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Vacancy Announcement
Consultancy Title: iSC Continuous Improvement and NLWG strengthening Consultant Section/Division/Duty Station: PG/Health/Immunization/iSC, Programme Division, NYHQ
Duration: 17October 202431 November 2025REMOTE
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 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.
BACKGROUND
Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
UNICEF seeks a consultant to update & develop workforce development materials, strengthen S/NLWGs, support professionalization of supply chains, & foster gender integration in immunization efforts. The consultant will also work on continuous improvement initiatives & collaborate with a wide range of partners. The consultancy assignment will be supervised by the Health Specialist, Immunization Supply Chain & the consultant will collaborate with a wide range of partners in iSC2, regions & countries.
Scope of Work:
Capacity/workforce development & S/NLWGs/Governance strengthening materials:
Capacity/workforce development & S/NLWGs/governance systems set up & strengthening initiatives:.
Strategic planning & continuous improvement initiatives:
UNICEF’s gender & supply chain approach & interventions:.
Contributions into Gavi Alliance 0 iSC HR/governance mechanism strategy:
Evidence generation:.
Terms of Reference / Deliverables
Deliverables/ Outputs / Delivery Deadline
Qualifications
1) Education
An advanced University Degree in Engineering, Public Health, Supply Chain, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Business or Public Administration or related field is required or other relevant fields. Additional qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the master’s degree. Proficiency in spoken and written English is required.
2) Work experience
At least 8 years of experience in international public health programming including at least 3 years in immunization and immunization supply chains, with experience in low and middleincome countries. Familiarity with incountry immunization supply chain processes and strengthening such as stock and logistics management, inventory policies, allocation, ordering and distribution strategies, temperature monitoring, waste management and other supply chain operations. Very good experience and knowledge of countries’ iSC capacity/workforce development interventions, including potential for impact and challenges. Very good experience and knowledge of countries’ iSC governance/S/NLWGs strengthening practices, and related challenges. Very good experience of the effective vaccine management (EVapproach (and overall comprehensive vaccine management approacincluding conducting EVM assessments, developing and tracking the continuous improvement plans (cIPKnowledge of iSC professionalization and gender mainstreaming practices in iSC and broader health systems. Experience with engaging multiple stakeholders at countries’ national and subnational levels, including communicating ideas in a collegiate manner. Experience with developing high quality technical documents including academic articles, case studies, news articles etc.
Requirements:
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 (spouswill require an Employment Authorization Card (EAto be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITA.
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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, socioeconomic 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 zerotolerance 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(and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
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 coverag. 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 to ensure that the visa (applicabland 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 fullyvaccinated status against SARSCoV2 (Covid19) with a World Health Organization (WHendorsed 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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