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Health Consultant Country support for ACSD, Dakar Regional Office, Senegal
If you are a passionate and committed professional and want to make a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF seeks a Health Consultant, Country support for ACSD to be based in its Dakar Regional office, Senegal.
Country support for planning, monitoring and reporting on catalytic funding for ACSD (Accelerated Child Survival and Development)
In the context of the ACSD (Accelerated Child Survival and Development) approach, the West and Central Africa Regional Office and Country Offices of UNICEF provide support to the 24 countries in the WCA Region for scaling up high-impact interventions to safe lives of children and mothers, and accelerate progress towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals. This includes support for evidence-based programming and budgeting, and for establishing efficient and synergistic modes of service delivery and promotion of life-saving family and community practices.
Planning and costing tools such as MBB (Marginal Budgeting for Bottlenecks) are used to help optimize the use of resources for scaling-up high-impact interventions and intervention packages across the Continuum of Care. High-impact interventions include for example vaccination against tetanus for pregnant women, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/Aids, skilled attendance at birth, promotion of improved breastfeeding practices (including early initiation of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding during 6 months) routine childhood vaccinations, micronutrient supplementation, distribution of insecticide treated nets (ITN), disease management of diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia at community level, promotion of safe hygiene practices (including handwashing with soap).
The overall objective of this assignment is to provide support for planning, monitoring and reporting on catalytic funding for ACSD to UNICEF Country Offices and government partners in countries of the West and Central Africa Region, in particular in countries that benefit directly from funding provided through the contribution of the Italian National Committee for UNICEF, and for documentation and dissemination of good practices and lessons learned for the benefit of all countries in the region.
Your profile:
MD. Postgraduate degree in public health or/and international health or/and Tropical medicine.
Five years of progressively professional experience in Public Health in developing countries, incl. experience on M&E.
Knowledge of the latest developments in public health and in child survival and development.
Good organizational and self-motivation skills.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively in an international, multicultural and interdisciplinary environment and establish harmonious, collaborative and effective working relationships.
Ability to write and review technical reports and documents versioned to the needs of a range of audiences.
Good computer skills.
Good knowledge in French and English (oral and written) required.
If you have got experience of working in a similar capacity and want to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better world for children, send a detailed curriculum vitae in English, AND a duly completed United Nations Personal History form (available at www.unicef.org/employ), quoting VN-09-Health Consultant ACSD to: scisse@unicef.org. Interested candidates are also asked to complete the Candidate Self Assessment Form. Applications should be received by 15 November 2009. Only candidates who are under serious consideration will be contacted. The successful candidate will be offered a consultancy contract of 11 months, with a fee structure of $ 6,500 per month.
UNICEF is committed to gender equality in its mandate and its staff. Well qualified candidates, particularly women are strongly encouraged to apply.
