2 x Nutrition Support Officers, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 11.5 months

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each baby, all over the place, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means surrender. 

For each baby, Diet 

With over 850 indigenous languages and some of the ethnically various populations, widespread poverty, and gender inequality make it laborious for a lot of youngsters to understand their rights. In Papua New Guinea, UNICEF’s works successfully each ‘upstream’ (with governments) and ‘downstream’ (on the grassroots degree) to hold out its mission via a programme of cooperation collectively developed with the federal government guides our work within the nation.

 

How are you going to make a distinction? 

In PNG, nearly half of the under-five youngsters are stunted in response to the Well being Revenue and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2009/2010. PNG has the very best charges of all dimensions of kid malnutrition within the area and is off-track on all the worldwide vitamin targets. The stunting price rises rapidly from 6 months onwards to 2 years and stays secure till 59 months. Stunting in early years can forestall youngsters from attaining their full growth potential via its impacts on bodily and psychological growth of youngsters, which can lead to poor achievement at college, decreased productiveness, and lack of earnings in grownup life. Stunting may be prevented with vitamin particular interventions and multisectoral actions in vitamin delicate interventions throughout the first 1,000 days of life when toddler and baby development, bodily and mind growth, are at their peak. It’s with this background that UNICEF, is in search of to rent two certified NSOs to help discipline degree implementation of vitamin interventions and convergence of multisectoral vitamin related interventions that deal with the determinants of stunting throughout the first 1,000 days of life. The NSOs will likely be primarily based on the provincial degree and can work intently with the provincial well being authority vitamin focus to help capability constructing of well being care employees and VHA, present supportive supervision to well being care employees and VHA, conduct high quality assurance checks on utilization of well being and vitamin companies, and supply mentorship and training to well being care employees and VHA on an ongoing foundation.

 

Working underneath the direct supervision of the Diet Specialist and in collaboration with PHA administration, the marketing consultant will.

i) Facilitate the implementation of element one of many CNSP within the assigned province.

ii) Present technical help for programmatic information assortment and reporting for element one of many CNSP.

iii) Assist emergency preparedness and response actions as and every time required and be sure that the mission meets Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) necessities.

 

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have… 

• A college diploma in one of many following fields is required: vitamin, public well being, dietary epidemiology, well being sciences, dietary epidemiology, or one other health-related science discipline

    – NB. For NSO supporting program monitoring: Info expertise, statistics or different associated discipline.

Information/Experience/Expertise required:

a. Obligatory expertise.

  – Minimal 2 years of related work expertise in vitamin, evaluation, and information administration.

  – Expertise with data methods, statistical evaluation together with the usage of related software program.

b. Language abilities. Fluency required in English and TokPisin.

c. Different needed/fascinating abilities/{qualifications}. – Sturdy verbal and written communication abilities

  – Willingness to journey and work in discipline environments.

d. Different necessities.

  – Candidate should be a nationwide of PNG.

  – candidates should submit a canopy letter along with their CV

  – Candidate should embrace within the cowl letter anticipated month-to-month consultancy payment (state quantity in PGK please)

 

For each Baby, you exhibit… 

For each Baby, you exhibit… our core values of Dedication, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability and Sustainability. 

This place is a short-term task and doesn’t give rise to a long-term everlasting publish with the group.

Candidates are required to incorporate of their purposes a monetary proposal which features a lumpsum quantity for consultancy charges, native transportation and different miscellaneous prices. Breakdown or particulars of the payment will likely be a lot appreciated.

People engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought of “workers members” underneath the Employees Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (equivalent to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service will likely be ruled by their contract and the Common Circumstances of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are chargeable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.

UNICEF is dedicated to range and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages all candidates, no matter gender, nationality, non secular and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals residing with disabilities, to use.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination.

UNICEF additionally adheres to strict baby safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can subsequently endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further data to conduct a background verify.

UNICEF doesn’t cost a payment at any stage of the recruitment course of (software, interview assembly, processing, or orientation). 

Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.