Innovations Consultant (Roster)

Specific expertise is sought in the following areas:
1. Health financing.

• Conduct a comprehensive situational analysis and assessment and create a preliminary framework regarding the feasibility of innovative financing models to increase country and global investments in TB, including leveraging of money market instruments (i.e., bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, etc.), digital currencies, etc.
• Conduct a comprehensive situational analysis and assessment and create a preliminary framework regarding the feasibility of health insurance models to cover health care benefits and health system expenses, including social health insurance and social protection programs.

• Support in the development of frameworks and metrics to enable organizations to incorporate PCD approaches into their daily work;
• Equip teams with new tools and methods to gather and articulate an even richer understanding of communities and other critical stakeholders;
• Empower teams to collaborate more often with communities, innovators, health system stakeholders, and others;
• Provide teams ways to better translate people’s needs and desires into solution features;
• Encourage teams to rapidly ideate, test and iterate to get to solutions that are more people-centric, more quickly;
• Provide teams tools and frameworks to adapt solutions that are even more relevant to local contexts; and
• Facilitate ways for teams to co-create solutions with communities and other key stakeholders to ensure that solutions are locally owned and led.

• Help define and articulate a vision for country partners to invest and build end-to-end, integrated, interoperable, and modern digital ecosystems for health
• Advise on technical integration strategies, data storage and privacy policies, structuring technology teams, and working across public-private sector partnerships;
• Develop or oversee the development and maintenance of innovative digital health systems such as AI applications and evaluation services, DevOps to deploy and manage servers, DHIS2 implementations, web back- and front-ends, interactive web applications, Shiny and similar applications, or digital health tools; and,
• Consult and suggest novel innovations to incorporate into digital health systems from other domains, diseases, or emerging areas of development such as AI, financial transfers, social media and collaboration, etc.

• Provide support related to designing and conducting  economic evaluations, research studies and protocols and undertaking modelling and statistical analysis.
• Undertaking focused analysis on TB projects to advance the strategic goals of the Stop TB Partnership;
• Designing and conducting TB research studies, including publishing findings in peer-reviewed journals, producing white papers for policymakers, and coordinating technical symposia at regional and global levels. 

• Assist STBP and / our country stakeholders and partners in supporting the planning for and execution of the concrete and practical roll-out of TB vaccines;
• Draft various content and resources, including white papers and journal articles; and,
• Support the organization of country and global consultations, including the drafting of the agenda, participants lists, presentation materials, and synthesis reports.

• Assist STBP and / or country stakeholders and partners in supporting the accelerated and sustainable roll-out of innovations;
• Conduct market research, assessing market readiness, identifying target end-users, monitoring trends, and providing strategic insights;
• Develop and supporting the monitoring of comprehensive innovation launch plans, including realistic schedules and timelines, channel strategies, etc.; and
• Identify and support the continuous improvement in the accelerated and sustainable roll-out of innovations. 

• Develop and update STBP’s innovation-wide approach through a portfolio of current and future strategic initiatives, including the development of a theory of change,  workplans, and key performance scorecards and indicators.
• Identify and support mapping, intelligence-gathering, and outreach to potential and relevant donors, funders, and investors.
• Develop and update innovation related pitch decks and concept notes.
• Develop proposals and support the grant-making processes.   

Candidates should indicate in their UNOPS profile their specific area(s) of expertise. 

• Advanced degree (Master’s) in business administration, computer science, economics, engineering, finance, medicine, public health, social science, economics, engineering, or other relevant fields is required.
• University degree (Bachelor’s) in the above-mentioned subjects with an additional two (2) years of relevant professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced degree.