Consultancy to support Africa CDC’s strategic leadership and capacity building endeavors on immunization, PG Health-Immunization, NYHQ, remote. Req# 585040

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Consultancy: Consultancy to support Africa CDC's strategic leadership and capacity building endeavors on Immunization

Duty Station: PG Health - Immunization 

Duration: 17 Nov 2025 – 30 May 2026

Home/ Office Based: Remote  

 

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

Based on Africa CDC – UNICEF Expanded Partnership Framework (2024-2027) and its Joint Action Plan (JAP), UNICEF has a   commitment to partner with Africa CDC to support Member States in strengthening Immunization systems. This commitment includes provision of technical advice to Africa CDC on strategic, programmatic and operational priorities in immunization.

To strengthen immunization and ensure equitable access to vaccines for all people in the continent, Africa CDC is working closely with the African Union Commission (AUC), Gavi, the vaccine alliance and other partners to develop and implement its comprehensive, coordinated Continental Immunization Strategy (CIS). This strategy is aligned with and influenced by the Addis Ababa Declaration on Immunization (ADI) endorsed by African Union Member States in 2017, which aims to enhance vaccine access and strengthen immunization systems.

UNICEF is supporting Africa CDC to build its institutional capacity through providing support at the strategic and technical levels including on the establishment of its immunization unit within the Primary Health Care Center. UNICEF is also supporting Africa CDC leadership the co-creation of its Africa CDC.

The partnership with Africa CDC also encompasses facilitating the implementation, monitoring, review and refinement of immunization activities agreed in the Joint Action Plan (JAP) of Africa CDC and UNICEF. The focus of the collaboration is on evidence generation and data use to guide immunization interventions, particularly those aimed at reaching zero-dose children and underserved communities.

The purpose of this assignment is to build on the ongoing assistance, by offering both strategic and technical support to Africa CDC headquarter teams and its Regional Collaborating Centers (RCC). This support aims to strengthen the center’s role in immunization and primary health care by leveraging its comparative advantage and enabling it to fulfil its mandate.

Scope of Work:

The assignment entails:

1. Build immunization programme capacity of Africa CDC at HQ and RCC levels. Notably,

• Contribute to design of the immunization function in the center,
• Contribute to onboarding of new immunization staffs
• Provide technical expertise in development of a roadmap to operationalize Africa CDC’s immunization strategy
• Implement capacity building activities as required to ensure full delivery of Africa CDC’s immunization strategy
• Establish a mechanism to review progress and follow-up on priority activities to support 
• improvement of vaccination coverage in zero-dose communities and reduction in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks across AU Member States
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2. Support to establish and strengthen Africa CDC’s partnerships at global and regional levels with major global immunization platforms and networks to ensure harmonized support to Member States and promote a clear understanding of Africa CDC’s role in advancing immunization efforts across the continent. This includes creating linkages with various coordination mechanisms within the region such as Regional Working Groups and EPI Managers’ forums.

3. Strengthen internal monitoring and data driven decision making processes in the center to enable implementation, monitoring, review and adjustment of immunization activities agreed in the Joint Action Plan (JAP) of Africa CDC and UNICEF.

4. Facilitate implementation and monitoring of Africa CDC key flagships that contribute to advancing immunization goals

• Contribute to evidence generation to support advocacy efforts for sustainable immunization financing,