CANADEM Careers in Ethiopia

CANADEM Sexual and Reproductive Health Coordinator-P4- Jobs in Ethiopia

Background information

While Ethiopia battles residual needs from the El Nino-induced drought, below average rains in the southern and eastern parts of the country caused by the negative Indian Ocean Dipole effect have led to new drought.
Livestock deaths, water shortages and acute malnutrition are reported from the primarily affected pastoral areas.
In addition, disease outbreaks and food and nutritional insecurity persist in other areas. According to the 2017 Humanitarian Requirement Document, 5.6 million people have been identified requiring emergency food assistance; and some 1.2 million children, pregnant women and lactating mothers also require supplementary feeding. Of serious concern is the predicted poor spring rain performance in southern, eastern, and north eastern areas of the country.

Major duties and responsibilities

Under the overall guidance of the UNFPA CO Representative and/or Head of Office, the direct supervision of the Program Analyst for Humanitarian Response, the incumbent facilitates and coordinates the rapid implementation of multi-sectoral, inter-agency SRH coordination and interventions in a humanitarian settings.

Comprehensive SRH response programming in humanitarian emergencies requires skilled coordination of a range of organizations and actors from the drought affected and internally displaced communities, NGOs, government partners, UN agencies, and other national and international organizations. The SRH Coordinator's duties include: establishing and ensuring the smooth functioning of RH working group, resource mobilization, building and sustaining partnerships, strategic planning, communication, capacity development, and advocacy, and information management.

The incumbent will also represent UNFPA in an inter-agency Health Cluster, Inter Cluster Coordination Meeting and other coordination forums to promote the consideration and inclusion of SRH in health cluster response plan

SRH coordination

• Participates in the rapid assessment of the SRH needs of emergency affected population and facility based assessment on RH services to tailor UNFPA's responses.
• Based on MISP projection and rapid assessment findings, supports the implementation of MISP (Minimum Initial Service Package) for RH through implementing partners of the RH working group as well as UNFPA's direct execution.
• Oversee (with the Program Analyst for Humanitarian Response, RH/HIV Program Officer and M and E officer) the monitoring of MISP implementation.

Resource mobilization

• Review UNFPA's Ethiopia CO resource mobilization strategy document, the humanitarian program multi-year budget requirement framework for Emergency Reproductive Health

response program and the annual humanitarian program plan to better understand and contribute to the resource mobilization effort of the CO
• Review the CO's donor mapping exercise document to better understand and enrich it through comprehensive analysis of potential donors to secure funding for Emergency Reproductive Health programming. Along with this exercise, identify donor's key result areas with in Emergency Reproductive Health response, funding windows, available funds, requirements and guidelines for funding
• Support the CO humanitarian team in developing a series of fundraising materials including project concept notes and proposals that need to be produced to secure funding

Partnership:

• Ensure that SRH needs (including reproductive, maternal and newborn health, family planning information and services, STIs and HIV prevention, care and treatment, and care for survivors of violence) are addressed within the Health cluster (if cluster approach is applied in the emergency context) and within OCHA Situation Reports.
• Maintain working relationship and share relevant information with UN Health Cluster
• Establish strong linkages between existing SRH and GBV programmes with regard to the health sector response for survivors of sexual violence.
Any Other Duties
• Perform any other duties as required by the Representative, Deputy Representative, Assistant Representative and the Program Analyst for Humanitarian Response

Qualifications and Skills required:

• Advanced university degree in medicine, public health, midwifery, or nursing
• 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in SRH program development and management and preferably in an emergency context (e.g.: implementation of the MISP).
• Field experience in complex emergencies, including humanitarian emergency response.
• Demonstrated leadership and management experience within a multinational and multicultural environment
• Ability to develop and coordinate SRH programmes that target refugees, IDPs/returnees and their host communities.
• Proficiency in English and in other official languages or the UN required/desirable.

How to Apply:

If you have all of the above-mentioned skills, please register with CANADEM before contacting us. This can be done on our website at www.CANADEM.ca/register . Then send an email no later than the 17th of June, 11:59 pm EDT to pantiwa.naksomboon@CANADEM.ca with a Subject Line: "UNFPA-SRH Coordinator-Ethiopia". In your email, please include an updated resume, date of availability, your current location, and a phone number where we can reach you.

Closing date: 17 Jun 2017