Job title: COVID-19 COORDINATOR
Level: NOB
Location: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Full/Part time: Full-Time
Fixed term/Temporary: Temporary Appointment
Rotational/Non Rotational: Non-Rotational
Duration: 183 days
Deadline for application: 24 May 2020
Call to Action
- Are you passionate about ensuring reproductive rights and helping people during times of crisis?
- Are you great at multi-tasking, prioritizing and are a talented project manager who continuously strives to improve business processes?
- 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 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 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:
Given negative impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on the health and wellbeing of women and young people in Mongolia, UNFPA Mongolia has committed to scale up its preparedness and response on COVID-19 and increase organizational capacity with a focus on preventing and responding to gender based violence and addressing sexual and reproductive health. Given upward trends in domestic violence and maternal deaths in the country, and the need to immediately meet multiple needs of women and young people and ensure that their access to life- saving, essential social services are fulfilled in all situations of crises, UNFPA Mongolia country office has launched several strategic initiatives and some other in the pipe line. At the same time, CO’s emergency response requires quality implementation of interventions in a timely manner and inter-cluster coordination. Hence a full-time coordination, project and information managerial support is required at the CO to ensure quality implementation and adequate coordination.
Under overall guidance of Head of Office, and with the direct supervision of Assistant Representative, the COVID-19 Coordinator will work closely with Programme and Operations teams to ensure the implementation of COVID-19 preparedness and response projects of Mongolia country office to COVID-19 and strengthen emergency preparedness measures of CO for any escalated emergency.
The COVID-19 Coordinator maintains collaborative relationships with all Programme and Operations staff at the CO. Internal contacts include the Head of Office, Assistant Representative, Programme Specialists, the CO’s programme and operations team.
Qualifications and Experience
Education:
Advanced university degree in medical science, public health, humanitarian studies, or other social science and development related field.
Knowledge and Experience:
- A minimum of 2 years of increasingly responsible relevant professional experience
- Strong commitment to the mandate of the UN and UNFPA in Mongolia
- Field experience addressing/integrating gender, and/or reproductive health issues in emergency or high alert contexts
- Knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender, youth development in development projects
- Excellent computer literacy (windows environment, MS office applications including Word, Excel and Power-point and Internet skills)
- Experience in application of conflict sensitivity and “do no harm” approaches in programming
Languages:
Fluency in oral and written English and Mongolian is essential with ability to write clearly and concisely and to compose correspondence and documents in both languages.
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://erecruit.partneragencies.org/psc/UNDPP1HRE/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=30545&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1&
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
