Digital Health Systems and Interoperability Consultant (Multi-country)

About

UNICEF seeks a consultant to lead on digital health systems and interoperability for a multi-country programme, with emphasis on health information exchange enabling layers, investment-blueprint requirements and architecture, and financing-window analysis. The home-based role requires regular in-person engagement in Bangkok and substantial overlap with Bangkok working hours. Applicants need an advanced degree or qualifying first degree plus experience, at least eight years of relevant digital-health work, and fluency in English. Reference: 596658 Terms of service: Consultant Duty station: Kenya, Flexible location (home-based), with regular in-person engagement in Bangkok and Asia and the Pacific

How to apply

Submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System): an up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV); cover letter; a separate financial proposal (only acceptable in the format of the linked template); and a technical proposal comprising CV or P11, a technical note of no more than three pages, and one writing sample authored or co-authored by the candidate.

Qualifications

• Education: Master’ in Health informatics, information systems, computer science, engineering, public health with an informatics focus, or a related field.
• A first-level university degree with two additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in place of an advanced degree.
• Work Experience: At least eight years designing or implementing digital health systems in low- and middle-income countries, including at least five years on national-scale interoperability (requirements and enterprise architecture, facility, health worker and client registries, terminology services
• Skills: Hands-on FHIR experience, including profiling and implementation guides.
• Working knowledge of WHO SMART Guidelines and digital adaptation kits, HIE reference architectures and digital health maturity assessment.
• Ability to translate architecture into requirements that governments, vendors and financiers can act on.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.
• Spanish or French is an advantage.
• Experience in one or more regions of the participating countries.
• Experience with digital components of IFI-financed operations or with digital health costing.
• Experience integrating with digital public infrastructure such as identity and payments.
• Experience designing shared multi-country infrastructure.
• Experience with UN agencies.