National Consultant of Sexual Reproductive Health Information Management Officer, Nay Pyi Taw/Yangon, Myanmar

The Position:

By strengthening data management and evidence-based decision-making, this role will enhance operational efficiency, support adaptive programming, improve coordination with partners, and ensure accountability to affected populations. Ultimately, the consultant will help maintain the continuity, quality, and responsiveness of UNFPA Myanmar’s SRHR programs.

You will report to Assistant Representative and SRHR Program Lead.

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 Myanmar operates in a complex humanitarian context, characterized by escalating conflict, mass displacement, and recurrent natural disasters. These crises have significantly increased the need for life-saving sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and the demand for timely, evidence-based decision-making to effectively reach affected populations.

To address this, there is an urgent need to strengthen the Country Office’s SRHR program information management capacity. Current staff are overstretched and cannot fully meet the growing demands for data consolidation and management. The consultant will focus on enhancing SRHR information systems to provide high-quality, timely, and evidence-based data that guide program planning and implementation. This includes consolidating and analyzing SRHR program data, tracking service uptake and SRH cases, supporting reporting and data visualization, and improving data systems related to the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP), GBV, and SRHR services, particularly in emergency response, monitoring, and preparedness planning.

By strengthening data management and evidence-based decision-making, this role will enhance operational efficiency, support adaptive programming, improve coordination with partners, and ensure accountability to affected populations. Ultimately, the consultant will help maintain the continuity, quality, and responsiveness of UNFPA Myanmar’s SRHR programs.

You would be responsible for:

Data collection and management

• Coordinate closely with the SRH implementing partners, SRH Coordination Group, and Health Cluster to adopt a standardized list of SRH indicators.
• Support SRH actors with routine data collection according to the standardized list of SRH indicators and agree on age, sex, and other disaggregation.
• Engage in secondary data analyses to ensure readily available information on service utilization, service gaps, trends, and patterns in SRH humanitarian response to support SRH partners’ planning and programming.
• Consolidate existing assessments of the SRH situation and undertake new assessments if and when necessary/appropriate to determine the SRH needs, gaps, overlaps, resources, magnitude, and scope and identify strategic inter-sectoral approaches for addressing them.
• In collaboration with national and international SRH actors, map current institutional response capacities.
• Creation of interactive maps with SRH services per level and/or dashboards with a selection of SRH indicators agreed upon with the SRH partners in the SRH WG,
• Promote document best practices and approaches of SRH humanitarian response to deepen the knowledge base among relevant partners in a format agreed upon with the SRH WG.
• Support the SRH Coordinator with the planning, distribution and distribution monitoring of IARH kits and other SRH supplies.
• Prepare regular analytical reports on emerging issues.

Knowledge sharing and communications

• Support of the SRH Coordinator with appropriate knowledge sharing with donors, Health Cluster, and all strategic partners
• Ensure effective communication and networking through partnership and collaboration and support strengthened coordination amongst SRH partners.
• Support capacity-building activities for SRH WG partners in information management and reporting.
• Perform other tasks as deemed necessary by the SRH Team for data management.

Qualifications and Experience:

Education:

• Advanced degree in Public Health, Social Sciences, Statistics, or related field.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in data management, information systems, or monitoring & evaluation in SRHR or humanitarian programming.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Strong knowledge of SRH in emergencies, MISP, GBV, and humanitarian data systems.
• Experience with data visualization, dashboard creation, and analytical reporting.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and capacity-building skills

Languages:

• Fluency in English; knowledge of Myanmar local languages is an asset.

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,

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. Individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community, minority ethnic groups, indigenous populations, persons with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups are highly encouraged to apply. Reasonable accommodation may be provided to applicants with disabilities upon request, to support their participation in the recruitment process. 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.

Applicants for positions in the international Professional and higher categories, who hold permanent resident status in a country other than their country of nationality, may be required to renounce such status upon their appointment.

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