Technical Specialist, Adolescents and Youth, Sexual & Reproductive Health Branch, Technical Division, P4

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This is a P-4 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 7 years of experience, depending on education.

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The Position:

The post of Technical Specialist, Adolescents and Youth (with a focus on adolescent girls and child marriage) is located in the Technical Division, and reports to the AY team lead (primary supervisor) with secondary and tertiary supervision lines to the Chief of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Branch (secondary supervisor.) and the Chief of the Gender and Human Rights Branch (tertiary supervisor) respectively.

How you can make a difference:

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.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

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 excellence in programme results.

Job Purpose:

The Technical Specialist brings expertise on policy and programme development and management in the area of adolescents and youth and SRHR. S/he will serve as a technical expert in the Fund, positioning the issues of adolescent girls, child marriage, menstrual health, and adolescent pregnancy through global advocacy and communications, normative contributions and technical support to regional and country offices. In this capacity, s/he will also coordinate UNFPA’s work on the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage and other global initiatives on adolescent girls programming in line with UNFPA’s Strategic plan and the related Global Adolescent and Youth Strategy My Body, My Life, My World.

Qualifications and Experience:

  • 7 years of increasingly responsible professional experience in policy and programme development related to Adolescents and Youth, of which at least three at the international level;
  • Substantive knowledge of UNFPA mandate, including SRHR, gender and population and development
  • Experience in programme and/or technical assistance within the UN System;
  • Experience in working with governments and CSOs, particularly on adolescent girls, child marriage, teenage pregnancy and menstrual health.

Education:

Advanced university degree in Public Health, Medicine, Social Sciences, Sociology, Demography, Gender, Economics, International Relations, International Development, Public Administration, Management, Communications or other related fields.

Languages:

Fluency in English is required; fluency in French, Spanish or Portugese is desirable.

Added 11 months ago - Updated 10 months ago - Source: unfpa.org