The Position:
The Technical Specialist is responsible for providing technical assistance and strategic support to addressing the human rights of marginalized women and girls namely women and girls with disabilities and supporting implementation of the Operational Plan on Leaving No One Behind (LNOB) and Reaching the Furthest Behind, particularly from a gender lens and in the context
of sexual and reproductive health and rights. The Specialist will be supporting coordination and implementation of UNFPA’s We Decide programme as a keyway to operationalize this agenda. Assistance and support will be needed in all activities related to monitoring and evaluation, knowledge development, management, and sharing publications, financial and
substantive monitoring and reporting. The Technical Specialist will report directly to the Technical Adviser, Gender, within the
Gender and Human Rights Branch, Technical Division.
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 new strategic plan (2018-2021), focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices.
In addition, UNFPA developed an Operational Plan on Leaving No One Behind (LNOB) and Reaching the Furthest Behind, which provides UNFPA with a road map to translate into action its ambition to reach the furthest behind as a central tenet of its new Strategic Plan 2022-2025. 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 Technical Specialist will provide policy and programmatic support on disability inclusion and gender mainstreaming, namely for the implementation of the We Decide Programme as well as the UNFPA Disability Inclusion Strategy which will further contribute towards the implementation of the UNFPA Operational Plan on Leaving No One Behind (LNOB).
The Technical Specialist will also contribute to the strengthening of multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral capacity for advocacy, development, implementation and evaluation of policies and programmes to mainstream disability and gender. The Technical Specialist’s role will be key to monitor progress, exchange information and tools, and maintain dialogue
among relevant stakeholders.
Education:
Advanced university degree in public health, or social science, disability studies, demography,
gender, economics, international development.
Knowledge and Experience:
● 5 years of increasingly responsible professional experience in gender, disability,
intersectional discrimination, public health or social sciences.
● Recognized expertise in monitoring and evaluation.
● Proven ability to produce demonstrable results.
● Strong verbal and written communications skills in English.
● Field experience is a strong asset.
● Working knowledge of another official UN language is desirable.
● UN common system experience, especially field experience, is desirable.
Languages:
Fluency in English; knowledge of other official UN languages, preferably French and/or
Spanish, is desirable.
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