Consultant to support Covid vx M&E for VDI (STC for an initial period of two days per week from October to December 2021)

The World Health Organization has a vacancy for the position of:

 Consultant to support Covid vx M&E for VDI (STC  for an initial period of two days per week from October to December 2021)

     Purpose of the Post

            This consultancy, based in Vientiane, Lao PDR, will support the National Immunization Ministry of Health of Lao PDR in conducting mini-COVID-19 vaccine post-introduction evaluation and preparing for the COVID-19 vaccination coverage survey.

Description of Duties:          

            The COVID-19 vaccination program in Lao PDR is taking place in phases, targeting different populations, and requiring different delivery strategies than many established routine childhood immunization programs. WHO recommends countries conduct COVID-19 post-introduction evaluations (cPIEs) in the early, mid, and long-term phase of introduction to optimize vaccine deployment and gather programmatic lessons learned.  

            A “mini-cPIE” is a facilitated discussion with national and subnational stakeholders done early in implementation (2–6 months post introduction) to identify gaps and propose corrective measures to strengthen continued vaccination activities. Mini-cPIEs utilize the WHO COVID-19 Intra-Action Review (IAR) methodology through the vaccination pillar. Mini-cPIE tools assist countries to rapidly reflect on the status of the COVID-19 vaccination program and propose actionable activities to improve vaccine rollout without the need for extensive data collection.

            To develop the immunisation delivery systems and infrastructure required to ensure COVID-19 vaccines access to priority populations and take proactive action to ensure equal access to everyone who qualifies under a priority group, particularly socially disadvantaged populations is one of 6 WHO SAGE principles for the allocation and prioritisation. However, the administrative coverage through DHIS2 is not specifically capturing hard-to-reach, disadvantaged, minority population. To help seeing if the vaccines have reached those segment populations as defined in the National Deployment and Vaccination Plan for COVID-19 vaccines after Stage 2, a COVID-19 vaccination coverage survey is planned to be conducted (expected to be early 2022).

Education:

The first level university degree in communication, public health or related field. Advanced degree is desirable.

Knowledge & skills:

Technical expertise

Communication

Organisation skills

Personable

Experience:

Essential: Minimum of 3 years of working experience in monitoring and evaluation or public health.

Desirable: Knowledge of immunization. Experience of working within the UN system or with UN partners.  

Language: 

Written and spoken fluency in Lao and English is essential. Written and spoken fluency in another UN or Lao language is desirable

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to submit applications and curriculum vitae in the English language with a subject " Consultant to support Covid vx M&E for VDI ” to the following Email address : wplaohr@who.int by 4 october 2021 at 17:00 PM.