Consultancy - Gender Technical Support for Addressing Zero Dose Immunization, 5 months, Home-based, MENA Regional Office - Jordan

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

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, commitment.

Consultancy title: Gender Technical Support for Addressing Zero Dose Immunization.

Duration: 5 months (55 working days)

Duty Station: Home-Based

UNICEF, along with WHO, GAVI and other partners, is committed to supporting governments to improve overall health

service delivery in communities with large numbers of zero-dose children. UNICEF and partners seek to step up efforts

to identify zero-dose children in these communities, understand barriers to access vaccination, design sustainable

interventions and strengthen health systems to overcome those barriers and work to establish platforms to ensure

reliable, sustainable delivery of immunization among other primary health care services. Egypt, State of Palestine, NWS,

Morocco and Yemen are undertaking frontline service provider training and resource development. MENARO will

support the Country Offices, with capacity sharing with efficiency and technical expertise.

UNICEF's latest study explored gender-related barriers to immunization in Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, Syria and Yemen and

outlined recommended approaches and entry points for addressing these barriers at the individual, household,

community and institutional levels in order to increase immunization reach and coverage in under-immunized

communities. As per the recommendations, UNICEF is investing in gender-responsive health system strengthening,

supported by building health worker and UNICEF country offices capacity to develop plans for accelerating

implementation of the recommendations of the gender barrier analysis, improving the collection, analysis and use of

data disaggregated by sex, age and additional factors, developing feedback mechanisms to improve the quality and

acceptability of services and strengthening safeguarding and complaint mechanisms to support a predominantly female

health workforce.

How can you make a difference?

Key Activities/deliverables:

1. Support country offices in their implementation of gender responsive strategies to overcoming barriers in

   zero dose communities, by developing adapted training material for frontline service providers across

   Country Offices.

2. Quality assurance and support to Country Offices by sharing progress updates, lessons learned and key

   insights from and with MENARO and Country Offices.

3. Knowledge management in terms of organising a webinar presentations on best practices with COs and

   develop a summary report.

Work Assignment Overview

Tasks/Milestone

Monthly Deliverables/Outputs

Timeline

Objective 1:

Development and implementation

of adapted training material for

country office implementation

• Review Gender barriers to Immunization report to identify entry points to prioritised per country recommendations.
• Desk review of UNICEF Global, Regional and County level training material, including existing country or regional level initiatives (ongoing and planned) which can integrated gender specific trainings.
• Develop adapted material in collaboration with concerned Country Offices informed by key frontline providers strength and weaknesses to support system strengthening, building on the gender barriers to immunization study.
• Support Country Offices to adopt existing training packages and develop plans for training
• Support Country Offices with implementing the trainings

25 days

Objective 2:

Consultative webinars (2 per country)

• Quality assurance and support to Country offices
• Share progress updates monthly on lessons learned and key insights from and with Country Offices

20 days

Objective 3:

Knowledge management and

reporting

• Organize a webinar presentation on the results and compiled lessons learned with COs and summary report

• Prepare a final written summary report with best practices

  highlighted

10 days

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Public Health or Health and immunization specialization *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• A minimum of 5 of relevant professional experience in Health/Immunizaiton and development programmes.
• Proven gender expertise in relation to health systems and health behaviours, attitudes and practices
• Solid technical knowledge of gender and immunizaiton curricula, tools and resources.
• Demonstrated experience with programme design, development and implementation, monitoring and evaluation using both quantitative and qualitative techniques.
• An excellent command of the English language both written and oral. Arabic and French are additional assets.

Personal/organisational Competencies...

• A high level of organisational and coordination skills.
• High level of attention to detail.
• Ability to produce quality work within a deadline and under pressure.
• Highly developed communication skills.
• Motivated and has the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Interest in social and electronic media, networking and developing communications.

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.