Consultant – Lead Technical Support for Assessment of Complementary Foods in Lao PDR, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO), Bangkok, Thailand

Consultant – Lead Technical Support for Assessment of Complementary Foods in Lao PDR, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO), Bangkok, Thailand

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Job no: 544820

Contract type: Consultancy

Level: Consultancy

Location: Cambodia, China, Malaysia, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Fiji/Pacific Island Countries, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam

Categories: Nutrition

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfilling their potential.

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, a better future

UNICEF works to ensure the rights of all children in the East Asia and Pacific Region.  This means the rights of every child living in this country, irrespective of their nationality, gender, religion or ethnicity, to:

• survival – to basic healthcare, peace and security;
• development – to a good education, a loving home and adequate nutrition;
• protection – from abuse, neglect, trafficking, child labour and other forms of exploitation; and
• participation – to express opinions, be listened to and take part in making any decisions that affect them

How can you make a difference?

The Nutrition Section, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO) is seeking an individual consultant to support the identification, selection, and data entry of all label information for commercially available complementary foods intended for children under 3 years of age in Southeast Asia. The consultant will identify large retail outlets in Vientiane, Lao PDR and from these retail outlets review and purchase commercially available complementary foods intended for children under 3 years of age. The consultant will use an online data reporting tool to translate and enter key information from the label of selected commercially available complementary foods.

Work Assignment:

1. 1. Identify large scale retail outlets for CACF
      
      1. Use a web-based search criterion to identify the major retail outlets in Vientiane, Laos PDR and complete a Retail Outlet List of each identified retail outlet.  Categories of large retail outlets will include:
         • Supermarket/hypermarket/ large grocery store
         • Department store with a baby section
         • Stand-alone baby store
         • Large pharmacy

2. 2. Select participating stores for each identified retail outlet
      
      1. The consultant will determine if each identified retail outlet has an online presence or only brick-and-mortar stores. For retail outlets with an online presence, the consultant will assess the online store for CACF products. For both retail outlets with an online presence and brick-and-mortar only presence, the consultant will visit the largest store in Phnom Penh and assess all CACF products sold in that store.
   3. Review and purchase CACF products:
      
      1. The consultant will participate in a field worker training on identifying CACF and on the purchasing procedures before, during and after purchasing and the use of purchasing documents and forms prior to any CACF purchasing activities.
      2. Using a CACF Product List on a mobile phone application platform the consultant will register each product purchased online and in brick-and-mortar stores. The following information will be entered into the CACF Product List: product code; store code; manufacturer; brand; sub-brand; descriptive name; flavor variant; age recommendation; age category; image of a child under 3 years/image of a child with feeding bottle’; no Lao/English on label; net weight; price per container; date purchased.
      3. Purchase all applicable CACF products and stored for further data entry.
   4. Photograph the labels of all CACF products
      
      1. The consultant will photograph the labels of all the purchased CACF products using a mobile phone application. Training for the national researchers and training material for label photographing will be provided prior to data capturing activities.
   5. Enter label information for all CACF products into online data reporting tool
      
      1. The consultant will use a standardized online data reporting tool to collect information from the labels of selected CACF products for nutrition information and messages. The consultant will translate into English any labels in Laos directly into the data collection tool. Training and training materials on label translation will be provided.
   6. Data validation
      
      1. The consultant will review with a second data entry person the results of a double data entry validation conducted on the entered CACF product information and correct any errors due to incorrect data entry. Errors due to translation or interpretation difference between the consultant and second data entry person will be reviewed with UNICEF EAPRO.
      2. The consultant will provide assistance to UNICEF EAPRO during an independent 10% error check.

Work Schedule & Deliverables:

Deliverables	No. of Days	Target Date*
Identify large scale retail outlets for CACF and complete the Retail Outlet List	1	October 18th
Select participating stores for each identified retail outlet	2	October 22nd
Review and purchase CACF products for each identified retail outlet store both online and 1 store in person and complete the CACP product list	17	November 9th
Photograph the labels of all CACF products	6	November 17th
Enter label information for all CACF products into online data reporting tool	13	December 8th
Data validation	5	December 15th
Total	44 days

* Expected date of completion for deliverable

Duration of Contract:  The assignment should take place between 13th October and 31st December 2021.

Working Location:  Home based

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

1. Education:

• A university degree in health or nutrition or other related science field is preferable.

2. Work Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in data collection.
• Proven experience in mobile data collection platforms with experience using the ONA platform an asset.
• Expertise in Infant and Young Child Feeding is an asset.

3. Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Demonstrable data entry and research skills, review and synthesis of data and information.

4. Language Proficiency:

• Excellent oral and written Lao and English skills are required.

Interested candidates are requested to submit CV or P-11, full contact information of minimum 3 references, availability, and proposed daily professional fee in USD by 5 October 2021.

  FORM P11.doc

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

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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.

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.

UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children.

Advertised: 22 Sep 2021 SE Asia Standard Time

Deadline: 05 Oct 2021 SE Asia Standard Time

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