Technical Specialist (Oxygen Systems Support) # 127501, P-3, TA (364 days), Copenhagen, Denmark

UNICEF works in a number of 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 nations and territories, we work for each little one, in all places, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

 

For each little one, well being.

The elemental mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each little one, in all places, in every part 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 little one has an unequal probability 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 in addition will result in sustained progress and stability of nations. That is why the concentrate on 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 Youngster, whereas additionally supporting the equitable improvement of countries.

Earlier than the onset of COVID-19, UNICEF had been investing in the direction of bettering oxygen entry in low- and middle-income nations (LMICs). COVID-19 additional uncovered the huge oxygen hole that had existed for a few years in LMICs, together with restricted oxygen infrastructure/manufacturing capability, hospitals ill-equipped for oxygen provision and the shortage of skilled human sources – each biomedical workers to put in and keep oxygen tools in addition to clinicians to supply secure oxygen remedy for sufferers. Within the final three years, COVID-19 has put further in depth stress on present medical oxygen provide chains that noticed an exponential improve in demand for therapeutic oxygen and associated provides.

With the intention to reply to the pressing wants for therapeutic oxygen in nations, UNICEF launched into a programme of labor to assist nations strengthen their medical oxygen ecosystems by offering a financing facility for procurement of latest medical oxygen sources (i.e., oxygen vegetation, concentrators, liquid medical oxygen), making a centralized procurement service and offering technical help and instruments to help nations with forecasting oxygen wants, website readiness, set up and upkeep.

As a part of this effort, UNICEF Provide Division developed the Plant-in-a-Field (PIB), a bundled oxygen manufacturing answer aimed for swift deployment to nations with restricted oxygen manufacturing capability or these confronted with a sudden surge in demand for oxygen. UNICEF secured PIB options by means of long run preparations with main producers, and these had been made out there to nations for ordering by means of UNICEF’s procurement companies. To this point, UNICEF has procured greater than 130 PIBs for 50 nations. Roughly 30% of those PIBs are put in and commissioned and delivering oxygen to the hospitals, and the remaining 70% are at varied phases of implementation. UNICEF additionally established LTAs with distributors for the supply of Plant Restore and Biomedical Engineering Companies to additional help implementation of oxygen methods.

UNICEF now should speed up the implementation of PIBs with robust technical help and steerage to nations, in addition to set up new LTAs for PIB options in addition to Biomedical Engineering Companies.

 

Strategic workplace context:

The place is positioned with the Oxygen Crew of the Medical Gadget Unit (MDU) inside the Well being Expertise Centre (HTC). The core perform of the MDU is to make sure that the Medical Gadget product portfolio procured and equipped by UNICEF is secure, fit-for-purpose and meets the required high quality requirements.

To reply to the elevated demand from nations and companions searching for oxygen remedy options, HTC established a specialised Oxygen staff inside the MDU for the procurement of oxygen remedy provides and options. This staff offers technical and business experience for the procurement of the Plant-in-a-box options, in addition to native procurement of medical gasoline pipeline methods and different obligatory biomedical engineering companies for the implementation of PIBs.

 

How are you going to make a distinction?

Underneath the supervision and basic steerage of the P3 Technical Specialist, the Technical Specialist, Oxygen Methods Help applies specialised product data to supply technical help within the following areas: help to nations at present procuring and putting in oxygen PIBs, help to nations requesting Native Procurement Authorization for native procurement of oxygen methods together with medical gasoline pipeline methods, and strategic steerage and help to make sure sustainability of all PIBs – from preliminary commissioning, throughout the 2 years of service protection help, and past 2 years by offering steerage to in-country companions for establishing sustainable practices for upkeep and use.

 

You may be accountable for: 

 

Technical help as PIB implementation Focal Level for a number of nations:

• Complete technical help, together with comply with up on website evaluation and preparation, website readiness, set up and commissioning
• Common standing updates to the broader PIB staff on the progress of technical help, together with challenges and really helpful options for profitable PIB implementation within the designated nations.

 

Nation help for native procurement authorization:

• Enter to phrases of reference/solicitation paperwork
• Evaluate of technical proposals (e.g. Medical Gasoline Piping Design and/or implementation)

 

PIB upkeep oversight and reporting:

• Present technical follow-up for the upkeep of PIBs throughout the 2-year customary upkeep bundle.
• Quarterly stories on the standing of PIB upkeep inside the 2-year customary upkeep bundle, highlighting any points, enhancements, or suggestions.
• A remaining report summarizing the general upkeep efficiency throughout the 2-year interval, with classes discovered and greatest practices.
• Obtain all upkeep stories and file them within the designated system/tracker.

 

PIB upkeep instruments and steerage:

• Develop a steerage doc for Nation Places of work (COs) on the implementation of preventative and corrective upkeep companies and successfully talk this steerage at any time when wanted.
• Produce and talk obligatory instruments and steerage, resembling a template upkeep contract, an inventory of spare components, and knowledge on the way to choose the suitable upkeep help to make sure the sustainability of PIBs.

 

PIB upkeep technique improvement:

• Develop, approve, and talk a method for sustaining PIBs past the preliminary 2-year upkeep interval.

 

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

 

Training

• College diploma in engineering (Biomedical/Electrical/Chemical/Mechanical/Civil), drugs, logistics, public well being, enterprise administration or associated self-discipline.  Superior college diploma (Masters) is most popular.

 

Work Expertise

• Minimal 5 years of years skilled and related work expertise in medical units and/or oxygen supply methods (ideally vegetation particularly)
• Familiarity and expertise working in LMICs is taken into account a powerful asset
• Arms-on expertise in implementation of oxygen supply methods together with PSA vegetation is taken into account a powerful asset
• Expertise in producing detailed technical specs, steerage and SOPs to be used and upkeep of medical units and/or oxygen methods is taken into account a powerful asset
• Familiarity and expertise working in UNICEF or different UN businesses is taken into account an asset
• Skilled data and understanding of public procurement ideas is an asset

 

Languages

Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

 

For each Youngster, you display…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every part we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

 The core competencies required for this put up are:

• Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness
• Works Collaboratively with others
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships
• Innovates and Embraces Change
• Thinks and Acts Strategically
• Drive to realize impactful outcomes
• Manages ambiguity and complexity

 

Purposeful Competencies:

Purposeful:

• Drawback fixing oriented
• Capable of work in a multi-cultural atmosphere and set up harmonious and efficient working relationships
• Sturdy communication abilities
• Confirmed capability to work with collaborative groups throughout completely different places and with completely different technical abilities

 

Technical:

• Sturdy technical understanding of oxygen supply tools and methods
• Excessive stage of technical writing experience
• Excessive stage of analytical abilities and a spotlight to element
• Information of MS Workplace Suite
• Information of the atmosphere during which UNICEF operates (i.e., world well being sector)

 

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

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

We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations. UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further data to conduct a background verify.  

 

Remarks:

UNICEF solely considers increased instructional {qualifications} obtained from an establishment accredited/acknowledged within the World Larger 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 may be accessed at: http://www.whed.net/

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