Intern, Immunisation Financing

vor 1 Woche

Genf, Genf, Schweiz Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Secretariat Vollzeit

In order to strengthen Gavi's position and collaboration with other partners, and alignment with national priorities in selected countries, Gavi is looking to recruit a dynamic, results-oriented intern to join its fast-paced Secretariat in Geneva and support the IFS team to achieve its objectives.


In this capacity, the intern will be directly responsible for supporting IFS team in the implementation of cross-cutting projects relevant to the IFS team.

Main Duties/Responsibilities

Sustainability of countries in transition

  • Analysing the budgetary, macro, and fiscal prospects of countries in transition;
  • Identifying potential weaknesses that would hinder successful transition.

Co-financing and vaccine stockout risks

  • Identifying historical stockouts;
  • Analysing the linkages between timely payment of cofinancing and stockouts;
  • Identifying stockout risks associated with cofinancing delays;
  • Supporting communication to countries on risks associated with delayed payment of cofinancing;
  • Coming up with solutions to avoid stockouts in the context of multiyear approvals;
  • Improving the team's capacity to have visibility on stocks.

Co-financing optimization through vaccine product switches

  • Support analysis on financial implications of product switches;
  • Liaise with the Vaccine Programmes and Market Shaping teams to establish how the financial optimisation fits in from a programmatic and market shaping perspective.

Direct Facility Financing (DFF)

  • Documenting Gavi experience in DFF;
  • Stocktaking of current DFF schemes supported by Gavi;
  • Internal communications about lessons learned from Gavi engagement in DFF.

Budgeting of co-financing requirements

  • Documenting annual and midterm budgeting of Gavi cofinancing requirements in national budgets of Gavieligible countries;
  • Identifying gaps and opportunities for advocacy and capacitybuilding in planning and budgeting of vaccines domestic financing needs.

Review of Gavi's eligibility criteria

  • Support analytical work for the review of Gavi's eligibility criteria;
  • Development of slides on selected topics and options.

Note:

The essential functions listed in this section are not exhaustive of the job responsibilities; other duties may be assigned consistently with the department needs.


Work Experience

  • Work in the field of global health at global or national level;
  • Experience with doing analytical work in the context of global health.
Skills/Competencies

  • Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication, presentation, negotiation, and advocacy skills;
  • Ability to work successfully in an international and multicultural environment;
  • Excellent quantitative and analytical skills with economic and social data;
  • Excellent strategic and problemsolving skills;
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel;
  • Ability to take initiative in the absence of specific instructions, and to work effectively and efficiently with mínimal supervision.
Languages

  • Written and spoken fluency in English;
  • Fluency in other languages an asset.
Academic Qualifications

  • Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in health/development economics, economics, public health, social sciences, international affairs, or related fields.
Contacts

  • Gavi Secretariat.
Additional Information

Duration:
Start: 1 July 2023 (for up to 6 months)

Location - Geneva/Off-site

Stipends are available.

Eligibility criteria:

Interns are expected to be interning on a full-time basis.

Please note that as a vaccine organisation and in order to provide duty of care towards its employees, Gavi is requiring its new employees to confirm that they are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as a condition for pursuing employment with us.

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Gavi brings together the public and private sectors to save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines against 18 infectious diseases.

You will be joining an organisation at the centre of the international COVID-19 response, at the most critical time in global health in a lifetime.

You will work in a culturally diverse environment with over 70 nationalities.

You will collaborate with partners such as WHO, UNICEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank - and from business, civil society and government.

And you will work in the first global health organisation to receive equal gender salary certification.

Your unique experience, skills and talents can help us achieve our vision of leaving no one behind without the life-saving power of vaccines.

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