Health Specialist (Advocacy) United Nations at UNICEF Tanzania

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For every child, health
The
United Republic of Tanzania (URT) has renewed its commitment to
achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and adopted Primary Health
Care (PHC) as a main pillar for its action to achieve its UHC goals. URT
has recently become a middle-income country resulting in declining
donor resources and a pressing need for mobilizing domestic resources
including gaining efficiencies in health services delivery.

The
Health Specialist is expected to nurture close collaboration with key
partners at the national level, including the Ministry of Health, the
Ministry of Finance, the President’s Office Finance and Planning, the
President’s Office for Regional Administration and Local Government,
selected regional authorities, other UN agencies, development partners
and International Financial Institutions in both Mainland and Zanzibar.
Internally, a close relationship will also be needed with the
Communication, Advocacy and Partnership section to drive the identified
health advocacy agenda.

How can you make a difference?
Under
the direct supervision and guidance of the Chief of Health, the
incumbent will lead UNICEF’s work in developing and implementing TCO
advocacy agenda on health policy reforms.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS
Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

• Based on a collaboratively developed advocacy agenda, the Health Specialist will engage in: Networking
• negotiation
• Contributing to evidence generation for advocacy
• Embedding
  policy review into government annual planning processes Networking and
  coalition building Develop, maintain and nurture a relationship with key
  policy makers across relevant ministries and parliamentary committees
• Actively
  prepare for and participate in forums demonstrating UNICEF’s strengths
  and ensuring children are at the forefront of key discussions
• Build a coalition of partners to complement UNICEF’s advocacy priorities
• Plan
  and engage in evidence based advocacy with Ministries and parliamentary
  committee with the aim of influencing decisions and policies
• Convene
  discussions for purposes of advocacy around improving primary health
  care systems for children Contribute to evidence generation for advocacy
  Identify advocacy opportunities in the evidence generated by UNICEF and
  other partners
• Contribute to the generation of evidence to inform advocacy
• Develop policy briefs from generated evidence as a tool to further advocacy efforts
• Identify
  and agree on achievable and measurable advocacy activities and products
  Embed Policy Review into government planning processes Collaborate with
  MoH to rationalize and consolidate the numerous health sector policies
• Advocate for a routine, methodical policy review process as part of the annual planning and budget cycle process.
• Advocate for a rigorous review process to assess the need for new policy development

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

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