Consultant - Individual Contractor International Nutrition Specialist Tender, South Sudan - 33815735

Procurement Summary

Country : South Sudan

Summary : Consultant - Individual Contractor International Nutrition Specialist

Deadline : 20 Jun 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 33815735

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATION CHILDREN'S FUND
Totto Chan Compound P.O.Box 45 Attn: Mohamed Ag Ayoya Juba Tel: +211 912 176 145
South Sudan
Email :juba@unicef.org
URL :www.unicef.org

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for South Sudan: Consultant - Individual Contractor International Nutrition Specialist (P3).

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.

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For every child, childhood

Background In South Sudan, UNICEF is implementing most of its nutrition programmes through partnerships with a number of NGOs, INGOs, and Ministry of Health. Currently, close to 40 Project Cooperation Agreements (PCAs) exist with partners, which are at various stages of implementation across the country. An effective and systematic tracking of field monitoring recommendations remains a challenge across the country. However, this post is to cover two former states of NBeG and Eastern Equatoria having alarming rates of childhood malnutrition. Accordingly, there is critical need to improve the quality of nutrition services in the targeted seven states and support the ongoing achievement of nutrition results for children.

Justification Based on the increased nutrition programme implementation, monitoring and supportive supervision need to be improved in order to have a quality programming of UNICEF funded nutrition projects. To ensure that the implementation of the nutrition programme is taking place in a timely manner and benefiting the targeted population, a consultant is being sought to support the regular monitoring and supportive supervision. The consultant will coordinate and support a team of national consultants in charge of field monitoring and supportive supervision. The consultant will collate and track monitoring reports and follow up on field monitoring recommendations to improve quality of the nutrition programming.

Specific Tasks

Support and coordinate field monitoring mission plans and follow up recommendations from previous visits; Undertake regular collection, analysis and reporting of monitoring data using the agreed monitoring systems, and advice UNICEF and partners on status and efficiency of programme implementation, and any remedial action required to enhance and improve programme delivery Prepare quarterly field visit schedule based on performance analysis Carry out field visits in accordance with the schedule Submit regular monthly monitoring and supportive supervision reports Assess capacity of implementing partners on monitoring and reporting, develop a capacity building plan, and implement accordingly Follow up partners' quarterly reporting and track achievements as against approved PCA targets; Coordinate the follow-up of state level work plan implementation, and ensure that key bottlenecks are discussed and resolved; Consolidate and submit quarterly progress reports

UNICEF - For every Child

Document any good practices developed as part of the implementation of nutrition projects - specifically write good practice for publication on the project that include human interest stories (with accompanying photographs) that highlights the impact of the projects

Fees are subject to negotiations. Please provide fees quotation in the application.

Submission date 1 Quarterly Field visit Schedule for July-September 2019
| 20 August 2019 Monthly Report - August 2019
20 September 2019 3

Monthly Report - September 2019
20 October 2019 4

Quarterly Field visit Schedule for Oct - December 2019
05 October 2019 5 Monthly Report - October 2019
20 November 2019 6 Monthly Report - November 2019
20 December 2019 7 Monthly Report - December 2019
20 January 2020 Quarterly Field visit Schedule for January - March 2020

05 January 2020 9 Monthly Report - January 2020

20 February 2020 | 10 Monthly Report - February 2019
20 March 2020 | 11 Monthly report - March 2019
20 April 2020 12 Quarterly Field visit Schedule for April - June 2020

05 April 2020 13 Monthly report - April 2019
20 May 2020 14 Monthly report - May 2019
20 June 2020 15 Monthly report – June 2019
20 July 2020 16 | Monthly report - July 2019
31 July 2020 | 17 End of project report

End of project

Expected background (Qualifications & Experience)

i. Advanced University degree in Nutrition, Social Science, and Public Health Nutrition or a related technical field. ii. Minimum five years of progressively responsible professional work experience in implementation and monitoring of

NGOs and working with the Ministry of Health, particularly in developing countries, including in humanitarian settings.

iv)

A range of specialized skills:

Excellent facilitation skills and ability to organize and implement training; Negotiation, oral and written communication skills including reports preparation; Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment, and proven interpersonal skills; Experience in building successful relationships with government counterparts, UN agencies and other relevant partners; Ability to cope with hardship conditions; knowledge of computer management skills Extensive experience in conducting evaluations of development and research projects, and ability of combining different evaluation tools to capture project outcomes and processes as well as a proven record, in delivering professional reviews ) Experience of carrying monitoring and supportive supervision of nutrition programmes is critical

General Conditions

UNICEF will meet transport and related costs and DSA will be payable at the standard UN rate Entitled to R&R on 6 weekly cycle

Payment is based upon completion of the deliverables The consultant will be required to sign the Health statement for the consultants/individual contracts prior to the assignment, and to document that they have the appropriate health insurance UNICEF will provide a laptop and all office supplies related directly to the task for the duration of the consultancy If any field mission is undertaken, the movement of the consultant will be facilitated by UNICEF, thus access to UNICEF transport will be authorized The consultant will comply with UN security rules and regulations Monthly fees for the consultant will be paid depending on the completion of deliverables for the month and submit monthly reports

Policy both parties should be aware of No contract may commence unless the contract is signed by both UNICEF and the consultant ? The consultant is not entitled to payment of overtime. All remuneration must be within the contract agreement

No travel in lieu of the contract will be undertaken by the consultant to the duty station without prior submission of insurance cover and waiver in the event of injury while executing the duty The consultant will not have supervisory responsibilities or authority on UNICEF budget Consultant will be required to sign the Health statement for consultants/Individual contractor prior to taking up the

assignment, and to document that they have appropriate health insurance, including Medical Evacuation The Form 'Designation, change or revocation of beneficiary' must be completed by the consultant upon arrival, at the HR

How to apply:
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organization. To apply, click on the following link http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=522776

Documents

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