Health specialist: Community Health and Integrated Immunization at UNICEF Tanzania

Health specialist: Community Health and Integrated Immunization, NOC, TA, Zanzibar, Tanzania # 00129744
Job no: 574546
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Duty Station: Zanzibar
Level: NO-3
Location: United Republic of Tanzania
Categories: Health

Health specialist: Community Health and Integrated Immunization at UNICEF August 2024

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works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives,
defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early
childhood through adolescence.
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passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child
is not just a job – it is a calling.

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and professional development that will help them develop a fulfilling
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and benefits package.
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For every child, health
Improving
primary healthcare is central to achieving the targets set in the
global SDG 3, Africa agenda 2063, Tanzania’s Health sector strategic
plan V and Zanzibar’s Health sector strategic plan IV. UNICEF Tanzania’s
health program is aligned with these strategies with the mandate to
address persistent newborn and child mortality and morbidity and
recognizes the critical need for strong primary Health Care (PHC)
systems to achieve this through expanded coverage and quality of
promotive, preventive, and curative health intervention, including
supporting the government efforts to strengthen ECD services. Zanzibar’s
health policy explicitly stipulates the significance of investing in
primary healthcare and highlights the priorities including increased
coverage of primary healthcare for all according to the essential
healthcare package and strengthening community health by transforming
and officiating CHW as a healthcare carder.

In recent years, the
Ministry of Health in collaboration with UNICEF and other partners have
been investing in PHC interventions to strengthen the leadership and
management practices, the implementation of integrated supportive
supervision and outreach and enhancing data generation, visualization,
access and use for evidence-based planning and advocacy. With the launch
of the Community Health Roadmap on Zanzibar in December 2023, UNICEF
also plays a critical role in strengthening coordination and governance
for strong, integrated community health services as part of PHC.

Immunization
is one of the most cost-effective PHC interventions available to
improve child survival and with emerging evidence and diseases, the
scope of vaccination programs continue to expand. On Zanzibar,
immunization coverage has been lower than on Tanzania’ mainland with
declines attributed to service disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Significant inequities in coverage between districts are also observed.
While Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) have played an important role
in community sensitization and mobilization for immunization service
uptake, as well as identifying zero-dose and under-immunized children,
their role needs formalizing.

How can you make a difference?
UNICEF
is a key partner to the Zanzibar Ministry of Health in providing
technical and financial assistance to for strengthening integrated PHC
services at community and facility levels, inclusive of immunization.
Continued support is needed through a dedicated Community health and
integrated immunization specialist who can assist the Ministry of Health
to address critical gaps in capacity to realise its goals. The
specialist will collaborate closely with colleagues across departments
in the Ministry of Health and across UNICEF sections to realise the
multisectoral nature of PHC.

In light of the above background,
UNICEF is therefore seeking to recruit specialist in Community health
and integrated immunization to work with the Health team in Zanzibar for
364 days

Scope of work.
The Community health and
integrated immunization specialist will report to the Health Specialist
in UNICEF Zanzibar Fielf Office with technical support provided by the
Health specialists for Integrated PHC, Immunization and Community Health
Specialists in Dar es Salaam. The specialist will contribute to
leadership in the designing, development, planning, implementation,
monitoring, and evaluation of UNICEF’s Health program on Zanzibar,
inclusive but not limited to community health and immunization.

The
specialist will work closely with other health section colleagues to
achieve the section’s outcomes stipulated on the country document but
also collaborate with other sections especially the SBC section and
nutrition to promote community mobilization and program integration to
achieve UNICEF’s goals and objectives for the country. He/she will
support and embrace the health system strengthening building blocks
which form the basis of the sustainable and scalable programs. Specific
areas of the scope of work are outlined below. Support to programme
development and planning

Lead the development, planning and
budgeting of strategic PHC activities for the Zanzibar Field Office,
with specific focus on community health and immunization. He/she will
contribute to the designing and integration of Health specific Early
Childhood Development interventions across all service delivery
platforms. Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results

Manage
and monitor activities to ensure realisation of results through
collaboration with other UNICEF sections especially the SBC section and
nutrition to ensure integration.

3. Technical and operational support to programme implementation
Make
quality contributions to the development and implementation of PHC with
focus on Integrated health services at health facilities, Outreach and
community based through strong collaboration with internal and external
partners. Provide technical support to government and NGOs at the
national and subnational levels. The specialist will work closely with
MoH and expected to spend at least 50% of the time physically at the
Ministry of Health to provide technical and advisory assistance in
planning, capacity development, implementation and monitoring, to
facilitate effective mplementation and increase access to health
services to children and mothers.

4.Networking and partnership building
Builds
strong partnership with government and NGOs to realise the rights of
children and ensure strategic and effective program implementation.

5. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
Contributes
to the identification of new approaches for improving program delivery
with emphasis on project management, evaluation, and community
participation based on the Human Rights framework and cross-sector
approach.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Minimum requirements:
Education:

• Advanced
  university degree (minimum Master’s level or MD) in Medicine, Public
  Health, Child Health, Community Health or other field relevant to
  Primary health care programming

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Work Experience:

• At
  least 5 years of relevant work experience at the national or
  international level in planning, programming, implementation monitoring
  and evaluation of primary health care/immunization/community health
  programmes.
• Proven expertise in managing, monitoring, and evaluating health program implementation
• Proven
  work relations with national, regional, district and sub-district
  government structures on Tanzania mainland and/or Zanzibar
• Experience in Primary Health care and community health program.
• Knowledge of the principles of immunization programmes.

Skills:

• Fluency in written and spoken English is essential.
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent facilitation skills, negotiation skills, and oral and written communication skills.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and Swahili is required.

Desirables:

• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency. Background/familiarity with Emergency programming.
• Experience of working with and engaging CHWs is an asset.
• Strong analytical skills and research experience

For every Child, you demonstrate:
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
To view our competency framework, please visit  here.

 UNICEF
is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global
workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone,
irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity,
sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background,
or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation
for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may
include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for
missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your
disability during your application in case you need reasonable
accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your
assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that
is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and
UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment,
abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict
child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected
to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo
rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include
the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history.
Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to
conduct a background check.

Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals
engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be
considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the
United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be
entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and
medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be
governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for
the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and
individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax
liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in
accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected
candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and
health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are
valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are
subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2
(Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine,
which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply
to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or
visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly
interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform
functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.
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Advertised: 14 Aug 2024 E. Africa Standard Time
Deadline: 28 Aug 2024 E. Africa Standard Time