National Consultancy: Two Zonal Nutrition Field Monitors (Open to Malawian Nationals Only)

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For each little one, a Future…

Malawi is a high-risk nation for local weather shocks resembling excessive flooding, exacerbated by ailments outbreak resembling Cholera, extreme meals insecurity, and elevated poverty as a consequence of financial shocks. In March 2023, the nation was hit by the cyclone Freddy which affected at the very least 2.5 million folks; 659,278 have been displaced, 2,186 have been injured, and 679 have been killed. The cholera epidemic in Malawi between 2022 and 2023 resulted in over 58,000 confirmed circumstances, with over 1,700 deaths over an 18-month interval. This   represents a 3 per cent fatality price, which could be very excessive.

About 4.4 million folks, representing 22 % of the Malawi inhabitants, are going through meals insecurity and require meals help between October 2023 to March 2024, in accordance with the Malawi Built-in Meals Safety Section classification (IPC) acute meals insecurity evaluation for June 2023 – March 2024. Of the 4.4 million, 656,721 are youngsters underneath the age of 5, 528,000 are adolescent women and 264,000 are pregnant and breastfeeding ladies. With climate forecasts from worldwide and nationwide companies anticipating El Niño circumstances that are linked with delayed onset of rains, below-normal precipitation, and dry spells in southern Malawi, the meals state of affairs is more likely to worsen. Undernutrition resembling losing stays public well being situation with >150,000 youngsters underneath 5 nonetheless at excessive danger of acute malnutrition (supply: acute malnutrition burden estimate based mostly on SMART survey 2020).

Malnutrition in Malawi can also be compounded by the excessive prevalence of HIV amongst malnourished youngsters. Thirty per cent of youngsters dwelling with HIV who aren’t on antiretroviral remedy are more likely to die earlier than their first birthday; most of those deaths happen throughout the first few months of life. Diagnosing and initiating remedy in youngsters earlier than three months of age will considerably improve their chance of survival.

It’s towards this background that UNICEF wish to interact Zonal Diet Discipline Displays to help districts in preparatory actions for the lean season response and strengthen monitoring, supervision and reporting of vitamin actions to make sure clean implementation.

How will you make a distinction? 

A. Help Coordination of Maternal Toddler and Younger Baby Diet (MIYCN) and micronutrient actions within the goal districts

1. Help the implementation of IYCN, Early Childhood Diet (ECD) and maternal vitamin actions at district stage.
2. Help implementation of faculty age youngsters and adolescent vitamin programming.
3. Help interventions to strengthen meals techniques transformation for enchancment of youngsters’s meals, meals environments, and practices.
4. Promote vitamin resilience interventions to mitigate the affect of emergencies on maternal and little one vitamin.
5. Help A number of Micronutrient Dietary supplements (MMS) and Iron Folic Acid (IFA) actions in addition to salt iodization.

B. Help Coordination of Neighborhood Administration of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) actions within the goal districts

1. Present technical help to the general implementation of the CMAM programme together with mentoring frontline staff, conducting monitoring and supportive supervision together with the District Nutritionist and the PNHAOs.
2. Assess capability of frontline staff on CMAM program and determine key gaps for enchancment.
3. Present technical help in CMAM knowledge administration together with supporting month-to-month knowledge high quality audits, assortment, compilation and submission of CMAM knowledge together with dying audits.
4. Help processes for the CMAM integration into the neighborhood case administration as relevant.
5. Strengthen prevention and administration of acute malnutrition throughout emergencies.

C. Help district stage coordination and capability strengthening in Diet in Emergencies (vitamin coordination, preparedness and response at district stage

1. Improve capability for vitamin preparedness at district and decrease stage.                                   
2. Strengthen coordination of vitamin emergency response at district stage and decrease ranges.                        
3. Early identification and referral of youngsters with a cute malnutrition.
4. Help Toddler and Younger Baby Feeding in emergences (IYCF-E) actions at district and decrease ranges.
5. Actively take part in District Diet Coordination Committee (DNCC) and District Well being Administration Crew (DHMT) conferences and report back to the nationwide stage.
6. Help DNCC within the district reporting and utilization of multisectoral Nationwide Diet Data System (NNIS).                

D. Help Provide Chain Programs Strengthening together with end-user monitoring of vitamin provides at District Stage

1. Help capability strengthening efforts in provide chain integration and Finish person monitoring together with trainings, mentorship, and supervision.
2. Help the district groups in Inventory administration together with reviewing Distribution plans, inventory experiences in LMIS and well timed repositioning of vitamin provides wherever essential to keep away from inventory outs.
3. Help the District Nutritionist and Pharmacy groups in weekly monitoring of inventory standing and supply updates to the nationwide stage for well timed distribution.
4. Inspecting and implementing the requirements on maintaining of inventory to make sure efficient stock administration FEFO, correct stacking)
5. Conduct joint finish person monitoring with district groups (Diet/Pharmacy) and supply well timed experiences to nationwide stage.

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you should have… 

• A minimal of a level in public well being and vitamin, or Worldwide Well being and Diet, Household well being and Diet, or associated subject.

Work expertise:

• Earlier expertise in subject monitoring implementing CMAM and vitamin in emergency applications together with toddler and younger little one feeding in emergencies (IYCFe).
• Greater than 5 years’ work expertise, expertise in well being techniques strengthening and dealing with authorities of Malawi might be an added benefit.
• Expertise and information of micronutrient supplementation applications together with VAS, deworming, IFA, MNPs and so on.

Technical expertise, information and energy areas:

• Technical expertise in preventions and remedy of malnutrition, mentorship and supervision, program administration expertise are fascinating
• Information of vitamin applications, Donor relations
• Power in report writing and documentation of finest practices and or classes learnt in vitamin programmes.

Languages:  

• Sturdy English expertise each oral and written. Sturdy oral expertise in Chichewa and some other native language might be an added benefit.

Please consult with the hooked up full Phrases of Reference  Terms of Reference Nutrition Zonal Field Monitors.pdf for extra particulars on the consultancy and necessities.

For each Baby, you display… 

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HOW TO APPLY…

Particular person Marketing consultant ought to present the next:

1. Curriculum Vitae
2. Educational certificates
3. Transient technical proposal (not than 5 pages) demonstrating the Particular person Marketing consultant’s understanding of the project and strategy/methodology to the project
4. Monetary proposal together with a breakdown of their all-inclusive charges (together with skilled charges, stationery, communication, and different miscellaneous prices).  Financial Proposal for Consultancy.xlsx Full the hooked up kind.
5. References particulars from three most up-to-date supervisors.

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the subsequent 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 supplied therein (resembling depart 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 chargeable 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 insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the whole 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 have to be met previous to taking over the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and aren’t anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF in the course of their consultancy contracts.