EMERGENCY ROSTER: District Emergency Coordinator (Open to Malawian Nationals Only)

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve 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 baby, in all places, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

For each baby, Safety… 

Malawi’s new Nation Programme (2024-2028) contains three parts: (1) baby survival and improvement; (2) studying, expertise improvement and safety; and (3) social coverage. All parts are supported by the programme and operational effectiveness and effectivity imperatives. All UNICEF programmes give attention to risk-informed programming throughout the humanitarian and improvement nexus in all of the above three final result areas.  Threat-informed programming throughout the humanitarian and improvement 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 Youngsters in Humanitarian Motion and the Inter-Company Standing Committee’s Transformative Agenda. 

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

How are you going to make a distinction? 

The district emergency coordinator is anticipated to coordinate UNICEF’s multisectoral responses at district go away and supply technical help to district authorities on emergency preparedness and repone as a part of the emergency staff underneath the direct supervision of Humanitarian Motion and Resilience and in partnership with counterparts and companions with a particular give attention to the next parts:  

• Set up robust and shut relationships with the District Commissioner and different line departments to strengthen the coordination and monitoring of multisectoral interventions.
• Actively coordinate UNICEF-supported actions with districts, WHO and different companions engaged within the flood and cholera preparedness and response actions.
• Take part in well being, WASH, schooling and Little one safety coordination and dealing group conferences and interact with key companions to promptly deploy in these districts newly affected, improve the effectiveness and effectivity of response actions, and share related updates to make sure the efficient utility of related Well being and Diet in Emergency programming and instruments.
• In collaboration with different sector companions, help districts with efficient planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting on An infection Prevention and Management (scientific, neighborhood and prevention actions).
• Coordinate and monitor the implementation of the district response plans, specializing in Well being, Diet, and general coordination.
• Strengthen the district-level knowledge (Camps, neighborhood, and Establishments) for immediate decision-making in shut coordination with District Commissioner (DC).
• Supportive supervision of the continued response actions specializing in end-user monitoring.
• Frequently handle and share data with the Blantyre- and Lilongwe-based colleagues.
• Prioritization of actions and provides via fixed contact with Implementing Companions and website visits.
• Take part at district cluster-level conferences of WASH, Schooling, safety, RCCE, Diet, and different related boards.
• Capability constructing of the federal government entities within the wanted space.
• Supportive supervision of the continued response actions with a give attention to end-user monitoring.

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have… 

Educational qualification:

Important:

Grasp’s diploma in one of many following fields is required: Social Science, Economics, public well being or one other related technical area.

Work expertise:

• At the very least 5 (5) years of associated expertise on the district-level Emergency response.
• Expertise working with authorities businesses, native authorities, worldwide organisations, NGOs and communities within the illness and catastrophe emergency response atmosphere.
• A minimal of two years of expertise working or collaborating with both UNICEF or different UN and NGOs.
• Expertise working throughout the well being, WASH and Diet or different sectors.
• Technical expertise and well being data in emergency response, together with monitoring and analysis, provide administration and partnership coordination. 

Technical expertise, data and power areas:

• Demonstrated data and expertise in emergency fieldwork.
• Familiarity with Authorities programmes in Malawi is a bonus.
• Robust coordination and collaborative skills throughout the well being sector and different sectors.
• Demonstrated data and expertise in public well being fieldwork with a give attention to cholera and different diarrheal illnesses could be an asset.
• Good interpersonal expertise, capacity to construct and preserve partnerships throughout authorities and NGOs, capacity to work in multi-cultural settings and culturally delicate communities.
• An modern and resourceful mindset to make options work in hostile circumstances and the power to carry out underneath annoying circumstances and have a versatile strategy in enterprise assignments, sustaining a way of professionalism.
• Important data of Microsoft Workplace functions, working data of on-line knowledge assortment functions, and statistical evaluation packages (SPSS, Stata and so forth.

Languages:  

• Fluency in written and verbal English is required, familiarity with Chichewa can be asset.

Please confer with the hooked up full Phrases of Reference  Terms of Reference_District Emergency Coordinator.pdf for extra particulars on the consultancy and necessities.

For each Little one, 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 world 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 some other private attribute.

UNICEF presents reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This may occasionally embody, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your utility in case you want cheap lodging through 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 baby safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can subsequently bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further data to conduct a background verify. 

HOW TO APPLY…

consultants ought to present the next:

1. Cowl letter:

• Describing the candidate’s related expertise with comparable 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 current assignments together with reference contact particulars (cellphone 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 price) for the particular project in addition to to substantiate their availability and curiosity on the time of the deployment want.

5. Embody along with your utility related samples from comparable work (internet hyperlinks additionally could be offered).

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

People engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought of “employees members” underneath the Employees Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (akin to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service can be ruled by their contract and the Normal Circumstances of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost 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 health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your complete interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of totally vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking on the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and should 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 capabilities for UNICEF all through their consultancy contracts.