Programme Lead - Family Planning, SRH Branch

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United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: Not Specified
  • Right to work requirements: International contract
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 09/05/2024
  • Location: Kenya
Sexual & reproductive rights (SRHR) Health
The Position:

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. Family planning is at the heart of UNFPA’s mission. UNFPA promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity.

Job Purpose:
The incumbent’s main activities and expected results are:

A. Strategic Technical Leadership
  • Provide authoritative technical advice, guidance and support to UNFPA senior management, HQ Divisions, Regional Offices and Country Offices, and UNFPA Supplies Partnership governance structures.
  • Scan the substantive environment and maintain feedback loops on technical issues related to family planning and contraceptive and fertility choices within the Programme Division, and in coordination with Regional Offices and Country Offices in order to identify potential gaps and needs and address them.
  • Identify and provide advice on UNFPA’s comparative and substantive role on family planning and contraceptive and fertility choices and specific contribution in the changing development agenda.
 

B. Programme Leadership
  • Take overall responsibility and provide oversight for ensuring all aspects of programme management are delivered to a high standard.
  • Coordinate implementation of programme management and governance changes introduced to the UNFPA Supplies Partnership in 2016 and in the design of the third phase (2021-2030).
  • Ensure overall coordination of the UNFPA Supplies Partnership with a view to maximizing the programme’s efficiency and effectiveness.
 
C. Technical Representation
  • Act as the visible leader of the UNFPA Supplies Partnership for all partners, speaking on behalf of UNFPA on all matters related to the Partnership (delegating as appropriate).
  • Maintain and foster intellectual global partnerships in family planning for advancing state-of-the-art knowledge.

D. Team Management and Capacity Development
  • Establish and maintain a harmonious working environment; lead the team through the process of change management; promote communication; encourage innovations;

E. Stakeholder Relations and Engagement
  • Act as the visible leader of the UNFPA Supplies Partnership for all parts of the UNFPA system for the broader UN system, countries and for all Partnership donors and stakeholders.
 
F. Resource Mobilization and Management
  • Assume responsibility for overseeing financial resource management to achieve the expected results of the UNFPA Supplies Partnership and provide regular reporting within UNFPA as identified and agreed upon internally.

Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge and Skills Required Education:
  • Advanced University degree in Public Health, Medicine, Sociology, Demography, International Relations, International Development, Economics, Public Administration.
  • Management or other field directly related to the substantive area of work.
  • 15 years of increasingly responsible professional experience in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, family planning and international development, of which at least eight years are in health and other development areas at the international level.
  • Strong management experience leading diverse technical teams towards bold targets and goals.
  • Proven skills and experience interacting with and being held accountable by donors and other partners.
  • Fluency in English is required.

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