Contract Duration – 12 months
Working arrangement: Remote with possible travel to Beijing
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TERMS OF REFERENCE
China is experiencing a growing burden of childhood overweight and obesity, driven by changing dietary patterns and increasingly unhealthy food environments. Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are recognized globally as a major contributor to excess sugar intake and obesity risk among children and adolescents. UNICEF China is supporting efforts to advance healthier food environments for children through evidence generation, policy dialogue and strategic advocacy. As part of this agenda, UNICEF China aims to explore the feasibility and policy relevance of fiscal measures, including sugar-sweetened beverage taxation and related healthy food fiscal policies. Recognizing the technical complexity and political sensitivity of fiscal policy development and reform, UNICEF seeks an international consultant with recognized expertise in health taxation to provide high-level strategic and technical advisory support to UNICEF and its national partners.
If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: Strategic Technical Consultant.pdf
Minimum requirements:
- Education: Advanced degree in Economics, Public Finance, Public Health, Nutrition Policy, Health Financing or related fields.
- Work Experience: Minimum 15 years of professional experience in health taxation, fiscal policy, public finance, nutrition policy or related areas.
- Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.
- Knowledge/Expertise/Skills: For every Child, you demonstrate... UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status. UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance. UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially. Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System): Remarks: UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information. All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.
- Demonstrated expertise in sugar-sweetened beverage taxation and/or health taxes.
- Proficiency in fiscal modeling, price elasticity analysis, or health impact projection models and ability to appraise complex economic data and simulation results.
- Experience supporting governments, WHO or international organizations on fiscal policy design and implementation.
- Familiarity with the socio-economic and fiscal context of China or similar high/middle-income countries.
- Excellent analytical, strategic advisory and policy writing skills.
- Desirables: Experience contributing to WHO/global normative guidance highly desirable.
- An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
- Cover letter
- A separate financial proposal Financial proposal for Strategic Technical Consultant.docx
- A detailed technical proposal: Applicants are requested to submit a technical proposal (maximum 5 pages) including:
- Two relevant writing samples/publications.
