National Consultant - Pipeline Management Lead (PVAC) at UNICEF

Background

• The Pipeline Management Lead will play a pivotal role in achieving PVAC's mission by identifying, structuring, and securing financing for high-impact healthcare transactions in Nigeria.
• This strategic role is essential for attracting investments into Nigeria’s healthcare sector, fostering innovation, and expanding access to essential healthcare services and products.
• Given the complexity of healthcare financing and the need for substantial investment in the sector, this role requires a senior professional with deep expertise in financial transactions, investment management, and stakeholder engagement within the healthcare domain.

How can you make a difference?

• Strategy Development for Opportunity Origination: Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to identify and originate investment opportunities aligned with PVAC’s strategic objectives for Nigeria's healthcare sector.
• Team Leadership in Transaction Management: Lead a team of transaction specialists focused on identifying, evaluating, and securing investment opportunities across various healthcare sub-sectors, including therapeutics, consumables, vaccines, diagnostics, and healthcare provision.
• Due Diligence and Compliance Oversight: Oversee due diligence processes, ensuring potential transactions meet financial viability, regulatory standards, and PVAC's investment principles.
• Deal Structuring and Negotiation: Manage the structuring and negotiation phases of transactions, collaborating with internal and external legal teams to secure favorable terms for the secretariat and its partners.
• Stakeholder Relationship Management: Build and maintain a network of potential investors, including domestic and international private equity firms, venture capitalists, and development finance institutions, to foster long-term investment relationships.
• Inter-Secretariat Collaboration: Coordinate with other secretariat teams (e.g., Healthcare Enabling Team) to address regulatory issues and ensure a supportive environment for investments.
• Market Research and Trend Analysis: Track industry trends and prepare periodic market insight reports, identifying emerging investment opportunities within the healthcare sector.

Work Assignment:

• Develop a proactive investor relations strategy to enhance PVAC’s engagement with existing and potential investors, fostering long-term partnerships and aligning investor interests with PVAC’s goals.
  • Deliverable/Output: Investor Relations Strategic Plan.
• Develop and implement a strategy to identify, assess, and originate new high-impact investment opportunities in alignment with PVAC’s strategic priorities in Nigeria’s healthcare sector.
  • Deliverable/Output: Opportunity Origination Strategy Document.
• Lead a team of transaction specialists in identifying, evaluating, and securing investment opportunities across healthcare sub-sectors, ensuring a steady pipeline of impactful transactions.
  • Deliverable/Output: Transaction Management Workflow Pipeline Report.
• Identify and cultivate partnerships with organizations and networks that can provide PVAC with access to high-quality deal flows, co-investment opportunities, and thought leadership on healthcare investment in emerging markets.
  • Deliverable/Output: Partnership Network Map and Partner Engagement Strategy Document.
• Oversee the due diligence process to ensure that potential investment opportunities are financially viable, meet regulatory standards, and align with PVAC's impact and financial objectives.
  • Deliverable/Output: Due Diligence Checklist and Protocol Document.
• Oversee the performance of PVAC’s portfolio transactions, ensuring that investments meet their objectives and contribute positively to the healthcare ecosystem.
  • Deliverable/Output: Portfolio Performance Report and Portfolio Review Summary.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have

• An advanced university degree in Business Administration, Finance, or a related field.
• A minimum of five (5) years of relevant professional experience in investment banking, private equity, or a related financial services sector, with a proven track record in healthcare sector transactions.
• Demonstrated expertise in originating, structuring, and closing complex transactions within healthcare or similar sectors.

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

• Financial and Analytical Skills: Strong understanding of transaction structuring, financial modeling, and investment due diligence processes.
• Negotiation and Communication Skills: Excellent abilities in negotiation and managing communications with diverse stakeholders.
• Leadership and Team Management: Experience in leading transaction teams and managing high-stakes investment projects.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Skilled in relationship-building with investors, regulatory bodies, and healthcare providers.
• Strategic Vision: Ability to develop and implement a sector-specific origination strategy with a focus on sustainable impact.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency contexts is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.