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For every child, Safety…
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a global call to action to end poverty, protect the environment, and ensure peace and prosperity for all. UN support to Malawi aligns with these goals through the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) for 2023-2028, which complements Malawi’s national development priorities as outlined in the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS) IV for 2019-2023. The UNSDCF represents UN Malawi’s commitment to addressing national challenges through a system-wide response.
UN investments under the Cooperation Framework focus on three main pillars:
The UN Joint Programme on “Health Systems Strengthening for Equitable Health Outcomes” (UNJP-HSS) is part of this framework, supporting the pillars of population management, inclusive human development, and inclusive and resilient growth. The programme is coordinated by three UN agencies—UNICEF, UNFPA, and WHO—with UNICEF as the technical lead.
Introduction:
Despite recent improvements, Malawi faces significant challenges in health outcomes. The UNJP-HSS, funded by the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office, aims to improve health and survival rates for the most vulnerable populations in Malawi. Health care resources are disproportionately allocated to tertiary facilities and services. Achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) requires a cost-effective equity-focused Essential Health Package (EHP) that leaves no-one behind prioritizing primary and preventive care, improves quality, and strengthens health systems.
Programme Focus:
Key Objectives:
The UNJP-HSS will emphasize the 4 Ps (People, Product, Place, and Policy), leveraging the comparative advantages of participating UN agencies. The Resident Coordinator’s Office (RCO) will coordinate the programme, providing technical support to ensure the availability and accessibility of quality integrated Sexual Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child Adolescent Health (SRMNCAH) services at primary care and community levels, aiming to achieve good health by 2025 for women including those pregnant, children, and adolescents.
How can you make a difference?
SCOPE OF WORK/OBJECTIVES
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Academic Qualification:
Work Experience: Essential:
Desirable:
Technical Skills, Knowledge, and Strength Areas:
Required
Languages:
Please refer to the attached full Terms of Reference Terms of Reference_UNJP District Coordination Consultants.pdf for more details on the consultancy and requirements.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.
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. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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.
HOW TO APPLY…
Interested Individual Consultant should provide the following:
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.