Consultancy - Individual National Consultant for developing Hand Hygiene for All Operational Guidelines, 180 working days over 11 months period, Lusaka, Zambia

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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, WASH……..

The UNICEF Programme of Cooperation with the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) is designed to address and mitigate the threat of poverty the country’s children face, while responding to the needs with interventions addressing the multiple causative factors.

To find out more about UNICEF’s work in Zambia, please visit https://www.unicef.org/zambia/.

How can you make a difference?

The overall objective of this assignment is to contribute to ensuring that Zambia has a comprehensive NHH4AR for all contexts and settings with links to COVID-19 and other diseases supported by Operational Guidelines with minimum standards, quality assurance (QA) check lists, protocols and communication materials for all contexts.

The specific role of the national consultant is to work with the different sectors involved in implementation to develop Operational Guidelines, Minimum Standards, QA checklists and certification protocols; and communication materials for use in the delivery of hand hygiene programmes in all contexts and settings. These will incorporate gender dynamics, taking into consideration the factors informing the differences in roles of men and women in hand hygiene practices and the learnings from the outbreak of COVID-19 to make the NHH4AR gender responsive.

Please see Detailed TOR for more information on the tasks and deliverables, here ToR Consultant_Ind Contractor_2022handhygiene natsig_Adevrt.pdf

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

The consultant must possess the following:

• Master’s in Water and Sanitation, Public health, Programme Communication with a bias in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene related subjects or a field of study relevant to water and sanitation.
• At least 5 years, 3 of which should be in the WASH Sector particularly in Hygiene Promotion and Social and behaviour change communication.
• Excellent interpersonal and professional skills in interacting with the government and development partners and other stakeholders.
• Experience in undertaking similar assignments.
• Strong analytical, writing and communication skills
• Familiarity with the local social and cultural context is highly recommended

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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.

Please remember to express your financial proposals (and/or professional consultancy fees) in Zambian Kwacha.