Programme Specialist- Harmful Practices and Social

2 months ago


Johannesburg, South Africa UNFPA Full time

**The Position**:
The Programme Specialist position is based in the UNFPA East and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) in Johannesburg, and reports to the Regional Gender and Human Rights Advisor, who provides overall direction and guidance. S/He provides country offices with daily support on programme and operational issues, research, and data collection, and assists in managing the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation.

**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.

**You would be responsible for;**

**(A) Programme Development and Implementation**:

- Serve as the focal point for the management of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation and other harmful practices including Child Marriage in the Region
- Provide Technical backstopping to countries and the regional institutions for accelerated programme delivery on FGM and Child Marriage.
- Ensure the integration of gender transformative and human-rights-based approaches in programme design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting in close consultation with other Programme Specialists/Advisers.
- Prepare evidence-based background papers/briefing documents for regional office management on FGM, other harmful practices, and gender-related issues to inform policy advocacy, programming, and resource mobilization.
- Prepare the FGM and CM regional annual work plan ensuring alignment with the UNFPA 2022-2025 Strategic Plan (SP), Regional Programme Action Plan (RPAP) 2022- 2025, and strategic focus of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation, Global Programme to End Child Programme (GPECM) and secure approval from ESARO and HQ management as may be required.
- Facilitate development and implementation of flagship initiatives focusing on prevailing issues such as cross-border FGM, medicalization of FGM, and Youth-led accountability to end FGM and CM.
- Coordinate with UNICEF, other partners, and stakeholders in the region and beyond on accelerated actions to end FGM and CM, including regional advocacy and policy development efforts in partnership with Parliamentary bodies, Regional Economic Commissions (RECs), and the African Union.
- Lead in the organization of technical workshops, interagency meetings, strategic events steering committee meetings, and other events organized by the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of FGM, CM, to mention a few
- Closely monitor programme implementation against planned multi-year and annual results using agreed templates and tools
- Draft annual report of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage for ESARO and facilitate country-level reporting in the region for internal and external reporting process,

**(B) Knowledge Management and Research**:

- Support Regional and Country Offices in the identification and documentation of lessons learned/best practices regarding FGM, CM, and other areas including GBV and gender equality, including what works in terms of high-impact interventions and practices in the elimination of FGM and CM.
- Share evidence, knowledge, and information with country offices to assist in the development of programme interventions towards ending FGM, CM, GBV, and improving gender equality.
- Analyse current and emerging trends in the area of harmful practices in general and FGM and CM in particular.
- Strengthen the institutional knowledge base for the joint programme by managing a repository of knowledge, evidence, and data for efforts towards ending FGM and harmful practices

**(C) Innovation and capacity building**:

- Introduce innovative approaches, tools, and systems in the design and delivery of capacity-building and learning initiatives across countries and regional organizations
- Support innovative solutions towards eliminating FGM and


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