Avis de recrutement : PNUD recrute un(e) Spécialiste des programmes humanitaires à Islamabad, Pakistan.
Job Purpose :
UNFPA in Pakistan is on the ground before, during and after crises, working closely with governments, local NGOs, UN agencies and other partners to ensure that sexual reproductive health and rights and responses to gender-based violence are integrated into emergency responses. UNFPA CO delivers the humanitarian response in Afghan refugee settlements, which is considered as one of the long-lasting humanitarian crisis. The flood emergency which negatively impacted the life of people in Pakistan, brought the heavy impact in the lives of women and girls and duplicated pre-existing vulnerabilities. The access and availability of uninterrupted lifesaving reproductive health services, and GBV prevention, mitigation and response is a key priority of UNFPA.
In a world where fundamental human rights are challenged, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.
It is against this backdrop that UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellent results.
In the current disaster prone and protracted crisis situation, the Humanitarian Programme Specialist will provide the technical assistance to deliver UNFPA’s strategic vision on the three transformative results. The specialist will be required to provide a high-quality guidance and integrated knowledge management and programmatic support to operationalize the innovation and resilience within the country programme. Their primary role is to accelerate the humanitarian response implementation by providing innovative solutions and support initiation of models and approaches that can be scaled up and replicated. In addition, to provide capacity development to UNFPA staff and implementing partners and knowledge management for innovative humanitarian approaches in flood affected areas and in response to the dire needs of Afghan refugees and flood affected population. In close coordination with humanitarian and development unit staff, including field offices, the Specialist is required to put in motion the interagency collaboration with aim to leverage the resources for better covering UNFPA mandate areas and target population in recovery phase of the flood emergency.
You would be responsible for :
- Programming for Humanitarian Resilience and Innovation
- Coordinate and provide support on developing innovation strategy and implementation plan, designing, and monitoring the implementation;
- Identify opportunities for resource mobilization and new partnerships and support proposal and partnership development efforts;
- Coordinate and support the development and testing of innovative ideas, products and processes to strengthen and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of UNFPA emergency programming.
- Provide a road map to guide the overall implementation of the resilience approach and programming, with emphasis on programmatic methods and procedures and monitoring framework.
- Coordination, Liaison and Capacity Building
- Develop partnerships and network with UN agencies, to build and provide a space to nurture and test new and innovative ideas towards interagency partnership and joint humanitarian and program intervention
- Assist the UNFPA programme team in embedding resilience approaches in the policy, planning, and coordination of developmental strategies
- Provide training for UNFPA staff, partner staff, government counterparts, and other end users in the country in the use of innovative solutions, products, and processes;
- Represent the Country Office in the UNFPA global innovation network whenever appropriate for information sharing and leverage experiences of innovation colleagues in other Country Offices as well as at the global level;
- Lead technical support and oversight on CVA implementation under current and potential humanitarian projects;
- Advise the Representative and humanitarian team on strategic, evidence-based and scaled-up CVA humanitarian programming and partnerships with UN agencies and counterparts in order to pilot CVA within GBV in emergency programming in 2023.
- Humanitarian Programme Implementation
- Conduct regular reviews of existing UNFPA projects to find opportunities for innovative solutions;
- Assist in finalizing templates to ensure the model is replicable and scalable, including drafting of necessary documents and templates and other follow-up activities as necessary;
- Together with UNFPA, humanitarian operation team and UNFPA partners, lead the continuous identification of humanitarian logistics gaps and bottlenecks in the country and establishes a common system to address them.
- Undertake any other related actions as requested by Humanitarian Coordinator .
Qualifications and Experience:
Education:
Advanced University degree in Health, Medicine, Sociology, Anthropology, International Relations, International Development or other related fields.
Knowledge and Experience :
- Five years of increasingly responsible professional experience in humanitarian program implementation work preferably in the area of resilience building and innovative projects management aimed to improve SRH and GBV service delivery in emergencies;
- Substantive knowledge and practical experience in humanitarian strategy implementation;
- Good understanding of the UN humanitarian response system, particularly in the joint programming and partnership contexts;
- Field experience, preferably working in a multi-cultural environment;
- Strong results orientation, with proven experience in using results-based management tools
- Good analytical and strategic thinking and sound judgment; team building and advocacy skills
- Experience in programme/project planning, design, follow-up, monitoring and evaluation
- Strong verbal and written communications skills are a strong asset.
Languages : Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of an additional official UN language is an asset.
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Deadline : 03 March 2023