UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) is recruiting to fill the following positions in Sierra Leone:

1.) Health Officer (Supply Chain Management)
2.) Digital Public Goods (DPG) Technical Consultant

See job details and how to apply below.

1.) Health Officer (Supply Chain Management)

Health Officer (Supply Chain Management), NO-2, Freetown, Sierra Leone, #127471, [Temporary Appointment] - open only to Sierra Leoneans

Job no: 569139

Position type: Temporary Appointment

Location: Sierra Leone

Division/Equivalent: Dakar (WCAR), Senegal

School/Unit: Sierra Leone

Department/Office: Freetown, Sierra Leone

Categories: Health and Nutrition

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, results

Please access UNICEF Sierra Leone information here and here

How can you make a difference?

Purpose for the Job:

The Health Officer (Supply Chain) provides support to the supply chain component of UNICEF Sierra Leone’s Health and Nutrition portfolio including technical assistance for health and nutrition supply chain systems strengthening initiatives. Specifically, the Health Officer provides technical, operational, and administrative assistance for health supply chain to facilitate program development, planning and management, implementation, progress monitoring and reporting of results. Critical duties for the Health Officer include supporting supply planning and supporting tracking and monitoring of orders and deliveries (including quantification and provision of technical specifications of pharmaceutical and medical equipment); supporting distribution activities including coordination with health facilities and site readiness assessment; and end-user monitoring for accountability including rationale use of medicines. The Health Officer (Supply Chain) also assists the Health Specialist (supply chain systems strengthening) in providing technical assistance to the MOH to strengthen key supply chain functions such as forecasting and supply planning, inventory management, warehouse and distribution and use of data for decision-making as per identified needs.

SUMMARY OF KEY FUNCTIONS/ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Support to programme development and planning.

2. Programme management, monitoring, and delivery of results.

3. Technical and operational support to programme implementation.

4. Networking and partnership building.

5. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building.

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

•  A first-level university degree in one of the following fields is required: pharmacy, health supply chain management/logistics, biological sciences, public health or another relevant technical field.
•  A minimum of two years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas is required: health supply chain management, supply and logistics, public health/nutrition planning and management with supply component, or maternal and neonatal health care with supply chain management.
•  Health supply chain management experience is an advantage.
•  Experience working in a developing country. eCOZvsP C0zl6W
•  Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
•  Experience in emergency preparedness and response is considered as an asset.
•  Fluency in English is required.

Specific Technical Knowledge Required

•  Professional technical knowledge/ expertise in health supply chain systems, including forecasting and supply planning, procurement, inventory management, warehousing and distribution, and information management.
•  Good knowledge and understanding of UNICEF programmes, procurement processes, logistics and delivery, monitoring, and evaluation.
•  Good knowledge and experience in using computer software applications, including word processing, spreadsheets, and corporate software packages.
•  Emergency programme policies, goals, strategies, and approaches.

Please access the full job here: VA ToR - Supply Chain Officer, NO-2 (TA).pdf

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.

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.

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.

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.

Advertised: Jan 23 2024 Greenwich Standard Time

Application close: Feb 06 2024 Greenwich Standard Time

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2.) Digital Public Goods (DPG) Technical Consultant

National Consultancy - Digital Public Goods (DPG) Technical Consultant (For Sierra Leone Nationals only)

Job no: 569145

Position type: Consultant

Location: Sierra Leone

Division/Equivalent: Dakar (WCAR), Senegal

School/Unit: Sierra Leone

Department/Office: Freetown, Sierra Leone

Categories: Innovation

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, innovation

Please access UNICEF Sierra Leone information here

How can you make a difference?

Purpose and objective of the assignment:

As part of Sierra Leone’s role as a co-champion of the DPGA, and to strengthen the existing collaboration between UNICEF and DSTI on DPGs, this assignment aims to: A) Provide product development support to selected DPGs created and/or curated by DSTI (60%).

B) Provide open-source-community management support to the same projects to strengthen local capacity & talent (40%).

The Digital Public Goods (DPG) Technical Consultant reports to the Innovation Specialist for general guidance and direction.

Scope of Work:

Under the general guidance and supervision of the Innovation Specialist, the post has the following key responsibilities including, but are not limited to:

•  Provide product development/programming support to digital public goods such as, OpenG2P, GoSL USSD Services Platform
•  Coordinate the engagement and technical cooperation with the UNICEF Office of Innovation.
•  Support any solution development to be prepared to meet the DPG Standard and to be included in the DPG Registry.
•  Provide technical assistance to each solution as outlined in the description of the assignment below.
•  Provide opensource community management support to digital public goods projects to strengthen local capacity & talent.
•  Work with other UNICEF sections such as Health and Education and support in the delivery of cross programmatic priorities (eg through Hackathon)
•  Identify key open-source community organizations, academia and/or private sector to be engaged in each of the projects
•  Advocate for the adoption of open-source best practices in the development and maintenance of these projects’ software repositories
•  Develop and deploy clear and structured documentation for all project repositories
•  Develop, deploy and manage issue and pull request templates for each of the projects and position these projects overall to welcome external contributions
•  Regularly review and incorporate community contributions functions/accountabilities: eCOZi7b C0zl6W
•  Underpin UNICEF’s role as a convener to enable the scale-up of the DPGA at country level.
•  Maintain collaboration with government of Sierra Leone and identify new opportunities for engaging other stakeholders to contribute to the DPGA for Sierra Leone.
•  Perform other related duties as assigned by the supervisor to ensure the success of the team, as needed.

Please see attached ToR for detailed information: ToR-Consultant-DPG-Innovation-National.pdf

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

•  A university degree in Technology, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field plus 7 years in a relevant field e.g. software development

Given the bespoke nature of this role and the new and emerging nature of Digital Public Goods relevant experience will be prioritized over specific qualifications. Therefore, a minimum of 3-5 years of experience working in:

•  The social innovation ecosystem engagement, mapping, entrepreneurship support programs, open-source development and working with and mentoring tech entrepreneurs
•  Knowledge of frontier technology, open-source technology and digital public goods are highly valued.
•  Familiarity with Sierra Leone’s developer community organizations/landscape.
•  Experience in programming languages including Java, Python, and Golang and familiarity with different frameworks such as Java/ Spring & Python/ Django are an asset.
•  Previous experience developing projects in the open and the ability to demonstrate an active GitHub or Gitlab profile is an asset.
•  Ability to work with a diverse team in a rapidly changing work environment and adapt to unforeseen changes.
•  Experience working in the social impact space, international development or equivalent.
•  Fluency in English is required, strong written and verbal competency is necessary.
•  Experience working in a developing country required, working in the West African region is considered as 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.

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.

Advertised: Jan 23 2024 Greenwich Standard Time

Application close: Feb 05 2024 Greenwich Standard Time

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