International consultant to develop a National Action Plan to Combat Stunting

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Find out how UNICEF programmes drives change for children in Timor-Leste by visiting https://www.unicef.org/timorleste.

How can you make a difference?

Under supervision of the Nutrition Specialist, provide technical support to the Mission/Unit to Combat Stunting and stakeholders and development partners in Timor-Leste to facilitate the development of the national action plan to Combat Stunting. The consultant/institution will work closely with the Stunting Unit at the office of the Prime Minister in developing the National Action Plan for stunting reduction.

Work Assignment:

1. Review the existing documents, plans and strategies (remotely – home-based) - 7 days

1.1. Undertake a desk review of current global evidence, tools and plans reviewing these against the situation in Timor-Leste including national policies, strategies and plans and programs including CNAP-NFS

1.2. Develop a methodology to guide the development of the NAP in collaboration with National Coordination Consultant

2. Development of the National Action Plan (15 days) - in collaboration with National Coordination Consultant:

2.1. Conduct in-depth interviews and a discussion forum with key senior and mid-level staff of the Ministries (under the CNAP-NFS) and other relevant sectors at national level

2.2. Conduct in-depth interviews with relevant development partners including UN organisations, non-government organisations (international and national) and bilateral donors

2.3. Based on the stakeholder consultation meetings and group discussions, develop the NAP, providing a justification for the choice of plans

2.4. Develop a concise monitoring and evaluation framework

2.5. Submit the draft plan to combat stunting draft in English and Tetum version

3. Conduct and multi-stakeholder workshop to review and validate the NAP (15 days) - in collaboration with national Coordination Consultant

3.1. In consultation with the Mission Unit to Combat Stunting, prepare the flow of the multi-stakeholder validation workshop

3.2. Prepare the draft terms of reference, concept note and agenda indicating the expected outputs of the workshop. Facilitate the working groups to review and finalize the various components of the NAP

3.3. Conduct a multi-stakeholder consultation workshop to present findings of desk and working group reviews, validate the findings, collate and compile a list of lessons learned, best practices and recommendations to guide the development of the NAP

3.4. In consultation with the Mission Unit to Combat Stunting, organize the different support teams and prepare the presentations

3.5. Present the draft version of the NAP and summarize the inputs from stakeholders

4. Finalization of the National action plan (15 days)

4.1. Incorporate inputs from the validation workshop

4.2. Submit the NAP based on inputs from the 3 steps outlined above

Deliverables:

1. Work plan with clear timelines, methodology and expected deliverables for the period of consultancy and a detailed methodology and plan to guide the development of the NAP

2.1. A draft national Action Plan to combat stunting

2.2. Incorporating the findings of working groups, high-level forum, reviews and feedback from the validation workshop

3. Report from the validation workshop highlighting the recommendations

4. Final draft of NAP

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

• Master degree from recognized academic qualifications in public health, nutrition or related social science with firm experience in carrying out similar assignment minimum of 10 years of work experience
• Demonstrated expertise in research, data analysis, and reporting
• Extensive experience in development of multi-sectoral strategies, policies and action plans, secondary data analysis and working with government and stakeholders at high-level
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

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For every Child, you demonstrate UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

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Remarks:

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

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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.