Job Description

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 new strategic plan (2022 – 2025), focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. 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.

In Afghanistan, UNFPA is strengthening its centrality of Accountability to Affected People (AAP), Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) and inclusive programming in humanitarian action. UNFPA ensures its humanitarian interventions are guided by crisis affected communities, particularly women, girls, young people and persons with disabilities. In doing this, UNFPA uses accountable, protection-sensitive, gender-responsive and inclusive approaches to allow meaningful community participation and accountability across the programmes. Through working with Implementing Partners, UNFPA ensures outreach to rural communities is conducted through preferred and trusted means, via localised communication and community engagement mechanisms, which ensures the inclusion of vulnerable and marginalised groups. Additionally, UNFPA leads the PSEA Network and co-leads the AAP Working Group within the Afghanistan humanitarian architecture, mandated to support addressing response-wide accountability. Within this scope, UNFPA works with a wide range of partners/stakeholders to amplify community voices and aspirations in humanitarian response.

The Programme Analyst (AAP and PSEA) will perform an inter-agency function and support UNFPA humanitarian programming. UNFPA plays a key role in the coordination of AAP throughout the humanitarian response in Afghanistan through its role as co-lead of the AAP Working Group. UNFPA led the establishment of the Afghanistan Community Voices and Accountability Platform, an interagency system for collecting and collating feedback from communities to inform the humanitarian response across Afghanistan. UNFPA also plays a key role in Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) across the humanitarian response in Afghanistan and hosts the Interagency PSEA coordinator role. In addition, UNFPA is also a co-chair of the PSEA Network.

Job Purpose:

The Programme Analyst (AAP and PSEA) will support the AAP and PSEA coordination as well as implementation of AAP, PSEA and Inclusion approaches and programming in UNFPA’s humanitarian assistance, through supporting the roll-out of collective strategies, response-wide AAP and PSEA initiatives and programme monitoring in local communities including rural areas.

The Programme Analyst (AAP and PSEA) will  responsible for:

Support inter-agency AAP and PSEA coordination and programme implementation

Support the coordination of AAP and PSEA through ensuring the links and intersections with other cross-cutting issues such as gender, disability inclusion, centrality of protection and ensure the collective needs from humanitarian partners are addressed regularly.

Provide technical advice and support to inter-agency coordination of AAP and PSEA across humanitarian response. This includes supporting clusters, regional/provincial mechanisms, and other relevant partners/stakeholders with integrating and operationalising AAP in humanitarian response.

Conduct regular mapping of AAP and PSEA mechanisms, i.e. 4Ws matrix, capacity gaps etc. with Working Group/Network members and clusters, and engage with partners on findings and corrective measures.

Support exchanges and documentation of good practices and lessons learned as requested by members of the groups to improve the learning and enable innovations in response.

Implement capacity building sessions and outreach sessions on AAP and PSEA for clusters and relevant coordination mechanisms.

Provide technical advice and support to the implementation of inter-agency community feedback and complaints mechanism; Community Voices and Accountability Platform, including conducting sessions to communicate the results/actions with affected communities, and documenting corrective actions made by humanitarian and aid actors.

Support the establishment of AAP and PSEA sub-working groups (at sub-national level) and ensure that community insights are tabled as a coordination agenda and used to advocate changes.

Conduct regular field monitoring mission to rural communities (up to 75% of the overall responsibility) to improve evidence-based systems in AAP and PSEA activities.

Engage with clusters and relevant partners to track AAP and PSEA indicators within the Humanitarian Response Plan

2. Support UNFPA humanitarian interventions

Support the AAP and PSEA Specialists to coordinate with the UNFPA Head of Area and Field Offices to plan, utilise, monitor and report on the AAP and PSEA funds, or other programmatic funds with large cross-cutting components that are allocated to the field offices.

Provide technical advice and oversight function on integration of AAP and PSEA components into Area aField Office key programmatic documents and donor proposals/reports, situation reports, as well as ensure quality assurance, monitoring, and reporting.

Advise evaluation colleagues on how to effectively integrate AAP and PSEA into data collection, tracking, analysis and reporting on indicators for programme results and ensuring AAP and PSEA key performance indicators and benchmarks are included in M&E systems.

Provide regular field monitoring support to UNFPA programme locations, particularly to hard-to-reach communities.

Follow up, document, and report the corrective measures and programme adaptations made based on community feedback and insights. 

Actively participate in and support UNFPA's field office management team to ensure strategic inclusion of AAP and PSEA in all field specific programming.

Ensure that the youth community engagement related activities are implemented in ways responsive to communities, partners and youth in line with UNFPA principles, values and procedures.

Ensure that UNFPA Implementing Partners’ management and field staff understand the technical requirements for youth engagement in AAP and PSEA activities, including youth volunteers networks mobilisation, capacity building, and budget allocations. 

Provide required capacity building and orientation for youth volunteers related to AAP and PSEA activities.

Proactively engage with the youth to strengthen youth networks to actively participate in community engagement processes.

Any other related tasks as may be required or assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications and Experience: 

Education:  

Advanced (Master’s) degree in humanitarian action, international development, disaster management, social science or related field; A Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of experience in lieu of Master’s degree will be accepted;

 Experience: 

At least 3 years of professional work experience in humanitarian coordination, cross-cutting issues, disaster management, AAP, PSEA, gender, inclusion;

Specific experience in AAP, PSEA and Disability Inclusion in disaster response or complex emergencies is desirable.

Experience working in the UN or other international development organisation is an asset;

Excellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting, formulation, reporting skills;

Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing;

Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners, including grassroots community members, religious and youth organisations, and authorities at different levels; familiarity with tools and approaches of communications for development;

Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a challenging environment; ability to work effectively in a multicultural team of international and national personnel;

Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various MS Office applications (Excel, Word, etc.) and email/internet; familiarity with database management; and office technology equipment;

Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision; ability to work with tight deadlines;

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Sound security awareness;

Have affinity with or interest in reproductive health, gender, protection, adolescent and youth, volunteerism as a mechanism for durable development, and the UN System.

Disclaimer: 

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