Consultancy: Integrated Outbreak Analytics Specialist Consultant - Req

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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.

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Consultancy Title: Integrated Outbreak Analytics Specialist

Section/Division/Duty Station: Public Health Emergencies Team, PG Health Section (Geneva)

Duration: September 1, 2022 to June 14, 2023 (205 days which include UN Holidays (6) and PTO (14.5)

About UNICEF

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

BACKGROUND

The Public Health Emergencies team aims to coordinate and lead UNICEF IOA work within UNICEF (HQ and support to countries) as well as GOARN IOA Core Team.

Scope of Work:

1. Facilitate UNICEF contribution to IOA core team

• co-lead IOA Network group calls
• Contribute to the IOA Core Team strategy and 3-year work plan
• Organise IOA Core Team weekly calls
• Support and organise Core Team quarterly workshops

2. Identify opportunities and develop and provide trainings / briefings and other communication on IOA within UNICEF

• Work within PHE and HiE teams to identify opportunities to train on IOA within UNICEF
• Support country to country IOA exchange across UNICEF
• Support UNICEF IOA teams in country to document their approaches and share with other programmes/ country, regional and HQ teams

3. Facilitate UNICEF IOA in key working groups

• Participate in identified working groups to identify synergies for IOA (GTFCC, clusters, COVID-19 working groups)
• Identify opportunities for collaboration and funding or key projects with different groups (including participation in IOA Network or other activities)
• Facilitate the IOA Core Team support within GOARN partners and other calls

4. Co-lead SAGER IOA project

• Lead the publication and final review of Phase I (systematic review)
• Collaborate with (technical guidance/ direction/ review of work) researchers to conduct Phase II (participative research)
• Collaborate with researchers to publish SAGER IOA guidelines based on Phase I and II

5. Lead the publication of IOA Field Exchange

• Identify authors and articles (together with IOA DRC)
• Collect articles associated with specific topics for each quarterly publication
• Review articles, provide feedback and finalise
• Produce and publish briefs (together with IOA team in the DRC)

6. Develop and adapt training and communication material for IOA

• Based on exchange and requests, develop adapted training (live, recorded, written) materials
• Provide “live” IOA technical support based on request from countries
• Support and facilitate the development of IOA communication animations
• Document, produce and share case studies (in adapted formats eg. videos/ recordings etc as is appropriate)

Terms of Reference / Deliverables

Reporting to the Senior Adviser in Public Health Emergencies (PHE) in Health Section , the incumbent will review and participate in the development of key technical guidance as well as documents including digests on ongoing public health emergencies and response, outbreak reports, and review and synthesis of technical guidance and discussions as follows:

Tasks/Milestone:

Deliverables/Outputs

Timeline

1. Monthly report on coordination (10 reports provided at the end of each month with a summary of coordination and progress (September 2022 – June 2023)
2. Quarterly reports on technical guidance developed and provided (October 2022, January, March & June 2023)
3. IOA strategic work plan (November 2022)
4. Publication of SAGER IOA systematic review (November 2022)
5. SAGER IOA participative research report (December 2022)
6. 4 IOA field exchange publications ((2) December 2022, (2) June 2023)
7. IOA workshop reports (Dec 2022 & June 2023)
8. Publication of SAGER IOA guidelines (June 2023)

Qualifications

(1) Education

• Min 8-10 years’ experience in public health research and outbreak or public health response

2) Work experience

• Min 8-10 years’ experience working in humanitarian/development settings
• Experience managing diverse teams / different backgrounds and fields of work
• Experience working within Integrated Outbreak Analytics required
• Must have experience leading operational research for public health/ outbreak
• Experience writing academically (publications) required
• Experience developing technical guidance and support for public health research/ outbreak response

3) Competencies

• Experience working for the UN/ NGO required
• Leadership and strategic development required
• Working knowledge of French

Requirements****:

• Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system and provide Personal History Form (P11) Upload copy of academic credentials
• Financial proposal that will include:
• our daily/monthly rate (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference (can be downloaded here: https://www.unicef.org/about/employ/index_consultancy_assignments.html
  • travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR.
  • Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, and living costs as applicable.
  • Indicate your availability
• Any emergent / unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF.
• At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.
• Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

U.S. Visa information:

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4, and the consultant’s household members (spouse) will require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G4.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results. View our competency framework at: 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 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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.