Oficial de Soporte en Salud (Salud Materno Infantil)

UNICEF seeks a Mexico City UN Volunteer to provide support for maternal, perinatal and neonatal health. The officer will strengthen First 1,000 Days programme guidance, develop indicators and monitoring tools, assess health-information quality, support newborn-screening and mortality analysis, train personnel, and prepare policy notes and reports advancing equitable care for mothers and children.

• Advise on technical guidance and governing documents for maternal, perinatal and neonatal health
• Support the First 1,000 Days programme documents and operational instruments
• Develop intervention indicators, technical sheets and verification methods
• Assess official health-information quality and recommend monitoring improvements
• Support newborn-screening performance analysis and follow-up mechanisms
• Analyse maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality for evidence-based decisions
• Train health personnel and accompany implementation in priority states
• Prepare technical documents, policy notes, presentations and progress reports

• At least seven years of professional experience including six years in maternal, perinatal, neonatal or child-health programmes
• Experience drafting or reviewing federal technical guidelines, standards or governing documents
• Experience building indicators, logical-framework methodology, results-based budgeting and evaluation of public policies and programmes
• Knowledge of Mexico's national health system and official information sources
• Spanish and English

• Knowledge of Mexico's National Development Plan and First 1,000 Days programme
• Experience with newborn screening, disability prevention or breastfeeding programmes
• Knowledge of an indigenous Mexican language

• Maternal health
• Neonatal health
• Health policy
• Programme monitoring
• Indicator development
• Technical writing

• Microsoft Office
• Data analysis tools
• Data visualisation tools
• STATA
• SPSS
• R

• UN Volunteer Living Allowance provided monthly
• Assignment supports maternal, perinatal and neonatal health in priority Mexican states