NATIONAL POST: Sexual and Reproductive Health Analyst, FTA NOA, Cotabato Philippines
The Position:
Under the supervision of the National Programme Officer, Reproductive Health (RH), is primarily responsible for coordinating and monitoring the Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) interventions in Mindanao along the development-humanitarian-peace building nexus.
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:
The SRH Analyst will be the Focal Point for coordination, implementation, monitoring and reporting on SRH activities, including HIV and medical aspects of GBV, in the field. The SRH Analyst will support implementation of SRH initiatives as well as monitor and report on progress; with strategies to include advocacy for SRH services, ensuring quality of care for services offered through facilitation for capacity building, provision of SRH supplies, and monitoring of SRH activities.
The SRH Analyst may be called upon to identify and facilitate operational partnerships, propose SRH supplies needs, equipment and accessories periodically, and coordinate provision of such supplies to the partners. The Anayst will advise accordingly on the integration of comprehensive health (SRH/HIV/GBV) services into primary health care. The Analyst will work closely with the focal points in government, implementing partners, development partners, civil society as well as sister UN agencies (e.g. UNHCR, UNICEF, IOM, WFP and WHO) to ensure improved SRH services to vulnerable groups to include internally-displaced people (IDP). The SRH Analyst will represent UNFPA in all coordinator mechanisms related to SRH and lead the SRH subcluster with the technical advise from the national SRH policy specialist
The technical and coordination work expected from the SRH Analyst shall primarily be in line with the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2017-2022, the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health (RPRH) Law, the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) National Objectives for Health (NOH), and the UNFPA 8th Country Programme of Assistance to the Philippines 2019-2023.
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