nairobi with remote work and travel. The assignment supports UNICEF country offices in developing costed digital health roadmaps and investment cases, and helps build credibility with International Financial Institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank, IDB, CAF, ADB and AfDB. It involves periodic face-to-face engagement in Panama and overlapping working hours with Latin America and the Caribbean.

Key responsibilities

• Lead technical support for digital health financing and investment advisory across the programme.
• Map and track financing windows open to participating countries.
• Prepare analysis and briefs that position digital health within IFI operations and national budget cycles.
• Contribute investment cases usable by Ministries of Health, Ministries of Finance and lenders.
• Work closely with the Health Economics and Financing (HEF) team, Health Section colleagues in the Centers of Excellence, and IFI teams covering the participating countries.

Required profile

• Master's degree in health economics, health financing, economics, public policy, public health, international development or a related field; a first-level degree with two additional years of relevant experience may be accepted.
• At least eight years of progressively responsible experience in health financing, health sector investment planning or development finance in low- and middle-income countries.
• At least five years working with or within the World Bank or regional development banks on health sector operations (preparation, appraisal or financing instrument design).
• Record of producing costed investment cases, financing strategies or national health or digital health roadmaps for governments.
• Fluency in English and Spanish; Spanish is a screening requirement.

Required skills

• Knowledge of IFI operation cycles and financing instruments, national budget processes and public financial management.
• Working knowledge of how digital health investment is costed and planned, including the WHO Digital Implementation Investment Guide and the World Bank Digital Health Blueprint Toolkit.
• Ability to translate digital health architecture and system requirements into investment costing and financing language for non-technical audiences.
• Ability to write concise analytical products for Ministries of Finance, Ministries of Health and IFI task teams.
• Ability to work across several countries and time zones with limited supervision.