Consultant: Review of the National Vaccinator Manual, Pretoria, South Africa, 6 months

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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.

Health | UNICEF South Africa

UNICEF is committed to ensuring that every child survives and thrives. Our approach to South Africa’s health challenge is three-fold:

• contributing to the evidence-base for policy, advocacy and programming,
• delivering innovative programmes with partners – especially in high-burden and low-performing districts, and
• supporting the Government to develop and implement policies and strategies to take vital action to scale.

How can you make a difference?

1. Benchmark the Vaccinator manual with at least 6 regional and global manual standards, including but not limited to WHO, UNICEF, CDC among others.

• Conduct a desktop exercise comparing current vaccinator manual and manuals/guidelines of similar content to summarize best practices and content to consider for incorporation and improvement of the current Vaccinator Manual.

2. Review the current manual structure and obtain consensus on the new proposed structure, and revise the current vaccinator manual, aligned with the existing DOH initiatives (e.g., SIDE-BY-SIDE) and other national strategies, including incorporation of the relevant sections of the various acts.

• Revise the vaccinator manual structure and obtain NDOH consensus on the new structure
• Align with existing DOH initiatives (e.g. Ideal Clinic and Side by Side initiative)
• Incorporate and reference relevant sections of various Acts
• Cross reference with the Cold Chain Manual and the COVID-19 toolkit
• Consolidate comments from stakeholders
• Obtain final consensus on the content via a multi-stakeholder workshop
• Finalize the vaccinator manual including all the relevant annexures including graphic design and layout; to get a print ready version

3. Develop PowerPoint presentations, on the manual chapters to upload onto the Knowledge hub online platform.

4. Material repository.

• Completed Manual and PowerPoint Presentations uploaded on the website and KH of the NDoH, for online self- learning, and other learning approaches

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Health Sciences (Public Health, Medicine)
• A minimum of 10 years professional experience providing technical support in immunization programs at regional, national or provincial level
• References of previous similar work done are an added advantage
• Proven extensive expertise and knowledge of the National Department of Health’s Expanded Program on Immunization
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language r a local language is an asset

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.