National Consultant – Inter-Agency Coordination Consultant

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.

Job Purpose:

UNFPA Zambia remains committed to directly contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by aligning its work to the 2030 Agenda principles of human rights and universality. Further guided by the 2022 – 2026 National Health Strategic Plan, UNFPA is working with the Government of the Republic of Zambia to ensure universal access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. To achieve its vision, UNFPA works with stakeholders such as Non-Governmental Organizations, United Nations Agencies and other Civil Society Organizations, in addition to key government entities.

As the incoming Chair of the Health Cooperating Partners Group for 2025 and the UN Gender Group and the lead agency for PSEA, UNFPA Zambia continuously strengthens its coordination mechanisms to effectively manage this portfolio.

With the aforementioned, UNFPA seeks to employ an Inter-Agency Coordination Consultant who will be responsible for providing effective and efficient coordination support to the Health Cooperating Partners Group, the Supply Chain Sub-Group, the PSEA working group, and the UN Gender Theme Group, including the sub-regional Spotlight initiative. 

You would be responsible for achievement of the following: 

• Create visually engaging designs for digital and print materials, including reports, presentations, and event branding materials for Health Cooperating Partners and other subgroups with UNFPA interventions.
• Facilitate inter-agency collaborations and record key inter-agency decisions, milestones, and workstreams.
• Maintain strong links with cooperating partners by building effective relationships and ensuring activities for the different coordination mechanisms are effectively planned.
• Document and monitor current events, issues, challenges, and existing or changing strategic priorities related to the coordination mechanisms and translate them into actionable recommendations and changes to improve service delivery and inform policy decision-making.
• Identify synergies and opportunities for cooperation among the Agencies, resulting possibly in the design and implementation of joint activities.
• Collaborate with the relevant thematic focal points to provide feedback on technical issues raised by cooperating partners groups.
• Organize and coordinate all coordination meetings, including high-level events.

Qualifications and Experience: 

• Master’s Degree with a minimum of Five years work experience in Communications, Public Relations, International Relations or any other Social Science related field.
• Demonstrated Experience working in the health sector, experience working with an International Organisation is an added advantage.
• Exceptional skills in interagency coordination, and facilitating consensus decisions on complex technical, programmatic and strategic issues.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate meetings and make oral presentations logically and persuasively to senior officials, partners, and multi-cultural stakeholders.
• Experience working closely with senior leadership of an organization to capitalize on opportunities using strategic communications and outreach activities at national or International levels.
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and other digital collaboration tools.

Languages: 

• Fluency in English

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,

UNFPA Work Environment:

UNFPA provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, diversity, integrity and healthy work-life balance. We are committed to ensuring gender parity in the organization and therefore encourage women to apply. UNFPA promotes equal opportunities in terms of appointment, training, compensation and selection for all regardless of personal characteristics and dimensions of diversity. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is at the heart of UNFPA’s workforce – click here to learn more.

Disclaimer:

Selection and appointment may be subject to background and reference checks, medical clearance, visa issuance and other administrative requirements. 

UNFPA does not charge any application, processing, training, interviewing, testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process and does not concern itself with information on applicants’ bank accounts. 

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