🇸🇱 Job Vacancies @ UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) – 3 Positions
United Nations Population Fund is recruiting to fill the following positions:
1.) Family Planning Specialist
2.) Technical Specialist-Maternal and Reproductive Health
3.) Maternal and Reproductive Health Specialist
See job details and how to apply below.
1.) Family Planning Specialist
Job Identification : 10595
Locations : Freetown, Sierra Leone
Posting Date : 05/16/2023, 10:18 AM
Apply Before : 05/31/2023, 09:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full time
Grade : NOC
Vacancy Type : Fixed Term
Rotational/Non Rotational : Non-Rotational
Contract Duration : 1 Year
Education and Work Experience : Master's Degree - 5 year(s) experience
Other Criteria
Master’s degree in public health, medicine, or other related fields
Required Languages : English
Desired Languages
English
Vacancy Timeline : 2 Weeks
Job Category : Sexual & Reproductive Health
Job Description
The Position:
The Family Planning Specialist coordinates project formulation, monitoring and evaluation, and joint programming initiatives for the effective management of UNFPA activities in the area of family planning. You will ensure coherence of those activities with agreed national and international family planning frameworks.
You will report to the Head of Programme.
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:
Working within a Country Office environment, you will share knowledge and insights to facilitate quality country programme implementation, and advance the ICPD agenda through partnerships and national capacity strengthening, as well as approaches and initiatives in the area of family planning, in order to scale up family planning at country level.
You would be responsible for:
- Analyzing and interpreting the political, social and economic environment relevant to family planning and reproductive health to identify opportunities for UNFPA assistance and intervention;
- Contributing substantially to national and development partners’ coordination mechanisms with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS);
- Monitoring and evaluating programme and project progress in terms of achieving results, using existing monitoring and evaluation tools;
- Identifying constraints and resource deficiencies and recommending corrective action;
- Monitoring project expenditures and disbursements to ensure delivery is in line with approved project budgets and targeted delivery levels;
- Ensuring integration of related UNFPA programme components (ASRH, SRH and RHCS) interventions within the MoHS;
- Expediting and coordinating project implementation through the establishment of collaborative relationships with executing agencies, experts, government counterparts and other UN agencies, as to facilitate timely and efficient delivery of project inputs and address training needs of project personnel;
- Providing technical inputs to the government and partners engaged in the delivery of the national Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Strategy 2017-2021 (RMNCAH);
- Supporting the implementation of the Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan (CIP 2018-2022) in order to scale up family planning at national level through the provision of technical inputs during the implementation process;
- Creating and documenting knowledge about current and emerging reproductive health and family planning trends and sharing these with staff of the country office and of the MoHS;
Qualifications and Experience:
Education:
Master’s degree in public health, medicine, or other related fields
Knowledge and Experience:
- Five years of increasingly responsible professional experience with strong technical knowledge in the management of FP/SRH programmes;
- Demonstrated ability to refine programme design to ensure alignment of programme objectives to national priorities and capacities;
- Proven ability to lead and manage teams to achieve demonstrable results;
- Extensive knowledge of the principles and operational aspects of integrated Reproductive health programming;
- Demonstrated ability to work with governments, network within the academic and development community.
Languages:
English
Required Competencies:
Values:
- Exemplifying integrity,
- Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system,
- Embracing cultural diversity,
- Embracing change
Core Competencies:
- Achieving results,
- Being accountable,
- Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen,
- Thinking analytically and strategically,
- Working in teams/managing ourselves and our relationships,
- Communicating for impact
Functional Competencies:
- Advocacy/ Advancing a policy-oriented agenda
- Leveraging the resources of national governments and partners/ building strategic alliances and partnerships
- Delivering results-based programme
- Internal and external communication and advocacy for results mobilisation
Managerial Competencies (if applicable):
- Providing strategic focus,
- Engaging in internal/external partners and stakeholders,
- Leading, developing and empowering people, creating a culture of performance
- Making decisions and exercising judgment
Compensation and Benefits:
This position offers an attractive remuneration package including a competitive net salary plus health insurance and other benefits as applicable.
Disclaimer:
UNFPA does not charge any application, processing, training, interviewing, testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Fraudulent notices, letters or offers may be submitted to the UNFPA fraud hotline http://www.unfpa.org/help/hotline.cfm
In accordance with the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, persons applying to posts in the international Professional category, who hold permanent resident status in a country other than their country of nationality, may be required to renounce such status upon their appointment.
2.) Technical Specialist-Maternal and Reproductive Health
Job Identification : 10734
Locations : Freetown, Sierra Leone
Posting Date : 05/17/2023, 05:01 PM
Apply Before : 06/07/2023, 09:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full time
Grade : P4
Vacancy Type : Fixed Term
Rotational/Non Rotational : Non-Rotational
Contract Duration : 1 Year with Possibility for extension
Education and Work Experience : Master's Degree - 7 year(s) experience
Required Languages : English
Desired Languages
English
Vacancy Timeline : 3 Weeks
Job Category : Sexual & Reproductive Health
Job Description
The Position:
The Maternal and Reproductive Health Technical Specialist leads the integration of SRHR in the broader national development plans and health sector strategies. You will play a key role in providing programmatic and technical expertise in line with UNFPA’s policy and strategy in the field of maternal health and midwifery.
You will report to the Head of Programme.
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:
Working within a Country Office environment, you will coordinate and oversee all interventions aiming at improving maternal and reproductive health and tackling major related challenges at national level.
You will foster strategic alliances and partnerships, and develop relationships, networks and coalitions with national stakeholders, organizations, institutions and associations.
You would be responsible for:
Policy, Advocacy and Resource Mobilization
- Building networks and fostering collaborative partnerships to develop funding opportunities with focus on maternal and reproductive health
- Participating and contributing actively to the different collaborative platforms in order to engage government partners, multilateral and bilateral actors in providing strategic leadership on reducing maternal mortality;
- Assisting in organizing advocacy events to promote the midwifery profession, such as the International Day of Midwife and Safe Motherhood campaigns;
- Proactively identifying new resource mobilization opportunities in maternal and reproductive health areas of intervention;
- Facilitating an enabling environment for networking and coalition-building with in-country programmes, agencies, organizations and professionals in order to improve reproductive health, particularly maternal health.
Technical Support and Capacity Building
- Assisting in identifying strategic opportunities for mainstreaming maternal and reproductive health in national policy development, data collection and analysis and NGO led midwifery mobilization initiatives;
- Providing quality strategic advice to address key maternal health morbidity issues such as obstetric fistula, cervical cancer and HIV-PMTCT, and coordinating the implementation of each one of these components;
- Supporting and assisting the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), through the provision of technical assistance, to develop an enabling environment to move forward with the fight against maternal mortality and morbidity;
- Establishing and maintaining effective collaborative working arrangements with various units of the MoHS as well as with stakeholders within the UN, donors and NGOs to ensure that midwifery activities and implementation plans are well coordinated.
Programme Management Support
- Managing and overseeing the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of UNFPA's maternal and reproductive health related activities
- Analyzing the relevant political, social and economic environment and trends in order to provide substantive inputs for the formulation, management, monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of comprehensive maternal and reproductive health programmes;
- Guiding and managing innovative and responsive programming for the effective implementation of the midwifery component of interventions by ensuring monitoring and evaluation as well as quality implementation reporting as per UNFPA result-based management approach;
- Analysing and reporting on maternal and reproductive health-related outputs and activities under the RH programme component and results-oriented projects progress;
- Undertaking regular field monitoring visits to assess programme progress, disseminate findings and undertake follow-up actions.
Knowledge management
- Supporting the generation of strategic information and evidence to inform national policies and strategies for midwifery improvement;
- Documenting and sharing good and best practices in midwifery with wider stakeholders, including from other countries and regions;
- Joining and/or establishing a network of a community of practice at national, regional and international levels to stay abreast of latest development in the field of maternal and reproductive health
- Providing technical support to MoHS, national and international development partners and civil society to document best practices and lessons learned in order to move forward with the reproductive and maternal health agenda to attain the UN Strategic Development Goals.
Qualifications and Experience:
Education:
Master’s degree in public health, medicine, nursing and midwifery, social sciences, or other related fields.
Knowledge and Experience:
- 7 years of relevant and increasingly responsible experience in managing RH or health programmes, of which at least 5 years national and/or international experience in advising on reproductive, maternal and new-born health, family planning, Adolescent SRH Technical knowledge of the principles and operational aspects of integrated RH/MH
- Strong track record of technical leadership and proven ability to produce demonstrable results;
- Prior experience working in multi-stakeholder environment including NGOs, bilateral and multilateral agencies;
- Experience in public health programme management working on sensitive issues;
- Demonstrated analytical and strategic planning skills.
Languages:
Fluency in English.
Required Competencies:
Values:
Exemplifying integrity,
Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system,
Embracing cultural diversity,
Embracing change
Core Competencies:
Achieving results,
Being accountable,
Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen,
Thinking analytically and strategically,
Working in teams/managing ourselves and our relationships,
Functional Competencies:
- Advocacy/ Advancing a policy-oriented agenda
- Leveraging the resources of national governments and partners/ building strategic alliances and partnerships
- Delivering results-based programme
- Internal and external communication and advocacy for results mobilisation
Managerial Competencies (if applicable):
- Providing strategic focus,
- Engaging in internal/external partners and stakeholders,
- Leading, developing and empowering people, creating a culture of performance
- Making decisions and exercising judgment
Compensation and Benefits:
This position offers an attractive remuneration package including a competitive net salary plus health insurance and other benefits as applicable.
Disclaimer:
UNFPA does not charge any application, processing, training, interviewing, testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Fraudulent notices, letters or offers may be submitted to the UNFPA fraud hotline http://www.unfpa.org/help/hotline.cfm
In accordance with the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, persons applying to posts in the international Professional category, who hold permanent resident status in a country other than their country of nationality, may be required to renounce such status upon their appointment.
3.) Maternal and Reproductive Health Specialist
Job Identification : 10557
Locations : Freetown, Sierra Leone
Posting Date : 05/16/2023, 12:42 PM
Apply Before : 05/31/2023, 09:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full time
Grade : NOC
Vacancy Type : Fixed Term
Rotational/Non Rotational : Non-Rotational
Contract Duration : 1 Year
Education and Work Experience : Master's Degree - 5 year(s) experience
Other Criteria
Master’s degree in public health, medicine, or other related fields
Required Languages : English
Desired Languages
English
Vacancy Timeline : 2 Weeks
Job Category : Sexual & Reproductive Health
Job Description
The Position:
The Maternal and Reproductive Health Specialist will support the implementation of UNFPA’s interventions aimed at reducing preventable maternal deaths in Sierra Leone as well as the integration of SRHR in the broader national development plans and health sector strategies, and will work under overall guidance of the Deputy Representative and the direct supervision of the Maternal and Reproductive Health Technical Specialist.
S/he will substantively contribute to the effective management of UNFPA programmes in support of national efforts to strengthen integrated sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and reducing preventable maternal mortality, with specific focus on emergency obstetric care, maternal death surveillance and response, obstetric fistula management and midwifery services support. S/he will support initiatives and provide technical support in key areas of results-based programme and project management of UNFPA’s SRHR programme and projects.
The Maternal and Reproductive Health Specialist will support the establishment of partnership, synergy and strategic alliances with counterparts in government, multi-lateral and bi-lateral agencies, civil society organisations, academia, and professional bodies, to address emerging issues and to facilitate program delivery. S/he will also contribute to the UN system coordination through participation in policy dialogue and advocacy initiatives as well as support for capacity development, service delivery and knowledge management efforts.
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:
Working within a Country Office environment, you will provide technical support in the planning, conceptualization, implementation and monitoring of SRH interventions of the country programme.
You would be responsible for:
- Providing substantive technical leadership and inputs into the design and formulation of innovative strategies, approaches, and policies, with a particular focus on maternal health in general and emergency obstetric care, maternal death surveillance and response, obstetric fistula management, and midwifery services support in particular
- Analyzing and interpret the political, social, and economic context relevant to RMNCAH, and identify opportunities to strengthen UNFPA assistance and intervention;
- Providing substantive inputs for the formulation, management, monitoring, and evaluation of the implementation of maternal health programme-related interventions
- Ensuring the inclusion of lessons learnt and new policies and best practices in the development of the UNFPA assistance to Sierra Leone, as well as establishing appropriate mechanisms and systems for its implementation, monitoring, and evaluation
- Facilitating linkages with the implementation of the UNFPA programmes to ensure a holistic approach to SRHR, including for adolescents
- Analyzing and identify opportunities for integration across various SRH thematic areas across the policies, strategies, guidelines, and service delivery areas within the health system, to ensure holistic, life-course oriented, and evidence-based programming for SRH
- Providing technical assistance to national partners to scale up the quality of care initiatives to ensure universal access to SRH;
- Identifying, developing, and/or adapting technical documents such as SRH strategies, clinical guidelines, training materials, and Job aids, in UNFPA focus areas, to ensure their availability for capacity development;
- Advocating for the incorporation of evaluation results and lessons learned in the updating of strategies and approaches, in order to improve the effectiveness of UNFPA operations
- Contributing to the resource mobilization strategy by analyzing information on potential donors, preparing substantive briefs and project proposals in line with donor priorities, creating feedback mechanisms, and providing information on the progress of donor-funded projects.
- Developing and managing substantive knowledge sharing partnerships and collaborations with other UN agencies in the context of the national development frameworks, UNSDCF, and UNFPA Strategic Plan and Country Programme.
Qualifications and Experience:
Education:
Master’s degree in public health, medicine, nursing, midwifery or other related fields
Knowledge and Experience:
5 years of increasingly responsible professional experience with strong technical knowledge in the management of SRH programmes including but not limited to Family Planning, maternal health, adolescent health, human resources for health, HIV, and SGBV.
- Demonstrated ability to refine programme design to ensure alignment of programme objectives to national priorities and capacities;
- Demonstrable experience in results-based programming
- Proven ability to lead and manage teams to achieve demonstrable results;
- Extensive knowledge of the principles and operational aspects of integrated reproductive health programming;
- Demonstrated ability to work with governments, and network within the academic and development community.
- Understanding of Human Rights dimensions of SRHR is an asset
Languages:
English
Required Competencies:
Values:
- Exemplifying integrity,
- Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system,
- Embracing cultural diversity,
- Embracing change
Core Competencies:
- Achieving results,
- Being accountable,
- Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen,
- Thinking analytically and strategically,
- Working in teams/managing ourselves and our relationships,
- Communicating for impact
Functional Competencies:
- Advocacy/ Advancing a policy-oriented agenda
- Leveraging the resources of national governments and partners/ building strategic alliances and partnerships
- Delivering results-based programme
- Internal and external communication and advocacy for results mobilisation
Managerial Competencies (if applicable):
- Providing strategic focus,
- Engaging in internal/external partners and stakeholders,
- Leading, developing and empowering people, creating a culture of performance
- Making decisions and exercising judgment
Compensation and Benefits:
This position offers an attractive remuneration package including a competitive net salary plus health insurance and other benefits as applicable.
Disclaimer:
UNFPA does not charge any application, processing, training, interviewing, testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Fraudulent notices, letters or offers may be submitted to the UNFPA fraud hotline http://www.unfpa.org/help/hotline.cfm
In accordance with the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, persons applying to posts in the international Professional category, who hold permanent resident status in a country other than their country of nationality, may be required to renounce such status upon their appointment.
