The Position:
Under the overall guidance of UNFPA Deputy Representative and with direct supervision of the Humanitarian Specialist, based in Yangon, the Programme Specialist, SRHR is located in the sub-office in Sittwe, Rakhine State. The Programme Specialist, SRHR also acts as the head of Rakhine Sub-Office, manages the UNFPA Rakhine Sub-Office, and has direct oversight of the Maungdaw Sub-Office in northern Rakhine State including the coordination and oversight of staff managing and implementing the UNFPA Programme.
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:
UNFPA expands the possibilities for women and young people to lead healthy and productive lives. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV and AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect. Advancing gender equality and promoting the empowerment of women is a key programme priority of UNFPA defined in UNFPA strategic plan (2022-2025).
UNFPA has launched the second phase of the “Women and Girls First” Programme (2019-2022), which is a large multi-year, multi-donor initiative, that provides knowledge and technical leadership in partnership with civil society organizations and a wide range of stakeholders to advance: gender equality, improving sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services, responding to and preventing gender based violence (GBV) and integrating of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS).
Emergency preparedness and humanitarian assistance are integrated in UNFPA’s work in Myanmar and are an important aspect in UNFPA’s programme. UNFPA, in line with its global strategy, contributes to strengthening capacity to provide sexual and reproductive health services, gender based violence prevention and response and the use of population and rights-based data in humanitarian settings.
The programme specialist will lead implementation of UNFPA’s SRHR programme in Rakhine State which bridges the humanitarian-development-peacebuilding nexus. This will include the provision of high quality technical, advocacy and coordination support in order to ensure compliance with international standards across the areas of UNFPA mandated areas of work. The programme specialist is directly responsible for the implementation and coordination of SRHR programming with all relevant actors; and representation of UNFPA in humanitarian coordination mechanisms; management of the Sittwe and Manugdaw sub-offices as well as direct supervision of sub-office staff based in Sittwe and Maungdaw.
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Qualifications and Experience
Education:
Advanced university degree in medicine, public health, international development, social sciences or other related field.
Knowledge and Experience:
• A minimum of 5 years of increasingly responsible relevant professional experience in SRHR programme implementation and service provision including experience in gender/GBV mainstreaming in health.
• Substantive knowledge and practical experience in sexual reproductive health and rights programming in humanitarian and post-conflict recovery settings;
• Knowledge of gender issues in development, particularly regarding SRHR and GBV including relevant international human rights standards; and operational and advocacy experience implementing UNSC resolutions on Women, Peace and Security (1325, 1820, 1888, 1889 and 1960, 2347) and Youth, Peace and Security (2050) as an asset;
• Experience and capacity in development and delivery of SRHR training components to government, NGO, and community level participants.
• International experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated leadership, facilitation, and team working skills and ability to establish harmonious working relations in an international and multicultural environment.
• Demonstrated representational, leadership and management skills.
• Excellent computer literacy (windows environment, MS office applications including Word, Excel and Power-point and Internet skills).
Languages:
Fluency in English is required; working knowledge of other UN languages are in an asset.
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