Consultant - RMNCAH Policy & Child Survival Strategy Consultant, P-3/4, Monrovia, Liberia, 6 months (onsite)

Overview

Support Liberia in developing RMNCAH Policy and Child Survival Strategy.

You have:

• Advanced degree in Public Health or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in health policy development, particularly in RMNCAH.
• Fluency in English is required; knowledge of a local language is an asset.
• Strong writing skills with prior experience in writing health documents.
• Demonstrated experience in stakeholder engagement and networking with government and partners.
• Ability to conduct situational and bottleneck analyses in healthcare.

Contract

This is a P-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 110,704 USD and 144,959 USD.

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Purpose of Assignment:

The consultant will work with Government stakeholders and UNICEF Regional and Country office Teams to develop Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) Policy and Child Survival Strategy. The Consultant will be responsible to work with the Family Health department, Planning and Research department and other key stakeholders to develop vision, strategic objectives, and actions to reduce mortality and morbidity of women, mothers, newborn, children and adolescents. The policy will help to increase access to and utilization of SRMNCAH services and in order to ensure that all those in need of SRMNCAH services are able to access them, while the strategy should include identification of priority evidence based RMNCAH interventions according to the context of Liberia, necessary actions, and strategies to ensure equitable access and provision of continuum of care with quality throughout life course and work with costing unit to cost and align budget plan based on the ongoing costing of Liberia Every Newborn Action Plan and Essential Package of Health Services.

This role will focus on providing support to Liberia in the following:

• Provide technical support to conduct a RMNCAH situational analysis and bottleneck analysis (BNA) for the RMNCAH landscape
• Work closely with Technical Working Groups related to RMNCAH to get consensus on vision, objectives, and actions and contents of the policy and strategy.
• Draft and get approval and buy-in from key stakeholder on Liberia RMNCAH policy and strategy.

This assignment will include engaging with the UNICEF country office, WHO, MOH staff, and other in-country stakeholders in assessing RMNCAH needs and how it relates to other tiers of health service delivery and opportunities for the delivery of quality care through life course in line with the EPHS health Intervention.

The assignment will target the:

1. Rapid assessment on the existing assessments, policies and strategies to identify priority RMNCAH approaches/ interventions, strategic objectives, necessary actions and budget.
2. Conduct of Key Stakeholders engagements utilising the existing technical working groups (TWGs) or formation, as needed) and workshops as needed.
3. Develop 10-year RMNCAH Policy and 5-year Child Survival strategy and work with costing Consultants and Health financing unit for costing.
4. Disseminate findings using the existing TWGs and other regional/ global initiatives such as webinars to get approval and buy-in from Key Stakeholders and share lessons learnt.

Basic Objectives of Consultancy Services:

The international Consultant will be hired by UNICEF Liberia CO, the Consultant will work in close collaboration with the UNICEF regional teams and key stakeholders engaged in Family Health Division of the Ministry of Health Government of Liberia. Over 62 days the assignment will be domain country. The incumbent will be based in the Health Section in UNICEF in Liberia, under the direct supervision of the Health Specialist who manages the Health Section.

1. Rapid assessment on the existing assessments, policies and strategies including situational analysis and bottleneck analysis:
2. Desk review of national health and development strategic documents and existing and ongoing assessments including NSHPP, NCHP, Pro-poor agenda, RMNCAH investment cases, LENAP, ENAP/ EPMM Joint Country Plan and other relevant documents (for target, interventions, and activities) and conduct a bottleneck analysis and prepare situational analysis report. Conduct of Key Stakeholders engagement utilising the TWGs:
3. Share the initial findings from the action 1 through the relevant TWGs, engage with the key stakeholders individually to get their feedback to reflect to a draft of RMNCAH Policy and Child Survival strategy, conduct regular meetings utilising the TWGs to share the draft of the policy and strategy.
4. Develop 10-year RMNCAH Policy and 5-year Child Survival Strategy and work with costing Consultants and Health financing unit for costing.
5. As agreed by stakeholders develop the 10-year RMNCAH policy, and extract contents from this document to develop the 5 year Child Survival Strategy and ensure its costed. Disseminate using the existing TWGs to get approval and buy-in from Key Stakeholders:

• Share the draft of the RMNCAH policy and strategy using TWGs, conduct validation meetings and dissemination of the RMNCAH policy and strategy documents through MOH with full buy in. Develop implementation plan of the strategy and costed scale-up plan with a sustainable financing model that can be used when approaching donors and other investors.
• Share the final documents with regional and global partners including Child Survival Action Plan.

Objective 1: Rapid assessment on the existing assessments, policies and strategies including situational analysis and bottleneck analysis:

Key Activities/Tasks

1. Desk review of national health and development strategy documents including NSH policy and plan, EPHS, and other relevant documents (for target, interventions, and activities),
2. Desk review of the existing and ongoing assessments including costing of EPHS and ENAPEPMM joint country plan and investment case,
3. Commence key stakeholders’ interviews to contribute to situational analysis Prioritize evidence based RMNCAH interventions and approaches for Liberia and identify potential strategic objectives, necessary actions

Outputs/Deliverables

1. Work plan of consultant developed and signed off by MOH and UNICEF
2. Inception report with consolidation of the findings from the existing assessments review of policies, strategies to identify RMNCAH approaches/interventions, strategic objectives, necessary actions.
3. Key stakeholders interview report completed

Time frame

30 days (Remote)

Objective 2: Conduct of Key Stakeholders engagement utilising the TWGs and Validation of Policy and Strategy:

Key Activities/Tasks

Outputs/Deliverables

Time frame

1. Ongoing meetings and capacity building exercises with Core team to conduct situational analysis and Bottleneck analysis on RMNCAH policy and strategy

2. Validation workshops for the RMNCAH policy and strategy

3. Meetings held with TWG to review the draft policy and strategy

4. Regional office review of documents prior to validation
5. Two high level Workshops held to Validate the RMNCAH Policy and Child survival Strategy

Ongoing through the whole consultancy

Objective 3: Develop 10-year RMNCAH Policy and 5-year Child Survival strategy and work with costing Consultants and Health financing unit for costing.

1. Conduct RMNCAH landscape analysis and BNA
2. Finalize RMNCAH policy and Child Survival strategy documents

3. Provide guidance for costing by identified Team

4. RMNCAH landscape report and BNA report completed

5. Validated RMNCAH Policy and Child Health Strategy Documents
6. Costed Child Survival Strategy

30 days (In -country)

Objective 4: Disseminate using the existing TWGs to get approval and buy-in from Key Stakeholders****:

1. Develop RMNCAH Investment case and Advocacy messages
2. Document lessons learnt from the process of RMNCAH policy and Child Survival strategy development
3. Formulate and conduct capacity building strategies and activities to drive continuous RMNCAH programme improvements through transfer of skills, trainings, and webinars

4. Play a pivotal role in the RMNCAH policy and Child Survival strategy launching with Government and stakeholders and resource mobilization

5. RMNCAH Investment case available

6. Clearly documented report of the process including the lessons learnt and recommendations
7. High level advocacy meeting held to disseminate RMNCAH policy and strategy

30 days (In- country)

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

Qualification:

Education:

• Professional experience in Public Health, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, Health Economics, Health System Strengthening (HSS), Primary Health Care and Health Care Financing (HCF). Advanced degree in a relevant field or equivalent related practical experience an advantage Experience in Health Policy Development will be an added advantage.
• Strong writing skills with experience in writing similar documents.
• Demonstrated experience on strong networking and engagement with Government and stakeholders.

Lauguage:

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

• Builds & Maintains Partnerships.
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness & Ethical Awareness.
• Drive to Achieve Results for Impact.
• Innovates and Embraces Change.
• Manages Ambiguity and Complexity.
• Thinks and Acts Strategically.
• Works Collaboratively with others-Establish

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

General Terms and Conditions of the Contract:

• Under the consultancy agreements, payment is deliverable based as defined in the ToR with mix model of home based and in country activities.
• All remuneration must be within the contract agreement.
• No contract may commence unless the contract is signed by both UNICEF and the consultant or Contractor.
• For international consultants outside the duty station, signed contracts must be sent by fax or email.
• Unless authorized, UNICEF will buy the tickets for the consultant. In exceptional cases, the consultant may be authorized to buy their travel tickets and shall be reimbursed at the “most economical and direct route” but this must be agreed to beforehand.
• Consultants will not have supervisory responsibilities or authority on UNICEF budget.
• Consultant will be required to sign the health statement for consultants/Individual contractor prior to taking up the assignment, and to document that they have appropriate health insurance, including Medical Evacuation.

• Mention is it as per the General Terms and Conditions of the Contract.

  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 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:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

For every child, a future!

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