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The Position:
The position of Financing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Specialist is located in the Business Development Team of the Resource Mobilization Branch (RMB), Division of Communications and Strategic Partnerships (DCS), responsible for overseeing and guiding UNFPA’s efforts to build the partnerships needed to ensure funding and financing needed to implement UNFPA’s mandate.
Financing SRHR Specialist is part of a core group in an organization-wide workstream to integrate SRHR financing into UNFPA’s work and value proposition, and to measurably accelerate achievement towards zero maternal deaths, zero unmet need for family planning and zero gender-based violence, including harmful practices.
Under the overall guidance of the Chief, RMB, you will report to the Resource Mobilization Adviser (Multilateral Partnerships and Business Development), and work closely with Health Economists, Technical Leads and Specialists across offices.
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:
The quantity and quality of financing for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights are critical for the achievement of Health and Wellbeing for All, Gender Equality, and the broader realization of the Sustainable Development Goals. The position of Financing SRHR Specialist, directly supports strengthened analysis, contribution to financing frameworks and strategies, and operationalizing financing as a key accelerator towards the transformative change UNFPA, through Strategic Plan 2022-2025 and beyond, seeks to facilitate.
Requirements:
Qualifications and Experience
Education:
Advanced university degree with specialization in health economics, development financing, business administration, public health or a related field is preferred.
Knowledge and Experience:
● At least 7 years of relevant progressively responsible professional experience, including at the country and regional level, preferably with previous experience/exposure to the UN sustainable development system, UN operational activities, policies, and UN SDG financing strategies and platforms;
● Deep technical understanding of health and gender equality and the impact of SRHR investments, from a financing perspective;
• Knowledge of fiscal and health financing analysis, assessment and measurement of economic and social determinants; costing methodologies and approaches, public finance and expenditure reviews as a diagnostic tool;
● Experience in providing technical assistance in the development of financially sustainable health financing policies, strategies, plans and/or programs for health, gender equality, health- or social protection;
● Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to synthesize ideas and messages into digestible presentations/documents for non-technical users;
● Demonstrated ability to work in a multicultural environment and establish harmonious and effective relationships both within and outside the organization;
● Direct experience in strategic advisory to governments on financing desirable.
Languages:
Fluency in English; knowledge of other official UN languages, preferably French and/or Spanish, is highly desirable for this role.
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