• Country: New York, USA
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: UNDP
• Gender: Both
• Deadline: 2024-02-13

Under the supervision of the Director: HIV and Health Group (HHG), and Regional Team Leader: HHG Asia and the Pacific, the Policy Specialist will contribute to the implementation of the Access and Delivery Partnership, with a particular focus on policy coherence and South-South cooperation on health technology innovation and access. The Policy Specialist will work closely with regional and country office colleagues to implement ADP activities and to support the establishment of partnerships with development partners, government, UN agencies and the civil society organizations on promoting health technology innovation and access.

The incumbent will be primarily responsible for the following functions:

• Partnerships
• Policy Advice and Programme Support Delivery
• Advocacy
• Work planning and Results Based Management

UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. This is a recognition of interconnected nature of development risks & crises that the world is facing and that call for assembling of multidisciplinary teams for an integrated & systemic response. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across issues, units, functions, teams and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.

• Support the Director, HHG and Regional Team Leader, HHG Asia and the Pacific to strengthen relationships and work closely with ADP core partners, and other key partners including, governments, private sector, academia, NGOs, and CSOs, on the promotion of health technology innovation and equitable access
• Engage with development partners and donors to monitor and analyse trends, priorities and developments within the global donor/funding landscape
• Develop implementation plan to foster strategic partnerships with relevant UN agencies and external partner institutions, governments (including Member States representatives in New York and Geneva), the private sector, academia, NGOs, and other civil society organizations
• Support the Director, HHG and Regional Team Leads, in collaboration with BERA, to engage with global partners and develop/implement resource mobilization plans under corporate guidelines, including to fulfil corporate and donor reporting, advocacy and information-sharing requirements

• Provide policy and technical guidance on health technology innovation and access issues, with a focus on enabling policy and legal environments around access to treatment, international trade, competition law and policy, and health procurement
• Develop and implement policy initiatives on key and/or emerging policy agendas, in collaboration with policy teams in the Regional Hubs, including on the health technology R&D and innovation, local production and related issues
• Provide policy advice and technical support to countries in collaboration with the BPPS and GPN teams in the Regional Hubs, on opportunities to reform national laws and policies to enable equitable access to quality and affordable medicines and other health technologies
• Support the design and implementation of capacity strengthening activities pertaining to health technology innovation and access, including through the GPN
• Coordinate research and provide expert advice to the UNDP Global Fund Partnership and Health Systems Partnership Team, Regional Hubs and Country Offices on opportunities to provide efficient and cost-effective quality solutions to challenges in quality medicines supply in compliance with international, regional and national legislation and policy
• Coordinate implementation of capacity-building interventions to inform UNDP, partners, and other relevant stakeholders on latest developments, trends and priorities in the relevant thematic area(s), including through South-South cooperation, including through the GPN

• As part of the GPN and in collaboration with the BPPS teams in the Regional Hubs, support the integration of technical and policy advice into programme implementation that responds to country office needs
• Provide substantive input in the process of advocating the importance of the relevant thematic area(s) in various fora, including academia and civil society, with a view to deepen related political commitment and related reforms
• Institutionalize good practices and knowledge sharing among Country Offices and Regional Hubs in the relevant thematic area(s) and actively participate in the GPN, and other knowledge sharing and training initiatives
• Coordinate the development, expansion and update of related UNDP Community of Practices in the relevant thematic areas, and support capacity development of relevant UNDP staff in navigating and utilizing virtual knowledge repositories in the relevant thematic area and regularly updates staff on access to new knowledge resources

• Monitor and report on UNDP progress and achievements in implementing the ADP activities at the global and regional levels.
• Coordinate HHG contributions and support to corporate knowledge management activities, whether at the global, cross-regional or region-specific level to help influence/advance policy dialogue in the relevant thematic area(s) in collaboration with policy teams at HQ and in Regional Hubs
• Develop/contribute to development of resources that provide leading-edge information relevant to the thematic area, including in collaboration with the SDG Integration Office, the Digital Office, the Global Fund Partnership and Health Programme Implementation Support Team, the South-South Cooperation Team

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:

Business Management – Results-based management:

• Ability to manage programmes and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results.

Business Management – Operations Management:

• Ability to effectively plan, organise, and oversee the Organisation’s business processes in order to convert its assets into the best results in the most efficient manner. Knowledge of relevant concepts and mechanism.

Business Management – Partnerships Management:

• Ability to build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society, and private sector partners, experts, and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies

Business Management – Monitoring:

• Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme performance and results

2030 Agenda: People:

• Health   Social Determinants of Health

2030 Agenda: People:

• Health   Access to treatment.

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