Overview
Designs, develops, and manages an innovative and responsive country programme, leading the programme team to translate global, regional, and country goals into tangible solutions and results. Contributes to the management of UNFPA programme activities in Population and Development, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, and Gender.
Tasks Summary
- Conducting policy dialogue with Government, UN and other development partners to incorporate UNFPA’s priorities and agenda into national plans and strategies, and UN systems, initiatives and development frameworks.
- Translating global strategies into country-specific advocacy strategies.
- Promoting a results-based approach, integrating innovative policies and strategies into the design and formulation of country programmes, sub-programmes and projects.
- Facilitating the achievement of programme results by identifying, providing and coordinating inputs into programme development and implementation, ensuring programme monitoring and oversight, and coordinating and evaluating the inputs of consultants and technical experts.
- Promoting knowledge sharing and continuous learning including testing, evaluating and documenting innovative strategies and best practices internal and external to UNFPA, and integrating these as appropriate.
- Contributing to resource mobilization and the shift from funding to financing by identifying potential donors, preparing proposals including outlining co-financing resources for support to the country programme, and supporting the government and other agencies in coordinating assistance for programmes.
- Leading rapid adaptation of programme management to respond to the changing environment arising from humanitarian situations to reach displaced populations and LNOB using common operational data on population statistics and the provision of life-saving sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence prevention activities.
- Promoting UNFPA positioning in the interagency space through active participation and management of the programme team participation in interagency groups, contributing substantively to interagency documents and other knowledge products, and leading opportunities for joint programming and resource mobilization.
- Analyzing population and development, reproductive health and gender issues in the country to provide substantive inputs to institutional responses and advocacy strategies taking into account political and social sensitivities.
- Creating and making use of opportunities to leverage the positioning of UNFPA’s policy agenda by participating in public information events.
- Carry out any other duties as may be required by UNFPA leadership.
Experience Requirements
5 years of progressively responsible professional experience in the field of development and population activities, including programme designing, appraisal and management. Demonstrated ability to refine programme design with innovative and strategic focus to ensure alignment of organizational programme objectives to national priorities/capacities. Proven ability to lead and manage teams to achieve demonstrable results. Evidence of resource mobilization and contribution to normative role.
Qualification Requirements
Master’s degree in public health, Medicine, Sociology, Demography, Gender, International Relations, International Development, Economics, Public Administration, Management or other related disciplines.
