International Consultant - Data collection on violence against children survey

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Founded in 1948, WHO is the United Nations agency that connects nations, partners and people to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable – so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health.

WHO leads global efforts to expand universal health coverage. We direct and coordinate the world’s response to health emergencies. And we promote healthier lives – from pregnancy care through old age. Our Triple Billion targets outline an ambitious plan for the world to achieve good health for all using science-based policies and programmes.

Job Description

WHO is seeking a consultant to lead a situational assessment on preventing violence against children across eleven countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region. The successful candidate will liaise with multisectoral stakeholders across the region to support data collection at national levels. They key purpose of this project is to identify available epidemiological data on the burden of violence against children and existing strategies, legislation and programming to prevent violence against children at the national level. Data collected will be published in the second WHO Global status report on preventing violence against children.

 Job Responsibilities

In response to the WHA Resolution, WHO is coordinating the development and delivery of the second global assessment of efforts to prevent and respond to violence against children. By assessing country-level capacity to collect data, exchange information, adopt and enforce legislation, and develop and implement national action plans to prevent and respond to violence against children, the Report will support countries to re-assess their position on violence prevention; catalyse further prevention action, and identify gaps in national responses to violence that need to be addressed.

Consultant in this position will lead data collection in the WHO-SEAR Region for the second WHO Global status report on preventing violence against children.

Specifically:

• Attend bi-monthly project management online meetings with WHO Headquarters (HQ).
• Attend training to operate the project web-based platform.
• Support identification of National Data Focal Points (NDFPs) for each country in the Region, confirming their participation and availability for regional training.
• Set up online trainings and follow up after the trainings.
• Support the Regional Advisor (RA) in preparing Agreements to Perform Work (APWs) with NDFPs, if need be, and developing templates for workplans for NDFPs.
• Support the NDFPs in identifying stakeholders to complete a standardized questionnaire and in setting up consensus meetings among respondents within the stipulated period.
• Supervise and support NDFPs to collect good quality country level data.
• Assist NDFPs in validating their country data.
• Clear transmission of agreed-on answers to questionnaire to HQ.
• Follow up with NDFPs to ensure that government approval is obtained for each country level dataset. Be responsible for maintaining an accurate project management spreadsheet indicating the status of contracts with NDFPs and of the data collection and approval process for each country.
• Assist with the collection and collation of national level legislation.
• Assist in the review of the draft report.
• Assist in dissemination of report upon release.
• Review and revise project implementation timeline to ensure timely implementation of activities.
• Arrange and manage routine communications with all project partners.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

Essential: Band level A: At least a University degree in public health, epidemiology, population studies, demography or a related field. Additional education is an asset.

Experience:

Essential: Band level A

• Up to five years of experience in public health, which include experience in data collection/analysis (such as surveys, datasets).
• A thorough knowledge of child and adolescent health, violence against children, mental health, social determinants of health,  health equities, and prevention and promotion of health and well-being issues within the Region.
• Excellent inter-personal skills with the demonstrated ability to work effectively with government officials as well as with national and international organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to build partnerships and work in multicultural and multidisciplinary settings.
• Good management and leadership abilities and experience.
• Familiarity with the goals and procedures of international organizations (UN system, donors, non-governmental organizations).
• Experience working in South-East Asia Regional countries is an asset.

Skills/Knowledge:

• Ability to coordinate, plan and implement projects, conduct training activities, effectively monitor, and coordinate with different stakeholders
• Ability to collect, collate, analyze data, produce quality report and present results.
• Ability to work independently and deliver high quality work on time.
• Computer proficiency in Outlook, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, epi-info, STATA, Atlas-ti, etc. 

Languages and level required (Basic/Intermediate/Expert):

• Essential: Expert knowledge of English with excellent written and verbal communication skills is essential.
• Desirable: Expert knowledge of regional languages would be an asset.

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