National Consultant Auditor: Comments on the R3337 Draft Labelling Regulations, Pretoria, South Africa, 95 days (remote)

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

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each youngster, in all places, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means surrender. 

For each youngster, NUTRITION.

UNICEF South Africa

We work to advertise the rights of each youngster. We imagine that guaranteeing a baby is completely satisfied and wholesome begins earlier than beginning: from guaranteeing their mom has entry to good well being care to reaching maturity as a wholesome, empowered and knowledgeable younger particular person of the following era. This journey depends on each youngster gaining access to high quality well being care, good vitamin, schooling, and rising up in a protected surroundings free from violence.

South Africa’s HIV burden and vulnerability is difficult by excessive ranges of malnutrition and weight problems. Greater than a 3rd of youngsters below 5 are affected by under-nutrition or are chubby. Meals shortage, feeding infrequency and a scarcity of dietary variety are severe impediments to wholesome ranges of kid vitamin.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

The Well being and Vitamin Part inside UNICEF South Africa is offering technical help to the Division of Well being with the finalization of the regulatory frameworks that search to guard shoppers, notably kids in opposition to the dangerous meals surroundings practices. The Division of Well being, below part 15 (1) of the Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, 1972 (Act No.54 of 1972), printed for public remark the Rules Regarding the Labelling and Packaging of Foodstuffs (R3337 of 21 April 2023). Further Technical employees are required to offer experience in auditing to help the division with high quality assurance of the submitted feedback on the R3337 Draft Labelling Rules.

Beneath the supervision of the Vitamin Supervisor, the advisor will help the Division of Well being with the verification and high quality assurance of the feedback obtained on the R3337 Draft labelling Rules.

This exercise aligns with the annual workplan to remodel meals programs in order that they’ll work for kids. The advisor will work very carefully with the Nationwide Division of Well being’s Meals Management Directorate in executing their duties and the deliverables. This may embrace briefing and consultative conferences with the technical managers throughout the Directorate and different stakeholders that the advisor could also be required to have interaction with.
The Consultants might be anticipated to carry out the next duties:

• Audit corporations/organizations/commentators which have submitted feedback.
• Audit all substantive1 feedback captured on the supplied Template.
• Audit all substantive feedback collated on the supplied Template.
• Audit all non-substantive2 feedback captured on the supplied Template.
• Carry out different duties which may be required in relation to R3337 Draft Rules.

Work project overview

Process/milestone	Deliverable/output	Timeline
Assist information capturers in resolving discrepancies of their evaluation of substantive and non-substantive responses obtained and make remaining choice.	Accomplished Template 1, Template 2 and Template 3 with all discrepancies resolved.	5 days
Audit a database created by Information Capturers for all commentators which have submitted substantive and non-substantive feedback.	Ultimate listed database of commentators	10 days
Audit Template 1 associated to substantive feedback supplied by the Information Capturers	Ultimate Template 1, associated to substantive feedback.	20 days
Audit Template 2 associated to non-substantive feedback supplied by the Information Capturers.	Ultimate Template 2, associated to non-substantive feedback.	20 days
Audit Template 3 associated to questions supplied by information capturers.	Ultimate Template 3, associated to questions.	10 days
Assist to Division of Well being of their finalization of responses to feedback obtained.	Responses finalized and submitted to Division of Well being.	30 days
Summarize all of the work accomplished through the interval.	Ultimate report.	1 day

 

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

• A college diploma in Auding or related disciplines
• A minimum of 3 to five years’ expertise within the associated area. Working in varied spheres of presidency or with authorities might be an added benefit
• Intermediate information of Microsoft Workplace packages
• Improvement of databases information
• Glorious organisation expertise and element oriented
• Glorious understanding and command of the English language on the native stage
• Plain English writing and enhancing expertise
• The means to get to the workplaces of the Division of Well being in Pretoria

For each Baby, 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 kids and our world workforce should mirror the variety of these kids. 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 gives reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This may occasionally 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 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 targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict youngster safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact 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. 

Remarks:  

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

People engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought of “employees members” below 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 (akin to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service might be ruled by their contract and the Basic Circumstances of Contracts for the Companies 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 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 fully-vaccinated standing in opposition to 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 should not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF throughout their consultancy contracts.