Job title: Consultant, Abuja, Nigeria – D1
Firm: United Nations Inhabitants Fund
Job description:
- Degree: D-1
- Contract sort: Mounted Time period Appointment
- Cut-off date: 14 Nov 2024 05:00 PM (America/New_York)
- Obligation station: Abuja
The Place:The Consultant leads a rustic workplace staff within the design and implementation of a inhabitants and growth and sexual and reproductive well being nation programme. By way of alliances and partnerships with governments, UN and bilateral companies, growth companions, civil society, academia and the non-public sector, the programme goals to comprehend the 2030 Agenda so as to make a constructive distinction within the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals; particularly these furthest behind.How one can make a distinction:UNFPA is the lead UN company for delivering a world the place each being pregnant is needed, each childbirth is protected and each younger individual’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the present strategic path of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative outcomes: to finish preventable maternal deaths; finish unmet want for household planning; and finish gender-based violence and dangerous practices. These outcomes seize our strategic commitments on accelerating progress in the direction of realizing the ICPD and SDGs within the Decade of Motion main as much as 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and people to “construct ahead higher”, whereas addressing the adverse impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on girls’s and women’ entry to sexual and reproductive well being and reproductive rights, get well misplaced beneficial properties and understand our targets.In a world the place elementary human rights are in danger, we want principled and moral employees, who embody these worldwide norms and requirements, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.UNFPA is looking for candidates that rework, encourage and ship excessive influence and sustained outcomes; we want employees who’re clear, distinctive in how they handle the sources entrusted to them and who decide to ship excellence in programme outcomesJob Objective:Beneath the steerage of a Regional Director, you’ll lead the Nation staff within the growth and administration of an modern Nation Programme of Cooperation targeted on inhabitants and growth and common entry to sexual and reproductive well being and rights, together with maternal well being, household planning, gender, and adolescent and youth empowerment. You might be accountable for the efficient implementation of the Nation Programme, taking part in the lead position in selling the mandate of the group, and guaranteeing the mixing of problems with sexual and reproductive well being and rights within the broader nationwide growth agenda. By way of engagement with nationwide counterparts, UN Nation Groups, compelling advocacy, and supply of efficient programmes, together with in emergency settings, you serve on the frontline of the group, validating each the mandate of the group and its means to ship prime quality assist and outcomes. Your final accountability is to the folks that you just serve; essentially the most susceptible, excluded, or marginalized and for the causes that you just serve; human rights, sustainable growth and humanitarian aidYou’d be liable for:A. Strategic path, planning and administration:
- Lead the positioning of UNFPA on strategic points within the nation on the premise of world, regional and nationwide insurance policies and techniques
- Construct institutional relationships with authorities counterparts, civil society, the non-public sector, the UN group, different worldwide/nationwide organizations, academia and bilaterals that impress assist for UNFPA’s mandate
- Promote UNFPA’s position within the nationwide growth agenda, and within the altering assist setting
- Set up priorities for the work of the Nation Workplace in keeping with regional and international UNFPA company priorities
- Make sure that insurance policies, programming instruments, state-of-the-art information and sound enterprise practices are included into UNFPA nation operations
- Lead and coordinate the event of a strategic plan for UNFPA’s humanitarian and preparedness actions in-country.
B. Administration of sources:
- Handle worldwide and nationwide employees offering them with path and motivation; fostering
- Empowerment, studying and profession administration
- Reveal efficiency appraisal and clear management approaches that assist a tradition of progress and growth, the place good efficiency is incentivized and underperformers are held to account
- Entice and retain the best calibre of employees for the Nation Workplace
- Set requirements of efficiency, and assign duties for reaching outcomes based on the Nation Workplace Strategic Info System
- Drive the formulation and implementation of a complete useful resource mobilization and partnership technique together with donor relations and efficient mobilisation of funds; securing and effectively utilizing mobilised funds and assigned price range allocations for the nation programme
- Guarantee the protection, safety and wellbeing of employees by driving compliance with Minimal Working Safety Requirements (MOSS) and Minimal Operational Residential Safety Requirements (MORSS).
C. Programme management and illustration:
- Advise senior administration of UNFPA on nation degree points
- Present management within the growth and execution of the group’s nation degree coverage dialogue and programme, together with supply of technical help for capability growth and for humanitarian conditions
- Interact nationwide counterparts via efficient advocacy on UNFPA’s agenda; construct assist for programme targets and create consciousness of the position of ICPD points within the total growth agenda and achievement of the Sustainable Improvement Targets
- Characterize UNFPA inside the inter-agency United Nations Nation Crew (UNCT) and the UN Humanitarian Crew; assist the UN Resident Coordinator (RC) as UNCT chief, selling integration of inhabitants and growth, and sexual and reproductive well being points within the growth and humanitarian agenda; contribute to the UN reform course of together with the triple nexus (Improvement, Humanitarian and Peace) inside the UNCT context
- Drive UNFPA accountability for the UN Flash Enchantment/ Humanitarian Response plan and contribute actively to the achievement of the United Nations Improvement Help Framework (UNDAF) widespread outcomes, together with via chairing/cochairing UNCT Outcomes Teams
- Provoke programme and technical assist alternatives for South to South collaboration with different nations.
D. Programme oversight and coordination:
- Drive the applying of results-based administration and high quality assurance frameworks for the work of the Nation Workplace;
- Implement monetary and monitoring processes to make sure the Nation Workplace complies with UNFPA insurance policies and procedures, company necessities and audit suggestions;
{Qualifications} and Expertise:Schooling:Superior college diploma in any of the next disciplines: Public Well being, Medication, Sociology, Demography, Gender, Worldwide Relations, Worldwide Improvement, Economics, Public Administration, Administration or different associated subject.Data and Expertise:
- 10 years of more and more accountable skilled expertise in public administration and worldwide growth of which not less than 8 years within the subject of inhabitants and growth, sexual and reproductive well being or humanitarian on the worldwide degree;
- Present information of problems with inhabitants and growth, sexual and reproductive well being, and their place within the growth and humanitarian agenda;
- Confirmed means to guide groups to attain demonstrable and prime quality outcomes
- Expertise at nationwide and worldwide degree in advocacy and coverage dialogue
- Expertise in media/communication with companions, and public data
- Expertise in worldwide growth, notably within the mandate of UNFPA and dedication to the rules of the United Nations;
- Subject expertise is important; expertise from a creating, humanitarian or disaster context is an asset.
Languages:
- Fluency in English is required. Another UN language is fascinating.
Required Competencies:Values:
- Exemplifying integrity,
- Demonstrating dedication to UNFPA and the UN system,
- Embracing cultural variety,
- Embracing change
Core Competencies:
- Reaching outcomes,
- Being accountable,
- Growing and making use of skilled experience/enterprise acumen,
- Considering analytically and strategically,
- Working in groups/managing ourselves and {our relationships},
Managerial Competencies:
- Offering strategic focus,
- Partaking in inner/exterior companions and stakeholders,
- Main, creating and empowering folks, making a tradition of efficiency,
- Making choices and exercising judgment
UN Management Traits:
- Norm-based-grounded in UN norms and requirements
- Principled- defends norms and requirements with out discrimination, concern or favor
- Inclusive of all personnel and stakeholders
- Accountable
- Multi-dimensional
- Transformational
- Collaborative
- Self-applied- modeled in our personal conduct
Appointment, Compensation and Advantages:The preliminary fixed-term appointment of a employees member shall be for a interval of 1 yr. A set-term appointment could also be renewed, topic to passable service. A set-term appointment doesn’t carry any expectancy, authorized or in any other case, of renewal or conversion, regardless of the size of service. UNFPA affords a beautiful remuneration package deal together with a aggressive web wage plus medical insurance and different advantages as relevantUNFPA Work Atmosphere:UNFPA gives a piece setting that displays the values of equality, variety, integrity, and wholesome work life steadiness. We’re dedicated to making sure gender parity and due to this fact encourage girls to use. People from minority teams, indigenous populations, individuals with disabilities, and different underrepresented teams are extremely inspired to useDisclaimer:UNFPA doesn’t cost any software, processing, coaching, interviewing, testing or different price in reference to the applying or recruitment course of. Fraudulent notices, letters or affords could also be submitted to the UNFPA fraud hotline ;Individuals making use of to positions within the Skilled and better classes who maintain everlasting resident standing in a rustic aside from their nation of nationality, could also be required to surrender such standing upon their appointment
Anticipated wage:
Location: Abuja, FCT
Job date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 07:46:13 GMT
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