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UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, the right to a Future

UNICEF Supply Division (SD) works to ensure equitable and inclusive access to essential supplies and services for children and their families, in development, humanitarian and fragile contexts. These supplies are critical to saving lives, supporting children’s health and education, and protecting them from abuse, exploitation, and neglect. As the UN’s largest end to end supply chain entity, UNICEF leverages its global reach, market influence, supply chain expertise and partnerships with governments, civil society, private sector, industry, and other stakeholders to meet children’s needs and protect their rights around the world.

SD focuses on three result areas to maximize impact, scale, and effectiveness: strategic procurement; supply preparedness and response in humanitarian and fragile contexts; and supply chain optimization. To facilitate and accelerate progress toward these results, SD employs three change strategies: financing for supply and services, supply chain digitalization and supply chain localization.

The Procurement Services Manager (System Strengthening, Supply Financing) supports the long-term sustainability and effective use of UNICEF’s supply financing instruments, Vaccine Independence Initiative (VII), Match Window of the Child Nutrition Fund (CNF), and the MNCH Accelerator Match Fund, in multiple priority countries. The role ensures that countries can access these supply financing support through these instruments, diagnoses of supply financing challenges, and operationalizes supply financing roadmaps to improve availability of quality-assured essential supplies. 

How can you make a difference?

The position provides technical support, coordination, financing analysis, and partnership engagement to strengthen country-level use of health supply financing mechanisms and address bottlenecks that impede access to essential supplies.

The position is accountable for:

• Providing technical assistance and financing analysis
• Strengthening country supply financing capacity and systems
• Supporting internal coordination to engage stronger through County Offices
• Supporting development and implementation of supply financing roadmaps
• Ensuring strong engagement with governments, MDBs, and UNICEF Country Offices
• Monitoring progress of the Frontrunner Country Initiative and producing evidence and reporting

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks:

Strategic Planning & Alignment

Contributes to strategy discussions and integrates supply financing requirements into country operational plans; ensures roadmaps are informed by baseline survey findings. Improves timelines in operationalization of Supply Financing.

Country Engagement & Technical Assistance

Provides technical assistance to MoH, MoF, MDBs, and UNICEF COs to identify bottlenecks, conduct baseline surveys, and operationalize country-specific supply financing roadmaps for VII, CNF, and MNCH Accelerator

Partnerships & Advocacy

Engages with MDBs, donors, national stakeholders, and global financing partners to advocate for use of UNICEF Supply Financing instruments and promote their integration into national strategies.

Monitoring, Reporting & Evidence

Tracks progress of the Frontrunner Country Initiative, conducts surveys with MoF/MoH, and prepares progress reports, syntheses, and donor briefs.

Regional Coverage, Problem Solving & Capacity Strengthening

Anticipates financing challenges, identifies and resolves bottlenecks hindering instrument uptake, and strengthens partner capacity in planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financing processes.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: JD – Procurement Services Manager_P4_00135984.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in Business Administration, Finance, Public Finance, Public Policy, Health Economics, Economics, Pharmacy, or related field.
  A Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in a relevant area combined with 2 additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree. This is applicable to internal (FT, Continuing and Permanent) staff only.
• Work Experience: 8 years of progressively responsible experience in supply/logistics management, health financing, public financial management, or related financing areas. At least four years in developing countries. Experience working with MoH and MoF on budgeting, forecasting, and analysis of public financial resources. Experience with governments, MDBs, donors, and development partners in multi-stakeholder settings. Experience strengthening supply financing systems and providing country-level technical assistance. Specific focus is on sector-specific health financing (e.g., immunization, nutrition, HIV) and fiscal efficiency (public financial management), funding flows, and procurement services.
• Skills: Strong analytical, research, and reporting skills; Health financing and public financial management; Stakeholder coordination with MoH, MoF, MDBs, donors; Budget analysis, forecasting, and financing diagnostics.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English and French is required.

Desirables:

• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
• Data collection and analysis is desired.
• Reporting and evidence synthesis is desired.
• Supply financing mechanisms is an asset.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). 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 based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.

Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable candidates are encouraged to apply.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.

In this role, you will collaborate with colleagues across multiple locations. For effective collaboration, we encourage flexible working hours that accommodate different time zones while prioritizing staff wellbeing.

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.