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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant
Consultancy Title: Consultancy – Geospatial HealthConnekt Global Consultant
Section/Division/Duty Station: DH&IS, MNCAH, PG Health – Programme Group – NYHQ
Duration: 11 December 2023 – 31 December 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. 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:
In 2019, UNICEF and ITU’s Giga project aimed to connect every school to the internet, successfully engaging in 19 countries, mapping 2 million schools, and connecting over 5,600 schools, aiding 2.1 million students. Leveraging this momentum, UNICEF will initiate “HealthConnekt” to expand internet access to health facilities, particularly primary healthcare, in line with Africa CDC’s digital goals.
HealthConnekt Global will tackle the digital healthcare divide, improving service and data quality, and addressing connectivity for marginalized areas. The initiative will upgrade health facility lists, integrate connectivity data, utilize new technologies, and scrutinize infrastructure and budgets. It aims to enhance health sector funding, develop financing methods, drive investments, and craft connectivity solutions. HealthConnekt will support the adoption of digital tools, establish necessary frameworks, and monitor service contracts, ensuring fair access to digital health services. The program will collaborate with regional and global efforts and supplement government or donor health initiatives.
Scope of Work:
UNICEF seeks a Geospatial Consultant who will facilitate technical analysis in support of the equity analysis by the HealthConnekt Country Engagement, Equity Analysis, and Investment Cases consultant.
The consultant will facilitate the quantification of the link between the availability of connectivity at health facilities, the geographic coverage of health service points with suitable infrastructure for digitalization of health services, and population health outcomes, thereby supporting the definition of the HealthConnekt investment case in terms of ROI of expansion of connectivity in terms of access to digitalized health services and health outcomes. The consultant will provide technical assistance to the integration between HealthConnekt Global and Giga, and with HealthConnekt Africa and the Africa CDC, ensuring that analysis and outputs undertaken under HealthConnekt are grounded on health programmatic outcomes of strategic importance to UNICEF and countries.
The consultant will closely work with UNICEF Digital Health & Information system team, HealthConnekt consultants (Country Engagement, Equity Analysis, and Investment Cases consultant (lead), and Data Scientist), as well as the Giga team in Barcelona, and Digital Centre of Excellence team in Nairobi. Additionally, the consultant will collaborate with the Digital Health Department within the Africa CDC in Addis Ababa.
The consultant will perform the following duties:
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Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and
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.
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