Local Consultants: Health Officer (Childhood Injury Prevention and Urban Health Programming) - 11 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, a fair chance

UNICEF has been an active partner of the Government of the Philippines and civil society in realizing the rights of every Filipino child, in line with priorities to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. UNICEF efforts have been focused on the most vulnerable regions identified by the Government of the Philippines Development Plan, particularly in the regions of Visayas and Mindanao. To ensure that interventions are sustainable and scaled up, UNICEF will support primarily local government units (LGUs) as the main instruments of delivering services and building systems. The level of engagement with government institutions will take into account capacities, economies of scale and sector issues.

It has a field office in Cotabato City, the second largest city in Mindanao, southern Philippines, with some 300,000 population. The city is the regional administrative centre of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao and over 80 percent of the population is Muslim. Mindanao is both conflict-affected and prone to frequent earthquakes and typhoon storms.

Visit this link for more information on Philippine Country Office: https://www.unicef.org/philippines/

How can you make a difference

  • The consultant is expected to assist and work closely with the H&N C4D specialist in the day-to-day activities, including technical support to and coordination with implementing partners, service providers, and government counterparts to facilitate the delivery of UNICEF’s technical support.

Work Assignments/Tasks

- Support for community and local government engagement for safe-school zones in communities around the identified 50 high-risk schools.

- Support for triangulating data from health sector, police, and transportation. Enabling analysis of child road traffic injury, establishing baselines for programming and for initiating strategic response in preventing road traffic injury.

- Support for advocacy for the modification of existing national monitoring system, development and inclusion of indicators on child road safety, and creation of national child road traffic injury data hub. Support inclusion of child injury data in longitudinal cohort study.

- Support to identify and evaluate key policy/legislative gaps on child road traffic injury prevention. - Support to develop policy briefs, advocacy plan and evidence-based intervention planning on child road traffic injury prevention. - Support the development and delivery of national leadership training in policy, legislation, enforcement for implementing child injury prevention measures.

- Convening partners on national strategy. This will be done in close collaboration with the relevant government departments i.e. Department of Health, Department of Education, Department of Transport, police/law enforcement and other relevant key stakeholders. Education and infrastructure action plans combined.

- Provide technical inputs and data for the door reporting. - Support the deployment of Learning and Teaching Support Materials (LTSM) in support of the existing curriculum and the dissemination of child road safety education advocacy public campaign/ promotional materials targeting parents, other members of the public and students.

- Programme participation in national and/or local events related to promotion of road safety and childhood injury prevention with key ministries and major national networks/coalitions of NGOs and CSOs such as National Multi-sectoral Consultation on Childhood Injury Prevention Policy; Global Road Safety celebration; World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims; and International Children’s Day, to name a few.

- Provide inputs and documentation to support Health Specialist in drafting relevant donor reports and concept notes.

Deliverables

- Activity Report and Draft Donor Report. - Activity Report. - Activity Report on Advocacy for Data Strengthening. - Landscape Analysis of Policy/Legislative Gaps. - Draft Policy Briefs and Advocacy Plan. - Activity Report – including Details of the Training Activity and the Results. - Activity Report – including Minutes of the Meetings. - Donor Report Draft. - Monitoring Report. - Activity Report. - Draft Funding Proposal.

Qualifications and Competencies of Successful Consultant

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  • • Master’s degree in Public Health or a related field • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant area, e.g. public health/nutrition, pediatric health, family health, injury prevention, health research, global/international health, health policy and/or management, environmental health sciences, biostatistics, socio-medical, health education, epidemiology or other health related sciences ; • At least 5 years of professional work experience at the national and/or international level in public health/health systems strengthening and program management with experience in strengthening service delivery programs, training, performance and quality improvement and monitoring and evaluation; experience in child injury prevention programs, school health, road traffic safety and urban health programming is an asset, as is experience working in the UN or other international development organization; • Excellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting, formulation, reporting skills; • Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing; • Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners, including grassroots community members, religious and youth organizations, and authorities at different levels; familiarity with tools and approaches of communications for development; experience with convening national government partners is an asset • Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a challenging environment; ability to work effectively in a multicultural team of international and national personnel; • Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various MS Office applications (Excel, Word, etc.) and email/internet; familiarity with database management; and office technology equipment; • Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision; ability to work with tight deadlines; • Sound security awareness; • Have affinity with or interest in protecting and upholding children’s rights

HOW TO APPLY

Qualified candidates are requested to complete an online candidate profile in http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/ by 25 May 2021. Only applications sent through the e-recruitment portal under Job Number: 540362 will be considered.

All candidates are requested to submit a COVER LETTER, and the duly filled P 11 form which can be downloaded from our website at http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/P11.doc indicating three (3) previous supervisors. Please indicate your area of assignment, ability, availability and daily/monthly rate to undertake the terms of reference above. Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered.

Only shortlisted consultants will be contacted.

By applying through our Talent Management System (TMS) you agree to our privacy statement which is in line with the Philippines Data Privacy Act. You are strongly advised to read carefully through the privacy statement before submitting your application.

"UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles."

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