SRHR and Youth and Adolescents Specialist

Call to Action

1. Are you passionate about ensuring sexual and reproductive health and rights and helping people during times of crisis?
2. Are you great at multi-tasking, prioritizing and are a talented project manager who continuously strives to improve business processes? 
3. Are you a team player capable of working with colleagues of widely diverse backgrounds?

If so, this might be the job for you.

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 new strategic plan (2018-2021), 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 who 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 commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

Job Purpose

The SRHR and Adolescents and Youth Specialist ensures the effective management of UNFPA activities in the areas of sexual and reproductive health and rights with a particular focus on adolescents and youth. You will manage Adolescents and Youth Programme Component of the Country Programme with a focus on integrated Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) policy, rights-based family planning, midwifery workforce development, and Reproductive Health Commodity Security (RHCS), provision of adolescent and youth friendly health and development services in the middle income country context. You lead SRH and adolescents and youth programme formulation and evaluation, joint programming initiatives and provides advisory for national development frameworks. You lead strengthening strategic partnerships in the area of sexual and reproductive health for UNFPA’s mandate and programme delivery through proactive engagement, policy advocacy, resource mobilization and effective communication. You work with the programme team and collaborates with the CO’s operations/administrative support staff.

Qualifications and Experience:

Your Education
Master’s degree in Development Studies, Sociology, Public Health or other related social science field. 

Your Experience

1. Minimum five years of professional experience in the field of youth leaderships, participation and empowerment, and/or sexual and reproductive health and rights
2. An experience in programme/ project management is required
3. An experience to work with youth organizations is an asset.
4. Languages: Fluency  both in English and Mongolian is required.

HOW TO APPLY:

If the above job opening sounds interesting to you, we suggest you view the detailed Job Description at the below web link to learn more about our expectations before applying.
http://mongolia.unfpa.org/

UNFPA has established an electronic application management system. This allows applicants to create a candidate profile, which can be updated regularly and submitted for more than one vacancy. Apply by clicking at the below link:
https://www.unfpa.org/jobs/national-post-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-rights-srhr-and-youth-and-adolescents-0

Download the Step by Step Guide to Applying in the E-Recruit System of UNFPA at http://www.unfpa.org/resources/step-step-guide-apply. Please print out the Guide for your reference during the registration and application process.
Notice: There is no application, processing or other fee at any stage of the application process.  UNFPA does not solicit or screen for information in respect of HIV or AIDS and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.
Post is advertised for Mongolian nationals only.

UNFPA Mongolia Country Office
UN House, UN Street 14, Sukhbaatar District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 14201
Tel: 976-11-353503, extension 3350, Fax: 976-11-353502
Contact person: Ms. Tuvshinzaya, Operations Analyst