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- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Humanitarian or Development: Development
- Experience level: 0-5 years
- Organisation type: Inter-governmental
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
- Remuneration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 28/06/2024
- Location: Fiji
Gender-based violence (GBV)
Sexual & reproductive rights (SRHR)
Health
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.
Job Purpose:
Job Purpose:
A. Technical Support and Capacity Building
- In collaboration a wide array of stakeholders including NGOs and other partners, contributing to the design and implementation of the humanitarian programme and its component projects, aligning with UNFPA programme policies and procedures.
- Gather and analyse the political, social and economic environment relevant to UNFPA activities in the humanitarian sphere, and contribute to identifying opportunities for UNFPA assistance and intervention.
- Assessing implications of new policy developments and strategies on programme execution, and ensuring their integration.
- Providing technical support to the development of relevant advocacy and policy documents to address SRH, strengthen GBV and MHPSS programming in PSRO supported countries with active emergency situations.
- Collaborate with government, CSO and other humanitarian partners to facilitate timely and efficient delivery of project inputs.
B. Partnerships and Coordination
- Participate in relevant health coordination fora in the Pacific.
- Contributing to the development/ strengthening of SRH and GBV humanitarian/recovery coordination mechanisms in place at subnational level.
- Supporting the GBV Sub-Cluster meeting on a quarterly basis.
C. Management responsibilities
- Maintaining regular communication with supervisor, International Humanitarian Coordinator in Suva Fiji, programme and operations team from the UNFPA Country Office.
- Supporting the DFAT RPI-Prepositioning and providing technical and administrative assistance to staff and volunteers.
- Performing any other tasks and duties assigned by UNFPA.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Advanced university degree in medicine, public health, international development, social sciences or other related field.
- Two years professional experience in the field of maternal health or/and sexual and reproductive health and rights and/or gender-based violence prevention and response with experience in programme/ project management
- State of the art knowledge on sexual reproductive health and rights, maternal health, family planning and contraceptive technologies
- Field experience addressing/integrating gender, and/or sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights issues in emergency and post conflict contexts
- Strong commitment to the mandate of the UN and UNFPA Pacific
- Practical experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of development projects
- Experience using office software packages and web-based management systems.
- Fluency in oral and written English and Myanmar is essential, with ability to write clearly and concisely and to compose correspondence and documents in both languages.
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