Since mid-December 2025, Mozambique has experienced extensive flooding across the central and southern regions, severely affecting access to essential health services. The floodsp articularly intense in Gaza, Maputo city, Maputo Province, and Sofala provinces have disrupted the lives of more than 652,000 people, with over half displaced from their homes and temporarily settled in accommodation centers, schools, and higher-ground areas. The consultant will support the implementation and monitoring of life-saving primary health care actions, cholera response activities, emergency supplies management, coordination with provincial health authorities, and integration with multisectoral partners.

Contract Duration: 5 months

Working arrangement: Office-based + travel

 

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

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                                                         TERMS OF REFERENCE

Since mid-December 2025, Mozambique has experienced extensive flooding across the central and southern regions, severely affecting access to essential health services. The floods particularly intense in Gaza, Maputo city, Maputo Province, and Sofala provinces have disrupted the lives of more than 652,000 people, with over half displaced from their homes and temporarily settled in accommodation centers, schools, and higher-ground areas.

The consultant will support the implementation and monitoring of life-saving primary health care actions, cholera response activities, emergency supplies management, coordination with provincial health authorities, and integration with multisectoral partners.

The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical, operational, and coordination support to UNICEF’s Health emergency response in Gaza Province, ensuring the timely, high-quality, and accountable delivery of lifesaving primary health care (PHC) interventions for affected populations. The consultant will support preparedness and response activities for outbreaks, mobile health service delivery, continuity of maternal and child health (MNCH) services, and overall strengthening of provincial/district emergency health systems in line with. 

If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here:Download File External ToR TMC0001743.pdf

Minimum requirements:

  • Education: Bachelor's degree in public health, or relevant academic background
  • Work Experience:
  • At least 5 years of progressive professional experience in public health and emergency health programs
  • Demonstrated experience in implementing and coordinating health emergency response activities, such as floods, cholera outbreaks, displacement emergencies, or other rapid‑onset crises.
  • Proven ability to support Government-led emergency health operations, including coordination with the Ministry of Health (MISAU), Provincial Health Directorates (DPS), and District Health Services (SDSMAS) in Mozambique.
  • Experience working with UN agencies, Health Cluster partners, NGOs, or humanitarian organizations in emergency or development health programs is an advantage.
  • Skills: Excellent coordination, communication, and facilitation skills with multisectoral teams, Government counterparts, and community structures.
  • Language Requirements: Oral and written fluency in Portuguese and, with the ability to produce high-quality technical reports, plans, and coordination documents for Government and cluster partners.

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UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). 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 based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):

Remarks:  

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.

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