The Position:
You will serve as the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) technical focal point for SRHR and Maternal Health Linkages, including comprehensive abortion care (CAC) at the global level. You will also serve as well as the technical focal point for the ACCESS project. You will analyse and identify opportunities for integration across areas as well as linkages of both services and interventions inside and outside of the health system, to ensure a holistic, life- course oriented and evidence-based program. You will work within the Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund (MHTF) team and overall the SRH Branch and liaise with other technical and programme staff across UNFPA HQ, Regional Offices and Country Offices, as well as external private and public partners. You will report to the Maternal & Newborn Health Thematic Fund Coordinator who provides overall strategic direction.
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 (2022-2025), 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 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:
You will play a vital role in providing technical guidance to support conceptualization and implementation of holistic SRHR and MNH programming and advocacy within and beyond the MHTF, while ensuring that different contexts and realities are taken into account, without compromising the mandate of UNFPA and the evidence base. You will focus on integrating comprehensive abortion care into the comprehensive approach to SRHR, primarily through linkages with EmONC and midwifery programming, to increase access to safe abortion care
to the full extent of the law, and post-abortion care, through the ACCESS project and more broadly. You will build close relationships with stakeholders internally and externally to support best practice in SRHR and MNH programming and advocacy and to ensure ownership in- country. In the context of COVID-19, you will also support the agency in its efforts to maintain SRHR service provision, including partner coordination, measuring progress and capturing lessons learned from adaptations with the view to build back better.
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