Deputy Chief Executive

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners' peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world.  UNOPS supports partners to build a better future by providing services that increase the efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of peace building, humanitarian and development projects.  Mandated as a central resource of the United Nations, UNOPS provides sustainable project management, procurement and infrastructure services to a wide range of governments, donors and United Nations organizations. 

RBM Partnership to End Malaria

The RBM Partnership to End Malaria is the global platform for coordinated action against malaria. It mobilizes for action and resources and forges consensus among partners. The Partnership is comprised of more than 500 partners committed to end malaria, including malaria endemic countries, their bilateral and multilateral development partners, the private sector, nongovernmental and community-based organizations, foundations, and research and academic institution.

The RBM partnership's strength lies in its ability to form effective partnerships both globally, regionally and nationally. Partners work together to scale up malaria-control and elimination efforts at country level, coordinating their activities to avoid duplication and fragmentation, and to ensure optimal use of resources. The partnership’s overall strategy aims to reduce malaria morbidity and mortality by reaching universal coverage of at risk populations and strengthening health systems.

The RBM Partnership is seeking a Deputy CEO to support the CEO in managing the RBM Partnership Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, and representing the Partnership at the global level.

Under the direct supervision of the EO of the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, the Deputy EO will have the following responsibilities:

Stakeholder Management

• Leads support to malaria endemic countries to effectively implement malaria prevention, control and elimination activities, working closely with the RBM Management Team, RBM partners and donors
• Works closely with donors and partner organizations to promote and advocate for sustainable financing at global and national levels to support malaria-endemic countries to implement their national plans, including through increased domestic resource allocations.
• In collaboration with partners, identifies operational challenges hampering the efforts of endemic countries, including resource deficiencies and works to solve these. 

Strategic Partnership

• Supports the EO and RBM Board to keep malaria high on the political and developmental agendas.
• Promotes and supports regional approaches to the fight against malaria anchored in existing political and economic platforms such as regional economic communities.
• Works with partners to sustain momentum and mobilise funding for regional and national malaria elimination efforts
• Advocates for malaria elimination to become a central theme in the sustainable development agenda and in the context of Universal Health coverage
• Works with partner organizations towards empowering countries, communities and individuals to defeat malaria in the context of Zero Malaria Starts with me!
• Works with partner organizations to promote innovation and facilitate uptake of new malaria prevention and control tools for greater impact
• Liaises regularly with partner organisations, including key donors, international NGOs and malaria-endemic countries and leads the development and implementation of a partnership framework
• Monitors the Partnership’s progress toward key targets and provides the EO with updates on progress, including identifying bottlenecks and constraints.

Leadership & Communications

• Assists the EO in responding to enquiries from the media to the Partnership and ensures that appropriate responses are made in a timely manner.
• Supports the EO in facilitating and promoting communication between the Board and Partners on policy and programme issues.
• Brings additional management and technical capacity to the RBM Management Team and facilitates smooth operation of the Secretariat’s programmatic activities including through the supervision of the management team technical staff.
• Represents the partnership at high level events, under the leadership of the EO
• Any other tasks as identified by the EO

• A minimum of 10 years of experience working in developing countries in the international public health field. This should include substantial experience of working closely with national counterparts in the host country, including Ministers of Health, national malaria control programmes and other relevant department(s) within the Ministry of Health
• Strong Malaria technical knowledge and experience of working with key implementing partners active in malaria prevention and control, including international NGOs is desirable
• Experience of public health policy formulation and implementation, preferably in a developing country environment is desirable
• Proven knowledge of the donor environment for malaria and the funding mechanisms of key donors, e.g. the Global Fund, US PMI, etc is desirable
• Strong networking skills and in depth knowledge and experience of working with key implementing partners active in malaria prevention and control, including international NGOs is desirable
• Experience in health systems strengthening highly desirable
• Proven track record in resource mobilization is desirable
• Excellent diplomatic and communication skills is desirable

Fluency in wrttien and spoken English is required

Knowledge of French is an asset

1. Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment 
2. Contract level: D1
3. Contract duration: One year initially, renewable subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns. Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.