Consultancy: Technical Officer Public Health Emergencies - Public Health Emergencies Team, PG Health Section (Duty Station: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND) Req

Consultant Medical & Health Programme & Policy

Overview

Provide technical support on public health emergencies

You have:

• Advanced university qualification in relevant field (Medicine, Nursing, Public Health)
• Experience developing technical guidance and support for public health research/outbreak response for UNICEF and or other UN agencies
• 3 to 5 years of progressively responsible professional work experience at national and international levels working in humanitarian settings including in public health emergencies
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex scientific content for multiple audiences
• Strong organizational and analytical skills

Contract

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Consultancy Title: Technical Officer Public Health Emergencies

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

Duration: August 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 (110 days including UN Holidays (3) and PTO (7.5))

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 further develop tools, products and lessons learnt on UNICEF’s experience in preparedness and response and apply these lessons to prevent, prepare for and respond to future public health emergencies.

To achieve that, the team will draft and disseminate a number of technical papers, tools, and briefings, in collaboration with all UNICEF PHE stakeholders and other Public health agencies (such as WHO).

Scope of Work:

In support of the PHE team in Geneva this consultancy will focus on the technical support on preparedness and response activities of ongoing public health threats (COVID-19, and others). The chosen candidate 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. The audience of such documentation is both internal (i.e., leadership, regional and HQ technical colleagues) and external (i.e., technical partners).

Some of the expected items are regular (digests and reports), and others are one-off deliverables (review of technical guidance and discussion, Technical papers).

The consultant will directly support other technical experts of the PHE team under the supervision of the PHE Senior Health Advisor. The scope of this work will include support of the COVID-19 response, with support to UNICEF COs and ROs who are involved in public health emergencies response and preparedness actions.

Enough time should and will be allocated to the consultant to perform the items in accordance with agreed deadlines. It is possible that some products will be asked upon a very short notice. In this case and in agreement with the head of the team, priority will be given to the completion of the concerned task. He/she will also collaborate with technical experts across sections and divisions to compile technical briefings and provide feedback for review.

Deliverables by the consultant will only be disseminated after review and approval by the supervisor or the Principal Advisor, PHE, both for internal and external documents.

More specifically, the consultant will support the development of the following products:

• Compile a PHE weekly digest based on existing UNICEF and non-UNICEF resources focusing on the Public health response to ongoing outbreaks (RCCE, IPC, case management, IOA, transmission, etc.)
• Compile a weekly global outbreak tracker and present key public health events during a Weekly Epidemic Review Meeting
• Perform preliminary scientific review of guidance submitted to the PHE team, including through WHO-UNICEF collaborative work
• Prepare initial drafting of PHE guidance, briefs and or scientific reviews
• Support the PHE team to provide technical support to ROs & COs to prepare and respond to Public health threats in fragile settings and/or during humanitarian emergencies (based on need)

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. Compile a PHE weekly digest based on existing UNICEF and non-UNICEF resources focusing on the Public health response to ongoing outbreaks (RCCE, IPC, case management, IOA, transmission, etc.)

• PHE weekly digest for UNICEF programme colleagues

31, August 2022 (23 days)

2. Compile a weekly global outbreak tracker and present key public health event during a Weekly Epidemic Review Meeting

• Weekly global outbreak tracker/report

30, September 2022 (22 days)

3. Perform preliminary scientific review of guidance submitted to the PHE team, including though WHO-UNICEF collaborative work

• Reviewed guidance with technical inputs

31 October 2022 (21 days)

4. Prepare initial drafting of PHE guidance, briefs, or scientific reviews –

• Draft PHE guidance

30 November 2022 (22 days)

5. Support the PHE team to provide technical support to RO & CO to prepare and respond to Public health threats in fragile settings and/or during humanitarian emergencies

30 December 2022 (22 days)

Qualifications

(1) Education

• Advanced university qualification in relevant field (Medicine, Nursing, Public Health)

2) Work experience

• Experience developing technical guidance and support for public health research/ outbreak response for UNICEF and or other UN agencies
• 3 to 5 years of progressively responsible professional work experience at national and international levels working in humanitarian settings including in public health emergencies

3) Competencies

• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex scientific content for multiple audiences
• Strong organizational and analytical skills

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.

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