Generic Vacancy Announcement for National Consultancy Roster: Emergency Health Specialist, Indonesia

As part of UNICEF Indonesia’s emergency preparedness and response, the office would like to establish a pre-screened pool of Emergency Preparedness and Response Experts.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. 

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. 

And we never give up. 

For every child, health

BACKGROUND:

In the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) it is the explicit commitment that appropriate and experienced staff and personnel with relevant deployment training are provided and rapidly deployed, that focus on action in the first eight critical weeks of humanitarian response and provide guidance for action beyond that, moving towards defined benchmarks.

As part of UNICEF Indonesia’s emergency preparedness and response, the office would like to establish a pre-screened pool of Emergency Preparedness and Response Experts. The experts are expected to work in close collaboration with UNICEF Country Office and external partners in providing technical assistance to provide direct technical support, on request, to Indonesia’s National Humanitarian Lead Agencies (national task forces and clusters), in their role of building and ensuring regional disaster response capacity. Rostered consultants would provide embedded mentoring and technical assistance in two stages of the disaster management cycle:

1. In disaster response: Supporting rapid response to disasters, mentoring governments (at national and/or subnational levels based on the emergency) to undertake more effective assessments, planning and funding proposals, including, where appropriate, advising on appropriate direct cash transfer mechanisms.

2. In disaster preparedness: Building capacity in high-risk areas, to undertake better risk analyses, preparedness planning processes and simulation exercises in line with NDRF (National Disaster Response Framework) recommendations and agreed BNPB (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana) and relevant ministry guidelines.

Scope of Work:

Under the direction and guidance of the Chief of Health in Indonesia Country Office, and in close collaboration with the Disaster Preparedness and Response, the Emergency Health Specialist will be responsible for the provision of access to basic health care to children, being responsible for the overall planning and management of UNICEF’s health response to the emergency and crisis. This will include supporting section chiefs to scale up programmatic and operational efforts to ensure UNICEF is able to respond to the growing number of needs among children and their families in Indonesia in UNICEF’s key sectors, aligned to the CCCs.

Main Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Working in close collaboration with the Government of Indonesia and relevant partners.
• Support UNICEF’s response in Health as part of the overall health cluster/sector coordination mechanism. Represent UNICEF in the Health and other cluster/sector coordination meetings.
• Participate in rapid needs assessments for the health sector.
• Contribute to UNICEF’s and the health cluster/sector response strategy, work planning and contingency planning processes with other sectors to ensure cross sectoral response programming.
• Provide technical support to UNICEF and partners including contributing to the development of or sharing relevant standards, protocols, guidelines and training materials for Health in emergencies.
• Conduct joint field visits and evaluations with relevant health sector/cluster reports.
• Develop behavior change communication materials for C4D and other relevant sectors.
• Support reestablishment and enhancement of a sustainable decentralized public health system and services at community and health facility levels.
• Oversee project supply chain in coordination with UNICEF operations staff to provide essential drugs and materials to government and NGO partners.
• Monitor the coverage of key Health interventions among the beneficiary population and share information for internal communication and external coordination.
• Support UNICEF information products related to the response including situation reports.
• In close consultation with the M&E team, contribute to the office M&E mechanism, including performing results tracking.
• Help draft funding appeals, donor reports and project proposals related to the response.

To qualify as a champion for every child you will have…

• Minimum of Advanced university degree in public health (MD, nursing or other relevant health discipline) plus a master’s, MSc, PhD in public health or related field.
• A minimum of 5-8 years of progressively responsible experience in planning and implementing health in emergency programmes.
• Experience working with either the UN, International Organizations, and/or NGO.
• Fluency in English (verbal and written). Good written and spoken skills in the language of the humanitarian operation and knowledge of another UN language an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, 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 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 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. Consultants 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 (if 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. 

Disclaimer: The screening of your application will be conducted based on the information in your profile. Before applying, we strongly suggest that you review your profile to ensure accuracy and completeness. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. This vacancy is open for Indonesians only.