National and International Consultancy with UNFPA

Contexte

South Sudan is preparing to review the FP CIP 2021–2026 and develop the FP CIP 2027–2031 in a context of low modern contraceptive use, high fertility and adolescent childbearing, recurrent humanitarian shocks and severe fiscal constraints. The process will combine a rigorous look-back with a prioritised successor strategy and a Financial Sustainability/DRM Plan that positions voluntary, rights-based family planning as an investment in health, human capital, economic resilience, gender equality and social stability.

The project has three objectives:

• Objective 1 – Retrospective review and learning. By the end of Week 6, complete and validate a retrospective performance, financing and bottleneck review of the FP CIP 2021–2026 that assesses progress against planned results and quantifies, to the extent data permit, variances between costed requirements, commitments, funds received/disbursed and activities implemented; identifies fragility-related causes of resource and execution gaps; and draws lessons from government, off-budget donor and humanitarian financing modalities.
• Objective 2 – Development of the FP CIP 2027–2031. By the end of Week 10, develop a prioritised, results-based and fully costed draft FP CIP 2027–2031 that responds to the review findings and repositions voluntary, rights-based family planning as a high-value multisectoral investment in maternal and adolescent health, human capital, the demographic dividend, household and macroeconomic resilience, gender equality, social stability and peacebuilding.
• Objective 3 – Financial sustainability, DRM and investment case. By the end of Week 15, deliver a validated Financial Sustainability and Domestic Resource Mobilisation Plan and an executive FP Investment Case that define a phased and realistic pathway for increased national and state financing, improved use of humanitarian and development resources, efficiency gains and integration, innovative/transitional financing, and targeted advocacy to mobilise and protect resources for implementation of the FP CIP 2027–2031.

Purpose of the National Consultancy: To provide sustained in-country technical, analytical and coordination capacity across the full assignment; ensure that the review and successor CIP reflect South Sudanese institutional, fiscal, humanitarian and sub-national realities; and support transfer of planning, costing, financing and monitoring capacity to MoH and the FP TWG.

Missions et responsabilités

Objectives of the Assignment:

• Provide sustained, in-country support to the review of the FP CIP 2021–2026 and the development of the FP CIP 2027–2031, ensuring continuity between the international consultant’s missions.
• Support data collection, stakeholder engagement, and coordination at national and sub-national levels, including in hard-to-reach and humanitarian settings.
• Contribute contextual, cultural, and institutional knowledge of South Sudan’s health system, administrative structures, and family planning programming environment.
• Support the international consultant in the organization and facilitation of consultations, workshops, and validation meetings.
• Contribute to building the capacity of the Ministry of Health and Technical Working Group in strategic and financial planning for family planning, ensuring national ownership and knowledge retention.

Scope of Work and Detailed Tasks:

• Inception and evidence mobilisation: Compile and organise national policy, programme, HMIS/DHIS2, LMIS/commodity, budget, expenditure, partner and humanitarian documents/data required for the assignment. Support stakeholder mapping, State/county sampling, scheduling and development/testing of data-collection tools. Develop and maintain a live data-source and data-gap register and follow up agreed data requests with MoH, Finance, States and partners. Contribute substantive South Sudan contextual analysis to the inception report and risk/feasibility assessment.
• Retrospective review and resource tracking: Lead or support national and sub-national data collection, including key informant interviews, focus groups, facility/site visits and structured partner resource-tracking requests. Compile and reconcile available information on planned activities, commitments, disbursements/expenditure and implementation, with particular attention to national/State financing and off-budget partner resources. Document fragility-related implementation and cost drivers—including conflict, access, flooding, inflation/exchange-rate effects, security, transport, workforce and supply-chain constraints—and provide evidence for root-cause analysis. Support analysis of humanitarian financing and service continuity and engagement with Health Cluster/humanitarian stakeholders. Draft sub-national, institutional and financing sections of the review report to publication standard.
• Development, costing and sustainability planning: Support facilitation of strategic planning and prioritisation workshops and ensure State, county, community, youth and other underserved perspectives are represented. Compile and validate local unit-cost, service-delivery, logistics, workforce and geographic-cost data needed for the contextualised costing model, including evidence on fragility premiums. Support Ministry of Finance and Planning, parliamentary and State-level engagement for DRM, budget-cycle mapping and financing advocacy. Contribute to the resource map, financing-gap analysis, DRM pathway, efficiency/integration assessment and feasibility review of transitional/innovative financing options. Contribute to drafting the FP CIP, results/MEAL framework, implementation roadmap, Financial Sustainability & DRM Plan, Investment Case and targeted policy briefs.
• Validation and capacity transfer: Coordinate local logistics and substantive preparation for TWG, multisectoral and validation meetings. Maintain consultation records, participant/stakeholder logs and action trackers and support consolidation of comments. Support hands-on capacity transfer to MoH/TWG staff on resource tracking, costing assumptions, financing monitoring and results/MEAL tools. Maintain continuity and follow-up with Government and State counterparts between international consultant missions and during finalisation.

Profil recherché

• Qualifications and Experience: Education: Master’s degree in Public Health, Health Economics, Population Studies, Statistics, Economics, Health Policy, Social Sciences or related field; a strong Bachelor’s degree with exceptional directly relevant experience may be considered where procurement rules permit.
• Experience: Minimum 5–8 years of relevant national or regional experience in family planning/reproductive health programming, health systems strengthening, or health policy and planning.
• Demonstrated experience supporting national health strategy, costed plan, or survey processes in South Sudan, including engagement with the Ministry of Health, state health authorities, and development partners.
• Experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection, field coordination, and stakeholder engagement, including in rural, remote, or humanitarian settings within South Sudan.
• Familiarity with South Sudan’s health information systems (HMIS/DHIS2) and national planning and budget processes is an advantage.
• Prior experience supporting or working alongside international consultants or technical advisors is desirable.
• Skills and Competencies: Strong written and spoken English; working proficiency in Arabic and/or relevant local languages is highly desirable.
• Strong organizational, logistical, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work independently and manage sub-national fieldwork.
• Sound understanding of the South Sudanese administrative, cultural, and institutional context, with the ability to build trust with government and community stakeholders.
• High level of professionalism, integrity, and cultural sensitivity, with a demonstrated commitment to gender equality and human rights-based programming.

Conditions et avantages

• Duration and working schedule: Up to 105 working days over approximately 16 calendar weeks to be completed.
• Place where services are to be delivered: Juba, South Sudan, with travel to selected states/counties.
• Supervisory arrangements: Accountable to designated UNFPA contract manager, working in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health Directorate of Reproductive Health, under the day-to-day technical supervision of the RHCS Programme Specialist and international consultant.
• Inputs/services provided by UNFPA: Office space at the Ministry of Health, transport, office space, and telephone airtime.
• Deliverables, Schedule and Payment: 1. Inception support package (Due Week 2, 15%); 2. Compiled review evidence package (Due Week 6, 25%); 3. Draft CIP support package (Due Week 10); 4. Financial sustainability support package (Due Week 12); 5. Finalisation/handover package (Due Week 15, 20%). Payments made in installments linked to formal acceptance of deliverables.

Dossier de candidature

• Weekly reports on tasks and assignments submitted by the last day of the week.
• Final Report and knowledge transfer note at the end of the assignment.
• All outputs submitted in English, in electronic format.

Comment postuler

Please find below the links to the consultancy opportunities with UNFPA South Sudan:

• National Consultant: Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan (FP CIP) Evaluation & Strategy
• International Consultant: Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan (FP CIP) Evaluation & Strategy
• National Strategic Consultant – DFCA South Sudan
• International Strategic Planning Consultant – DFCA South Sudan