National Consultant - for Essential Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) and Nutrition Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) in Ethnic Health

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National Consultant for Essential Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) and Nutrition Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) in Ethnic Health Organizations (EHOs)’ facilities of Kachin and Shan

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Objectives of the consultancy:

National consultant for SARA will facilitate and provide technical and managerial support including organisation of sessions, facilitation and reporting of Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) including its rapid data collection and analysis in ethnic health organizations’ facilities Kachin, Shan North and Shan East. The work should be coordinated with UNICEF, Health Poverty Action and REACH consortium partner EHOs and CSO: Wa Health Department (EHO), Shan Special Region 4 (SR4) Health Department (EHO), Kachin Special Region 2 (KSR2) Health Department (EHO) and Kokang Charity Alliance (CSO), and relevant Township Health Departments of Ministry of Health and Sports.

Geographic Area:

Kachin State [Myitkyina and Kachin Special Region 2 (KSR2) areas], Shan North (Lashio and Wa Special Region 2 (SR2) including Southern Wa areas (part of SR2), and Shan East (Kengtung and SR4 areas). Duty station will be Yangon.

Consultancy tasks will be approximately allocated as 12 days field assessment, 10 days adapting the data collection tools and 8 days for trainings (2 trainings, 1 for Kachin, 1 for Shan) and 10 days for data analysis and reporting, 40 days total field work maximum. Besides, dissemination Workshop on SARA and HRH results in EHO areas with MoHS and EHOs, 2 days each for WA in Shan North, SR4 in Shan East and KSR2 in Kachin.

Expense of travel and DSA to the fields will be based on actual cost of travel, which will be reserved by UNICEF in addition to the consultant fee.

Duration:

September 2020- January 2021. Assignment will be full time with regular office hours assignment based in Yangon with frequent travels to fields such as Kachin, Shan North and Shan East States.

Description of Assignment:

Task 1:

Assessment planning and preparation

Deliverables 1:

Inception Report containing

• SARA-EHO coordinating group of UNICEF-HPA-EHOs stakeholders established to oversee and facilitate the objectives, scope, design, schedule, implementation and analysis plan for SARA assessment
• Adapted simplified questionnaires focusing on SARA assessment in line with WHO guideline to meet EHO’s programmatic-context-specific needs, adapted in electronic/mobile platform – Kobo Collect/ODK
• Designed ToT for key staff of UNICEF-HPA-EHOs in data collection using adapted SARA questionnaire targeting to EHO staff who will undertake service delivery at the community level, data entry/processing and analysis
• Assessment sampling frame of health facilities established
• Training guide regard to SARA assessment, data collection, reporting for enumerators drafted
• Pilot assessment in a selected number of health facilities

Task 2:

Data collection in the field

Deliverables 2:

Implementation report containing

• • Data collection visits (letter of introduction, contacts enumerator for each site, schedule)
  • Materials and tools for data collection
  • List of health facilities visited and collected SARA data
  • Compilations of issues during data collection, KOBO collect application, and how to resolve
  • Completed electronic forms and periodically transferred electronic files to centralized database/dashboard
  • Dashboard update when data collection is complete

Task 3.

Data entry, analysis and interpretation

Deliverables 3:

Completion report containing

• • Data entered using the CSPro application
  • Edited, validated and clean data set, presented and checked for consistency and accuracy
  • Exported data set for analysis (SARA indicators)

Analysis of SARA data using the standard core indicators (SARA automated tool for results graphs and tables) as well as any context-specific indicators of interest

Tasks 4:

Finalization and results dissemination

Deliverables 4:

Final report containing

• • SARA-EHO coordinating group facilitated to analyse, interpret assessment results and finalize recommendations
  • Dissemination plan drafted and developed
  • Documented and archived all assessment related information and resources using metadata standards

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

Qualification and specialized knowledge/experience required for the assignment:

• Bachelor degree is a requirement and Masters’ is an asset One of the following fields is required: medical, public health, paediatric health, family health, health research, global/international health, health policy and/or management, biostatistics/statistics, epidemiology or another relevant technical field

• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas, is required: public health planning and management, maternal, neonatal and child health care, and nutrition or health emergency/humanitarian preparedness

• Prior experience of working on Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) or similar experience is required

• Additional technical experiences such as data analysis, survey, report writing, organizing and facilitating workshop, advocacy and coordination is an asset

• Relevant experience working with ethnic health organization is an asset

Detail terms of reference can be accessed here;

(2)TOR for SARA Assessment of health facilities in EHO_Kachin and Shan-Final .docx

The expression of interest form to complete and include in the application is as follows;

(1) EoI Service Availability and Readiness Assessment in EHO health facilities Kachina and Shan-updated.docx

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

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:

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.