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For every child, the right to Health

Lebanon’s healthcare system continues to face immense strain from prolonged economic instability and the cumulative impact of recurring emergencies. Limited resources, shortages of essential medical supplies, and under-resourced facilities have disrupted the delivery of maternal and newborn health services across the country. Women and newborns, particularly in underserved areas, remain at heightened risk due to constrained access to safe deliveries, neonatal care, and postnatal support.
In this context, UNICEF is working with national and international partners to strengthen maternal and newborn health services, ensuring continuity of care and safeguarding the most vulnerable. To support these efforts, UNICEF is seeking a Maternal and Newborn Health Consultant who will provide targeted technical and coordination support to enhance service delivery, strengthen referral pathways, and ensure that women and newborns receive the quality care they urgently need.

Scope of Work:
The consultant will provide specialized support to strengthen maternal and newborn health interventions in Leba-non. Acting as a liaison between UNICEF, government counterparts, hospitals, and NGO partners, the consultant will facilitate effective coordination and delivery of life-saving services.

Key areas of work will include:
• Supporting the implementation of Kangaroo Mother Care in 11 UNICEF supported hospitals, ensuring facilities are equipped, functional, and providing quality care to women and newborns.
• Support the organization of KMC workshops and introduction of KMC score cards and developing M&E framework
• Reviewing and validating hospital bills submitted through the Ministry of Public Health under the life-saving programme.
• Overseeing the distribution of newborn baby boxes, ensuring they reach intended beneficiaries, particularly NICU-discharged children.
• Collect and track essential Newborn care indicators from Governmental Hospital NICUs
• Track and report Newborn care medication and essential equipment stockouts in governmental hospitals to understand existing gaps.

Through these tasks, the consultant will contribute to safeguarding maternal and newborn health, ensuring that essential services remain accessible and effective despite ongoing challenges.

How can you make a difference? 

         Work Assignment Expected Results

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here:  TOR.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Master's degree in public health, global health, or any other related areas in health. 
• Work Experience: Public Health professional with a minimum of 5 years of proven professional experience in managing health projects, including providing technical assistance and leadership in monitoring implementation, generating reports, and engaging with various stakeholders.
• Familiarity with the national public health and humanitarian systems in Lebanon is essential, including hospitals and PHCCs structure, services, along with strong communication and coordination skills.
• Proficiency in healthcare digital tools, with expertise in data analysis and visualization. Previous experience working with the Ministry of Public Health is required.
• Strong understanding of Lebanon’s public healthcare system.
• Demonstrated ability to review, assess, and process large volumes of data and synthesize it for reporting and decision-making purposes.
• Fluency in both Arabic and English is essential.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and effectively.
• Team player, with experience working in diverse and collaborative environments.
  Knowledge of United Nations processes, particularly UNICEF’s, is 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

The 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 

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

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 a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation 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 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. 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.

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Remarks:  

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions 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. 

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Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

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