Consultancy: Writer, Health PG - Immunization Section, Consultant - Req

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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant

Consultancy Title: Writer, Health PG - Immunization Section, Consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: Health PG - Immunization Section, Programme Group – NYHQ

Duration: October 23, 2023, to December 31, 2025 - REMOTE

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. 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.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

Immunization Section manages almost US$450 million funds annually which requires to prepare and send over 78 donor reports in yearly basis. Many reports require coordination with three level of the organization (HQ, regions and countries) and across several HQ teams, including beyond immunization section, (spread across 9 HQ divisions, 7 ROs and 101 COs).

Moreover, the section needs to prepare concept notes, funding proposals to donors and programme results presentations to high-level stakeholders. It is important that such reports, and/or any flagship publications go through a thorough quality assurance to ensure effective and consistent communication in all the narratives as well as to ensure they meet UNICEF standards.

Therefore, Immunization Section is seeking for a highly skilled professional expert who can coordinate and prepare the reports requiring inputs from across multiple teams in line with the donor or organizational requirements.

Scope of Work:

The consultant is expected to provide high-quality writing and editorial support to the PG-Health Immunization Section.

This will include drafting, gathering inputs, incorporating feedback, revising, and finalizing varied knowledge products including multi-region/multi-country donor reports, concept notes, proposals, case studies, pitch deck, and briefing notes to showcase UNICEF’s programmatic work; to support donor engagement and resource mobilization; to facilitate internal briefings; and to support internal communications and alignment on strategic issues and priorities.

The consultant will work with multiple teams within HQ immunization, across seven UNICEF regional offices and multiple country offices.

Main tasks will include:

• Prepare timely, high-quality, results-focused donor reports in line with donor/partner (e.g. as stated in the agreements) and UNICEF organizational requirements (e.g. UNICEF’s branding guidelines, style book).
• Identify and prepare compelling and engaging case studies and human-interest stories, with relevant photos, quotes and narratives, by collecting the stories and/or supporting UNICEF programme staff in countries with writing human interest stories, including through assisting with shaping story angles, providing writing tips, and supporting with the review and finalization of stories.
• Write proposals to support resource mobilization. Compile inputs and draft responses to questions from relevant team members and partners.
  • Prepare briefing notes and talking points for engagement with partners and internal communication, compiling inputs from technical experts and other internal resources to convey technical information in simple, easy-to-understand ways.
  • Develop position statements, strategies, and updates for senior management. Keep an up-to-date document library of assets that can be drawn upon to support requests.
  • Research issues and contents being documented, in-depth interviews of community, service providers, government counterparts, beneficiaries, while being mindful of sensitivities of specific situations, to support the writing.

Terms of Reference / Deliverables

Well-structured high-quality products of the documents that will vary from 2-100 pages with charts and graphs for the documents listed above.

• 1 interim report for Scale up grant (review and compilation for 6 Countries)

15 Dec 2023

• 1 final report for Emergency funding C19 vaccine delivery support

15 Nov 2023

• 1 consolidated annual results report for immunization

15 Dec 2023

15 Dec 2024

• 1 vaccine delivery and RCCE (C19 support) final report

15 Dec 2023

• 1 report for CanGIVE (review and compilation for 11 countries)

15 Jan 2024

• 1 final report for CanGIVE (review and compilation for 11 countries)

15 Jan 2025

• 1 final report for Scale up grant (review and compilation for 6 Countries)

15 June 2024

• 1 interim report for CanVAX (review and compilation for over 25 countries)

15 March 2024

• 1 final report for CanVAX (review and compilation for over 25 countries)

15 Aug 2024

• 50 human interest stories in coordination with DGCA. 2 for each CanGIVE CO and approximately 1 for each CanVAX CO (including process coordination)

10 for Dec 2023

10 for March 2024

10 for June 2024

10 for Sept 2024

10 for Dec 2024

• Estimated 20 briefing notes, technical brief, pitch deck and talking points for partnership engagements

30 June 2025

• Up to 4 cases studies

30 June 2025

Travel:

2 trips to NYC for team meeting and coordination purposes

Qualifications

1) Education

• An Advanced University Degree in public health, journalism, communication, political science, social sciences, or a related technical field.
• Additional qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Fluency in English is required (spoken and written)

2) Work experience

• 5-8 years’ experience in global health/partnership or related fields, with progressively responsible professional work experience at national and international levels in programming.
• At least 5 years’ experience with writing and producing knowledge and communications products noted above.
• At least 5 years’ experience working with donor partnerships and reporting.
• Experience working with UN and knowledge of UNICEF programming, preferably health and/or immunization is highly desirable

3) Skills and Competencies

• Excellent writing skills.

• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex international development concepts for multiple audiences (UNICEF, UN, donors).

• Solid planning and organizational skills.

• File management and SharePoint use.

• Highly proficient in operating a range of PC/web applications, including but not limited to: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook.

• Strong interpersonal communication and teamwork.

• Ability to deliver under pressure.

Requirements:

• Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system and provide Personal History Form (P11) Upload copy of academic credentials
• Technical proposal with methodology for deliverables and timelines
• Financial proposal that will include:
• Cost per deliverable or lumpsum for the whole deliverables as indicated in the terms of reference
  • 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.

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

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 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.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy 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. Consultants 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 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.

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