National Consultant: Acceleration Malaria Elimination Papua, 1 year (based in Merauke) – for Indonesians only

UNICEF Indonesia is looking for a National Consultant acceleration malaria elimination based in Merauke to cover the following districts: Merauke, Asmat, Boven Digoel & Mappi. The purpose of this consultancy assignment is to provide technical assistance in Papua’s Provinces to support accelerating malaria case reduction and elimination efforts in these areas. These consultants will liaise with local government and based in the assigned districts with additional task to support nearby districts.

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UNICEF Indonesia is looking for a National Consultant acceleration malaria elimination based in Merauke to cover the following districts: Merauke, Asmat, Boven Digoel & Mappi.

The purpose of this consultancy assignment is to provide technical assistance in Papua’s Provinces and NTT Province (Sumba Island) to support accelerating malaria case reduction and elimination efforts in these areas. These Consultants will be liaised with local government and based in the assigned districts with additional task to support nearby districts.

Indonesia is aiming to achieve malaria elimination by 2030. Currently, there are 393 of 514 districts (76 per cent) declared malaria- free. To reach the elimination target by 2030, the country needs to accelerate efforts to have around 18-20 districts certified as malaria-free annually. In some districts, the progress is stagnant or even worsening, with an increasing number of malaria cases reported during the last five years.

As part of the Country Program Action Plan (CPAP) for the cooperation between the Government of Indonesia and UNICEF for 2021 – 2025, UNICEF will provide support in accelerating malaria reduction toward elimination in Eastern Indonesia Provinces, especially in Papua and Papua Barat, where 93 per cent of malaria cases occurred.

To date, malaria incidence is highest in Papua Provinces with Annual Parasite Incidence (API) 104,7 in 2023. Among its 42 kabupaten/districts in all regions, challenging districts including the nine very high endemic districts: Mimika, Mamberamo Raya, Keerom, Sarmi, Kabupaten Jayapura, Kep. Yapen, Waropen, Asmat, and Kota Jayapura. The API in these nice districts exceeded 100 cases per 1000 population in 2023.

Papua region, achieved remarkable milestone, when South Sorong and Pegunungan Afrak Districts achieved malaria elimination status in 2022 and 2023.

In NTT, Sabu Raijua and Belu had become the latest additions to the list of districts achieving malaria elimination status in 2023. At the moment nine of NTT’s 22 districts have attained malaria-free certification. The number of high-endemic districts has decreased from three to two, with all located on Sumba Island. Notably, the total number of confirmed malaria cases in NTT also witnessed a decrease, dropping by 52% from 14,239 cases in 2022 (API 2.26) to 6,796 cases in 2023 (API 1.24).

To speed up the reduction of malaria cases to be able to achieve the malaria elimination goal in these areas, UNICEF provided direct assistance to the provincial health offices (PHOs) and district health offices (DHOs) in Papua and NTT Provinces, aiming to directly influence policy development, program management and service delivery with the ultimate goal to protect children and pregnant women from the devastating effects of the malaria on this Island. The consultant for this assignment will need to work in close collaboration with local government and other partners to achieve this goal.

How can you make a difference? 

The consultant will focus on the following tasks during the assignment period:
1. Ensuring access and compliance to standard malaria diagnosis and treatment protocol in public and private health facilities, including integrated program with maternal and child health (malaria in pregnancy program and integrated management of childhood illnesses) for the assigned areas.
2. Providing technical assistance improve vector control and larvae source reduction – community-based management in the at the assigned areas.
3. Providing technical assistance to strengthen malaria surveillance, data analysis, malaria recording and reporting through e-Sismal Ver 3.0 and SMILE apps at the assigned areas.
4. Under the coordination of a health specialist or health officer, develop networks and encourage cross-sectoral collaboration to accelerate malaria case reduction for the assigned districts by improving enabling environment to ensure malaria elimination achievement through Behaviour change communication (BCC) and community engagement at the assigned areas.
5. Support and initiate innovation including developing of knowledge products in the form of policy briefs, fact sheets, etc., for policy advocacy and evidence-based decision- making in accelerating malaria reduction toward elimination at the assigned areas.

Please refer to the Term of Reference attached for the detailed breakdowns of tasks and deliverables/outputs.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

– Medical doctor or Bachelor’s degree in health/ health related subject
– At least 3 years of experience in the field of public health
– Experience with government, health systems and administration regulations
– Experience in malaria program
– Experience in Eastern Indonesia is an advantage
– Pro-active and resourceful, effective communication skills in negotiating and liaising with counterparts and partners
– Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia.

 TOR Malaria Consultants for Papua and NTT 2024 TMS.pdf

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS) and core competencies:
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
• Drive to achieve results for impact
• Innovates and embraces change
• Manages ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others

To view our competency framework, please visit here. 

 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 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.