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.
Job Purpose:
Working within a large Country Office (CO) environment, you will ensure the effective management of UNFPA activities at Cox’s Bazaar sub office in the areas of sexual and reproductive health in line with UNFPA humanitarian response to the Rohingya refugees crisis, focusing on strengthening national capacity for the provision of high-quality integrated sexual and reproductive health services, especially for the most vulnerable populations, including women, young people in refugee camps.
Employing your programme management experience, you will oversee the work of other programme team members as well as consultants, advisors, and experts. You will provide quality, timely and integrated technical and programmatic leadership in terms of UNFPA policy and strategy related to address reproductive health issues, in development and humanitarian settings. You will work to increase the capacity for demand creation of sexual and reproductive health services, including provision of information, especially for women and young people, in host and refugees’ communities in Cox’s Bazaar. You will contribute to policy making and strategies related to reproductive health and their inclusion as outlined in the country humanitarian response and the Joint humanitarian response. You will establish and maintain collaborative relationships with counterparts in government, multi-lateral and bilateral donor agencies and civil society to address emerging issues, and effectively influence diverse stakeholders to contribute to achieving UNFPA’s mandate, especially in emergency.
Please apply and find more information on the vacancy here.
The deadline for the application is 14 June 2023.
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further consideration. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
