National Consultant: Social & Behavior Change (SBC) for Immunization Programme, Jakarta (home-based), 7-8 months

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, a voice

UNICEF Jakarta is looking for a national consultant as part of UNICEF support to provide technical support, advaocate and facilitate the SBC EPI-PEI programming at the national, and provincial and district levels, including the provision of technical assistance to demand generation program strategy development including planning, budgeting and implementation. The assignment is for approx 7 to 8 months, until 31 December 2024.

How can you make a difference? 

The SBC EPI-PEI consultant in close co-ordination with the UNICEF Social and Behaviour Change unit, health section, MoH and other EPI stakeholders will perform the following key tasks:
• Assist national MOH and partners in the development of SBC costed strategies and plans, including facilitating the design of coordinated outreach strategies for hard-to-reach, hesitant and vulnerable groups, and communities to promote vaccine uptake.
• Lead the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of an evidence-based SBC strategy.
• Facilitate community engagement, social mobilization, and specific behaviour change interventions.
• Undertake communication assessments and rapid social-behavioral research and evidence building, especially in high-risk and hard-to-reach communities.
• Develop/adapt and tailor health messages and information products for various target populations/audiences, based on community knowledge, practices, and behaviours.
• Facilitate the designing and implementation of specific plans of action for immunization and/or Polio eradication to reach special groups.
• Organize training of health workers, especially in interpersonal communication (IPC) for social and behavioural change in underserved and hard-to-reach communities that are at high risk of vaccine-preventable diseases.
• Work with external communication colleagues and digital/ social media experts to support the mapping of rumours and misinformation for their effective management.
• Conduct media landscape analyses and facilitate engagement of media in immunization and polio activities.
• Support advocacy activities to engage political, religious, and community leaders and other stakeholders.
• Support the national/sub-national MOH to conduct effective communication TWG meetings and other relevant community engagement and mobilization events.
• Submit the final consultancy report with best practices, recommendations, gaps & challenges

Please refer to the Term of Reference attached for the detailed breakdowns of tasks and deliverables/outputs.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

– Master’s degree in medical, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Medical Doctor, Development Science and Public Health related
– Minimum 5 years of experience, 3 years of which should be SBC experience in mass vaccination programs
– Public health behaviour science expert on mass vaccination programs
– High technical knowledge of immunization programs (preferable)
– Psychology, Anthropology and Behavioural Social Science skills
– Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia

 TOR Indv SBC Immunization for TMS.pdf

 

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS) and core competencies:

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/individual contractors 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 or individual 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 and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors 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 (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. This vacancy is open for Indonesians only.