Health National Consultant at Asian Disaster Preparedness Center

Project

Urban Resilience to Climate Extremes in Southeast Asia (URCE) Program

Title

Terms of Reference (TOR) for the Health National Consultant hereafter called as “Consultant”. She/he will serve and provide resource inputs to the “Urban Resilience to Climate Extremes in Southeast Asia” (URCE) Program which is supported by Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad).

Purpose and Objectives

In the implementation of the activities in Viet Nam under Outcome 3, ADPC will hire a national technical consultant for health sector who will support in the project implementation. The Consultant will provide professional technical assistance throughout the work process, through the application of theoretical and practical technical skills in researching, collecting, analyzing and presenting program information while learning organizational rules, regulations and procedures to support the development, implementation and monitoring of the Health output results of the URCE Program. In addition, the Consultant will be tasked to develop Assessments’ Formats, training modules and to facilitate trainings, workshops and meetings where deemed necessary and as specified in the tasks and deliverables.

Impact of Results

The support provided by the Consultant will enable the ADPC program team to achieve the health-related output results of the program. This, in turn, will contribute to the achievement of the outcome results of the URCE Program Document. When done effectively, the achievement of the outcome results will contribute towards achieving the program goal: resilient communities in deltaic and coastal urban areas in the target countries.

Responsibilities and Tasks

The Consultant is expected to do to following to achieve the objectives and expected outputs of this consultancy: meet with specific people, hold consultation sessions, follow up discussions (online or in-

person) gather specific data, sit on committees, etc. with stakeholders at city/provincial and national

levels. The Consultant will seek ADPC’s guidance in terms of decisions and actions she/he may take.

She/he is also expected to work collaboratively with ADPC-URCE Program team and keep record of

reports and assessments for easy reference and/or to capture and institutionalize lessons learned.

Please refer to the items on “Expected Outputs” and “Working Principles” for more details on work

supervision and reporting modalities ADPC as a whole or the requesting department.

Working Principles

The Consultant will work under the technical guidance of the Senior Public Health Specialist of the

Health Risk Management (HRM) Department of ADPC and other Specialists/program staff involved in

the project implementation. In addition, the URR Department Director will also provide supervision to

ensure the compliance with the roles and responsibilities mentioned below.

In addition, the Consultant will also join the ADPC URCE Team in the conduct of a series of consultative

meetings and follow up discussions (online or in-person) with sector stakeholders at city/provincial and

national levels.

Qualifications

Education:

Degree in Health with relevant specialization such as nutrition, mental health and psychosocial support, health policy and practice, and public health. Knowledge in health disaster risk management, climate change adaptation or related field/discipline will be an added advantage.

Experience:

At least 10 years of professional work experience in health sector including health in emergencies, disaster risk reduction and climate-related programs for developing countries.

Technical requirements:

• Experience in public health programming in emergencies
• Understand and apply integration of disaster risk management, climate policy issues, including climate change adaptation and mitigation measures
• Strong qualitative and quantitative evidenced based analysis capability
• Advocacy
• Capacity development and training capabilities

Competencies:

§ Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and balance expectations, building and maintaining relationships.

§ Ability to analyze and synthesize data from a wide variety of sources, and present the resulting information in a clear and concise format.

§ Excellent report writing, editing, conceptual, analytical and communication skills.

§ Ability to work independently, and within a team and manage priorities.

§ Excellent inter-personal and facilitation skills to effectively liaise with key stakeholders.

§ Demonstrated competencies in computer-based word processing and spreadsheet applications, workshop organization, public speaking and sensitivity to cultural differences.**

§ Strong ability in advocacy issues related to health and other health-related issues.

§ Demonstrated competencies in development and writing of training module, advocacy, IEC materials.

Language Requirements

Oral and written proficiency in Vietnamese and English languages is required.

Duty Station

The Consultant will be based in Viet Nam

Duration

The Consultant is expected to work for a total of 75 days covering the period 1 November 2021 and to complete the assignment by 31 July 2022.

Itinerary

Please refer to the above item on “Expected Outputs” for deliverables and important deadlines for more details. If the Consultant will be required to travel, ADPC will shoulder the costs for transport, seminars, air travel, accommodation, etc. In addition, the Consultant will follow the ADPC travel policies and receive Daily Subsistence Allowance (per diem and accommodation as applicable) per ADPC rates during official missions. Travel itinerary will be approved by the URR Director of ADPC.

Condition of payment

The Consultant will be paid based on the approved budget allocation. The payment will be made into a given bank account number by the Consultant.

The Consultant will receive the payment of the services according to the following schedule:

· 30% upon finalization, submission and acceptance by ADPC of deliverables 1 and 2 (under section A).

· 30% upon finalization, submission and acceptance by ADPC of deliverables 3 and 4 (under section B).

· 40% upon finalization, submission and acceptance by ADPC deliverables 5 and 6 (under section C). This will also constitute the final payment to the Consultant.