Position Overview

The United Nations Foundation was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities. The United Nations Foundation connects people, ideas, and resources to the United Nations to help strengthen the UN and its ability to advance human dignity and well-being on a thriving planet. The Foundation champions multilateral cooperation and the UN system and serves its mission by accelerating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate action, mobilizing diverse constituencies for global change, nurturing a strong U.S.-UN relationship, and supporting the UN and its leadership.

The Associate role serves in a support role to enable a strong relationship and partnership with the World Health Organization, UN Member States, and non-governmental entities to enable UNF’s strategic support to the UN system on cross-cutting issues, including Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), and Global Health Security (GHS).

This position is based in New York, NY (hybrid schedule).

Essential Functions

• Support and facilitate a strong relationship for the UN Foundation with the World Health Organization, including, inter alia:
  • Help track and draft analyses of multilateral health policy processes at the WHO, under the direction of the Policy Manager
  • Work under the direction of the Policy Manager, Global Health to manage UNF’s “official relations” status with WHO
  • Provide background information and briefing support to UNF Advocacy team’s work on U.S. advocacy for WHO with the U.S. Administration and Capitol Hill
  • Logistically manage UNF’s annual delegation to the World Health Assembly in Geneva in May, including organize internal briefings and external side events, and manage a calendar of side events for each
• Work with UNF’s New York-based Policy Manager, Global Health to:
  • Help track and draft analyses of multilateral health policy processes at the UN.
  • Provide event planning support for internal briefings and external side events throughout the year and during UNGA
  • Provide support for NY-based health mission engagement work as needed (ex. tracking, memos, desk research)
  • Manage a calendar of health-related side events during UNGA
• Support and facilitate UNF’s work on select health policy issues:
  • Help track and draft analyses of multilateral policy and governance developments related to UHC, AMR and GHS in the WHO, UN, G7, and G20 forums
  • Serve as constituency focal point for UHC2030 Foundation Constituency, supporting the Vice President in her role on the Steering Committee and UHC Day campaign planning
  • Facilitate UNF’s work with other global health partnerships and coalitions
• Provide general research and writing support to the global health team, including briefing papers, executive summaries, analyses, and presentations on above topics, or others as assigned
• Perform other duties as assigned

Selection Criteria

• Bachelor’s degree required; focus in international affairs, public health, or related, relevant field preferred
• Passion, knowledge and work experience in global health and development issues
• At least 3 years of progressively responsible experience required
• Familiarity with the United Nations preferred
• Excellent oral and written communication skills required, including the ability to analyze and translate or distill complex scientific and policy issues into memos, reports, or blog posts
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with diverse partners; ability to operate collaboratively and communicating clearly, often under time pressure, and with discretion, tact, diplomacy, cultural sensitivity and empathy
• Ability to take initiative; the ideal candidate will be a self-starter who is comfortable carrying out multiple tasks on different projects and assignments, is dependable and consistent, enjoys being part of a team and anticipates team needs
• Strong research skills
• Ability to organize and classify materials (electronic and hard copy) effectively
• Experience with event logistics strongly preferred
• Advanced experience with Microsoft tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Sharepoint and Teams
• Ability to meet regular attendance/tardiness policy
• Ability to work under pressure and handle stress

Benefits & Compensation

For full-time, U.S. benefit eligible employees, UNF offers an excellent range of benefits, including:

• a choice between two health plans through UnitedHealthcare (PPO or HDHP with HSA)
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• flexible spending accounts
• 403b retirement savings plan with a generous matching contribution
• group term and supplemental life insurance
• short-term disability
• long-term disability
• health club discounts
• commuter subsidy
• back-up care
• employee assistance program

Additionally, all benefit eligible employees have 12 paid holidays, 20 vacation days, 10 sick days, 3 personal days, and 8 weeks of family leave care.

The United Nations Foundation is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative-action employer. The United Nations Foundation provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.