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Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
The advisor will present technical assist for nationwide and provincial companions in planning and implementing climate-resilient water provide, sanitation service supply, and menstrual hygiene administration for girls and kids.
Scope of Work:
As part of UNICEF Viet Nam’s Country Program 2022-2026, the Child Survival, Development, and Environment (CSDE) program will undertake a stronger public well being strategy, emphasizing the enhancement of main well being care and prioritizing large-scale ends in vitamin and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH). There will probably be an elevated give attention to public financing, coverage reform, expanded partnerships with the non-public sector, and social norm adjustments in essential areas, notably in addressing stunting.
The WASH program goals to align with rising areas of labor, together with privatization, sector financing, public-private partnerships, and local weather resilience. WASH in emergencies stays a high precedence for UNICEF, which is able to act as a sector lead and present life-saving assist to susceptible populations, particularly kids and girls. UNICEF’s WASH initiatives will function at each nationwide and subnational ranges. At the nationwide degree, the main focus will probably be on advocacy, coverage improvement, and sector coordination. At the subnational degree, UNICEF will prioritize gender-responsive and climate-smart service supply, modern demonstrations, and the scaling up of safely managed climate-smart water and sanitation, in addition to selling private and menstrual hygiene in faculties and communities.
As a trusted, long-term associate of the Government of Viet Nam, UNICEF is dedicated to supporting the Viet Nam Women’s Union, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), the Ministry of Health (MoH), the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), and chosen provinces corresponding to Dien Bien, Gia Lai, Soc Trang, Bac Lieu, and Ca Mau. This collaboration goals to plan and implement water provide, sanitation, and hygiene actions to fulfill the targets of the National Strategy for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation by 2030, with a imaginative and prescient for 2045, and to uphold the Government’s commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
UNICEF has labored with authorities companies to design and pilot climate-smart sanitation and water fashions for areas going through water shortage. These initiatives will probably be carried out in focused provinces, together with Gia Lai, Dien Bien, Soc Trang, Ca Mau, and Bac Lieu. Additionally, UNICEF has supported the Viet Nam Women’s Union in creating a handbook for integrating WASH into its applications, together with nationwide goal applications (NTPs).
To improve the sustainability of climate-smart water provide, sanitation service supply, and menstrual hygiene administration for girls and kids in precedence provinces, UNICEF seeks a nationwide advisor to help nationwide companies and undertaking provinces in strengthening and enhancing implementation efforts.
Purpose and Objectives
Under the direct supervision of the WASH Specialist, the incumbent will probably be accountable for implementing climate-smart WASH service supply and menstrual hygiene administration in faculties and communities. This consists of offering technical assist for creating implementation plans, conducting interventions, and scaling up efforts in precedence provinces.
Summary of Key Functions/Accountabilities:
– Work carefully with the respective companions to offer technical assist for climate-resilient WASH programme planning and implementation in focused provinces, corresponding to Dien Bien, Cao Bang, Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Bac Kan, Gia Lai, Ca Mau, Bac Lieu and Soc Trang.
Provide technical assist in planning and implementing menstrual hygiene administration at nationwide degree and in focused provinces, corresponding to Dien Bien, Soc Trang, Da Nang and many others.
– Support the Viet Nam Women’s Union in creating and implementing plans for menstrual hygiene, water, and sanitation initiatives for girls and kids below the National Target Programs.
Methodology:
The advisor will present technical assist to the related companies and provinces by means of supervision, workshops, conferences, and discipline visits to the undertaking websites within the goal provinces, together with Gia Lai, Dien Bien, Ca Mau, Bac Lieu, Da Nang, and Soc Trang. The advisor will even work carefully with the UNICEF WASH workforce and related companies on every facet of the task.
For Full Work Assignments and Deliverables, please check with the TOR as connected 
To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…
– Advanced college diploma or equal expertise in Public Health, Environmental Science, Water and Sanitation Engineering, or different associated fields.
– Minimum 5 years of progressively accountable skilled work expertise within the UN or every other worldwide improvement group, nationwide authorities, or the non-public sector. Background/familiarity with local weather resilient WASH. Field work expertise together with group mobilization approaches on WASH is required.
Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:
– Knowledge of the theories, ideas, and strategies within the following areas: Sanitation and Hygiene, School WASH, water provide undertaking administration, built-in water useful resource administration, communication for behavioral change, monitoring, and analysis.
– Experience working within the UN or different worldwide improvement organizations is fascinating.
– Excellent interpersonal communication abilities are desired, as is the power to work carefully with workforce members from a variety of cultural and social contexts.
– Good written and communication abilities in each Vietnamese and English.
– Good pc information.
For each Child, you display…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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Evaluation Criteria:
A) Technical Evaluation (e.g. most 75 Points)
– Educational background (20 factors): Advanced college diploma or equal expertise in Public Health, Environmental Science, Water and Sanitation Engineering, or different associated fields.
– Relevant work expertise (45 factors)
+ Minimum 5 years of progressively accountable skilled work expertise within the UN or every other worldwide improvement group, nationwide authorities, or the non-public sector. Background/ familiarity with local weather resilient WASH. Field work expertise together with group mobilization approaches on WASH is required (20 factors).
+ Knowledge on the theories, ideas, and strategies within the following areas: Sanitation and Hygiene, School WASH, water provide undertaking administration, built-in water useful resource administration, communication for behavioral change, monitoring, and analysis (15 factors)
– Experience of working within the UN or different worldwide improvement organizations is fascinating (10 factors).
B) Financial Proposal (e.g. most of 25 Points)
The most variety of factors shall be allotted to the bottom Financial Proposal that’s opened /evaluated and in contrast amongst these technical certified candidates who’ve attained a minimal 50 factors rating within the technical analysis. Other Financial Proposals will obtain factors in inverse proportion to the bottom value.
The Contract shall be awarded to candidate acquiring the very best mixed technical and monetary scores, topic to the passable results of the verification interview if wanted.
Submission of purposes:
a. Letter of curiosity/CV;
b. Three references of related earlier task(s);
c. Technical proposal which clearly explains the define on the right way to ship the duties and deliverables (most 4 pages);
d. Financial proposal: All-inclusive lump-sum price together with consultancy price, journey and every other related prices for this task.
UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, non secular or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to turn into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF affords paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations. Click here to study extra about versatile work preparations, well-being, and advantages.
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), individuals with disabilities embrace those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with numerous limitations, might hinder their full and efficient participation in society on an equal foundation with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has dedicated to extend the variety of staff with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related assist necessities of candidates and staff with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you’re an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility assist in finishing the net application, please submit your request by means of the accessibility e-mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to kids (individuals below 18). 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 primarily based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. 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 probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer further info to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
Individuals engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “staff members” below the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (corresponding to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.
The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the whole interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking on the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and usually are not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.
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