EMERGENCY ROSTER: Cluster Information Management Officers (IMO) (National and International Consultancies)

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

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each little one, in all places, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means surrender. 

For each little one, Safety…

Malawi’s new Nation Programme (2024-2028) consists of three parts: (1) little one survival and growth; (2) studying, expertise growth and safety; and (3) social coverage. All parts are supported by the programme and operational effectiveness and effectivity imperatives. All UNICEF programmes concentrate on risk-informed programming throughout the humanitarian and growth nexus in all of the above three final result areas.  Threat-informed programming throughout the humanitarian and growth nexus in all three final result areas will contribute to strengthened catastrophe preparedness, enhanced local weather adaptation/mitigation and response, and elevated resilience capability of establishments, communities, and younger individuals. Programming aligns with UNICEF Core Commitments for Kids in Humanitarian Motion and the Inter-Company Standing Committee’s Transformative Agenda.   

Malawi is ranked fifth within the 2021 World Local weather Threat Index2. In keeping with the Kids’s Local weather Threat Index (UNICEF, 2021), Malawi is among the many high forty nations with excessive local weather threat for kids and essentially the most susceptible communities.  Malawi is extremely inclined to local weather and environmental shocks, together with flooding, drought, cyclones, and excessive warmth. Such shocks have just lately elevated in frequency and magnitude and are amongst Malawi’s youngsters’s best threats. As per UNICEF, ‘Local weather Panorama Evaluation for Kids in Malawi’ report (CLAP) 2022 climate-related hazards have resulted within the lack of life, displaced hundreds of individuals, and broken or disrupted roads, well being amenities, faculties, and energy provides throughout the nation. Malawi additionally faces frequent outbreaks of cholera, endemic malaria, and the re-emergence of vaccine-preventable illnesses corresponding to polio, contributing to a necessity for a programme response absolutely conscious of an elevated poly-crisis atmosphere.  

The UNICEF Malawi Nation Workplace (MCO) is strengthening and scaling up multi sectoral part in response to the emergency.  Oversight to make sure adherence to the CCCs for Humanitarian Motion by the nation workplace is a essential perform throughout an emergency response.  UNICEF Malawi has been supporting the activation of a cluster method and performs a key function in co-leading the next 4 clusters throughout the emergency disaster within the nation, with related Authorities Ministries main the clusters and a UN company. As follows:

• Vitamin Cluster – Lead: Ministry of Well being; Co-Lead: UNICEF
• Training Cluster – Lead: Ministry of Training; Co-Lead: UNICEF
• WASH Cluster – Lead: Ministry of Water; Co-Lead: UNICEF
• Safety Cluster – Lead: Ministry of Gender; Co-Lead: UNICEF

As well as, total coordination from the Authorities aspect is ensured by the Division of Catastrophe Administration (DODMA) and from UN aspect – by the UN Resident Coordination Workplace. There isn’t any OCHA presence within the nation. 

The clusters might be activated as per the necessity and performance on the nationwide and district (sub nationwide) stage as required. All key clusters have developed related mulity hazard preparedness and contingency plans consolidated beneath a Nationwide contingency plan led by DoDMA. The cluster plans nonetheless want additional enhancements as per the continuing state of affairs change and sort of emergencies that the nation would possibly face.

This roster is aimed to assist UNICEF’s emergency preparedness motion with a view to reply to the humanitarian disaster on a well timed and coordinated method with the expert and pre-identified human useful resource capacities.

How will you make a distinction? 

The efficiency of labor might be evaluated based mostly on the next indicators: 

• Completion of duties laid out in TOR and High quality of labor 
• Compliance with the established deadlines for submission of deliverables 
• Demonstrating excessive requirements in cooperation and communication with UNICEF and counterparts 
• Passable high quality completion of every deliverable
• Adherence to UNICEF’s little one safeguarding coverage  

Please discuss with the hooked up full Phrases of Reference   CP_Protection Cluster IMO.pdf  Education Cluster IMO.pdf  Nutrition Cluster IMO.pdf  WASH Cluster IMO.pdf  for extra particulars on the consultancy and necessities.

For each Youngster, you display… 

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

 To view our competency framework, please go to  here. 

 UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our international workforce should replicate the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

UNICEF affords reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This will likely embrace, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your software in case you want cheap lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your project. 

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 little one safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates might 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 offer extra info to conduct a background test. 

HOW TO APPLY…

consultants ought to present the next:

1. Cowl letter:

• Clearly indicating which technical consultancy project, the candidate is making use of for (e.g., Well being Cluster Coordination or every other)
• Describing the candidate’s related expertise with related sort of assignments (max 300 phrases)

2. Up to date Curriculum Vitae (no more than 4 pages)
3. Two newest efficiency value determinations and/or suggestions letters from latest assignments together with reference contact particulars (telephone numbers and e-mail addresses)
4. When a necessity arises, the workplace will invite pre-selected roster candidates to offer their monetary proposal (all-inclusive charge) for the precise project in addition to to verify their availability and curiosity on the time of the deployment want.

5. Embody together with your software related samples from related work (net hyperlinks additionally might be supplied).

Remarks:  

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

People engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “workers members” beneath the Workers Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (corresponding to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service might be ruled by their contract and the Common Situations of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable 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. 

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the complete interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of absolutely vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking over the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and usually are not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF in the course of their consultancy contracts.