Consultancy – Senior Nutrition Consultant, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO), Bangkok, Thailand

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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 fulfilling 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, a better future

UNICEF works to ensure the rights of all children in the East Asia and Pacific Region. This means the rights of every child living in this country, irrespective of their nationality, gender, religion or ethnicity, to:

• survival – to basic healthcare, peace and security;
• development – to a good education, a loving home and adequate nutrition;
• protection – from abuse, neglect, trafficking, child labour and other forms of exploitation; and
• participation – to express opinions, be listened to and take part in making any decisions that affect them

How can you make a difference?

The Nutrition Section, UNICEF East Asia Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO) is seeking an individual Senior Nutrition Consultant to be outposted to the Health Division, Human Development Directorate, Department of ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. The overall objective of the consultancy is to strengthen organizational and technical capacity in the ASEAN Secretariat for nutrition, and to support improvements in nutrition policies and programmes across ASEAN Member States.

Work assignment (based at ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta, Indonesia), Expected deliverable and Delivery schedule:

1. Assignment: Provide support and relevant inputs to the Nutrition focus area in the ASEAN Health Cooperation based on the current ASEAN Strategic Framework of Health Development and the ASEAN strategic framework and action plan for nutrition 2018-2030, including supporting the development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of nutrition projects/programmes of the ASEAN Health Cluster 1 and the ALD-EAFM.

Expected deliverable 1: Coordination and technical support are provided to UNICEF and partners to implement the nutrition project activities in the ASEAN Health Cluster 1 Programme of work (2021- 2025) and finalizing the various ASEAN guideline and minimum standards that supported by UNICEF, including:

• Integrating treatment of severe wasting into national health systems

• Maternal Nutrition

• School Nutrition Package

• Marketing of food and non-alcoholic beverages to children

• Mandatory Large Scale Food Fortification

• ASEAN standards for nutrition indicators during surveys and routine data collection; data collection methods; and data quality checks

• Revision of the Annex of Model Law in guidance the protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding and complementary feeding

• ASEAN Regional Code Monitoring Framework

• Establishment of the ASEAN Nutrition Surveillance System (ANSS)

• ASEAN Breastfeeding Forum

• workshop on sharing of experience on nutrition surveillance

• Training framework for health workers

• ASEAN Food and Nutrition Security Report 2026

Delivery schedule: Monthly progress report: 31 December 2023, 31 January 2024, 29 February 2024

2. Assignment: Support and service the Meetings and other relevant events of the Health Ministerial and Senior Official Levels, Cluster Meetings, Member State hosted meetings and events on Nutrition, training sessions, meetings in other ASEAN Health Platforms and Platforms in other ASEAN Divisions, as well as external meetings

a) Prepare the necessary nutrition-related documents required for various regular ASEAN meetings including agenda, discussion papers and drafting reports.

b) Act as a resource person and facilitator on Nutrition at meetings and trainings, with guidance from ADR and Head of the Health Division

c) Assist the host organization and/or sectoral/cluster chair in preparing for meetings and/or other special events.

d) Participate in meetings related to Nutrition of other ASEAN Divisions, including Agriculture, Social Welfare and Education

e) Assist the ASEAN Secretariat and lead AMS in designing and preparing supplementary meetings and activities identified in relation to the operational framework of the ALD-EAFM, including a multi-sectoral high-level symposium, technical consultations, and trainings.

f) Participate in external meetings relevant to nutrition, such as the UNICEF-hosted Nutrition Security Coordination Committee for East Asia-Pacific.

Expected deliverable 2: All ASEAN meetings are implemented with quality in line with ASEAN internal processes and UNICEF and post-meeting follow up conducted in a timely manner including:

• Sharing of meeting minutes with all ASEAN member states, partners, UNICEF, and technical consultants within one week of the meeting, with clear action points and delivery timeline

• Follow-up on meeting actions points with clear documentation and action points closed within the agreed timelines.

Delivery schedule: Monthly progress report: 31 December 2023, 31 January 2024, 29 February 2024

3. Assignment: Support the Assistant Director and Head of the Health Division in undertaking technical work on Nutrition including producing ASEAN publications and coordination of nutrition with relevant bodies of the ASEAN Community

Expected deliverable 3: Technical and strategic input is provided to the Assistant Director in the implementation of the ASEAN nutrition-related projects, programmes and activities, publications, advocacy initiatives, and coordination with other ASEAN bodies.

Delivery schedule: Monthly progress report: 31 December 2023, 31 January 2024, 29 February 2024

Duration of Contract: 1 December 2023 – 29 February 2024

The contract duration is kept for one year based on availability of funds and will be extended based on one additional support request and availability of funds.

Duty Travel: There is no anticipated travel.

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

• Postgraduate Degree (at least master’s degree) in nutrition.

• At least eight (8) years’ experience with proven record of accomplishment and exposure dealing with nutrition programmes addressing undernutrition and overweight and obesity.

• Previous experience in working with regional coordination bodies

• Strong organization skills, with demonstrated experience to plan and organize successful meetings, trainings, and events, including high level and large events.

• Lead role in developing large publications with multiple stakeholders an asset.

• Excellent command of English, written and spoken

Interested candidates are requested to submit CV, full contact information of minimum 3 references, availability, and proposed daily professional fee in USD by 7 November 2023****.

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.

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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.