The Position:
Under the direct supervision of the UNFPA Deputy Representative, the Humanitarian Resilience Coordinator contributes significantly to humanitarian resilience programming, preparedness and response in close coordination with the programme team in the country office and provincial offices. They carry out timely and effective humanitarian cluster coordination, ensures results based management of contingency plan, and provides quality technical support and surge capacity to provincial offices. They establish and maintain collaborative relationships with UNOCHA, health and protection clusters, and counterparts in government, multi-lateral and bi-lateral donor agencies and civil societies.
How you can make a difference:
UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.
In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.
UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.
Job Purpose:
In a highly complex operating environment, the Humanitarian Resilience Coordinator will play a key role in promoting partnership and strategic alliances with counterparts in government, multi-lateral and bi-lateral agencies and civil society in humanitarian resilience building in Pakistan in close collaboration with the programme team in the country and in provincial offices. They carry out timely and effective coordination, ensures results-based management of contingency plans, and provides quality technical support to provincial offices. They establish and maintains collaborative relationships with other relevant UN agencies, relevant sub-working groups, and counterparts in government, multi-lateral and bi-lateral donor agencies and civil societies.
Qualifications and Experience:
Education:
Advanced university degree in public health, sociology, demography, gender, economics, international relations, international development, public administration, management or other related field;
Knowledge and Experience:
- At least 5 years of increasingly responsible professional experience in the field of development, preferably with experience of working in a humanitarian context at the international level.
- Field experiences in humanitarian resilience, in SRH and GBV will be an asset.
- Knowledge of Pakistan's humanitarian landscape, population dynamics and socio-cultural issues is preferred.
- Proven ability to design innovative strategies to achieve demonstrable results.
- Great familiarity with IASC and the cluster coordination mechanism and practical coordination experience as cluster lead is an asset;
- Excellent communication skills in speaking and writing in English.
- Strong results-based management skills
- Strong interest in development work, especially the mission of the United Nations Population Fund and dedication to the principles of the United Nations.
- Computer skills: Proficiency in current office software applications.
Languages:
Fluency in English is required. Working knowledge of other UN languages would be an asset.
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