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As the largest single vaccine buyer in the world, UNICEF has a unique and longstanding expertise in procurement and logistics to help children in need. UNICEF procures more than 2 billion doses of vaccines annually for routine immunization and outbreak response on behalf of nearly 100 countries.
Through the Sustainable Markets Centre (SMC), UNICEF Supply Division seeks to positively influence the market dynamics to ensure commodities are fit for purpose, available, affordable, and produced by a competitive supply base, as well as to encourage product innovation of essential commodities to meet the changing needs of children in the SDG era. While SMC will coordinate the efforts of influencing markets across UNICEF Supply Division’s different procurement centres and units, with each procurement centre playing a critical role in identifying and defining the procurement approaches required, SMC assists and facilitates this body of work with strategy design/review, market research, analysis, supplier financing, communication, leveraging partnerships, and promoting market information transparency and achieve sustainable markets.
SMC continued on its efforts to foster market information transparency in the health space, in particular immunization markets due to its volume. UNICEF is the largest procurer of vaccines worldwide – in 2023 alone, UNICEF procured $ billion USD on vaccines/biologicals. In April 2024 UNICEF launched the Vaccine Markets Dashboard with the two-fold objectives of providing access to UNICEF’s vaccine deliveries information and a holistic market landscape for various vaccine markets. Although the Dashboard currently covers a limited number of vaccine markets, it is to expand and include more vaccine markets where UNICEF plays a key role in procurement and supply.
In this line, SMC is looking for a consultant to contribute to the expansion of vaccine products and vaccine prices sections in the Dashboard. S/he supports efforts in gathering market intelligence, more specifically on vaccine types, manufacturer, prices, development and approval status etc. and translating it into the dashboard.
How can you make a difference?
Generate relevant market intelligence:
Maintenance, administration, and development of MS Power BI dashboards:
Reliable master data quality:
Provide documentation and training:
The consultant will interact with UNICEF staff to receive any clarifications and guidance that may be needed. The consultant may also engage with external service providers to request inputs needed to develop the required deliverables. On a weekly basis, the consultant’s work will be coordinated with the Market Research Officer. Each deliverable will be delivered in draft for comments and feedback before finalization.
The Consultant will duly inform UNICEF of any problems, issues or delays arising in the course of implementation of assignment and take necessary steps to address them.
All reports and results are to be submitted to the UNICEF in electronic form (*.pbix, *.docx, *.xlsx, *.pptx, and *.pdf or other formats accepted by UNICEF).
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Desired experience/qualifications:
The consultant will interact with UNICEF staff to receive any clarifications and guidance that may be needed. The consultant may also engage with external service providers to request inputs needed to develop the required deliverables. On a weekly basis, the consultant’s work will be coordinated with the Market Research Officer. Each deliverable will be delivered in draft for comments and feedback before finalization.
The Consultant will duly inform UNICEF of any problems, issues or delays arising in the course of implementation of assignment and take necessary steps to address them.
All reports and results are to be submitted to the UNICEF in electronic form (*.pbix, *.docx, *.xlsx, *.pptx, and *.pdf or other formats accepted by UNICEF).
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.
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