International Consultancy: Vaccine Management Consultant, 6 months, Aden, Yemen

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In the 1970s UNICEF established presence in Yemen to respond to the urgent needs of children in the poorest country in the Middle East. In 1991, Yemen ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and it was enacted immediately.  Since then the country has been making steady progress for children until it plunged into a brutal conflict in 2015 but even before that, Yemen needed large amounts of humanitarian assistance.

In collaboration with local authorities, non-governmental organizations and community partners, UNICEF is working in all the governorates in Yemen to respond to the needs of children throughout the country with a continuum of services to help children survive and grow to their full potential through the following programmes: Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Basic Education, and Child protection.

For more on our work in Yemen, please visit our website: https://www.unicef.org/yemen/

How can you make a difference? 

UNICEF Yemen is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Vaccine Management Consultant to Strengthening cold chain systems at all immunization supply chain levels including health facilities in Southern Yemen.

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

 The main purpose of this consultancy is to facilitate the planning and implementation of the effective vaccine management assessment (EVMA) and subsequently the development of EVM Improvement Plan for the period 2024-2028. In addition, the consultant will provide technical guidance and support to the roll-out of the use of WHO IGA and support capacity building on ISC pillar areas.

You will also deliver the following objectives:

1. Lead and coordinate with EVM Secretariat in facilitating effective vaccine management assessment (using EVM 2.0 tool) & improvement plan implementation.
2. Provide technical guidance in ensuring that the cold chain management information system (CCMIS) become an integral part of immunization logistics management information system (eLMIS)
3. Building Capacity and knowledge transfer on cold chain and vaccine management

 

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Education: 

Master’s degree is required in one of the following fields: Pharmacy, Public Health, Epidemiology, Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Procurement, Engineering, or other relevant disciplines.

Experience:

• A minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible experience in assessment of Immunization Pharmacy, Public Health, Epidemiology, Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Procurement, Engineering, training facilitation and developing comprehensive improvement plan of effective vaccine management
• Have good skill on database to analyse vaccine cold chain and logistics management.
• Excellent management and coordination skills and an ability to communicate effectively with diverse partners at country levels.
• Ability to travel inside Yemen for training and field assessment.
• Have good written and communication skill to develop standard technical report on effective vaccine management with improvement plan.
• Previous experience in implementing projects in emergency context is an asset.
• Have an organizational and managerial capacity.
• Know how to maintain good relations with all partners.
• Be a team player.
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment.

Language:

Fluency in English & Arabic is required. Knowledge of another UN language is an asset.

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UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

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UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

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:  

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
• Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract 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 and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors 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 for ensuring 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, programmme 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.
• Candidates are required to provide an all-inclusive fee proposal as part of their application.
• For this consultancy, the consultant is expected to work from home for the first three months and remaining three months will be from the duty station.