National Consultant on planning, implementation and monitoring of the child friendly spaces (CFS) rehabilitations and roll out of Child development Monitoring at primary health care level in Ukraine, Kyiv, 9 months (office based)
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Job no: 580631
Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: Kyiv
Level: Consultancy
Location: Ukraine
Categories: Health, Health and Nutrition
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Full text of TOR is attached: 
Health and Nutrition Consultant.pdf
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Background:
As part of kfw recovery grant and in support of advancing early childhood development services at the local level, UNICEF supported the roll-out of the universal progressive home-visiting recovery model in priority hromadas, benefitting over 13,000 children and their caregivers in 2024. To complement early childhood development services provided at home with those provided at primary health care facilities, UNICEF supported the establishment of ‘child-friendly spaces’ in 80 ambulatories from 29 primary health care facilities in priority hromadas according to a UNICEF standard design. As part of this, a total of 77 child friend spaces are currently being rehabilitated, covering a population of 184,536 children and women in priority hromadas. In 2025, UNICEF aims to support the next batch of 90 PHCFs in 44 hromadas with light rehabilitation of CFSs, namely immunization room, breastfeeding area, , child developmental space, nursing room, waiting area, sanitary rooms, their equipping and distribution of trainings. Based on lessons learned from 2024, taking into consideration the amount of administrative paper work, engagement with facility managers and hromada authorities and coordination with the engineering unit , additional technical support to health section is vital to ensure proper planning, implementation and monitoring of the CFS rehabilitation to ensure timely completion of kfw results and targets.
In addition, support from a national consultant is needed to assist the Health team in coordinating the training of trainers and the rollout of child development training for health professionals within Ukraine's primary healthcare system.
Purpose of assignment:
The objective of this consultancy is to support the health and nutrition section with the following:
Child Friendly Spaces (CFS)
The consultant will support the identification of health facilities for the rehabilitation of CFS based on a needs assessment. This support will include
- Data analysis and sites visits to identify locations for CFSs based on inclusion criterias;
- Accompany the construction team with assessment visits;
- Development of documentation and provide critical review of plans and scope of construction works a and their alignment with CFS guideline;
- Collecting needs with furniture and equipment and supporting with procurement and distribution;
- Regular supervision visits to sites to monitor progress
- Preparation of trip reports
- Organization and participation in regular meetings with UNICEF H&N team and construction unit;
- Analysis of the data and preparation of reports and lessons learned.
Roll out of Guide for Monitoring Child development as a part of Child development monitoring
- Support the coordination of the Training of trainers on Child development monitoring
- Coordinate the roll out of health care professionals in consultation with ECD specialist and field office colleagues
Expected results
- Identification of locations (approximately 90 locations based on current unit price) for CFSs in PHCFs after data review and assessment visits
- Alignment of scope of works and CFS concept for each site to be completed.
- All documentation for supply team is prepared, verified, signed and submitted to construction and supply team
- Supervision and monitoring visits to sites conducted and final report provided
- the training of trainers on using GMCD for child development monitoring is coordinated with FO
- the training of health care professionals on using GMCD for child developmental monitoring is coordinated
Roles and responsibilities
The consultant will collaborate closely with the Health Specialist, ECD Specialist and CFO Health officer over the whole period to deliver expected results aligned with CFS concept.
Work assignment overview:
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Deliverable |
Deadline |
# of w/days |
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1 June 2025 |
35 days |
|
10 August 2025
|
40 days
|
|
1 November 2025 |
55 days |
|
1 December 2025 |
30 days |
|
31 December 2025 |
10 days |
Deliverable: report on preparation for the training of GMCD trainers |
April - June 2025 |
6 days |
Deliverable: training plan with list of participants per hromada |
June - November 2025 |
20 days |
|
Sub-total: |
196 days |
|
Travel plan:
Within Ukraine: 70 days.*
* Before any field mission, Safe and Secure Approaches in Field Environments (SSAFE) and Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK) trainings must be completed. The 4-day training schedule must be agreed upon with the security team.
Please provide an all-inclusive financial proposal including travels to carry out the deliverables listed above.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Education: Master’s degree from one of the following fields is required: medical science, maternal and child health, nutrition, public health, epidemiology, global/ international health, health/nutrition research, policy and/or management, health sciences, nutritional epidemiology. An advanced university degree in any of the above programmes is an asset.
Professional experience:
- A minimum of two (2) years of relevant experience, at the national and/or international levels, in health and nutrition programmes.
- Understanding of development and humanitarian work, previous working experience in this field is an asset.
Languages:
- English: Upper-intermediate [B2];
- Ukrainian: Proficient/Native [C2].
Core competencies:
- Knowledge of early childhood development principles and WHO/UNICEF nurturing care framework, including health, nutrition, immunization, and responsive caregiving.
- Experience in developing and delivering of MCNH, programme in Ukraine.
- Understanding of the national health care system and specifically at primary health care level.
- Ability to deliver high-quality outputs within tight deadlines.
- Excellent English writing skills
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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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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