Contract Duration: 12 months
Working arrangement: Home Based with Travel
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How can you make a difference?
Child wasting remains a major cause of preventable illness and death, requiring effective prevention, early identification, treatment, follow-up and relapse prevention across routine, fragile and humanitarian health systems. However, conflict, displacement, climate shocks, food insecurity and financing constraints often weaken service access, quality and continuity. Existing monitoring systems provide limited insight into service readiness, quality of care, referral completion, equity, supply continuity and populations missed by services, while data sources are often fragmented and poorly linked to decision-making. This initiative will strengthen the quality and performance of child wasting services by addressing system-level constraints and integrating quality improvement approaches into national health systems. Led by UNICEF’s Child Nutrition and Development Global Practice, the multi-country programme will support countries across Asia-Pacific and fragile and humanitarian settings through a common technical framework adapted to local contexts, in partnership with ministries of health, regional and country offices, and implementing partners.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have...
Minimum requirements: (Qualifications/Experience/ Knowledge/Expertise/Skills)
- Education: Master’s - Advanced university degree in public health nutrition, nutrition, public health, epidemiology, health systems, implementation science, quality improvement, monitoring and evaluation, or a related social science discipline.
- Work Experience: Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience in child nutrition, including prevention and treatment of child wasting, health systems strengthening or humanitarian nutrition.
Demonstrated experience in low- and middle-income countries in routine, fragile or humanitarian settings. Across the two selected consultants, UNICEF will seek complementary experience spanning Asia and Africa, health systems and humanitarian nutrition, and community, outpatient and inpatient services.
Proven experience supporting ministries of health and UNICEF or UN agencies.
Proven experience supporting multi-country or regional initiatives and facilitating structured, multi-stakeholder consultation and adoption processes.
- Skills: Demonstrated expertise in programme performance analysis, quality improvement, and use ofroutine and survey data.
Expertise in continuous quality improvement methodologies (e.g. PDSA, collaboratives).
Expertise should include community, outpatient and inpatient management of wasting; clinical quality and mortality review; humanitarian coordination and continuity of services; commodity and supply analysis; ethical qualitative inquiry and data protection; coaching and collaborative learning; and development of practical tools for national and subnational teams.
Ability to translate complex data into actionable recommendations.
Excellent analytical, facilitation, and writing skills, with a track record of producing high-quality technical reports and synthesis documents.
- Desirables: Availability to work during Bangkok business hours and to collaborate effectively with the second consultant across regional portfolios; candidates based within three hours of the Bangkok time zone are preferred.
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 promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.
UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.
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, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.
Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):
- An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
- Cover letter
- A separate financial proposal (only acceptable in the format of the linked template)
Remarks: If the TOR or financial proposal documents are not downloadable on certain recruitment platforms, please visit our official page Vacancies | UNICEF Careers.
UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.
All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
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UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18).
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 based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities.
