Health Specialist(Emergencies),NO-3 at UNICEF
Job no: 566364
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Duty Station: Dar-es-Salaam
Level: NO-3
Location: United Republic of Tanzania
Categories: Health
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the
world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend
their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Recommended:
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, an Advocate
In the 2020 update of the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) is the explicit commitment that appropriate and experienced staff and personnel with relevant training are provided and rapidly deployed, that focus on action in the first eight critical weeks of humanitarian response and provide guidance for action beyond that, moving towards defined benchmarks.
This position will enable UNICEF Tanzania Country Office to provide technical assistance to the Government of Tanzania to prepare for and rapidly scale up response to public health emergencies, with special focus on infectious diseases epidemics. The candidate is expected to apply the principles of the Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) while helping the organization to contribute to prevention of mortality and morbidity among children in Tanzania.
Under the direction and guidance of the Chief of Health, the
incumbent will coordinate overall TCO health emergency preparedness and
response. The incumbent will be responsible for health sector
preparedness and response and for coordinating and monitoring
interventions, provide technical advice to the design, implementation
and monitoring of response and recovery interventions with a focus on
ensuring continuity of essential health services in the region resulting
from health system disruption caused by emergencies.
How can you make a difference?
Read Also:
Provide technical assistance to UNICEF, government, and partners
including contributing to the development of or sharing relevant
standards, protocols, guidelines and training materials for Health in
emergencies.
Develop and update health emergency response plans and other relevant documents as needed
Be deployed on a short notice in the framework of UNICEF staff surge
mechanism to respond to outbreaks or other health emergencies.
Conduct joint field visits and evaluations with relevant health sector/cluster partners.
Contribute to UNICEF’s Health Emergencies response strategy, work
planning, contingency planning processes with other sectors to ensure
cross sectoral response programming and resilience building.
Oversee supplies propositioning to ensure that a baseline level of
essential medicines and medical supplies are provided to government and
NGO partners and is aligned to the office preparedness planning process.
Monitor the coverage of key health interventions among the beneficiary
population and share information for internal communication and external
coordination, including with the health cluster and inter-cluster
coordination mechanism.
In close consultation with the M&E team, contribute to the office M&E mechanism, including results tracking.
Contribute to UNICEF information products related to the response including situation reports.
Draft funding appeals, donor reports and project proposals related to the response.
Liaise with the health emergency focal points in the regional office
Represent UNICEF country office in coordination forums at national and
subnational level, participate in internal coordination and technical
meeting organized by country office and the section.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Public Health, Health Sciences, Community Health or related fields (preferably with specialized training on public health in complex emergencies, in epidemiology and/or disease control)
Five years of professional work experience in public health at the
national, with field experience in responding to health emergencies.
This includes coordination & partnerships, risk assessments,
planning, programming, implementation monitoring and evaluation of
public health emergency programs related to communicable disease
control. International level experience is an added advantage.
Experience in leading response and early recovery to vaccine preventable disease outbreaks
Working experience with UNICEF, WHO or international health NGOs in emergency health an asset
Fluency in English and Swahili (verbal and written). Good written and
spoken skills in the language of the humanitarian operation and
knowledge of another UN language an asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.
During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.
Read Also:
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.
We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental
leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons
with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible
working arrangements.
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 is committed to promote the protection and
safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore,
undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected
to adhere to these standards and principles. 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:
UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates are encouraged to apply.
This position is open to Tanzanian Nationals only
UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Deadline: 18 Oct 2023 E. Africa Standard Time
Consultancy-Domestic Resource Mobilization Specialist at UNICEF
Job no: 566327
Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: Dar-es-Salaam
Level: Consultancy
Location: United Republic of Tanzania
Categories: Health
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the
world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend
their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, support
The Government of Tanzania (GoT) has been, relatively, de-prioritising the budget allocations to the health sector compared to other economic sectors. For example, in FY 2022/23 only 5.18% of the total government budget was allocated to the health sector, which is far lower than the 12% target set in the Fifth Health Sector Strategic Plan. Total expenditure on PHC stands at USD 18 per capita, out of which only USD 8 is provided by the government, which is far lower than the USD 65 global benchmark set to deliver quality PHC services in LMICs. Primary health services financing is currently highly dependent on donor funding. However, external financing has been progressively decreasing, moving from 39% to 33% of the current health expenditure between 2017 and 2024, and is expected to decrease further with the improvement of Tanzania’s economic conditions. Therefore, there is a need to identify additional sources of domestic revenues to finance primary health services and continue expanding the coverage of quality primary health care services. Many countries have embarked on several domestic resource mobilization efforts to expand the fiscal space for health through a combination of general revenue measures and consumption. For example, Ghana established a National Health Insurance Levy consisting of 2.5% points from the 17.5% VAT, Indonesia earmarked 5% of the central government budgetary allocations and a minimum of 10% of each district’s total budget, both excluding salaries, to health, and Thailand introduced a 2% surcharge on excise taxes imposed on sale from alcohol and tobacco products.
Countries have taken different approaches to earmark revenues to the health sector, leading to different outcomes in terms of budget transparency and accountability, and the effectiveness of earmarking taxes to increase overall funding for health and make it more stable has been mixed. Although earmarking may increase overall government expenditure, it does not necessarily lead to increased expenditure for a target program due to the fungibility of the overall government budget.
How can you make a difference?
Scope of Work:
The consultant will be expected to identify opportunities to generate additional resources for the health sector, estimate their revenue generation potential for the health sector, and review the public financial management regulations to ensure additional resources are effectively and efficiently allocated to the sector.
By the end of the assignment, the consultant will be expected to answer the following questions:
What are the key issues around revenue mobilization in Tanzania?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the existing health taxes,
including sugar-sweetened beverages, alcohol, and tobacco taxes?
What options could be explored to increase the revenue base for the
health sector, what is the revenue generation potential of such options,
and considerations for their implementation?
This will be achieved through the following (non exhaustive) activities:
Conduct a landscape analysis of current revenue mobilization strategies
Critically assess the practices around health taxes, including sugar-sweetened beverage, alcohol, and tobacco taxes
Identify high-level opportunities to increase the current revenue tax base
Identify the revenue potential of health taxes, was their collection optimised
Provide recommendations to increase the tax revenue base based on the
analysis undertaken and best practices adopted in other countries with
similar socio-economic profiles
Highlight political economy considerations that should be taken into account while implementing the recommendations
Read Also:
WORK ASSIGNMENT, DELIVERABLES, TIME FRAME AND PAYMENT
WORK ASSIGNMNET DELIVERABLES TIME FRAME
PAYMENT IN %
Identify evidence-based options to raise revenue to raise additional revenue for the health sector.
Draft report looking at revenue mobilization options, including
revenue-raising potential, earmarking modalities, implementation
modalities and political economy considerations.
15/11/23 75%
Disseminate the identified revenue mobilisation options with Government officials
2. Dissemination workshop presentation 3. Minutes from the meeting
30/11/23 10%
Submit the final report incorporating options and government perspectives on their feasibility 4. Final report 15/12/23 15%
TOTAL 3 Months 100%
PAYMENT SCHEDULE.
UNICEF reserves the right to withhold all or portion of payment if performance is unsatisfactory, if work/output is incomplete, not delivered or for failure to meet deadlines.
ASSESSMENT / SELECTION PROCESS AND METHODS
Evaluations: The applicant should submit both technical and financial
proposal which clearly stipulate how the work will be conducted. The
Financial Proposal should include all costs of this assignment including
fee, travel costs, accommodation as UNICEF will not pay any DSA.
Proposals will be both technically and financially evaluated. The technical part will carry a weight of 75%, in which the consultant will put clear his/her technical approach to ensure quality attainment of each deliverable and the consultancy in totality. The financial part will carry 25% showing the proposed budget breakdown of consultancy cost for each deliverable (fees, travels and accommodation) and eventual total consultancy cost.
LOCATION, DURATION & LOGISTIC
The consultant will operate remotely with scheduled travel to Dar es Salaam and Dodoma.
The validity of the contract will be for 3 months.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Advanced degree (Master’s or MMed) in Economics, Public Finance, Public Policy, Social Sciences, or a closely related.
A minimum of five years of professional experience with substantial
experience working with governments in low- and middle-income countries
on domestic resources mobilization and public financial management
issues, ideally in the health sector.
Track record of quantitative data analysis
Demonstrated experience writing technical documents.
Fluency in written and spoken English is required and Proficiency in Swahili is an asset.
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.
Read Also:
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.
Deadline: 17 Oct 2023 E. Africa Standard Time
