Individual Consultant on SBCC Strategy for Childhood Obesity Prevention (UNICEF)

Job Description

Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: Hanoi
Level: Consultancy
Location: Viet Nam
Categories: Nutrition, Social and Behavior Change
Deadline: 17/06/2024

Background/Context

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 fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, they work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. For every child, an opportunity...

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

The individual national consultant will develop an evidence based national Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) strategy for childhood obesity prevention in Viet Nam for Ministry of Health (MOH).

Objective and Scope of work

Create a demand to adopt good nutrition practices among parents, child caregivers, families, school and communities for controlling children’s overweight – obesity and protecting children’s surround environments from unhealthy foods, e.g. sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs).
Strengthen the communication and mobilization to policy makers in order to incorporate nutrition work for controlling children’s overweight - obesity into strategies, programs, projects, or plans implemented at national and sub-national levels.
Advocate for an integrated approach toward reducing the exposure to, marketing of, and purchasing of unhealthy foods (e.g. SSBs, etc.), including taxation, mandated nutrition labelling, front-of-pack labelling, and restriction of marketing and promotion toward children.

Tasks

Design, test and finalize the SBCC strategy for period of 2025 – 2030 including creative concepts, SBBC’s targets audience groups segmentation, desired behavioural /communications outcomes, key messages, intervention strategies, and the guidelines for sub-national levels to develop and implement provincial SBCC strategy.
Develop the communication action plans for national and sub-national levels’ implementation.
Support to garner sector-wide support for finalized SBCC strategy, guidelines, and action plans.

Required Qualifications

Education:

Minimum Qualifications required: Master in Social and Behaviour Change Communication, Behavioural Science, Social Sciences, Public Health, Nutrition.

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills:

Minimum of Master level degree(s) in the relevant field, such as nutrition, public health and at least 8 years of relevant experience.
At least 8 years of proven experience in maternal and child nutrition field.
Proven experience in providing technical support for the institution in the whole process of desk review, development of tools and methods, data collection and analysis.
Familiarity with the rural nutrition, maternal health care sector in Viet Nam.
Strong experiences in theme/message development.
Ability to work with a team of professionals effectively and respectfully with different cultural and sectoral backgrounds.

Languages:

Native Vietnamese speaking.
Fluent in English.

How to Apply

Interested candidates are requested to submit electronic applications no later than 17 June 2024 SE Asia Standard Time. Submission here.

Letter of interest/confirmation of availability and CV;
A technical proposal submitted with relevant approach to meet the specific objectives and reach the specific target audiences (not exceeding 5 pages);
Three references;
Financial proposal: All-inclusive lump-sum cost including consultancy fee, travel and any other relevant costs for this assignment. Download File Quotation lumpsum_SBCC Obesity (002).xlsx