Re-advertised: Deputy Regional Director

1 month ago

Johannesburg, South Africa UNFPA Full time

**The Position**:
The Deputy Regional Director post is located in the East and Southern Africa Regional Office and reports directly to the Regional Director. The post supports the Director in terms of the day-to-day leadership, programme management, and representation of the Office. The Region includes Regional and Country Office structures. The Deputy Regional Director provides leadership and guidance to the regional team of technical and programme staff and provides oversight and leadership to the Regional Office (RO) in the absence of the Regional Director

**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 (2022-2025), focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices with humanitarian action as one of the major outputs.

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.

**Job Purpose**:
The Deputy Regional Director (DRD) supports the Regional Director in the day-to-day leadership, programme management, and representation of the Regional Office. In addition, he/she provides strategic programme direction and guidance for the regional team of technical and programme staff. When required, the DRD will oversee and lead the Regional Office in the absence of the Regional Director.

**You will be responsible for**:
**A) Regional Programme Leadership**
- Supports the Regional Director in the management of the Regional programme design, delivery, reporting, and accountability in contribution to the UNFPA Strategic Plan, working, in close collaboration with the International Operations Manager:

- Within the Regional Management Team, promote the development of region-specific strategies in response to current and future regional priorities; and ensure synergies with country-level interventions towards achieving the Transformative results, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and advancing the ICPD Agenda;
- Ensure regional contributions and perspectives are taken into account in the formulation of UNFPA global policies, strategic plans, and strategies in close collaboration with the Regional Director and Regional Management Team (RMT). This will also require engagement and consultations with the ESA Regional Desk Officer based in UNFPA Headquarters. For One Africa-related actions, collaborations will be required with the UNFPA Addis Representational Office to the African Union Commission (AUC) and UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), as well as UNFPA ASRO and WCARO as may be applicable ;
- Ensure the preparation of results-based regional reports by responsible regional and country offices including regional annual reports, contribution to UNFPA reports to the Executive Board, System-wide reporting under the UN Reform, responses to the Board of Auditors and Management Audits, etc;
- Coordinate regional landscape review and analysis from Regional and Country Office Reports to identify critical new frontier issues, regional and transboundary issues requiring follow-up, including through environmental scan reports of topical normative issues requiring attention, quarterly and annual Results and Resources Plan (RRP) reports, programme portfolio review reports; and
- Provide oversight and leadership to the Regional programme and operations teams in collaboration with the Regional Director.

**B) Oversight for Organizational effectiveness and efficiency**
- Oversees the management of the regional programme assets, ensures the coherence of all programme, partnerships, communications, and operational interventions in the Region in line with corporate priorities and as guided by results-based management principles:

- Provide strategic direction and oversight to regional programme staff in support of the common country programming processes (e.g., CCA/UNSDCF and Joint Programmes) through regional programming processes to ensure coherence with organizational, national and regional priorities as well as ensuring alignment with prevailing continental and regional development frameworks;
- Provide strategic direction and facilitation of the regional programme delivery in guiding and supporting Country Offices through thought leadership and tailored technical assistance to country programme delivery, management and operations-related issues in compliance with UNFPA policies and procedures;
- Oversee management of regional programme resources and advise the Regional Director on the allocation of resources; monitor and periodically brief the Regional Director on the status of programme implementation; ensure course correct actions from corporate reporting inform timely quality results-fo

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