Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child Health (RMNCH) Consultancy

Individuals are invited to submit a proposal for consultancy services relating to the provision of support to the Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child Health (RMNCH) technical working group in the development of EMT minimum standards for RMNCH . The services required by the World Health Organization (WHO) are more fully described in the Terms of Reference attached to this this Request for Proposals (RFP).

Work to be performed

Perform secretariat functions for the EMT RMNCH Working Group (RMNCH WG)

• Deliverable 1.1: Coordinate and conduct the 1^st RMNCH WG face to face meeting, equivalent to 6 working days
• Deliverable 1.2: Draft minutes of the 1^st RMNCH WG face to face meeting, and circulate among its members and the EMT Strategic Advisory Group members within 10 working days of the meeting and equivalent to 6 working days
• Deliverable 1.3: Coordinate and conduct the 2^nd RMNCH WG face to face meeting, equivalent to 6 working days
• Deliverable 1.4: Draft minutes of the 2^nd RMNCH WG face to face meeting, and circulate among its members and the EMT Strategic Advisory Group members within 10 working days of the meeting and equivalent to 6 working days

Support the development of the Emergency Medical Teams minimum technical standards and recommendations for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health.

• Deliverable 2.1: Produce a draft framework of minimum reproductive and maternal health interventions and commodities for EMTs in sudden onset disasters and emergencies, and equivalent to 18 working days, by:

  • Including relevant WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, PAHO, IAWG, MSF technical guidelines and national guidelines;
  • Indicating EMT level of care (Type 1 fixed and mobile, Type 2, Type 3 and Specialist cell teams); and
  • Meeting with EMT secretariat and relevant WHO staff members in Reproductive Health and Research (RHR), Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MCA), and other departments as needed
  • Coordinating with Hopitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG) Collaborative Centre and MCA focal point for newborn and child health content

• Deliverable 2.2: Produce the final manuscript, equivalent to 18 working days, of the Emergency medical teams minimum technical standards and recommendations for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health Specific requirements

Qualifications required:

• Essential: A first university degree in healthcare or health science or fields related to Maternal and Child Health

• Desirable: An advanced degree in any of the fields related to Maternal and Child Health
  Experience required:

• Essential: Five years of experience relevant to the position, inclusive of at least two years in clinical experience in Maternal and Child Health, ideally in a low-resource setting;

• Desirable: Experience working with emergency medical teams or non-governmental organizations.
  Skills / Technical skills and knowledge:

• Experience in writing technical documents for use by clinical teams. Language requirements:

• Excellent knowledge of English essential.

The proposal should be prepared and submitted in the English language and should include the following information:

• Short CV
• Cover letter
• Sample writing material (e.g.: technical document )
• Proposed approach/methodology;
• Proposed time line; and
• Financial proposal.

Proposals should be submitted to WHO in writing no later than 10^th September 2017 at 17:00 hours by email at the following address: emteams@whot.int

Simultaneously with submitting a proposal, please enter or update (as appropriate) your details in the Personal History Form in the WHO eRecruit system: http://www.who.int/employment/en/