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Consultant for Capacity Building on High Impact Nutrition Interventions in Kiribati and Vanuatu

Suva

  • Organization: UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund
  • Location: Suva
  • Grade: Consultancy - International Consultant - Internationally recruited Contractors Agreement
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Public Health and Health Service
    • Architecture, Building and Property Management
    • Education, Learning and Training
    • Nutrition
    • Communication / External Relations
    • Expanded Programme Immunization
  • Closing Date: Closed

UNICEF Pacific is seeking a consultant to provide technical guidance to MHMS to strengthen the capacity of health service providers for the delivery of high impact nutrition interventions, and to develop training guidelines, tools and checklists in target PICs (Kiribati and Vanuatu).

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.

For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.

Purpose of the Assignment

The overall purpose of the assignment is to work in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) to build the capacity of service providers on a package of evidence based High Impact Nutrition Interventions (HINI) in select Pacific Island Countries (PICs).

The specific objective of the assignment is to build the capacity of national trainers on HINI and to provide supportive supervision for the trainers to initiate the roll-out of the HINI training to health service providers in 1 province/island in each target country.

Assignment Tasks

The consultant will build on the work of the Consultant for HINI framework and undertake the following tasks in Kiribati

and Vanuatu to achieve the objectives of the assignment:

1. Conduct consultation meetings and workshops with the MHMS for developing the training guidelines, job aids and tools and drafting the training plan (training of the trainers and 1 province/island)

2. Collect and review existing nutrition training materials, job aids and tools for health and WASH, identify synergies and gaps to be addressed

3. Draft HINI training materials, job aids, tools and checklist

4a) Kiribati: Develop training plan for training of trainers (TOT) and roll-out of provincial/island training and supportive supervision

4b) Kiribati: TOT and roll-out in at least 1 island to build capacity of the trainers

5. Vanuatu: Carry out a review meeting with ToTs trained on MIYCN and IMAM to identify continuing education needs, introduce evidence based HINI framework and action plans, reinforce previous training components and introduce any new ones identified during the development of the HINI Framework

Expected Deliverables

  1. Inception Report including workplan (Gantt chart) detailing key steps with timelines for achieving the objectives and deliverables
  2. Gap analysis report (detailed gap analysis of the available nutrition related materials and tools with recommendations for the development of HINI training materials and tools
  3.  Develop Table of Contents for the training guidelines with list of training modules, job aids and tools
  4.  Draft HINI training materials, job aids and tools including WASH and Early Stimulation
  5. Review report (Vanuatu); Training report (Kiribati) incorporating agreed training plans; details of TOT and roll-out of training
  6. Submission of final HINI training materials and tools incorporating final comments/suggestions from UNICE

All products should be in electronic and hard copy submission.

Qualifications of Successful Candidate

Education

  • Post-graduate degree in Nutrition, Public Health, social sciences, global/international health and nutrition, or medicine

Years of relevant experience

  • At least 7 years documented work experience in training of health service providers at the national and subnational levels, preferably in the area of nutrition
  • Documented recent experience developing curriculum and training materials, job aids and tools
  • Experience in policy/strategy development and review of nutrition guidelines and tools
  • Solid understanding of integrated service delivery and community platforms for multi-sectoral nutrition service delivery
  • Substantive knowledge on maternal, neonatal, child health and nutrition (MNCHN) issues/ policies, strategies, guidelines, tools, checklists, SOPs
  • Strong inter-personal, teamwork and organizational skills
  • Familiarity with information technology, including proficiency in word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software
  • Previous working experience in the Pacific and with health and nutrition programmes will be an asset.
  • Proven analytical and report writing skills;
  • Familiarity and experience of working with UN agencies is an asset

Languages

  • Fluency in written and spoken English required.

Competencies of Successful Candidate

  • Good analytical, facilitating, negotiating, communication and advocacy skill
  • To view our competency framework, please click here. 

Detailed copy of the Terms of Reference is attached:Download File EXTERNAL TOR for HINI Capacity Building Consultancy UNICEF PACIFIC_ Vanuatu Kiribati.docx

TO APPLY: Interested applicants are to include the following documents in their submission:

  • A cover letter describing how you meet each of the requirements listed above (max. 2 pages)
  • A detailed proposal that includes  your ability, availability and daily/monthly rate (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference above (including travel and daily subsistence allowance, if applicable). Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered.

For any questions or clarifications in relation to the above consultancy please contact us at pacificvacancies@unicef.org. DO NOT forward any applications to this email address as they will not be considered, all applications must be submitted online on the UNICEF Employment page where this position is being advertised.  

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.

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