PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS VACANCY IS OPEN ONLY TO NATIONALS OF MYANMAR.

Duty Station: Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar Country Office

Duration:          One year (renewable)[i]

Position Summary:

The Programme Analyst (GBV) is located in Rakhine Sub-office and reports to the Programme Specialist (GBV) based in Sittwe, Rakhine State.

Job Purpose:

UNFPA expands the possibilities for women and young people to lead healthy and productive lives. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV and AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.  Advancing gender equality and promoting the empowerment of women is a key programme priority of UNFPA defined in UNFPA Strategic Plan (2014-2017).

UNFPA manages the “Women and Girls First Initiative” (2016-2018), a 14 million USD multi-year donor trust fund. Under the Women and Girls First programme, UNFPA is committed to leading the international community and supporting national stakeholders in addressing gaps in gender equality, improving reproductive health services, responding to and preventing gender based violence (GBV) and integrating gender equality and women's rights perspectives into national policies, development frameworks and laws. Through these key outcomes, UNFPA will also be seeking to achieve improved and strengthened access to justice and increased participation of women in the peace process, through economic and political empowerment.

Under overall direction of the UNFPA Deputy Representative, with direct supervision from the Programme Specialist (GBV) for Rakhine State, and in close coordination with Rakhine based UNFPA team and UNFPA CO in Yangon, the incumbent provides technical, operational and coordination support to UNFPA’s GBV programme and GBV sub-sector working group in Rakhine State. The Programme Analyst (GBV) will work in close collaboration with national authorities, humanitarian and development agencies (UN, NGOs and INGOs) and civil society organizations to provide GBV coordination as appropriate. 

Requirement and Qualifications:

Education: 

Advanced university degree in social work or other social sciences, public/community health, gender, legal advice as it relates to gender and GBV, and development or related field.

Knowledge and Experience:

• A minimum of 2 years of increasingly responsible relevant professional experience

• Strong commitment to the mandate of the UN and UNFPA in Myanmar

• Field experience addressing/integrating gender, and/or reproductive health issues  in emergency and post conflict contexts 

• Knowledge of gender issues in development, particularly GBV, including relevant international human rights standards; and operational and advocacy experience  implementing UNSC resolutions on Women Peace and Security (1325, 1820, 1888, 1889 and 1960)

• Knowledge of reproductive health, HIV and protection issues in humanitarian and post-conflict recovery settings

• Experience in utilizing the following internationals tools: GBV Standard Operating Procedures; GBV Information Management System; IASC Guidelines for Integrating GBV Interventions in Humanitarian Settings; IASC Gender in Humanitarian Action Handbook; GBV Coordination Handbook; and WHO Ethical and Safety Recommendations for Researching Gender-based Violence in Emergencies

• Excellent computer literacy (windows environment, MS office applications including Word, Excel and Power-point and Internet skills) 

• Experience and capacity in development and delivery of GBV training components to government, NGO, and community level participants

Languages:

• Fluency in oral and written English and Myanmar is essential with ability to write clearly and concisely and to compose correspondence and documents in both languages 

• Rakhine language ability is desirable.