Job Description
The Programme Specialist, Youth and Adolescents, Empowerment, Participation and Leadership (EPL) is located in the Liberia Country Office. This position provides technical and programmatic support for the development and implementation of innovative and effective strategies for adolescent and youth engagement and meaningful participation in national development, particularly by ensuring the development of skills, agency to influence the national discourse on advancing SRHR in the context of national development.
The position promotes adolescents and youth voices on access to quality, adolescent and youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services, GBV prevention and response services and Sexuality Education. The position strengthens adolescents and young people skills and opportunities to promote bodily autonomy.
The position reports to the Technical Specialist, SRHR under the direction of the Deputy Representative and works closely with the Country Office Programme, Policy and Partnerships and Operations staff with support from the Senior Management Team. The position might also have the responsibility to directly manage a team of 1 or 2 individuals/ consultants to support the thematic area.
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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