Hiring Office: UNFPA Libya Country Office
Purpose of consultancy: UNFPA is the United Nations reproductive health agency. UNFPA works to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. In Libya, UNFPA supports national and sub-national partners to strengthen integrated health, protection and youth-responsive services, with a particular focus on women, girls, adolescents, young people and vulnerable populations. Young people represent a major constituency for Libya’s development, resilience and social cohesion. The Libya Country Office is supporting national efforts to advance meaningful youth engagement and participation, including through collaboration with the Ministry of Youth and the National Economic and Social Development Board on the development of Libya’s first National Youth Strategy. This work requires stronger technical capacity to translate youth policy priorities into practical programme entry points, field-informed analysis, coordination with youth-led actors, and youth-responsive service delivery approaches. The Youth Specialist will provide national technical support to UNFPA Libya to strengthen youthresponsive programming across integrated health, protection and community engagement interventions. The consultant will help ensure that youth engagement considerations are reflected in
programme design, implementation, monitoring, coordination, advocacy and senior management briefing materials.
The overall objective of the consultancy is to support UNFPA Libya in advancing its youth-related priorities under the Country Programme by strengthening the integration of meaningful youth engagement, youth-responsive outreach, and evidence-based youth programming across UNFPA interventions.
The specific objectives are to:
- Provide technical and coordination support to integrate youth-responsive approaches across UNFPA’s health, protection, and data-related programme components.
- Support collaboration with national and sub-national stakeholders, including the Ministry of Youth, NESDB, local authorities, youth-focused institutions, youth-led civil society organizations, community networks, implementing partners and UN agencies.
- Generate timely field insights, contextual analysis and briefing inputs to support the Representative and senior management in advancing youth priorities, including the National Youth Strategy process.
- Strengthen the use of age- and sex-disaggregated data and field monitoring information to inform youth-responsive programming and advocacy.
Reporting Line: The consultant will operate under the direct supervision of the UNFPA Libya Country Office International Programme Coordinator.
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.
Scope of Work:Under the overall guidance of the Representative and the direct supervision of the International Programme Coordinator or designated Programme Lead, the consultant will undertake the following functions:
A. Programme design and integration
- Contribute substantively to the design and implementation of integrated health, protection, and youth-responsive programme components, including reproductive health and prevention of violence against women and girls, within assigned geographic areas.
- Serve as a programme focal point supporting the integration of youth-responsive approaches across UNFPA programme interventions, working closely with programme, data, monitoring, communications, and operations colleagues.
- Promote innovation and integration between health services, protection mechanisms, and youth engagement initiatives to support inclusive access for women, adolescents, young people, and vulnerable populations.
- Review relevant workplans, concept notes, activity designs, partner plans, and monitoring tools to ensure meaningful youth engagement, participation, inclusion, and safeguarding considerations are reflected.
- Identify practical operational entry points for youth-inclusive programming at national and subnational levels, including through existing service delivery platforms, youth spaces, community networks and partner activities.
B. Meaningful youth engagement, outreach and civil society coordination
- Support youth-responsive outreach strategies, including engagement with youth-led civil society organizations, youth networks, community-based structures and local influencers.
- Facilitate coordination with youth-led civil society organizations, community networks and relevant national stakeholders to strengthen youth participation in programme activities and outreach initiatives. Map and maintain a working directory of youth-focused actors, youth-led organizations, community networks and relevant local authorities in priority locations.
- Support evidence-based advocacy and accountability initiatives as they relate to the provision of reproductive health and protection services and ensure active participation of young people and youth-led organizations.
- Support consultations, dialogues and feedback mechanisms that enable young women and men, including vulnerable adolescents and youth, to inform programme design and implementation.
- Promote safe, inclusive and participatory approaches, ensuring that youth engagement is ageappropriate, gender-sensitive, conflict-sensitive and aligned with do-no-harm principles.
C. Coordination, partnerships and policy support
- Act as the main focal point for UNFPA in its role to lead the Youth Working Group (YWG), by playing the role of the secretariat of the YWG and supporting the representative in leading the YWG.
- Maintain collaborative relationships with local authorities, implementing partners, youthfocused institutions, civil society organizations and UN agencies.
- Engage relevant sub-national entities responsible for health, youth and social development to identify operational entry points for integrated and youth-inclusive programming.
- Participate in relevant coordination mechanisms related to youth programming, including the Youth Working Group and other inter-agency platforms, contributing UNFPA programme perspectives and supporting alignment with broader UN youth initiatives.
- Support UNFPA’s engagement with the Ministry of Youth and NESDB on the National Youth Strategy, including preparation of technical inputs, meeting notes, draft briefs, action trackers and realistic implementation proposals.
- Support linkages between UNFPA’s youth work and broader priorities on gender equality, protection, reproductive health, data, resilience, social cohesion and humanitarian-development-peace nexus programming.
D. Field monitoring, data and contextual analysis
- Monitor contextual developments affecting service delivery, youth engagement and protection risks at the sub-national level, including in priority municipalities and areas affected by displacement, migration, conflict or limited service access.
- Work closely with the Programme Analyst – Data and Monitoring, M&E colleagues and implementing partners to ensure availability and use of age- and sex-disaggregated data to inform youth-responsive programming.
- Contribute to field monitoring missions, partner follow-up, community consultations and documentation of youth engagement results, lessons learned and operational constraints.
- Support analysis of youth-related programme data, partner reports and field observations to identify trends, gaps, risks and opportunities for programme adaptation.
- Ensure youth-related documentation, meeting minutes, consultation summaries, actor mapping and field notes are properly filed and available for reporting, advocacy and programme planning.
E. Briefing, reporting, advocacy and communication
- Provide technical inputs, briefing materials and field insights to support the Representative and senior management in advancing the implementation of UNFPA youth-related priorities within the Country Programme.
- Draft short analytical briefs, talking points, meeting notes and updates on youth programming, youth participation, youth protection risks and National Youth Strategy follow-up.
- Contribute inputs to donor reports, annual reports, proposals, sitreps and internal updates as required.
- Support the communications team with technically sound content, success stories, evidence and knowledge products and visibility inputs on youth programming, ensuring dignity, consent, safeguarding and protection-sensitive messaging.
- Perform other related tasks as may be required by the supervisor, consistent with the purpose of the consultancy.
Expected deliverables and payment schedule:
The consultant will work up to 20 days a month. Some deliverables are below (Which will be reported on a monthly basis)
Deliverable 1: Inception package- Inception note, detailed work plan, stakeholder engagement plan, and initial mapping of youthled/ youth-focused actors and coordination platforms in priority areas.
Deliverable 2: Youth integration support package :Practical checklist and recommendations for integrating youth-responsive approaches across
health, protection, outreach and partner work plans, including initial technical review of relevant programme materials.
Deliverable 3: Field and coordination brief – Briefing note summarizing contextual developments affecting youth engagement, service delivery and protection risks, with documented inputs from youth actors and sub-national stakeholders.
Deliverable 4: National Youth Strategy support package – Technical inputs to the Ministry of Youth/NESDB process, meeting notes, action tracker, and proposed six-month implementation roadmap linking policy priorities to practical programme entry points for the National Youth Strategy
Deliverable 5: Final report and handover package: Final report covering achievements, challenges, lessons learned, recommended next steps, updated stakeholder directory, youth engagement documentation, and priority actions for
UNFPA Libya.
Deliverable 6 (Concurring every month): Acting as the secretariat for the YWG and supporting the Representative in leading the YWG
Duration and working schedule: The consultancy will be for a period of six months (1st of July until 31st of December 2026), with the possibility of extension.
Place where services are to be delivered: Hybrid, with travel to field locations in Libya as required
Delivery dates and how work will be delivered (e.g. electronic, hard copy etc.): The consultant will deliver the work in electronic version and upload the deliverables to UNFPA Libya CO Google Drive (iDocs).
Monitoring and progress control, including reporting requirements, periodicity format and deadline: The consultant will report directly to the International Programme Coordinator or designated Programme Lead, under the overall guidance of the UNFPA Representative. The consultant will work in close coordination with relevant programme, monitoring and operations colleagues, and will provide periodic updates through brief written progress notes and coordination meetings. UNFPA will provide relevant programme documents, access to internal coordination as appropriate, introductions to key partners, and technical guidance on required outputs. The consultant is responsible for managing agreed deliverables, meeting deadlines and ensuring quality, confidentiality and professional standards
Expected travel: The consultant might be required to travel outside Tripoli according to the CO needs.
Education and Experience:
Secondary Education (High School or Equivalent) with Six Years of Experience or First Level or Advanced in social sciences, development studies, public health, youth development, gender studies, protection, population studies, political science, international relations, public policy or a related field is desirable.
- Minimum 3:6 years of progressively responsible professional experience in youth programming, health, protection, community engagement, social development, humanitarian/development programming or integrated service delivery contexts.
- Demonstrated experience working with young people, youth-led civil society organizations, community networks, local authorities or national institutions.
- Experience supporting programme implementation, coordination, monitoring, reporting and stakeholder engagement in Libya or comparable contexts.
- Experience in reproductive health, prevention and response, adolescent/youth programming, social cohesion, youth participation, or humanitarian-development nexus programming is an asset.
- Experience working with UN agencies, international organizations, NGOs, civil society organizations or government institutions is an asset.
- Experience in drafting briefing notes, meeting minutes, analytical updates, donor inputs, concept notes or programme reports is desirable.
Ability to draft clear, concise and professional documents in English is required. Ability to prepare stakeholder-facing notes in Arabic is highly desirable.
Technical skills
- Strong understanding of meaningful youth engagement, youth participation and youthresponsive programming.
- Ability to connect youth programming with health, protection, data and field delivery considerations.
- Good knowledge of the Libyan institutional, civil society and sub-national context, including sensitivity to regional dynamics.
- Strong analytical, coordination and interpersonal skills, with ability to engage government, civil society, youth actors, UN agencies and implementing partners.
- Ability to use age- and sex-disaggregated data, field observations and partner reports to inform practical programme recommendations.
- Strong computer skills, including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email and online collaboration tools.
Languages:
- Fluency in Arabic and English, written and spoken, is required.
Required Competencies:
Values:
- Exemplifying integrity,
- Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system,
- Embracing cultural diversity,
- Embracing change
Core Competencies:
- Achieving results,
- Being accountable,
- Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen,
- Thinking analytically and strategically,
- Working in teams/managing ourselves and our relationships
Functional Competencies:
- Results-based programme development, implementation and monitoring.
- Youth participation, community engagement and inclusive outreach.
- Partnership building and stakeholder coordination.
- Evidence-based advocacy and policy-oriented analysis.
- Protection-sensitive, gender-responsive and do-no-harm programming.
- Resource mobilization and reporting support.
- Ethical standards, safeguarding and confidentiality:The consultant must uphold the values and ethical standards of the United Nations and UNFPA, including integrity, professionalism, respect for diversity and zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse, harassment, discrimination and abuse of authority.
- All engagement with young people, adolescents, women, girls and vulnerable groups must be conducted in line with safeguarding, informed consent, confidentiality, protection-sensitive communication and do-no-harm principles.
- The consultant shall treat all non-public information obtained during the assignment as confidential and may not use or disclose such information without prior authorization from UNFPA.
- All materials, reports, datasets, notes and products developed under this consultancy will remain the property of UNFPA.
Inputs / services to be provided
by UNFPA or implementing
partner (e.g support services,
office space, equipment), if
applicable:
- UNFPA will provide the consultant with a desk, and office stationery.
- The consultant is required to have his/ her own computer with the required technology to perform his/ her tasks.
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