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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, hope :

UNICEF Chad and partners support immunization programmes in the whole country to help realize children’s right to survival and good health. Activities include engaging communities to create vaccine demand, procuring and distributing vaccines and keeping vaccines safe through cold chain logistics. UNICEF Chad also works with partners to strengthen immunization programmes to identify and prioritize children who have missed on their vaccination

How can you make a difference?

The incumbent is accountable for professional leadership and innovation in the development, planning, implementation, delivery, monitoring, evaluation and oversight management of the Immunization programme in conjunction with Child Survival and Development, Maternal and Child Health, Health and Nutrition components within the country programme, to achieve the UNICEF’s immunization plus goals and objectives for the country.

Accountable for ensuring the UNICEF Immunization programme promotes gender equality, with an emphasis on gender disaggregation, gender disparity identification and gender mainstreaming

Key end-results :

• Timely sectoral analysis, input, support and coordination contribute to the Situation Analysis with consistent integration of sex dis-aggregated data and its periodic update for effective project planning, development and management ;
• Quality contributions are made to the development and implementation of the Immunization strategies and approaches through participation and collaboration with internal and external partnership ;
• Work plan and objectives are strategically established, technical support is effectively provided, and planned results are timely delivered through exercise of strong technical leadership ;
• Project implementation progress is monitored and evaluated for adjustment, acceleration and improvement of program delivery and sustainability. Gender/sex dis-aggregated data and inputs relevant to the Immunization Programme provided ;
• Technical support is provided to government and NGOs at all stages of the programme cooperation, including capacity building of government personnel and beneficiarie ;
• The capacities of Country Office staff are strengthened through effective capacity building programme in the development, implementation and management of the Immunization programme ;
• UNICEF and Government accountability is ensured for supply and non-supply assistance and disbursement of programme funds for the sector ;
• Effective partnership and collaboration achieved and maintained for advocacy, technical cooperation, programme coordination, information sharing and knowledge networking.
• The most relevant and strategic information is provided to support the Immunization Programme by the effective implementation of integrated child survival monitoring system ;
• All required programme reports are timely prepared in compliance with the established guidelines and procedures ;
• Emergency preparedness is maintained,  and in emergencies, emergency responses with effective coordination are provided.

Please refer to the attached job description below for details.

 JD Immunization Specialist NOC N’Djamena..pdf

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

• An Advanced university degree in Public Health, Paediatric Health, Child Development, Child Health, Nutrition, Epidemiology, Public Administration, Social Policy, Social Development, Community Development, or other relevant disciplines ;
• A minimum of five years of professional work experience at the national and international levels in planning, programming, implementation monitoring and evaluation of health/Immunization programmes. Professional work experience in a technical expert position related to child survival & health care ;
• Field work experience ;
• Background/familiarity with emergency ;
• Fluency in French with working knowledge in English with knowledge in Arabic is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The functional competencies required for this post are..

• Building Trust [ II ] : Managing Resources [ II ] ;
• Influence [ II ] : judgement [ II ] ;
• Technical Knowledge [ II ] : Team Leadership [ II ] ;
• Planning, Setting Standards, and Monitoring Work [ II ].

View our competency framework at Competencies.pdf

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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.