The Position:

The Programme Specialist, Policy and Partnership is located in the Liberia Country Office. This position will be responsible for technically contributing to strategic partnerships and overseeing analysis and communications to support advocacy, knowledge management, evidence-based policies and areas of resource mobilization.

The position will report to the Representative and work closely with the Country Office Programme and Operations staff with support from the Management Team. The position will oversee the Communications and Media portfolio.

Job Purpose:

This position will support in strengthening UNFPA’s normative role and policy advocacy by leading continual environmental scanning, research and analysis, and communications to guide and influence policy formulation, implementation and monitoring.  

The position will proactively lead on developing strategic partnerships for the advancement of UNFPA’s Strategic Plan working closely with programme colleagues, with a wide range of stakeholders, from the government to civil society, donors, and communities, especially youth, adolescents, and the furthest behind populations.

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.

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.

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