UNU-International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) Policy Research Fellow 2025 (Paid) – YOA

Deadline: March 18, 2025

Applications are open for the UNU-International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) Policy Research Fellow 2025. Over the course of the earlier strategic plan (2019-2023), UNU-IIGH has constructed a major physique of labor to advance the mixing of rights-primarily based and gender-responsive approaches to well being programs and establishments, contributing to the overarching SDG of well being for all. Leveraging its place within the Global South and as an interlocutor throughout a number of stakeholder teams, together with authorities, analysis and the non-public sector, by way of its new strategic plan for 2024-2028 the institute operates throughout 4 basic work packages.

UNU-IIGH is recruiting a coverage analysis fellow for the next 3 work packages every.

• Gender Equality and Intersectionality: purpose to enhance the standard of well being care by way of human-centred approaches and to make use of this as an entry level for well being programs strengthening. Two fundamental thematic areas are strengthening human centered well being programs and advancing enabling environments for the well being workforce.
• Digital Health Security & Governance: tackle the colonial legacies and energy asymmetries that negatively influence sturdy digital well being governance, establish methods to strengthen well being knowledge governance with a selected deal with SRHR and promote range in expertise design and improvement.
• Climate Justice and Determinants of Health: amplify and translate analysis that demonstrates the inequalities underpinning the well being impacts of the local weather emergency and highlighting the facility asymmetries that decide the capabilities of communities to undertake mitigation and adaptation measures to safeguard in opposition to the unfavourable well being impacts of the local weather emergency. The work package deal goals to allow truthful and justice-oriented preparations overcoming the local weather and well being disaster. It will develop crucial pondering, platforms, dialogues and capacities for change that redress and remodel inequities in local weather and well being coverage.

Under the management of the Director and supervision of the respective Research Leads, UNU-IIGH is wanting for excellent researchers for these work packages, who will present technical enter in addition to handle chosen tasks, main the manufacturing of coverage-related analyses and analysis, convening crucial coverage dialogues and creating capability strengthening initiatives.

Responsibilities

Working on chosen tasks throughout the related work package deal, the Policy Research Fellow will:

• Lead on chosen tasks throughout the related work package deal, and the era and dissemination of coverage-related analysis
• Provide technical and managerial management for the profitable implementation of analysis and coverage engagement actions
• Build and handle partnerships with exterior researchers and companions
• Ensure tasks produce specified outcomes to the required customary of high quality and throughout the timeline and funds parameters
• Contribute to capability improvement, information translation and coverage dialogue facilitation
• Contribute to useful resource mobilization associated to the work package deal
• Participate in worldwide analysis, coverage and outreach occasions
• Supervise coverage analysis associates, PhD college students, junior researchers, interns; and
• Perform another duties as assigned by the Director or Research Leads

Benefits

• The profitable candidate can be employed beneath a PSA contract at P-3 degree and no relocation allowances apply. UNU provides a sexy compensation package deal together with an annual web wage within the vary of USD59,151.00 – USD62,024.00, commensurate with the expertise and {qualifications} of the candidate. Benefits embody 30 days of annual go away and a medical health insurance scheme.

Eligibility

• Master’s diploma in a related area with a minimal of seven (7) years of related progressively senior skilled expertise, together with the administration of analysis, coaching and coverage programmes; or
• PhD in a related area with a minimal of 5 (5) years of related progressively senior skilled expertise, together with the administration of analysis, coaching and coverage programmes;
• Demonstrated means to hold out and handle improvement analysis actions in a global atmosphere;
• Evidence of educational and peer-reviewed publications associated to related areas of the work packages;
• Demonstrated observe file in worldwide analysis and coverage engagement in areas associated to the work package deal;
• Evidence of instructing and analysis supervision expertise;
• Excellent verbal and written expertise in English throughout a spread of communication codecs (educational publications, programme reviews, coverage briefs). Knowledge of one other official UN language could be an asset;
• Track file of aggressive funding and useful resource mobilization from nationwide and worldwide funding companies; and
• Excellent workforce participant with sturdy interpersonal expertise and skill to work in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic atmosphere with sensitivity and respect for range.

Application

To apply to UNU, you’ll not want an account. Instead, they ask that you simply:

• Apply here;
• fill out the UNU P11 Form (keep away from utilizing comparable types supplied by different United Nations organisations or else, can be disqualified);
• present a motivation assertion (within the P11 type);
• reply a number of questions which are tailor-made to the place, together with rating of which work package deal you wish to be thought-about for; and
• earlier candidates needn’t apply.

For extra data, go to UNU-IIGH Policy Research Fellow.