SRH-GBV Integration Volunteer

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Mission and objectives

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 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030.

Context

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 expands choices and opportunities for women and youth to lead healthy and productive lives. Our work is derived from the ICPD Programme of Action; that all human beings are entitled to equal rights and protections and no one should be left behind in the fulfilment of their fundamental human rights. In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical leaders, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.
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.
UNFPA’s Humanitarian Response Division – Programme Support Unit (HRD-PSU) works to mainstream the integration of SRH and GBV in humanitarian programming by: leading on advancing new initiatives, including Values Clarification and Attitude Transformation (VCAT); ensuring that frontline health workers are trained and supported to provide quality Clinical Management of Rape and Intimate Partner Violence (CMR-IPV) services; supporting country offices to pilot innovative programmeming that integrates SRH and GBV in humanitarian contexts: and co-leading the SRH-GBV Linkages Sub-Group (SG-7) of the SRH Task Team and the IAWG CMR-IPV sub-working group.
UNFPA seeks candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results. We need UNVs who are exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.
The SRH-GBV Integration Volunteer will work closely with the Nairobi-based Global Humanitarian SRH Advisor to advance these goals within UNFPA’s humanitarian programming and through inter-agency fora.

Task description

In close collaboration with and under the direct supervision of the Global Humanitarian SRH Advisor, the SRH-GBV Integration Volunteer will:
1.Support SRH-GBV integration programmes funded by DKA and ECHO to:
•Convene and document regular technical meetings;
•Coordinate responses to specific technical requests from country offices / partner agencies;
•Compile and conduct preliminary review of country office contributions to donor reports and other relevant presentations.
2.Contribute to the development and piloting of a post-training follow-up and support plan for CMR-IPV trainees that can be adapted to other trainings;
3.Support the follow up of Values Clarification and Attitude Transformation (VCAT) trainers and trainees through surveys and data entry.
4.Support the finalization of the UNFPA-adapted of MISP training / TOT tools for UNFPA’s HRD.
5.Support the development of key guidance documents on Entry points for SRH-GBV Integration in emergencies and Respectful SRH and Maternity Care in emergencies through literature reviews, key informant interviews, and other methodologies.
6.Schedule and coordinate meetings, webinars, and other virtual educational or dissemination activities relevant to SRHiE, SRH-GBV linkages, the SRH-TT SG7, and IAWG CMR-IPV sub-working group.
Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities:
●Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day).
●Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country.
●Provide annual and end of assignment self- reports on UN Volunteer actions, results and opportunities.
●Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.;
●Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UN Volunteers.
●Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.