Consultancy - Project Management and Data Analysis Consultant - Office Based, full time (11.5 months)

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Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

UNICEF works with governments and partners to strengthen national health supply chains by improving ownership, building capacities and enhancing sustainability. Strong and high-performing supply chains are critical for ensuring that essential and lifesaving public health commodities are available at all service delivery points where children and others need them, including in hospitals, health facilities, and mobile or outreach service delivery sessions. These supply chains must be dependable, flexible, adaptive, resilient, and provide an end-to-end perspective, ensuring efficiencies throughout the supply chain until the products are administered.

However, public health programmes through which these products are delivered, and their supply chains, continuously face changing multi-factor circumstances. For example, population increase as a result of year-on-year rise in birth cohorts, population dynamics resulting from cross-border migrations and internally displaced persons from conflicts situations, increasing product volumes, change in administrative and accountability capacities between national and sub-national governments etc.; could have differing impacts on who finances products, where they are received into the country and the strategies for distributing them to the last mile. While these factors can independently lead to reduced product availability, stock-outs or wastages; collectively, they create a strain on PHCSCs (Public Health Commodities Supply Chains).

Similarly, in most countries, due to product or programmatic differences, multiple donor requirements and accountabilities; the immunization supply chain and other non-immunization PHCSCs including those for family planning, HIV/TB, Malaria, Nutrition etc., are fully or in part run in parallel. These create multiple management and reporting lines, potentially in inefficient ways. Nevertheless, the success of establishing National Medical Stores (NMS) in countries where public health commodities are received (integrated) at the national level and dispatched to lower levels is an example of efficiency gains.

Recognizing the current set of fragmented tools (both UNICEF and others) that exist for aspects of the vaccine supply chain, the outcome for both countries and UNICEF and partners is sub-optimal, with a lack of integration and interoperability hampering our collective ability for operational excellence.

OBJECTIVE: The Project Management and Data Analysis Consultant is expected to act as a main point of contact for the selected project supporting the team with organizing relevant meetings, tracking the completion of all project milestones, monitoring overall performance, maintaining comprehensive project-related documentation, plans and reports.

Moreover, the selected candidate is expected to collect, organize and interpret raw data to identify trends and support ongoing efforts to generate evidence and recommendations to inform investments and technical decisions.

DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT:

Under the supervision of the Supply Chain Specialist and with support from key partners within UNICEF, the consultant’s duties and responsibilities include:

• General project management including development of project charter, project workplan and other project documentation, technical and communication material, budget management and presentations to UNICEF Supply Division Project Review Board and project funder.
• Coordinate all project-related stakeholders, communicate and coordinate with vendors and arranging meetings to provide progress updates.
• Coordinate all aspects of the project, including but not limited to:

1. preparing the inception meeting;
2. providing background material and supporting the desk review phase;
3. arranging key informant interviews and meetings through the support from the UNICEF country offices; reviewing deliverables;
4. providing technical support throughout the project;
5. Supporting a 1-day workshop in Copenhagen to discuss findings and potential solutions.

• Collect, organize and interpret raw data to inform technical decisions.
• Support data analysis and visualization efforts across multiple data sets and across different programmes.
• Any other activity necessary to ensure the project is implemented as per plan, and as agreed with the supervisor.

How can you make a difference?

1. Inception meeting arrangement/coordination and workshop facilitation
2. Minutes, relevant documents and presentations from the Project Review Board, the Immunization Supply Chain Demand planning and Forecasting Assessment team and other key meetings are timely prepared and kept in adequate order for later reference.
3. Overall coordination plan and report– schedule, budget management, stakeholder interview arrangement, communication with UNICEF SD Centres, Regional and Country offices.
4. Deliverables from the “Immunization Supply Chain Demand planning and Forecasting Assessment” are reviewed within established time lines and useful input is timely provided for the internal decisions on next steps (1)
5. Deliverables from the “Immunization Supply Chain Demand planning and Forecasting Assessment” are reviewed within established time lines and incorporate UNICEF feedback and coordinate with the vendor to finalize implementation plan and Technical Report (2)
6. Report on monthly data entry and analysis for JRF/ WUENIC data sets, digitalization mapping data entry and CSI (Country Strategic Indicators)
7. Report on monthly data entry and analysis for JRF/ WUENIC data sets, digitalization mapping data entry.
8. Final report on monthly data entry and analysis for JRF/ WUENIC data sets, digitalization mapping data entry.

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

• A first university degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) is required, preferably in relevant field (e.g. Project Management, Economics, statistics, public health, health economics, business/public administration, international relations/affairs, computer/data science, supply chain management or any other relevant quantitative degree).
• Minimum three years of relevant professional experience in all or some of the following areas: project management, technology identification for supply chain, product management, data management, implementation and rollout of IT solutions.
• Proven skills in management and strategic thinking. Work experience within the UN or an international organization / NGO is preferred. Experience working in developing countries is an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Qualified candidates are requested to submit: 1. Cover letter/application outlining relevant experience of the role 2. Financial quote including both a daily and monthly rate in US Dollars including all taxes. UNICEF considers best value for money in its evaluation 3. At least 3 Reference contacts who may be contacted.

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.