You would be responsible for:

1. A. Technical support and capacity building

• Support efforts for identifying and analyzing trends, threats, risks, and emerging needs as well as opportunities and possible partnerships, to timely alert and contribute to preparedness, emergency response and other humanitarian strategies and programming in humanitarian settings that require high level of flexibility.
• Contribute to the provision of technical support to programmes in emergencies and as required and needed other humanitarian settings specifically coach and support partners to strengthen implementation of MISP;
• Provide technical inputs during the development of new or update of policies, positioning frameworks, guidance, standards, instruments, and tools.
• Contribute to training and capacity development activities specific to SRHiE at coordination, programme, and quality of care level;
• Establish strong linkages between SRHR and GBV with regard to the health sector response for survivors of sexual violence.
• Support risk-informed and resilience-driven programming;

B. Operations

• Contribute to the SRH resource mobilization efforts through the development or support in the drafting of project proposals.
• Support the implementation of the SRHiE projects, including grants management, monitoring, and reporting.
• Support with the review of requests and the monitoring and tracking of allocation and utilization of UNFPA Emergency Funds and Humanitarian Thematic Funds;
• Support with the forecasting and procurement of SRH supplies and commodities, including Inter-Agency Emergency Health Kits (IARH) for preparedness and emergency response.
• Support with the identification of SRH emergency/humanitarian human resources needs and liaise with the surge team and GERT as appropriate.
• Initiate and coordinate training and mentoring sessions on SRHR in emergencies, including clinical management of rape, and obstetric and newborn emergencies (for programme planners, implementers, and health care providers, etc.).

C. Evidence and knowledge development, management, and dissemination

• Monitor global emergencies knowledge platforms.
• Facilitate access to databases on best practices, and partnerships in the humanitarian sphere.
• Collect, analyze, and synthesize research findings, data, information, and experiences for formulating programme priorities.
• Contribute to the revision, update, generation, and dissemination of SRH humanitarian briefing notes, guidance, tools, talking points and advocacy material;
• Provide evidence-based analysis for addressing programme delivery bottlenecks in emergencies.
• Provide and facilitate evidence-based knowledge-sharing of regional and national experiences in emergencies;
• Support the development and dissemination of humanitarian SRH field experience and lessons learned short publications for internal and external audiences.
• Support initiatives to raise the profile of SRH as a critical and life-saving area of intervention in emergencies and to enhance accountability, especially with humanitarian leadership
• Support UNFPA’s participation in technical networks at global and regional levels, including maintaining communication and feedback loops on all substantive work related to SRH.

D. Any other duties:

• Performs any other duties as may be directed by the Representative, Deputy or Assistant Representative and Field Coordinator.

Requirements:

Education:

• Advanced University degree in public health, Sexual and Reproductive Health or any other related field. Clinical degree (midwifery or obstetrics preferred)

Knowledge and Experience:

• 5 years of increasingly responsible professional experience in humanitarian programming in the field, including direct field experience in sexual and reproductive health in emergencies.
• Minimum 3 years of field experience working in fluctuating context required.
• Familiarity with IASC and other humanitarian coordination mechanisms, guiding principles and standards, an advantage.
• Experience in programme development and management and reporting
• Excellent interpersonal skills, creativity, strong project management skills, a positive and outgoing personality, and ability to interact successfully with people of different backgrounds and cultures

Languages:

Fluency in English is required and Arabic is an asset.