Overview
Provides technical and programmatic support in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), maternal health, family planning, and emergency SRH services. Supports policy processes, humanitarian preparedness and response, coordination, and programme activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in reviewing and updating national SRHR policies, guidelines, and frameworks.
- Provide technical and administrative support to SRHR development and implementation in annual workplans.
- Support policy research, situation analyses, and compilation of background information.
- Assist in organizing technical meetings, consultations, workshops, and field missions.
- Provide support to emergency SRH preparedness, including MISP-related activities, partner mapping, and readiness assessments.
- Contribute to data collection and documentation during humanitarian needs assessments and rapid assessments.
- Assist in the coordination of SRH-related support to implementing partners.
- Support tracking and management of humanitarian SRH commodities.
- Contribute to drafting situation reports (SitReps), 5Ws, and inputs to humanitarian coordination platforms.
- Assist in the preparation of project proposals, budgets, and donor reporting inputs.
- Support monitoring and evaluation efforts, including data gathering, indicator tracking, and preparation of monitoring reports.
- Participate in field visits to support implementing partners, document progress, and prepare follow-up action points.
- Assist in ensuring compliance with UNFPA’s financial, administrative, and results-based management guidelines.
- Support coordination with government ministries, UN agencies, NGOs, and community organizations.
- Participate in working groups such as the SRH Working Group, Health Cluster, and GBV Sub-Cluster.
- Provide administrative and technical assistance to strengthen partnerships, communication flow, and collaborative planning.
- Contribute to advocacy and awareness-raising activities promoting SRHR and maternal health.
- Support the mobilization of resources for SRHR and humanitarian response.
- Assist in collecting, organizing, and disseminating knowledge products, lessons learned, and case studies.
- Support development of communication materials, briefs, and success stories.
- Maintain updated records, databases, and documentation related to SRHR and humanitarian programming.
- Carry out any other duties as may be required by UNFPA leadership.
Required Experience
- 5 years of relevant experience in SRHR, public health, humanitarian response, or policy support.
- State of the art knowledge on policies related to sexual reproductive health and rights, maternal health, family planning and contraceptive technologies required.
- Field experience addressing/integrating sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights issues in emergency and post conflict contexts required.
- Practical experience in design, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of development projects required.
- Experience using office software packages and web-based management systems required.
- Experience of working with vulnerable communities is an asset.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Public Health, Medicine, Nursing/Midwifery, Social Sciences, Health Policy, or other relevant fields.
