Stakeholder Engagement & NPHI Program Assistance Consultant

POSITION TITLE:      Stakeholder Engagement & NPHI Program Assistance Consultant

STATUS:                    Part-Time Consultancy (12-20 hours per week, 6-month contract)

LOCATION:                Hanoi, Vietnam 

LANGUAGE:                English and Vietnamese

Recruitment for the Stakeholder Engagement & NPHI Program Assistance Consultancy is now open. Interested candidates are requested to submit their application in English to [email protected].

Background

National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs) serve as a country’s lead technical public health agency and strengthen countries’ public health capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to public health emergencies. These science-based agencies, within or linked to Ministries of Health (MoH), play leadership roles in addressing core public health functions. Typically, NPHIs conduct surveillance, monitor the population’s health, respond to outbreaks, help develop the public health workforce capacity, and support other public health priorities.

The world's NPHIs vary greatly. Consolidating core public health functions — and the associated skills, disciplines, experience, and expertise — in an NPHI provides many benefits:

• Improved delivery of public health services
• More efficient use of funds
• Ability to generate and share knowledge, data, and evidence to inform public health decisions and policies
• Increased capacity to mount a quick, decisive, and coordinated response during a public health emergency
• Visible national leadership for public health issues
• Ability to develop public health policy agendas and resource allocation in line with the country’s own priorities
• Consistent policies and harmonized procedures
• Linkages among all those working to improve public health in the country

Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Context for the National CDC

Vietnam intends to strengthen the public health and preventive medicine system nationally through the creation of Vietnam's National Centers for Disease Control (NCDC). It is proposed to be a professional organization under the Vietnam’s Ministry of Health (MOH VN).

To support MOH VN in developing the NCDC establishment proposal, the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) seeks applicants for a consultancy position with detailed descriptions of criteria as follows:

Detailed tasks:

• Prepare strategies and implementation plan to engage internal (e.g., MOH-level agencies, preventive medicine institutes, provincial CDCs, etc.) and external stakeholders, both in-country (Provincial People’s Committees, other relevant ministries) and international (e.g., World Bank, Korea International Cooperation Agency, World Health Organization, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Asian Development Bank, KfW Development Bank, etc.)
• Prepare concept notes and estimated costs of meetings, workshops, and conferences that support NCDC establishment and operationalization, following APHL’s standard cost-norms to submit for approval for financial support.
• Arrange, organize and coordinate technical meetings/discussions, workshops, and conferences of MOH VN, both online and offline, and with other internal and external stakeholders as planned.
• Prepare meeting notes, workshop and conference reports, and event expenditure reports after events finish in a timely manner; submit notes and reports to MOH VN leadership and officers for review before sharing with stakeholders.
• Assist MOH VN and U.S. CDC-IANPHI expert team in assessing the core functions of the existing preventive medicine institutes and selected provincial CDCs.
• Support other administrative tasks regarding the NCDC establishment as assigned.

Outputs/outcomes:

• Stakeholder engagement and events have been done with high quality
• Detailed meeting notes, workshop and conference reports
• Accurate event financial reports

Qualification:

• Public health background is required.
• Candidate must have bachelor’s at minimum. Master’s Degree is preferred.

Knowledge, Experience and Skill:

• Good understanding of Vietnam’s health system.
• Rich knowledge of and experience with the Vietnam’s preventive medicine system is needed
• Experience working in the Vietnam’s preventive medicine system or medical research institutes is preferred.
• Experience of internal stakeholders and external stakeholders’ engagement.
• Has good diplomacy and communication skills.
• Has good organizational skills.
• Has good listening and note-taking skills.
• Has good financial and accounting skills.
• Has good English skills (reading, speaking, listening, and writing).