Consultancy: International Consultant to Develop National Community Health Strategy 2022-2026, 4 Months, 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, Health

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 role of International Consultant is to Develop National Community Health Strategy 2022-2026 and to provide strategic, technical, and programmatic analyses, insights, advice, coordination, and management support to the Ministry of Health’s Community Health Unit (MOH/CHU) to develop the National Community Health Strategy (NCHS) 2022–2026 in line with the National Health Strategic Plan 2022–2026.

Please see Detailed TOR for more information on the tasks and deliverables: Consultancy to Develop National Community Health Strategy 2022-2026_MG.pdf

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

The consultant must possess the following:

• PHD desirable or Masters’ degree in Public Health, Health Economics, Health Policy and/or Public Policy with an extensive progressive professional experience related optimization in health care, design of health strategy and strategic reforms with a track record of experience in designing Health strategies and packages.
• At least 10 years of progressive professional experience related to optimization in health care, and design of health systems and strategies.
• Experience with developing health program/ health strategies, SOPs, and protocols for countries.
• Experience with health service delivery in Zambia an added advantage. Knowledge of Zambia’s health system is an asset.
• Demonstrated experience in developing operational plans and organizational capacity building.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and experience in working with a wide range of individuals in government, private sector and civil society;
• Demonstrable experience producing government documents and should have excellent English writing and communication skills.
• Strong writing skills in English with a clear, straight- forward writing style.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

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 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:

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

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.