National consultant to develop Performance-Based Incentive guidelines for community health volunteers in Timor-Leste

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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, Health

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 overall supervision of the Social Behavior Change Officer (NOB), support the Ministry of Health to develop performance-based incentive guidelines for community health volunteers in Timor-Leste.

WORK ASSIGNMENT:

1. Support the Ministry of Health to undertake a desk review to ensure that this initiative is in line with Timor-Leste's policies and legal frameworks and explore community-based health systems introduced in other developing countries using a performance-based incentive approach to serve as a reference in the development of PBI guidelines for Timor-Leste.
2. Conduct a meeting with the MoH decision-makers, technical staff, and stakeholders as well as focus group discussion with Mother Support Group members and Family Health Promoters (PSF) members to explore their perspective on incentives for community health volunteers in Timor-Leste.
3. Assist the Ministry of Health in developing performance-based incentive guidelines and a costed plan for community health volunteers and share with the MoH and UNICEF for review and feedback.
4. Support the Ministry of Health to conduct a validation workshop on the performance-based incentive guidelines and costed plan for community health volunteers and revise based on the feedback from the workshop.
5. Support the Ministry of Health in presenting the guidelines and costed plan to the council directors of the Ministry of Health for review and approval.
6. Finalize the performance-based incentive guidelines for health volunteers.

DELIVERABLES:

1. Inception report (English and Tetum)

2. Submission of report and PPt presentation of key findings (English and Tetum version)

3. Submission of draft guidelines (English and Tetum version)

4.1. Submission of PPT presentation for validation workshop (English and Tetum version)

4.2. Submission of revised guidelines (English and Tetum)

5. Submission final PPT presentation for Council Directorate Meeting (English and Tetum)

6.1. Submission of final guidelines (English and Tetum)

6.2. Submitted final consultancy report

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

• Bachelor degree in health sciences, nutrition, Public Health, Health Promotion, Social and Behaviour Change Communication or r
• Experience working in the development of strategy guidelines, in particular on performance-based incentive and costed plan for community health volunteers/workers would be an advantage.
• At least 1 year’s practical experience in performance-based incentive for community health volunteers programming.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or a local language is an asset.

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

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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:

Interested candidates are requested to submit a cover letter, updated CV and a financial proposal through http://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/560896 by 11 May 2023. Consultants will be required to stipulate all-inclusive fees, including phone call and internet.

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.