UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.
UNFPA’s goal is to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health, realize reproductive rights, and reduce maternal mortality to accelerate progress on the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) agenda, to improve the lives of adolescents and youth, and women, enabled by population dynamics, human rights, and gender equality.
UNFPA launched efforts to achieve three transformative results, ambitions that promise to change the world for every man, woman and young person:
1. Ending unmet need for family planning;
2. Ending preventable maternal death; and ‘
3. Ending gender-based violence and harmful practices UNFPA recognizes that innovation is a key accelerator to achieve these results.
UNFPA will harness innovation to meet tomorrow’s challenges and boost its impact, especially in addressing furthest behind populations, and leverage opportunities, social capital, funding and technology by (a) strengthening the corporate innovation architecture and capabilities,
(b) scaling up innovations that have proven to be effective and impactful,
(c) forming new partnerships and connecting with relevant innovation ecosystems,
(d) strengthening and leveraging financing for innovation, and
(e) expanding communities and culture for innovation.
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Context
UNFPA is the United Nations agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA works to improve lives in 23 countries in East and Southern Africa. We work with governments and through partnerships with other United Nations agencies, civil society, regional economic communities, and the private sector to ensure that no one is left behind.
Our Regional Office in Johannesburg, South Africa provides strategic support and technical expertise to colleagues in our 23 Country Offices and our partners who work on the ground to improve people’s lives. We provide policy advice, training, and support.
We focus on impacting the lives of women and young people by empowering them and also seek to ensure that they enjoy universal access to reproductive health and realize their reproductive rights – including in humanitarian crises. We place gender equality and human rights at the heart of this.
This United Nations Volunteer (UNV) assignment is part of UNFPA ESARO’s programming initiative to capture and bring visibility to UNFPA’s work in the region through quality graphic design, which will be used in social media, short publications and other communication products, including digital media platforms.
The UNV will assist the organization in capturing its project activities across the region, including countries.
Required experience
4 years of experience in research and data analysis of population and development issues and development relevant to sexual and reproductive health, gender and population and development;
• 5-15 years of professional experience in any of the above will be regarded as an added advantage;
• An expert in population and development and particularly in research on complex population relationships and data;
• Experience in data collection, analysis, visualization, dissemination, database management and research within an academic or development institution;
• Strong knowledge of statistical methodologies, including strong competencies in the use of statistical packages such as R, STATA or SPSS;
• Mastery of methods and techniques for data quality assessment, processing and analysis using a variety of health and population sources (DHS, MICS and population census);
• Ability to provide advice and guidance on the analysis, interpretation and application of data from project information;
• Experience with achieving demonstrable results in the majority of the following areas: innovative use of technology for development, mobile based data collection, training and capacity building and human centered design experience;
• Experience in conducting research and generating evidence products, Results-Based Programme Development and Management to improve programme efficiency;
• Experience in programme and/or technical assistance with the UN System and other international development organizations will be desirable;
