International Consultancy (Remote): Mentorship, Orientation and Quality Assurance for the development of the 3-year family planning CIP and MEL framework

The consultancy aims to provide mentoring, orientation, and quality assurance for the development of a 3-year Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan (CIP) and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) framework in Timor-Leste. The consultant will support the operationalization of the national RMNCAH Strategy 2026-2030 into actionable activities, develop a detailed costing model, and establish a MEL framework with clear indicators and milestones.

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 aligns with international public financial management standards before stakeholder finalization.
• 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 to ensure they meet institutional global standards prior to formal submission to the UNFPA Country Office.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master's or Ph.D.) in Public Health, Health Economics, Global Health Policy, or a related field.
• 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.
• Complete professional proficiency in written and spoken English.

Skills

• Strategic Health Planning
• Costed Implementation Plan preparation
• Monitoring Evaluation Accountability Learning
• Technical Mentoring
• Advanced Excel Modeling
• Ingredient-based Costing
• International Health Metrics
• Health Economics
• Global Health Policy
• Quality Assurance
• RMNCAH Strategy Operationalization

Languages

English