Overview
The SRH Specialist provides programmatic and technical leadership for Sexual Reproductive Health activities within the Ukraine Country Office. The role involves coordinating programme implementation and SRH-sectoral humanitarian and development coordination.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and technical support to the design, development, implementation and reporting/documentation of reproductive health programmes.
- Provide programmatic and technical leadership to support SRH humanitarian and recovery responses.
- Represent UNFPA at various health sectoral coordination platforms.
- Undertake regular mapping of SRH services and analyze existing bottlenecks.
- Suggest innovative approaches on SRH service provision.
- Contribute to the development of internal UNFPA capacity on LMIS for commodity and supply chain management.
- Support procurement of emergency RH kits, equipment and medical supplies.
- Promote, design, monitor and evaluate life-saving maternal health commodity and family planning availability.
- Provide technical backstopping and support relevant research, analysis and training activities.
- Contribute to enhancing implementing partners’ capacity to mobilize and obtain support for SRH policies and programmes.
- Contribute to overall health management and coordination, health system strengthening and HIV prevention efforts.
- Collaborate with other staff members to promote integrated approaches to improving reproductive health.
- Collaborate with other UN agencies to promote and provide integrated technical support for SRH.
- Build capacity in the area of SRH in collaboration and partnership with relevant partners.
- Provide technical advice on monitoring and evaluation of SRH.
- Identify, develop and/or adapt training materials and manuals.
- Coach and monitor experts consultants and facilitate working groups and tasks teams.
- Draft and adapt training materials and manuals.
- Contribute to the identification, analysis and synthesis of technical knowledge and evidence-based information in SRH.
- Make contributions to analytic works aiming to collect and review lessons learned from implementation.
Required Experience
- Seven years of increasingly responsible professional experience in the substantive area.
- Three years at the international level.
- Proven ability to lead and manage teams to achieve demonstrable results.
- Strong analytical, coordination and organizational skills.
- Strong interest in Humanitarian and development work.
- Humanitarian and field experience is a strong asset.
- Understanding of areas relevant to UNFPA’s mandate such as family planning, maternal health, sexual and reproductive health, gender based violence, and population dynamics.
Qualifications
• Advanced university degree in public health, health economics, or other field directly related to the substantive area identified in the title of the post.
