Regional Programme Coordinator - Panamá - UNFPA

Descripción

The Position:

The Regional Programme Coordinator post is located in the Latin American and the Caribbean Regional Office (LACRO) and reports directly to the Deputy Regional Director who provides overall leadership.

S/he is the coordinator of all functions related to the regional programme and provides support on operational and managerial issues.

The Regional Programme Coordinator is part of a team providing integrated programme support to the subregional office and country offices in the region.

The Regional Programme Coordinator ensures the coherent operation and implementation of the regional programme, through development and oversight of management and coordination mechanisms for the regional programme, ensuring coherent programming among humanitarian and development contexts.

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 , 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.

Job Purpose:

The Regional Programme Coordinator ensures the effective and coherent operation and implementation of the Regional Programme by providing essential operational and managerial support.

In all activities, s/he fosters collaboration within the Regional Office, particularly with: the Regional Office programme team providing integrated programme, and operational support; with programme staff in Sub-Regional and Country Offices; with the Policy and Strategy Division, including Humanitarian Response Division, Knowledge Management and the Regional Desk; and, with other HQ Divisions, ensuring the timeliness, adequacy, relevance and quality of support to countries.

You would be responsible for:

• Coordination for effective implementation of the Regional Programme
• Oversight of the Regional Programme
• Programme Management support, including Knowledge Management
• Amplifying the scale and use of generated knowledge products to benefit all countries
• Technical and programmatic advisory support to countries, partners and UNFPA country offices.

Primary Responsibilities:


I. Coordination for effective implementation of the Regional Programme

• Support the design, implementation, and management of the regional programme ensuring compliance with the UNFPA Strategic Plan, global strategies and UNFPA policies and guidelines;
• Provide support to the alignment of Regional and Country Programmes with UNFPA's Strategic Plan and analyze constraints to attainment of programming goals and objectives in the region.
• Lead the development of RO ́s Results and Resources Plan, ensuring alignment of Regional and Country Programmes priorities and complementarities between the regional and global programmes;
• Ensure the establishment and wellfunctioning of coordination mechanisms, including regional networks, for effective and efficient implementation of the Regional Programme, ensuring integrated programming among development, humanitarian and peacebuilding efforts.
• Strengthen and manage networks, partnerships and collaborations with regional institutions and with other UN agencies on programming matters in partnership with the RO/COs/SROs;
• Maintains a continuous flow of information with government and donors, and pursue innovative ways to maintain and create new partnerships; participates in the UN system joint initiatives in the Region as part of broader UN Reform initiatives; provides substantive inputs to facilitate policy dialogue and incorporation of these policies into regional and national plans and strategies;
• Advise the Regional Director and Deputy Regional Director on regional programme related matters, representing UNFPA LACRO on regional programming issues in relevant task forces, working groups and other relevant spaces, ensuring the incorporation of UNFPA and ICPD issues;
• Ensure that strategic and accurate programmerelated information and analysis is provided to RO activities in advocacy, communications, policy dialogue, resource mobilization, etc., in collaboration with the R