National Individual Consultancy – Consultancy to develop an oxygen dashboard for the country (Sri Lankan nationals only)
Job no: 566139
Position type: Consultant
Location: Sri Lanka Division/Equivalent: Kathmandu(ROSA)
School/Unit: Sri Lanka
Department/Office: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Categories: Health
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For every child, Health
National individual contractor, providing professional technical support to develop an oxygen dashboard for the country
How can you make a difference?
Goal and Objective: Under the supervision of the Health and Nutrition Manager, the consultant will develop an oxygen dashboard for the country. This dashboard should help healthcare authorities for efficient oxygen management, oxygen related resource management, facilitate emergency response, facilitate long term planning and forecasting, promote transparency and accountability in oxygen related resource management and needs to be serves as a centralized platform for effective communication and coordination among health care workers. Overall, the development of an oxygen dashboard for a country aims to ensure effective monitoring, resource management, emergency response, planning, transparency, and communication in the context of oxygen supply and demand. It plays a crucial role in optimizing the use of oxygen resources and ensuring timely access to life-saving oxygen therapy for patients.
Activities and Tasks:
- The oxygen dashboard needs to provide real time monitoring of oxygen availability and usage throughout the country. It should enable healthcare authorities to tract oxygen supply, demand, and distribution across different healthcare facilities in centralized manner.
- It also helps in efficient resource management by providing insights into the allocation and utilization of oxygen resources. It also must enable healthcare authorities to track oxygen supply, demand, and distribution across different healthcare facilities in a centralized manner.
- Oxygen dashboard must have ability to play a crucial role in facilitating emergency response. It enables rapid response teams to identify areas or facilities that require immediate attention in terms of oxygen supply. This helps in prioritizing and directing resources to the area’s most in need.
- An oxygen dashboard also must assist in long-term planning and forecasting. By analyzing historical data and trends, it helps authorities make data-driven decisions regarding infrastructure development, capacity planning, and investments in oxygen generation and distribution systems. This ensures that the country is adequately prepared to meet future oxygen demands.
- oxygen dashboards need to promote transparency and accountability in the management of oxygen-related resources. It also should allow for the dissemination of real-time information regarding oxygen availability and utilization, ensuring that stakeholders and the public have access to accurate and up-to-date data.
- An oxygen dashboard serves as a centralized platform for communication and coordination among healthcare facilities, government agencies, and other relevant stakeholders. It facilitates the sharing of information, best practices, and guidelines related to oxygen management. This promotes collaboration and enables a more coordinated response in times of need.
Work relationships:
- Based within the UNICEF Sri Lanka CSD section, the consultant will report to the Health and Nutrition Manager and will work closely with the Health and Nutrition Officer, consultant in oxygen system strengthening and CSD Programme Associate.
- The consultant needs to coordinate and liaise with the relevant officials in the Ministry of Health and the state health sector
- The consultant will also work in coordination with the County Office relevant programme sections, health/oxygen experts in other Country Offices, ROSA, HQ and external partners with relation to oxygen strengthening where relevant.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Academic qualifications:
- Masters in biomedical informatics, Public Health, Software Development OR relevant sector
- Background/familiarity with computer software development would be an added advantage
Years of experience:
- At least five (05) years of experience with in-country software development or related activities
- Hands on experience in dashboard development is strongly desired, and broader computer software experience will be considered
- Demonstrated experience with in-country health systems technical assistance, including digital health system development
- Experience in developing national health dash boards is considered as an added qualification
Language competencies: Fluency in English (written and oral) is required, along with fluency in either Sinhala (written and oral), or Tamil (written and oral).
Competencies:
- Computer literacy, MS Office Suite required
- Familiarity with, or willingness to learn national oxygen supply system
- Proven ability to analyze data and develop the dashboards that are of high quality
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to liaise with a wide variety of audiences, good attention to detail
- Able to quickly understand instructions, to proactively seek clarification when needed
- Able to work well in a team environment
- Able to work independently and problem solving oriented
- Able to work in a multi-cultural environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships
- Demonstrated communication and relationship building skills
- Proven capacity to work with collaborative teams across different locations and with different technical skills
Technical skills and knowledge on some or all of the following:
- Proven experience working in multi-stakeholder settings
- Experience in developing digital health systems
- Experience in computer software development
- Proven track record in interfacing with Ministry of health
Work Assignment Overview
- Develop draft including all the Items included into the oxygen dashboard – Draft report with all the items included into the oxygen dashboard – 30th Oct 2023
- Develop the oxygen dashboard to the country – Oxygen dashboard – 10th Dec 2023
- Development of comprehensive dissemination plan for oxygen dashboard and organize the dissemination workshop – Dissemination plan and the workshop – 15th Dec 2023
- Establish mechanism for ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the oxygen dashboard – Developed M&E plan -30th Dec 2023
Duration – 10 Oct 2023 – 30 Dec 2023
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.
If you think this position might be for you, please take the time to review our Country Office Mutual Agreements before you apply.
If you believe you can be a team member that can uphold these every day, then we look forward to receiving and reviewing your application.
Advertised: Sep 26 2023 Sri Lanka Standard Time
Application close: Oct 02 2023 Sri Lanka Standard Time
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- Closes Oct 02 2023National Individual Consultancy – Consultancy to develop an oxygen dashboard for the country (Sri Lankan nationals only) in Sri Lanka
National individual contractor to provide professional technical support to develop an oxygen dashboard for the country