International Consultant Principal Technical Officer-Vaccine Preventable Diseases -Ethiopia Addis Ababa

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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, Love

How can you make a difference?

• The Principal Technical Officer-Vaccine preventable diseases, shall perform the following major duties and responsibilities and the RCCs:
• support on prevention and acceleration of vaccination programs.
• Provide timely and effective support to Member States;
• Provide technical assistance to priority countries in coordination, planning, monitoring and safely
• Conduct effective reactive and preventive vaccination campaigns.
• Ensure integrated activities that improve immunization performance.
• Monitors VPD outbreaks (measles/rubella, YF, meningitis) and provide remote and in-country support to countries on the preparedness and response interventions
• Develop and disseminate guiding documents related to VPD for outbreaks to improve long-term immunization programme performance
• Develop and recommend frameworks for multisectoral regional immunization programs.
• Assist in efforts to build the immunization response capacity of MS and regional economic communities;
• Support African Union Member States to develop ICG requests for Cholera, Meningitis and Yellow Fever outbreaks for reactive vaccination campaigns as per the ICG guidance where needed.
• Support MS countries to identify and assess integration opportunities of accelerated disease control initiatives into the broader immunization programme and primary health care system;
• Participate in Africa CDC coordination initiatives and technical meetings/discussions on vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD) at regional and global levels where required.

Perform any other duties as may be assigned by Supervisor

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

Master’s degree in Public Health or a related field from an accredited academic institution with at least 8 years of relevant professional experience in a public health program management support role with demonstrated involvement in the successful development and management of immunization and public health emergency preparedness and response programs.

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.

Core competencies:-

Core Values:

• Care
• Respect
• Integrity
• Trust
• Accountability
• Sustainability
• Trust
• Accountability

• Sustainability

• Core Competencies:

  • Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (I)
  • Works Collaboratively with others (I)
  • Builds and Maintains Partnerships (I)
  • Innovates and Embraces Change (I)
  • Thinks and Acts Strategically (I)
  • Drive to achieve impactful results (I)
  • Manages ambiguity and complexity (I)

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.