Senior Health Specialist – Implementation Research, PHC-HSS (P5), FT, PG – Health (MNCAH), outpost in Nairobi – Kenya # 00053197

Senior Well being Specialist – Implementation Analysis, PHC-HSS (P5), FT, # 0053197, Programme Group – Well being (outpost in Nairobi – Kenya)

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in 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, all over the place, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

For each youngster, Well being

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each youngster, all over the place, in every thing the group does — in packages, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing essentially the most deprived and excluded kids and households, interprets this dedication to kids’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness implies that all kids have a chance to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias, or favoritism. To the diploma that any youngster has an unequal likelihood in life — in its social, political, financial, civic, and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There’s rising proof that investing within the well being, schooling, and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all kids the chance to satisfy their potential but additionally will result in sustained progress and stability of nations. Subsequently the deal with fairness is so very important. It accelerates progress in direction of realizing the human rights of all kids, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Conference on the Rights of the Baby, whereas additionally supporting the equitable improvement of countries.

How will you make a distinction?

Beneath the general route of the Sr. Well being Advisor, PHC-HSS unit the incumbent is accountable for coordination, planning, administration, and analysis of implementation analysis to provide information and proof to affect coverage in direction of achievement of the health-related SDGs centered on strengthening Major Well being Care. Help the Sr Well being Advisor in improvement and implementation of inventive methods in order that information and proof obtained from these research and from worldwide literature is efficiently disseminated to subject employees and coverage choices might be knowledgeable by the absolute best proof.

Technical steering for particular implementation analysis tasks.

• Supplies management and steering for particular implementation analysis tasks, together with the elaboration of analysis plans and protocols, and monitoring the standard of the research and their utility inside insurance policies and programmes.
• Accountable for improvement and general administration of analysis tasks on the worldwide, regional, and nation ranges.
• Guides improvement of methodologies and new approaches for enhancing analysis tasks. Develops and participates in analysis workshops and consultations at regional and nation ranges to change data, concepts, and approaches.
• Coordinates preparations for funding proposals associated to implementation analysis, displays the general planning and disbursement of implementation analysis funds, and displays utilization of funds.
• Prepares and submits well timed progress/standing stories for administration, board, donors, finances critiques, programme monitoring and analysis, annual stories, and many others.

Growth and operationalization of implementation analysis technique

• Helps Senior Supervisor and acts as focus to information improvement and operationalization of UNICEF implementation analysis technique to provide proof and affect coverage in direction of achievement of health-related SDGs, with a deal with implementation methods and community-based approaches for maternal and youngster survival actions.
• With enter from numerous models and sections inside Well being, WASH, Vitamin, Baby Safety, Social Coverage programmes in addition to regional counterparts, identifies precedence strategic implementation analysis tasks of curiosity to fill the gaps and enhance implementation methods and community-based interventions geared toward lowering youngster mortality.
• Helps Senior Supervisor in fundraising for implementation analysis and in main key partnerships with different international establishments main on implementation analysis.
• Makes choices on implementation analysis tasks, capability, and worldwide collaborations. These choices will have an effect on the general effectivity and effectiveness of the programme coverage and proof. Suggestions are made relating to coverage and the implementation of UNICEF’s well being programmes and information worldwide.
• Suggestions embrace contributions to coverage improvement, programme design and different technical and organisational recommendation. Suggestions are additionally made on programme/challenge exercise feasibility and implementation, linkages with different facets of UNICEF intervention, reprogramming and rescheduling of actions, and exterior technical help and necessities. These suggestions influence straight on the effectiveness of UNICEF’s programmes and the picture of the group.

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have…

• A complicated college diploma (Grasp’s or larger) in Public Well being, epidemiology, infectious illness, maternal and youngster well being, well being promotion or some other associated subject and a Medical Diploma (MD) is required.
• A minimal of 10 years of related skilled expertise in well being analysis design and execution, together with administration of analysis tasks is required.
• Expertise in information administration, evaluation, dissemination and experience and expertise in youngster survival programme administration is a particular asset.
• Confirmed document as evidenced by printed analysis as the principle writer in peer reviewed journals within the subject of implementation analysis and information in related matters (at the least 10 publications) is desired.
• Data of educational establishments, worldwide well being organizations and companions in implementation analysis is a particular asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.

For each Baby, you show…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability (CRITA), and sustainability

Please click on Here to view UNICEF’s core values and Here to view our competency framework.

UNICEF competencies required for this submit are.

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages Folks (3)
• Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drive to realize impactful outcomes (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should replicate the range of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to including everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, a variety of advantages to our employees, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination.

UNICEF is dedicated to selling the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules.

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 examine.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. 

Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which will likely be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may additionally be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid).

Authorities staff which might be thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF.

UNICEF reserves the fitting to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or mandatory inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an affordable interval for any motive.

“UNICEF solely considers larger academic {qualifications} obtained from an establishment accredited/acknowledged within the World Increased Training Database (WHED), an inventory up to date by the Worldwide Affiliation of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Academic, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO). The record might be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”

For extra info on remuneration and advantages, please go to UNICEF’s Entitlements’ page.  If you need to seek out estimates for entitlements, you could use the net Salary Estimate Calculator

• Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.
• Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service