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Consultancy Title: Wasting Cascade Guideline Writer Consultant
Section/Division/Duty Station: Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM), NYHQ
Duration: March 15, 2025 to August 31, 2025
Home/ Office Based: Home-based/REMOTE
About UNICEF
If you’re a dedicated, inventive skilled and are obsessed with making a long-lasting difference for youngsters, the world’s main youngsters’s rights group wish to hear from you. For over 70 years, UNICEF has been engaged on the bottom in 190 nations and territories to advertise youngsters’s survival, safety and growth. The world’s largest supplier of vaccines for creating nations, UNICEF helps child well being and diet, good water and sanitation, high quality fundamental training for all girls and boys, and the safety of kids from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded solely by the voluntary contributions of people, companies, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 workers in additional than 145 nations.
BACKGROUND
Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:
The goal of the contract is to help the D&A diet staff with the event and writing of world steerage on Monitoring the Child Wasting Cascade with acceptable technical element to facilitate the standardized and common monitoring of child losing programming.
The information on monitoring the losing cascade will embody indicators, definitions, and the really useful information sources and analyses to comply with the child inhabitants by way of the steps of prevention, screening and remedy of child losing. The steerage will embody strategies for evaluation of the goal populations, calculation of regionally contextualized estimates of annual burden of acute malnutrition and steerage on the monitoring of screening, referrals, program admissions, exits and relapses, and protection estimates. The world steerage intends to offer suggestions on monitoring of losing to help programming on child losing for all contexts and to help the worldwide monitoring of losing.
This work will tackle excellent monitoring points associated to the usage of non-harmonized indicators for the common and annual reporting of child losing programming. The clarifications on a complete set of indicators wanted to comply with youngsters by way of prevention companies, screening, remedy and potential relapse or reoccurrence will help nations to strengthen monitoring and be the primary reference for standardized indicators for programmes to deal with child losing. The really useful indicators and information assortment strategies will enhance the estimation and world monitoring of numbers of kids affected by losing and extreme losing.
Scope of Work:
1. Develop Draft Outline of Global Guidance
Review all related background work on the Child Wasting Cascade carried out (fundamental supplies will probably be shared and scope to be mentioned with UNICEF staff).
Create a draft define that aligns with the construction and strategy of UN technical pointers used for public well being
Compile definitions of monitoring indicators from all accessible sources for the Child Wasting Cascade at present or beforehand used.
The marketing consultant will accumulate suggestions from common technical conferences and replace draft define following the steerage from Program Group and Data & Analytics UNICEF colleagues.
2. Produce first draft of the worldwide steerage on Monitoring the Child Wasting Cascade
Draft first draft of the worldwide steerage for monitoring the prevention, screening and remedy of child losing in a easy, direct and implementation pleasant language.
This draft ought to embody a core set of proposed indicators and rationale, with clear numerators and denominators and proposed information sources.
Collect and combine the findings from experiences on pilot testing of particular elements of the child losing cascade. The piloting actions will probably be coordinated by different counterparts
The marketing consultant will accumulate suggestions from common technical conferences and replace the primary draft of world steerage following the steerage from Program Group and Data & Analytics UNICEF colleagues.
3. Produce second draft of the worldwide steerage on Monitoring the Child Wasting Cascade
Collate knowledgeable inputs from a spherical of evaluations from monitoring and implementation consultants to revise the draft steerage doc
The spherical of evaluations will probably be carried out with:
• Country Counterparts
• NGO and different technical companions
• United Nations Agencies
Following assortment of suggestions, refine the indications and make clear and/or enhance the strategies for the gathering of the monitoring indicators.
The marketing consultant will accumulate suggestions from common technical conferences and replace the second draft of world steerage following the steerage from Program Group and Data & Analytics UNICEF colleagues.
4. Produce closing draft of the worldwide steerage on Monitoring the Child Wasting Cascade
Consultant will take part in coordination conferences and
Address closing factors in evaluation of ultimate draft of world steerage from Program Group and Data & Analytics UNICEF colleagues.
Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:
Work Assignments Overview (Task / Milestone)
Deliverables/Outputs Delivery deadline
– Analyse prior work on the Wasting Cascade and key references, together with WHO pointers, experiences, and requirements
Create a preliminary construction for the worldwide steerage doc as Draft Outline (5 days).
Draft Outline of the worldwide steerage for the Monitoring the Child Wasting Cascade
15 April 2025
– Collate the inputs from spherical of suggestions generated from pilot testing. Develop first draft of the worldwide steerage for the Monitoring the Child Wasting Cascade (25 days).
First draft of the worldwide steerage for the Monitoring the Child Wasting Cascade
31 May 2025
– Collate the inputs from technical evaluations.
Develop a second draft of the worldwide steerage for the Monitoring the Child Wasting Cascade
(10 days).
Second draft of the worldwide steerage for the Monitoring the Child Wasting Cascade
31 July 2025
– Complete closing draft of world steerage for the Monitoring the Child Wasting Cascade
(10 days).
Final draft of world steerage for the Monitoring the Child Wasting Cascade
31 August 2025
Qualifications
Education:
Advance University diploma (Masters or PhD) in public well being, world well being, epidemiology, or a associated discipline.
Work expertise:
– A minimal of 5 years of expertise working in public well being program monitoring, ideally with expertise in losing programming.
– Solid expertise and experience in monitoring and measurement, and familiarity with well being administration info techniques and administrative techniques.
– Excellent verbal and written communication abilities to current ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
– Demonstrated expertise in drafting, enhancing and formatting excessive-high quality technical paperwork, akin to pointers or and coverage briefs. Previous expertise in creating monitoring steerage in a public well being discipline is an asset.
– Experience in collaborating with multidisciplinary groups, policymakers, researchers, and different stakeholders to combine numerous views.
– Attention to element and dedication to producing excessive-high quality work.
Requirements:
Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and
– Upload copy of educational credentials
– Financial proposal that can embody/ replicate :
o the prices per every deliverable and the overall lump-sum for the entire project (in US$) to undertake the phrases of reference.
o journey prices and every day subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or journey is required as per TOR.
o Any different estimated prices: visa, medical health insurance, and residing prices as relevant.
o Indicate your availability
– Any emergent / unexpected obligation journey and associated bills will probably be lined by UNICEF.
– At the time the contract is awarded, the chosen candidate will need to have in place present medical health insurance protection.
– Payment {of professional} charges will probably be primarily based on submission of agreed passable deliverables. UNICEF reserves the suitable to withhold cost in case the deliverables submitted are less than the required customary or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the marketing consultant.
U.S. Visa info:
With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, ought to the chosen candidate and his/her family members reside within the United States underneath a special visa, the marketing consultant and his/her family members are required to vary their visa standing to G4, and the marketing consultant’s family members (partner) would require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to have the ability to work, even when he/she was approved to work underneath the visa held previous to switching to G4.
Only shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of
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