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Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, a future

Background:

How can you make a difference?

1. To examine the contexts and environments, including governance and management, in which community health, nutrition and other services effectively enhance the primary health care goal of providing a continuum of care from national, sub national health facility and community levels.
2. To understand what works and does not work in managing and implementing the integration of community health, nutrition, and other services including SBC, ECD, education, WASH, child protection, social protection etc in South Asia.
3. To examine the service models/approaches/packages of services of integrated community health, nutrition and other services delivered in south Asia.
4. To document examples of and needed policies and strategies, governance and operational structures that are needed to ensure effective integrated community health, nutrition and other service programming.
5. To assess UNICEF’s efforts and positions in effectively supporting implementation of integrated community health, nutrition, and other services programming with the aim of fostering scalability and sustainability.
6. To examine the challenges faced and lessons learned in implementing existing integrated, community health, nutrition services in South Asia.
7. To make recommendations on key modalities for planning, implementation and scaling up of integrated delivery of health, nutrition and essential social services at the community level.
8. To make recommendations on how UNICEF could better support governments for effective implementation and scaling up of integrated delivery of health, nutrition and essential social services at the community level

Key Assignments/Tasks:

Key Deliverables:

1. Prepare Inception report: Brief Inception report describing the methodology, including the tools and names of potential respondents – this will be submitted after inception discussions with UNICEF staff.
2. Oversee  and conduct desk review and data collection: Data collection scripts and preliminary survey results
3. Prepare draft power point with preliminary highlights: Draft power point with highlights and early observations
4. Prepare report to include the methodology and findings answering the assessment questions
5. Address comments from UNICEF and revise report

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education:

A master’s degree in public health, Child Health, Nutrition, or another relevant field or a medical degree with the required experience

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

To view our competency framework, please visit  here.

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.

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.