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Consultant Job at United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

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The United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF for 70 years 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. 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.

 Responsibilities

  • To provide technical assistance to the National Food and Nutrition Commission for the development of the national food and nutrition strategic plan (2017-2021)
  • The consultant will be expected to carry the following tasks
  • Review and provide feedback on local consultant team’s inception report; develop annex highlighting additional approach and deliverables under international consultant’s TOR (Home-based work)
  • Conduct a review of the NFNSP 2017-2021 zero draft (Home-based work)
  • Prepare and present a review report on the draft NFNSP highlighting key issues from task 2 and how to address them (In-country work
  • Presentation and discussion of the review report on 10th)
  • Revise the draft strategic plan based on feedback from NFNC and identified stakeholders (In-country work: Submission of the draft NFNSP)
  • Develop a draft monitoring and evaluation framework for the new strategic plan (In-country work Submission of the draft M&E)
  • Plan and facilitate a 4-day workshop with a small team consisting of NFNC staff and key partners to consolidate the strategic plan (In-country work: Workshop and submission of the final draft NFNSP with M&E framework)
  • Support NFNC to organize and facilitate a half day validation meeting with partners (In-country work, Meeting)
  • Edit, finalize the National Food and Nutrition Strategic Plan NFNSP (2017-2021), including the M&E framework to enrich the content and ensure its correctness, coherence and consistence (Home-based work submission of the final NFNSP with M&E framework)
  • Expected Deliverables
  • The consultant will be expected to deliver the following
  • Report prepared and presented on the draft NFNSP highlighting key issues from task 2 and how to address them
  • NFNSP 2017 TO 2021 drafted on feedback from NFNC and identified stakeholders
  • Draft M and E framework developed for the new strategic plan
  • Final draft NFNSP with M&E framework consolidated
  • Meeting minutes highlighting key recommendations done
  • National Food and Nutrition Strategic Plan NFNSP (2017-2021), including the M&E framework finalized

Qualifications

  • Applicants must have an advanced university degree in Nutrition or Public Health, with significant knowledge of public health and experience in designing large scale nutrition programmes
  • Years of relevant experience
  • Applicants must have at least eight years expertise and experience in strategic planning, particularly within the nutrition or health sectors
  • Additional requirements
  • Excellent facilitation skills, coupled with ability to bring together stakeholders from different sectors and backgrounds
  • Track record of developing policy or strategic level documents
  • Strong leadership and teamwork abilities
  • A proven track record of high standards or accountability for work products, meeting deadlines, an ability to prioritize tasks within his or her work program and strategies for working both collectively with others on the team and independently to deliver products of the highest caliber
  • Strong information-gathering and analytical skills, coupled with excellent written and oral communication skills
  • An understanding or knowledge of nutrition sensitive programming or issues in other sectors in addition to health
  • Competencies of Successful Candidate
  • To view our competency framework, please click here
  • Please indicate your ability, availability and daily or monthly rate (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference above (including travel and daily subsistence allowance, if applicable)
  • Applications submitted without a daily or monthly rate will not be considered
  • 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 organization

How to apply
Applications should include a cover memo, completed UN P-11 form, CV, as well as two latest PERs (for UN staff) applications may be sent to the:
United Nations Children’s Fund, 3rd Floor,
United Nations House,
Alick Nkhata Road, Longacres,
PO Box 33610,
Lusaka.

For more information

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (Nyimba)