Senior Immunization Specialist, P5, FT, Amman, Jordan (MENARO), Post #97494

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each baby, in all places, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

For each baby, Well being.

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each baby, in all places, in all the things the group does — in packages, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing probably 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 baby 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, training, 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. That is why the deal with fairness is so very important. It accelerates progress in the 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 Little one, whereas additionally supporting the equitable improvement of countries.

How are you going to make a distinction?

Abstract of key features/accountabilities:

1. Well timed sectoral evaluation, enter, assist and coordination contribute to the Scenario Evaluation with constant integration of intercourse disaggregated knowledge and its periodic replace for efficient venture planning, improvement and administration.

• Contributes to the Scenario Evaluation by overseeing knowledge assortment, evaluation, and analysis for immunization interventions.
• Ensures high quality sectoral enter to the Nation Programme Doc linked to the immunization program.

2. High quality contributions are made to the event and implementation of the immunization methods and approaches by means of participation and collaboration with inner and exterior companions.

• Collaborates inside the Well being part and with different UNICEF sectors, significantly, SBC, Gender, and program communication to make sure integration of the immunization program with different interventions (e.g., vitamin).
• Participates with UNICEF, Authorities, non-government organizations (NGOs), and different companions within the improvement of the immunization methods and approaches. Ensures achievement of strategic outcomes in keeping with agreed annual and Nation Programme targets and adopts corrective motion to satisfy program/venture targets.
• Contributes to the identification, improvement, and dissemination of recent methods, methodologies, approaches, and instruments for bettering program supply with emphasis on venture administration, analysis, sustainability of intervention, and neighborhood participation based mostly on Human Rights framework and cross-sector method, in collaboration with different companions (e.g., WHO, Gavi, and so forth.).

3. Work plan and targets are strategically established, technical assist is successfully offered, and deliberate outcomes are well timed delivered by means of train of robust management.

• Workouts managerial and technical management for, and participates in, the event of the results-based sectoral work plan and technical choices in addition to for the administration, implementation, monitoring, and follow-up of immunization exercise, according to the outlined methods and approaches.
• Ensures targets and targets are well timed met and achieved assembly the necessities and high quality requirements, by means of full coordination between actions, by main and supporting a group {of professional} and assist employees.
• Meets with nationwide and worldwide companies overseeing the administration of immunization packages/initiatives. Participates in conferences with ministries chargeable for immunization program/venture evaluation and follows up on implementation of suggestions and agreements, and integration of gender mainstreaming throughout sectors.

4. The capacities of Nation Workplace employees within the area are strengthened by means of efficient capability constructing programme within the improvement, implementation and administration of the immunization programme.

• Guides, coordinates, and organizes a employees coaching/improvement program with Regional Well being and HQ group to improve the capability of UNICEF Nation Workplace employees enabling them to progressively have interaction in and lead in this system improvement, implementation, and administration of Immunization program.
• Oversees the conduct of related orientation, workshop, coaching, and employees studying/improvement actions.

5. Efficient partnership and collaboration achieved and maintained for advocacy, technical cooperation, programme coordination, info sharing and information networking.

• Coordinates actions and exchanges info and information with different packages to contribute to the achievement of total Immunization program targets.
• Participates in establishing efficient monitoring, information database/community, and reporting methods to make sure the supply of present and correct program info/knowledge, and contributes to the event of communication supplies and methods to assist advocacy and neighborhood participation for the Immunization Program.
• Maintains shut working relationships to determine a partnership and collaboration with exterior counterparts, together with these of the UN, Gavi, and nationwide companions, with a purpose to enhance the flexibility to gather and disseminate related knowledge, change info on program/venture improvement and implementation.
• Ensures a big change of data, info, expertise, and classes discovered.

6. Efficient Coordination with Companions, Together with Gavi, WHO Regional Workplace:

• Efficient coordination with WHO regional workplace and Gavi to make all joint actions are effectively represented within the UNICEF regional and nation work planning and strengthen the identical degree of coordination at nation degree as effectively.
• Make sure the regional and nation places of work are effectively knowledgeable prematurely of upcoming world and regional developments, and put together the nation group and take the coordination from the regional degree, together with by means of the Regional Working Group.
• Coordinate Gavi (and different related donors) funds, grants, and actions associated to nationwide immunization packages.
• Act as a discussion board for the change of data and expertise.
• Take part within the related immunization administration groups and dealing teams.
• Evaluate the technical help requests produced by the joint processes inside the international locations and coordinate and monitor their implementation.
• Focus on programmatic and operational points associated to approaching Gavi methods with a regional perspective and acquire companions consensus on methods to deal with nation wants.
• Strengthen the dialogue between in-country companions and world companions, together with Gavi secretariat.

7. All required programme experiences are well timed ready in compliance with the established pointers and procedures.

• Ensures the well timed preparation of annual sector standing experiences in compliance with established pointers and procedures.
• Participates within the preparation of all program experiences for administration, Board, donors, price range evaluations, program evaluation, and annual experiences.

8. Assist international locations with methods strengthening with immunization because the entry level together with for Center-Earnings Nation Methods.

• Enhance the standard of the immunization program in keeping with different well being interventions and make sure the sustainable improve in immunization protection within the area.
• Monitoring the strengthening of nationwide well being methods efficiency utilizing EPI program-specific outputs/outcomes (i.e., elevated and sustained immunization protection ranges).
• Monitor nation progress, by supporting common program efficiency evaluations (DQAs, DQS, EPI evaluations, EPI protection surveys, and so forth.), organizing joint missions, and reviewing the totally different experiences.
• Monitor the efficiency of actions supported by Gavi in nationwide immunization packages.
• Function a discussion board for the change of expertise, info, and opinions in respect of companion assist amongst collaborating companions and international locations.
• Assist the Center-Earnings Nation Technique, together with required new vaccine introduction (as related).

9. Emergency preparedness of immunization is maintained, and in emergencies, emergency responses with efficient coordination are offered.

• Collaborates in forming immunization-related elements of the emergency preparedness plan regarding the areas of duty. In case of an emergency, participates in monitoring and assessing the character and extent of the emergency within the assigned space and impression on vaccination.
• Coordinates and supplies help to the Nation Workplace in figuring out the place assist is required when it comes to rapid response in addition to a long-term technique and plan for the associated immunization elements.

10. Different assigned duties and tasks are successfully carried out.

• Performs and delivers further duties and companies assigned by the supervisor.

Affect of Outcomes

1. Well timed sectoral evaluation, enter, assist and coordination contribute to the Scenario Evaluation with constant integration of intercourse disaggregated knowledge and its periodic replace for efficient venture planning, improvement and administration.
2. High quality contributions are made to the event and implementation of the immunization methods and approaches by means of participation and collaboration with inner and exterior partnership.

3. Work plan and targets are strategically established, technical assist is successfully offered, and deliberate outcomes are well timed delivered by means of train of robust management.

4. The capacities of Nation Workplace employees are strengthened by means of efficient capability constructing programme within the improvement, implementation and administration of the Immunization programme.

5. Efficient partnership and collaboration achieved and maintained for advocacy, technical cooperation, programme coordination, info sharing and information networking.
6. Efficient coordination with companions, together with Gavi and WHO regional workplace

7. All required programme experiences are well timed ready in compliance with the established pointers and procedures. 

8. Assist international locations with methods strengthening, with a deal with middle-income international locations.

10. Emergency preparedness is maintained, and in emergencies, emergency responses with efficient coordination are offered.

11. Different assigned duties and tasks are successfully carried out.

 

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

1. Schooling: Superior diploma in one of many disciplines related to the next areas: Drugs, Public Well being, Paediatric Well being, World/Worldwide , Well being Coverage and Administration, Household Well being, Socio-medical Sciences, Well being Schooling, Epidemiology, or different fields related to immunization.

2. Work Expertise: Ten years progressively accountable skilled work expertise in all points of programme administration, and/or advisory capability, within the technical space or programme sector leading to acknowledged experience within the technical space associated to immunization.

3. Language Proficiency: Fluency in English and one other UN language. Information of native working language of the obligation station an asset.
4. Competency Profile: (For particulars on competencies please discuss with UNICEF Skilled Competency Profiles.)

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the things we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution Here

Competencies required for this submit are…

1. Builds and maintains partnerships. (3)
2. Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness. (3)
3. Drive to realize outcomes for impression. (3)
4. Innovates and embraces change. (3)
5. Manages ambiguity and complexity. (3)
6. Thinks and acts strategically. (3)
7. Works collaboratively with others. (3)
8. Nurtures, leads, and manages folks (3)

–  Particular Technical Information Required (for the job) [ III ]

1. • 1. • – (Technical information necessities particular to the job might be added right here as required.)

          – Information of newest theories, rules, strategies and expertise in a big variety of the next areas:

          • • Little one, neonatal or maternal well being care    • Immunizations
            • Well being system planning and administration
            • Well being Financing           • World Well being
            • Public Well being coaching materials improvement and conduct of coaching programme
            • Public Well being, Worldwide Well being, Well being Coverage and Administration,
            • Well being Analysis, Biostatistics, Epidemiology
            • Newest key revealed literature on MNCH together with related Lancet sequence
            • Well being Schooling, Well being Promotion and Illness Prevention,
            • Information Administration
            • Inter-sectoral programme linkage, coordination and coverage improvement
            • Programmatic objectives, visions, positions, insurance policies and methods for well being programmes
            • Information of world human rights points, particularly regarding kids and girls, and the present UNCEF place and approaches
            • Rights-based and Outcomes-based method and programming in UNICEF.
            • UNICEF programme coverage, procedures and pointers.
            • UN Reform processes and harmonization and Declaration on Assist Effectiveness
            • Information of related key companion insurance policies, programmes, and approaches (WB, USAID, World Fund, and so forth)
            • UNICEF insurance policies and methods selling and supporting gender equality and variety
          2. Technical Information to be Acquired/Enhanced (for the Job) [ Ill ]
             • UN insurance policies and technique to deal with worldwide humanitarian points and the responses
             • UN widespread approaches to programmatic points and UNICEF positions
             • UN Reform processes and outcomes and implications of the Paris Declaration
             • UN safety operations and pointers
             • UNSECORD coaching for members of Safety Administration Group

 

For each Little one, you reveal…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the things we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

 

UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to realize outcomes for impression (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

In the course of the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges: competency framework here.

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We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations.
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Remarks:

 

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which might be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Do you have to be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. In any other case, the choice might be cancelled.

All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background examine.

Authorities staff which might be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the best to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance will not be obtained, or needed inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.

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