UNFPA
Job
Title National Post: Programme Specialist, Youth
& Gender, Bihar, India, SB5
Job
ID 34684
Location Asia
and Pacific
Full/Part
Time Full-Time
Regular/Temporary Regular
Rotation This post is
non-rotational.
Duty Station: Bihar,
India
Closing Date: 28
January 2021
Duration: One
Year (renewable)
Post Type: Service
Contract
Please note that this
vacancy is open to nationals of India.
Organizational
Setting
The
Position:
The Youth and Gender Specialist provides technical
assistance and manages UNFPA’s work in respective State, on adolescents and
youth and gender equality, with special focus on gender-based violence, to
accelerate achievement of the ICPD Programme of Action and Agenda 2030. You
will provide technical and policy advice in these special areas and help to
strategically position UNFPA’s work, ensuring linkages with UNFPA other
programme components of sexual and reproductive health and population dynamics.
You will report directly to the State Programme
Coordinator with strong working relationships with the Adolescent/Youth and
Gender Specialists in the Country Office in New Delhi.
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, focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable
maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based
violence and harmful practices.
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 uphold the
values enshrined in the United Nations Charter, who are transparent, exceptional
in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver
excellence in programme results
Job
Purpose:
UNFPA has been a partner of the Government of India
and People since 1974 and is now on its 9th five-year Country Programme. The Country Programme leverages large-scale
government programmes to advance the needs of adolescents and girls and advance
gender equality, such as Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (Save Daughters and Educate
Daughters), Scheme for Adolescent Girls, Adolescent Health Programme, and
school-based programmes to reach girls and boys at scale. UNFPA’s support to the formal school systems
through the Adolescence Education Programme has steadily moved towards
institutionalization. UNFPA remains a trusted and important partner to both the
Ministries of Health and Education to support the roll-out and
institutionalization of the Comprehensive School Health Programme. UNFPA’s
technical support to strengthen the on-ground implementation of Rashtriya
Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (National Adolescent Health Programme) is well
recognized. While working with national government programmes, the
interventions have also been designed to demonstrate innovative ways of
reaching out to vulnerable adolescent girls.
UNFPA aims to advance women and young people’s
rights, especially girls, through interventions that keep girls in school,
delay marriage and child bearing, prevent unintended pregnancy, protect them
against and address gender-based violence, and promote the social, health and
economic assets of the most vulnerable.
The programme seeks to reimage young people, promote their responsible
participation and civic engagement, and thud unleash their full potential as
agents of positive transformative in their communities and society at large.
You will manage the adolescent and youth and gender
programme in the State, providing high-quality technical assistance, introduce
innovation for acceleration of results, and results-based programme management;
you will strengthen partnerships and build strategic alliances for advocacy and
provide policy advice, leverage financial and technical resources for
accelerated achievement of UNFPA’s transformative results and the ICPD
Programme of Action. You will engage
with other programme units at State and national levels.
Main
Tasks & Responsibilities
You
will be responsible for:
A.
Programme Management and Coordination
·
Support the implementation of UNFPA supported
programming in the area of adolescents and youth and gender, applying
appropriate strategies and interventions relevant to the State, and for
achieving Country Programme results.
·
Ensure application of Corporate programme
policies and procedures, including those related to budget management,
monitoring and oversight.
·
Contribute to the formulation of the annual work
plans for the State in the area of adolescents and youth and gender, ensuring
application and contextualization of appropriate best practices and latest
scientific knowledge in the field of adolescent and youth development,
especially adolescent reproductive health and gender equality.
·
Monitor the day-to-day implementation of work
plans through regular consultations with stakeholders and field visits.
·
Contribute to preparedness and response to
humanitarian crises in the State, ensuring adequate attention given to the
needs of women and girls, and inclusion of young people during emergencies.
B.
Policy Dialogue and Technical Support
·
Contribute to policy dialogue with Government
counterparts and UN and other development partners at the State level,
preparing technical briefs and evidence-based materials and data, in favour of
policies and budget allocations for programmes targeting women and girls,
adolescents and youth.
·
Stay up-to-date with UNFPA corporate technical
and programme policies and guidelines. Assess implications of new policy
developments and strategies on programme execution, and ensure their
application as relevant.
·
Stay connected to national and international
technical communities of practice, ensuring appropriate contextualization of
new ideas, best practices, and scientific evidence in the field of gender
equality and adolescents and youth development.
·
Apply rights-based, gender-responsive and
inclusive, and results-based approaches to programme design, implementation and
reporting.
·
Establish and nurture collaboration and
partnerships with technical networks on adolescents and youth development and
gender equality.
C.
Advocacy and Resource Mobilization
· Represent UNFPA in meetings with senior and technical government officials as well as multi-lateral, bi-lateral agencies, non-governmental organizations, maintain a healthy and collaborative relationship,
