Overview
International consultancy to provide mentoring, orientation, and quality assurance for the development of a 3-year family planning costed implementation plan and monitoring, evaluation, and learning framework.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct initial orientation briefing for the National consultant and provide global/regional guidance documents, best-practice CIP tool formats and dynamic excel spreadsheet structures.
- Review the draft inception report, ensuring the proposed costing framework correctly aligns with international public financial management standards.
- Provide guidance on building the dynamic formula architecture within the excel costing matrix.
- Perform rigorous quality assurance on the formulas, metadata legend and fiscal gap analysis calculations.
- Review and provide structural feedback on the draft CIP strategy document and policy brief.
- Provide standardized MEL logframe templates and mapping tools.
- Review the draft MEL matrix to ensure technical alignment with regional UNFPA and SDG monitoring frameworks, checking the structural integrity in the results chains.
- Provide remote pre-guidance to the national consultant ahead of the validation presentation.
- Conduct the final comprehensive quality assurance review of the revised master documents and the excel tools.
Required Experience
Minimum of 10 years of international experience designing Health Strategic Plans, Costed Implementation Plans (CIP), and complex MEL frameworks within the UN or international public health architecture. Proven experience acting as a technical coach or mentor to national/local consultants in developing country contexts. Expert-level mastery of advanced Excel modeling, automated ingredient-based costing frameworks, and international health metrics.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master's or Ph.D.) in Public Health, Health Economics, Global Health Policy, or a related field.
