Demand Hub Consultant. Req

UNICEF Health section seeks a Demand Hub Consultant to support in convening various virtual and face to face meetings to foster effective partnerships between organizations engaging in demand work that was identified by the Hub leadership team, provide technical expertise in development of new guidance and tools for emerging issues, facilitate technical sessions in emerging areas of work, development of community of practice among others, as well as, contribute to maintain Hub website and knowledge management platform Child Protection

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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant

Consultancy Title: Demand Hub Consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: Immunisation demand Section, - PG - NYHQ

Duration: 1 October 2023 - 30 June 2024

Home/ office Based: REMOTE

About UNICEF

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. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

Facilitation the efficient functioning of Vaccination Demand Hub

In recognition of the need for greater alignment and coordination of partners engaged in demand promotion, the Demand Hub was established in 2018. The Hub is a consortium of partners including UNICEF, WHO, CDC, BMGF, GAVI, JSI, IFRC, USAID.  UNICEF has been providing technical leadership, management and coordination support to the Hub since its establishment.  

The Hub is a successful partnership model which has helped global partners to come together to discuss emerging issues in vaccine demand and uptake, develop global tools and guidance on demand promotion and provide a platform for knowledge sharing through virtual and face to face meetings. Tools and guidance are rolled out rapidly though the networks of partners.  New global guidance such as IA2030 and GAVI 5.0 requires the partners working in the demand space to work together and develop global goods, support capacity building and provide coordinated support to regions and countries in order to contribute to protect children from vaccine preventable diseases in zero dose and under-vaccinated areas. With the new emerging priorities such as HPV and Malaria introduction, zero dose agenda, catch up and recovery, the Demand Hub’s role in providing global technical guidance is increasingly becoming important.

The scope of the interventions that the Hub was leading on has expanded, which requires continuation of facilitation of partnership discussion, implementation, monitoring and reporting of Demand Hub’s operations including the interface with regions and countries. UNICEF seeks to recruit a consultant to support the Vaccination Demand Hub (DH) and its defined scope of work. Reporting to UNICEF SBC Adviser/vaccine demand team lead, the incumbent will support the effective functioning of the Hub, monitor governance mechanisms; provide administrative support to the DH; support the Hub website and Knowledge Management, resources and tools; support desk research on key priority topics in demand for immunization.

Scope of Work:

Background:

As indicated above,  the key areas of focus is to support in convening various virtual and face to face meetings to foster effective partnerships between organizations engaging in demand work that was identified by the Hub leadership team, provide technical expertise in development of new guidance and tools for emerging issues,  facilitate technical sessions in emerging areas of work, development of community of practice among others, as well as, contribute to maintain Hub website and knowledge management platform

Specific areas of work to be delivered include:

Partnership Engagement & Facilitation

• Organize and facilitate DH steering committee meetings, meetings of the Demand Hub, and expanded Hub partners
• Produce and disseminate succinct minutes of the DH meetings with action points delineated, and follow-up with responsible parties on action points
• Organize of 2 Face to Face meetings of DH leadership team & 1 expanded DH meeting

Capacity Building

• Facilitate capacity building training, technical clinics and knowledge sharing webinars conducted through the Demand Hub-including to socialize the IA2030 agenda

Content Development/Research

• Develop and update DH workplan-including workstream deliverables, calendar of events; monitor and track coordinated progress
• Develop materials for Hub advocacy for use by partners including presentations, blog content, short briefs and other materials as needed
• Conduct desk review of research in priority areas of demand, as needed and produce a short summary of the content of the research
• Map and create a profile of 5 priority countries for vaccine demand-coordination mechanisms, structures, human resource, strategies, interventions etc.

Knowledge Management:

• Provide content for updating the Hub website and KM platform, including collecting and consolidating inputs from Hub leadership team, workstreams, and partners for content and maintaining the demand resource repository and troubleshoot technical issues
• Produce and disseminate newsletters (eg: with content on upcoming events, stories from the field etc), 2 newsletters with inputs from the workstreams

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

• At least 20 calls of Demand Hub Steering Committee with succinct minutes By December 2023
• 4 Expanded partner meeting organized. - By March 2024 and June 2024
• 2 face to face meetings of the Hub – By Feb 2024
• Report of the F2F mtgs – By March 2024
• Demand Hub workplan updated (4 updates) – By October 2023
• Calendar of events prepared for 2022/2023 – By September 2023
• At least 4 technical sessions/webinar organized to build capacity of countries and regions in specific technical areas of work. – By March 2024, November 2023, February 2024 and May 2024.
• 2 products for advocacy produced for promoting vaccine demand – By December 2023
• 2 blogs written about Demand Hub interventions. – By April 2024
• Summary of 4 available research produced and disseminated – By January 2024 and April 2024
• 2 newsletters of the Hub produced – By Nov 2023 and Jan 2024
• Updated resources on vaccine demand uploaded at least 6 times in the Vaccination demand website – By Dec 2023, March 2024, May 2024, June 2024
• 3 newsletters produced by demand team finalized and disseminated and 3 global webinars organized. – By Dec 2023, April 2024 and June 2024

Qualifications

Education:

• Master’s level; Advanced level education (Masters) in public health, social science or related field.

Work experience:

• Proven track record in programme management and complex multi-stakeholder partnerships coordination for at least two years
• At least 2 years of solid previous experience in coordinating global coordination mechanism preferably in health and SBC related programming
• Proven experience in producing knowledge products
• Experience working in UN systems and partners is an asset

Competencies:

• Strong analytical, oral & written communication skills
• Self-starter with ability to plan and execute projects in a timely manner with strong planning and organizational skills
• Ability to strategic and conceptual thinking
• Knowledge about Vaccination Demand Hub and its functions

Requirements: 

Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system and

• Upload copy of academic credentials
• Financial proposal that will include/ reflect:
  • the costs per each deliverable and the total lump-sum for the whole assignment (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference.
  • travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR.
  • Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, and living costs as applicable.
  • Indicate your availability
• Any emergent / unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF.
• At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.
• Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

U.S. Visa information:

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4, and the consultant’s household members (spouse) will require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G4.  

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process

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UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results. View our competency framework at: Here

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:  

Individuals engaged under a consultancy 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. Consultants 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.