Overview
The Area Reproductive Health Programme Analyst leads the coordination, implementation, and monitoring of UNFPA’s reproductive health portfolio in the western region of Afghanistan, ensuring the delivery of essential reproductive health services.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate UNFPA’s reproductive health portfolio in the Herat region.
- Maintain principled engagement with provincial de facto health authorities and partners.
- Monitor implementing partners and supported facilities.
- Represent UNFPA in relevant provincial health and humanitarian coordination platforms.
- Contribute to the planning, delivery, and monitoring of maternal and newborn health services, family planning, and emergency reproductive health interventions.
- Identify entry points, innovations, and sustainable solutions in service delivery.
- Monitor service quality, coverage, and access trends.
- Identify RH commodity needs and support forecasting, distribution, and stock monitoring.
- Ensure accountability in supply chain management.
- Analyze developments affecting programme delivery and propose risk mitigation measures.
- Prepare programme updates, reports, and briefings.
- Maintain effective working relationships with UN agencies, humanitarian actors, and donors.
- Contribute to donor reporting and proposal development.
Required Experience
- At least two years professional experience related to project / programme management, planning, monitoring and evaluation are required.
- Experience in programme/project management, including monitoring and reporting is highly desirable.
- Experience working in humanitarian or fragile contexts is desirable.
- Experience in field coordination and partner oversight is desirable.
- Familiarity with maternal health and family planning programming is desirable.
- Experience with supply chain and health commodity management is desirable.
- Experience in humanitarian coordination mechanisms is desirable.
- Experience in Afghanistan, particularly in western provinces is desirable.
Qualifications
• Advanced university degree in health, population, demography and/or other related social science field is required.
