The Position:
The Programme Specialist, SRH post is located in Gaziantep, as part of UNFPA Turkiye Country Office cross-border operations in North-West Syria, based in Gaziantep. You will report to the Humanitarian Coordinator, who provides overall direction and supervision, and plays the lead role for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Gaziantep office.
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.
Qualifications and Experience:
Education:
Advanced university degree in public health, health economics, or other field directly related to the substantive area identified in the title of the post.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Seven years of increasingly responsible professional experience in the substantive area, of which three years at the international level
- Understanding of areas relevant to UNFPA’s mandate such as family planning, maternal health, sexual and reproductive health, gender based violence, and population dynamics;
- Demonstrated expertise in policy engagement within developing countries, including middle income countries;
- Established global and regional professional networks related to RH/FP;
- Field experience is required, ideally within the EECA region.
Languages:
Fluency in English; knowledge of other official UN languages, preferably Arabic, is desirable
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