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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 strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

The Programme Specialist, Humanitarian Coordination and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) will support UNFPA to develop strengthened capacities to formulate and implement multi sectoral, rights-based interventions that prevent and mitigate the impact of gender-based violence across the humanitarian, peacebuilding and development nexus. This will require leadership to support strengthened access to quality multi sectoral GBV services and prevention programming across five states as well as supporting increased participation of women in the peace process, through economic and political empowerment. Further, in terms of Humanitarian Coordination, the incumbent will assume overall responsibility for ensuring effective and efficient coordination, and programmatic and operational support to UNFPA humanitarian programming in Myanmar. The incumbent will manage a team that will ensure the provision of quality Gender Based Violence (GBV) services and GBV prevention and will work with the Team Lead, SRH, to promote access and availability to quality SRH services and response during emergencies and through early recovery phases. The incumbent will represent UNFPA during implementing partner, donor and inter-agency meetings, and ensure strategic vision, rational decision-making and collaborative partnerships are prioritized, with the health and protection of women and girls remaining at the center of all activities and will oversee the provision of technical support and institutional and programmatic capacity building to partners.