ACS/Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Country Mentorship Programme Consultant Central African Republic

Building a resilient Civil Registration and Vital Statistics system through innovation, integration and decentralization of services to ensure that all vital events are registered in the country.

Addis Ababa

9 months

Background:

A recent review of the CRVS systems in Central African Republic has identified the need to streamline key CRVS processes to facilitate changes in process accountability and resourcing using tools such as the CRVS Systems Improvement Framework. A consultant will be required in Central African Republic to spearhead the CRVS country mentorship Programme through which they will work with the key government agencies, major institutional stakeholders, clients and CRVS professionals to strengthen CRVS initiatives, assess, analyze and redesign CRVS business processes by using business process maps and other tools and aligning with the international standards, concepts, and best practices. The consultancy/ assignment will aim to strengthen CRVS improvement in Central African Republic countries.

Under the supervision and guidance of the chief of section of African Centre for Statistics (ACS), Demographic and Social Statistics of Section (DSSS) of the Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the consultant will deliver the following:

Duties and Responsibilities: -

The consultant will:
Support and provide in-country technical assistance on CRVS systems strengthening.
- Raise awareness and promote the use of the CRVS systems improvement framework as a guide for the country to use a multi-sectoral and participatory approach to continuously assess and improve the performance of CRVS processes.
- Through south-south cooperation with other African countries and peer learning, align CRVS processes with international standards, concepts and best practices;
- Provide technical advice and input into governance, resource mobilization, rationalization and pooling, and advocacy for sustainable improvement of CRVS;
- Document and share best practices in Central African Republic selected for sustainable CRVS improvements.

Advanced University Degree (Master's) in Demography, Population studies, Public health, Social sciences or related quantitative fields is required. A first-level degree (Bachelor's or equivalent) in the specified fields in combination of additional two years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of the Advanced University Degree
Minimum of 2 years’ Experience in civil registration and vital statistics systems and its functions in the country or experience in health information systems and functions in the country, experience facilitating information systems planning, design and implementation projects ,experience facilitating business process improvement, process re-engineering, process redesign projects is required.
Experience with a standardized modeling notation to ensure consistent representation of business processes -preferably Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), experience using a modeling tool (i.e. Bizagi, Visio, etc.) that support standardized modeling notation to ensure consistent representation of business processes desirable

English and French are the working Languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this consultancy fluency in English is required. Knowledge of the other UN Language is desirable

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