Deadline: 29 July, 2020
Location: Tunis, Tunisia
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Programme Coordinator.
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.
Responsibilities
- Establish and facilitate inter-agency, multi-sectoral GBV coordination at sub-national level
- Promote, respect and ensure that the principles of partnership are reflected in the day-to-day work of the GBV sub-sector, both at national and sub-national level
- Establish result-oriented, two-way communication channels between national and sub-national GBV coordination groups to ensure a standardised response to GBV
- Ensure the provision of high quality services for GBV prevention and response in shelters, IDP sites and detention centres
- Proactively meet with all relevant stakeholders to ensure coordination bodies reflect the range of actors addressing GBV
- Ensure the effective establishment and operation of sub-working groups throughout Libya in partnership with Libyan authorities and parties
- Contribute to the ongoing establishment of GBV standard operating procedures at national level and ensure they are adequately implemented at the sub-national level
- In collaboration with national and international GBV actors, map current institutional response capacities, including facilitating mapping of GBV-specific 4Ws
- Contribute to updating North East Area (NEA) integrated general protection and child protection referral pathways
- Promote engagement of a range of sectors, and ensure realistic benchmarks and timelines for achieving set objectives
Requirements
- Advanced university degree (master’s) in Social Work or other Social Sciences, Public Health, Community Health, International Relations, International Law, Human Rights or a related field
- Five years, minimum, of experience working on gender-based violence, preferably in a humanitarian context
- Experience leading inter-agency coordination mechanisms with a wide range of stakeholders
- Demonstrable knowledge of the critical components to facilitate effective inter-agency coordination
- Awareness and demonstrable knowledge of how GBV manifests in humanitarian settings and ability to describe context-specific prevention and response actions
- Demonstrable knowledge of humanitarian emergency operations, including the cluster system and HPC, and roles/responsibilities of key humanitarian actors
- Experience designing and managing GBV programmes
- Fluency in both written and spoken English and working knowledge of another UN language
To apply and for more information, click here.
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