Representative P5 Vacancy-Job Ref: BJELUNFPA/2007/2025823

Representative P5 Vacancy-Job Ref: BJELUNFPA/2007/2025823

Dili (East Timor)

Job Description

Overview

The Representative leads a country office team in the design and implementation of a population and development and sexual and reproductive health country programme. Through alliances and partnerships with governments, UN and bilateral agencies, development partners, civil society, academia and the private sector, the programme aims to realize the 2030 Agenda in order to make a positive difference in the lives of millions of people; especially those furthest behind.

Job Purpose:

Under the guidance of a Regional Director, you will lead a Country team in the development and management of an innovative Country Programme 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.

You are accountable for the effective implementation of the Country Programme, playing the lead role in promoting the mandate of the organization, and ensuring the integration of issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the broader national development agenda. Through engagement with national counterparts, UN Country Teams, compelling advocacy, and delivery of effective programmes, including in emergency settings, you serve on the frontline of the organization, validating both the mandate of the organization and its ability to deliver high quality support and results. Your ultimate accountability is to the people that you serve; the most vulnerable, excluded, or marginalized and for the causes that you serve; human rights, sustainable development and humanitarian relief.

You would be responsible for:

A. Strategic direction, planning and management

Lead the positioning of UNFPA on strategic issues in the country on the basis of global, regional and national policies and strategies
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
Promote UNFPA’s role in the national development agenda, and in the changing aid environment
Establish priorities for the work of the Country Office in line with regional and global UNFPA corporate priorities.

Ensure that policies, programming tools, state-of-the-art knowledge and sound business practices are incorporated into UNFPA country operations
Lead and coordinate the development of a strategic plan for UNFPA’s humanitarian and preparedness actions in-country.

B. Management of resources

Manage international and national staff providing them with direction and motivation; fostering empowerment, learning and career management
Demonstrate 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
Set standards of performance, and assign responsibilities for achieving results according to the Country Office Strategic Information System
Drive the formulation and implementation of a comprehensive resource mobilization and partnership strategy including donor relations and effective mobilisation of funds; securing and efficiently using mobilised funds and assigned budget allocations for the country programme
Ensure the safety, security and wellbeing of staff by driving compliance with Minimum Operating Security Standards (MOSS) and Minimum Operational Residential Security Standards (MORSS).

C. Programme leadership and representation

Advise senior management of UNFPA on country level issues
Provide leadership in the development and execution of the organization’s country level policy dialogue and programme, including delivery of technical assistance for capacity development and for humanitarian situations
Engage national counterparts through effective advocacy on UNFPA’s agenda; build support for programme objectives and create awareness of the role of ICPD issues in the overall development agenda and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Represent UNFPA within the inter-agency United Nations Country Team (UNCT) and the UN Humanitarian Team; support the UN Resident Coordinator (RC) as UNCT leader, promoting integration of population and development, and sexual and reproductive health issues in the development and humanitarian agenda; contribute to the UN reform process including the triple nexus (Development, Humanitarian and Peace) within the UNCT context.

Drive UNFPA accountability for the UN Flash Appeal/ Humanitarian Response plan and contribute actively to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) common results, including through chairing/co- chairing UNCT Results Groups
Initiate programme and technical support opportunities for South-South collaboration with other countries.

D. Programme oversight and coordination

Drive the application of results-based management and quality assurance frameworks for the work of the Country Office;
Enforce financial and monitoring processes to ensure the Country Office complies with UNFPA policies and procedures, corporate requirements and audit recommendations;
E. Carry out any other duties as may be required by the Regional Director to whom you will report.

Qualifications and Experience Education:

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

Knowledge and Experience:

10 years of increasingly responsible professional experience in public administration and international development of which at least 8 years in the field of population and development, sexual and reproductive health or humanitarian at the international level;
Current knowledge of issues of population and development, sexual and reproductive health, and their place in the development and humanitarian agenda;

Proven ability to lead teams to achieve demonstrable and high quality results
Experience at national and international level in advocacy and policy dialogue
Experience in media/communication with partners, and public information
Experience in international development, particularly in the mandate of UNFPA and dedication to the principles of the United Nations;
Field experience is essential; experience from a developing, humanitarian or crisis context is an asset.

Languages:

Fluency in English is required.

Required Competencies

Values:

Exemplifying integrity,
Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system,
Embracing cultural diversity,
Embracing change
Managerial Competencies:

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
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
UN Leadership Characteristics:

Norm-based – grounded in UN norms and standards
Principled – defends norms and standards without discrimination, fear or favour
Inclusive of all personnel and stakeholders
Accountable
Multi-dimensional
Transformational
Collaborative
Self-applied – modelled in our own behaviour
Compensation and Benefits

This position offers an attractive remuneration package including a competitive net salary plus cost of living adjustment, housing allowance, home leave, health insurance and other benefits.

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