United Nations Foundation (UNF) Seeking to Fill Position ... “Managing Director, Thought Leadership – mHealth Alliance”

Colleagues,

The United Nations Foundation (UNF) / Better World Fund (BWF) is looking for a candidate for a highly specific vacancy:

... “Managing Director, Thought Leadership – mHealth Alliance” ...

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... The web page for the Alliance is http://www.unfoundation.org/global-issues/technology/mhealth-allian... ...

... Please see the Job Description and contact information below ..,

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United Nations Foundation (UNF) / Better World Fund (BWF)

Managing Director, mHealth Alliance

Vacancy announcement

Department: mHealth Alliance

Background

The rapid expansion of wireless networks in every region in the world has the potential to revolutionize health delivery models, making it easier to reduce childhood mortality, improve maternal health, and combat diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria.

The Alliance was founded in 2009 by the United Nations Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation (now joined by PEPFAR and the GSM Association). It is hosted at the UN Foundation. The Alliance fills a global role as a catalyst for driving mHealth to sustainable scale, unlocking the greatest possible benefit for public health in developing countries.

The vision of the Alliance is to improve health outcomes in underserved communities by fostering collective action to create and deliver sustainable mobile (mHealth) solutions. Our mission is leverage the growing global reach of wireless networks to promote quality health and wellbeing at the farthest reaches of wireless communications in lower and middle income countries. To that end, the mHealth Alliance is structured to work with partners in four key
areas.

(1) Thought Leadership through convening leaders and research;

(2) Communications and Advocacy: knowledge-sharing between the global health and information
technology communities through an online collaborative community platform, events, and other forms of communications;

(3) Technology: designs and development of standards-based, interoperable, and scalable
mobile-based solutions ; and

(4) Deployment: helping organize field trials for scale and sustainability.

Overview of Position

The Managing Director oversees all matters concerning the Thought Leadership activates of the Alliance, and is the substantive expert for the Alliance on the non-technical aspects of mHealth. S/he has responsibility for the planning and implementation of all thought leadership initiatives, including making the unit self sustaining.

Working Relationships

The Managing Director is a member of the mHealth Alliance team, working closely with all staff, consultants and stakeholders. The Managing Director reports to the Executive Director of the mHeatlh Alliance.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

Develop and manage the Thought Leadership department of the Alliance, including its

individual projects, the Thought Leadership Committee, and fundraising and spending related thereto.

· Oversee the current Thought Leadership activities; ensure they are completed with a
high degree of professionalism that identifies the Alliance as a true thought leader in the subject area.

Manage “cross cutting projects” that involve aspects of other areas of the Alliance, when given such assignments.

Ensure coordination between Thought Leadership activities and other Alliance activities, and with relevant United Nations Foundation activities.

Oversee the formation of the Thought Leadership Committee, and properly staff it.

Work with the Executive Director to develop a strategic plan to have the division advance goals of the Alliance and become a successful, self sustaining part of it.

Supervise other Thought Leadership staff and consultants.

· Develop effective working relationships with relevant staff at UNF, UN Agencies, and
additional partners and coalition members.

· Represent the Alliance at meetings, conferences, and events concerned with mHealth
issues.

· Provide written and in-person reports on Alliance activities as required.

Other duties as may be assigned.

Selection Criteria

Graduate degree in medicine or global public health required.

· Significant experience in low and middle income countries, and in relevant professional activities.

· Passion for improving the health of disadvantaged persons in low and middle income countries.

· Strong spoken, analytical and writing skills in English. Public speaking ability,
foreign languages a plus.

· Ability to lead and grow this highly visible part of the organization, including
developing projects and ensuring they are funded.

· Ability to relate Alliance agenda to concerns of others, and to build coalitions around
issues.

· Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, work to deadlines under pressure,
and undertake independent problem solving.

· Advanced knowledge of and experience with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook and
PowerPoint).

· Self-starter and faster leaner. Keen attention to detail.

· Team player a must. Skilled at “lifting up” less experienced staff.

· Stress tolerance and resilience. Ability to travel.

The above is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for performance of the positions responsibilities. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of essential functions responsibilities or requirements, nor meant to exclude other duties as assigned.

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