Apply for the Job Vacancy for Representative at the United Nations in Congo. The deadline for the application is 3rd December 2020.

Organization: UNFPA – United Nations Population Fund

The Position:

The Representative leads one of the largest and most complex business unit and a country office team in the design and implementation of a population and development and sexual and reproductive health country program in a humanitarian-development-peace and security nexus context.

Job Purpose:

Under the guidance of a Regional Director, you will lead a Country team in the development and management of an innovative Country Program of Cooperation focused on population and development and universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including maternal health, family planning, gender, and adolescent and youth empowerment.

Duties

Strategic direction, planning and management

• Lead the positioning of UNFPA on strategic issues in a humanitarian-development-peace and security nexus context in the country on the basis of global, regional and national policies and strategies
• Likewise, build institutional relationships with government counterparts, civil society, the private sector, the UN community, other international/national organizations, academia and bilaterals that galvanize support for UNFPA’s mandate
• Also, promote UNFPA’s role in the national development agenda, in a changing aid environment and in political, economic, demographic, security transitions

Management of resources

• Manage international and national staff providing them with direction and motivation; fostering empowerment, learning and career management
• Additionally, demonstrate agility, adaptability, performance appraisal and transparent leadership approaches that support a culture of growth and development, where good performance is incentivized and underperformers are held to account
• Attract and retain the highest calibre of staff for the Country Office

 Program leadership and representation

• Advise senior management of UNFPA on country level issues
• Likewise, provide leadership in the development and execution of the organization’s country level policy dialogue and program, including delivery of technical assistance for capacity development and for humanitarian situations

Qualifications and Experience for Job Vacancy for Representative

Education:

Postgraduate university degree in any of the following disciplines: Public Health, Medicine, Sociology, Demography, Gender. Also, International Relations, International Development, Economics, Public Administration, Management or other related field.

Knowledge and Experience:

• 15 years of increasingly responsible professional experience in public administration and international development
• Likewise, current knowledge of issues of population and development, sexual and reproductive health
• Also, knowledge of the global humanitarian architecture, humanitarian principles, funding instruments
• Additionally, proven ability to lead teams to achieve demonstrable and high quality results

Languages:

Fluency in French and English

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