Avis de recrutement : FNUAP recherche un Représentant au Caire, Égypte.

Job Purpose:

Under the guidance of a Regional Director, you will lead a Country team in the development and management of an innovative Country Programme of Cooperation focused on population and development and universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including
maternal health, family planning, gender, and adolescent and youth empowerment.
You are accountable for the effective implementation of the Country Programme, playing the lead role in promoting the mandate of the organization, and ensuring the integration of issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the broader national development agenda.
Through engagement with national counterparts, UN Country Teams, compelling advocacy, and delivery of effective programmes, including in emergency settings, you serve on the frontline of the organization, validating both the mandate of the organization and its ability
to deliver high quality support and results. Your ultimate accountability is to the people that you serve; the most vulnerable, excluded, or marginalised and for the causes that you serve;human rights, and sustainable development .

You would be responsible for:

A. Strategic direction, planning and management

Lead the positioning of UNFPA on strategic issues in the country on the basis of global, regional and national policies and strategies.
• Build institutional relationships with government counterparts, civil society, the private sector, the UN community, other international/national organizations, academia and bilateral that galvanize support for UNFPA’s mandate
• Promote UNFPA’s role in the national development agenda, and in the changing aid environment
• Establish priorities for the work of the Country Office in line with regional and global UNFPA corporate priorities
• Ensure that policies, programming tools, state-of-the-art knowledge and sound business practices are incorporated into UNFPA country operations
• Lead and coordinate the development of a strategic plan for UNFPA’s humanitarian and preparedness actions in-country

B. Management of resources
• Manage international and national staff providing them with direction and motivation, fostering empowerment, learning and career management
• Demonstrate performance appraisal and transparent leadership approaches that support a culture of growth and development, where good performance is incentivized, and underperformers are held to account
• Attract and retain the highest caliber of staff for the Country Office Set standards of performance, and assign responsibilities for achieving results according to the Country Office Strategic Information System
• Drive the formulation and implementation of a comprehensive resource mobilization and partnership strategy including donor relations and effective mobilization of funds; securing and efficiently using mobilized funds and assigned budget allocations for the country programme
• Ensure the safety, security and wellbeing of staff by driving compliance with Minimum Operating Security Standards (MOSS) and Minimum Operational Residential Security Standards (MORSS)

C. Programme leadership and representation
• Advise senior management of UNFPA on country level issues
• Provide leadership in the development and execution of the organization’s country level policy dialogue and programme, including delivery of technical assistance for capacity development and for humanitarian situations
• Engage national counterparts through effective advocacy on UNFPA’s agenda; build support for programme objectives and create awareness of the role of ICPD issues in the overall development agenda and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
• Represent UNFPA within the inter-agency United Nations Country Team (UNCT) and the UN Humanitarian Team; support the UN Resident Coordinator (RC) as UNCT leader, promoting integration of population and development, and sexual and reproductive health issues in the development and humanitarian agenda; contribute to the UN reform process including the triple nexus (Development, Humanitarian and Peace) within the UNCT context
• Drive UNFPA accountability for the UN Flash Appeal/ Humanitarian Response plan and contribute actively to the achievement of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) common results, including through chairing/cochairing UNCT Results Groups
• Initiate programme and technical support opportunities for South to South collaboration with other countries.

D. Programme oversight and coordination
• Drive the application of results-based management and quality assurance
frameworks for the work of the Country Office;
• Enforce financial and monitoring processes to ensure the Country Office complies
with UNFPA policies and procedures, corporate requirements and audit
recommendations;
Carry out any other duties as may be required by the Regional Director for whom you report
to.

Qualifications and Experience:

Education:
Postgraduate university degree in any of the following disciplines: Public Health, Medicine,
Sociology, Demography, Gender, International Relations, International Development, Economics, Public Administration, Management or other related field.

Languages:

Fluency in English. is an asset Arabic is desirable .

Avis de recrutement : FNUAP recherche un Représentant au Caire, Égypte.