• Education: PhD - Doctoral degree in public health, global health, mental health, counseling, psychology, child and adolescent development, health systems, health policy or a related field.

• Work Experience:

- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in global health, mental health or health systems, including significant experience in child and adolescent mental health.

- Experience developing or applying global technical guidance, tools and implementation approaches across health and community-based systems.

- Demonstrated experience in strategic technical partnerships and program or investment development with academic, technical, philanthropic and/or funding partners.

- Strong experience in evidence translation, implementation learning and knowledge generation, including technical and/or peer-reviewed publications.

- Experience providing technical capacity strengthening and mentoring to specialist teams.

• Skills:

- Demonstrated expertise in child and adolescent mental health programming, service planning and systems strengthening, particularly in LMIC settings.

- Excellent analytical, technical writing, facilitation and communication skills.

• Language Requirements: Fluency in English required.

- Familiarity with UNICEF Country Office programming environments and Global Program.