The Programme Specialist, Humanitarian Coordination and Gender-Based Violence Further, will assume overall responsibility for ensuring effective and efficient coordination, and programmatic and operational leadership to UNFPA humanitarian programming in Myanmar. The incumbent will manage a team that will ensure the provision of quality Gender Based Violence (GBV) services and GBV prevention and will work with the Team Lead, SRH, to promote access and availability to quality SRH services and response during emergencies and through early recovery phases. The incumbent will represent UNFPA during implementing partner, donor and inter-agency meetings, and will ensure strategic vision, rational decision-making and collaborative partnerships are prioritized, with the health and protection of women and girls remaining at the center of all activities and will oversee the provision of technical support and institutional and programmatic capacity building to partners. Further, the incumbent will support UNFPA to develop strengthened capacities to formulate and implement multi sectoral, rights-based interventions that prevent and mitigate the impact of gender-based violence across the humanitarian, peacebuilding and development nexus.

You would be responsible for:

A. Technical Support and Programming:

• Assume the overall coordination for planning, implementing, and monitoring of UNFPA’s humanitarian response, and remain flexible, adapting to changing political and funding contexts in Myanmar.
• Identify areas of UNFPA interventions and collaborate with humanitarian agencies and national partners to address the needs of the women and girls in Myanmar.
• Oversee the preparation of UNFPA inputs to coordination meetings and others, related to the humanitarian response, ensuring follow-up and attention to the organizational mandate.
• Undertake field visits, as required, to camps, settlements, and host communities to gather information on the immediate/emerging needs of those in need and the services to be provided and recommend strategic approaches for the delivery of quality SRH and GBV services.
• Ensure appropriate, timely liaison with the operations and program teams to monitor effective and timely procurement, distribution and utilization of emergency RH kits, dignity kits, clean delivery kits, essential women’s items, and other commodities that the Myanmar office has procured for the response.
• Participate in /ensure inclusion of UNFPA’s core Areas of Responsibility in rapid field/needs assessments of the crisis-affected populations.
• Coordinate and support the coherent and effective implementation of the SRH and GBV components of UNFPA’s humanitarian response, peacebuilding and development activities, using a results-based approach incorporating creativity, innovation, and responsiveness to the needs, and thorough monitoring and reporting.
• Provide programmatic coordination and guidance to strengthen the integration of gender-based violence prevention, response and coordination issues into humanitarian frameworks and other HDP nexus plans.
• Develop/strengthen Humanitarian SRH and GBV in the context of conflict recovery, peace building and development coordination mechanisms and ensure planning and monitoring linkages with provincial-level structures, and integration into relevant strategies, planning and programming frameworks.
• Provide technical support to the country office, the UN and other partners aimed at capacity building and institutional strengthening.
• Support and advise the country office management and build knowledge and programming practices in relation to Humanitarian, SRH and GBV programming.
• Support development of guidelines and strategies for UNFPA including partnership, localization and youth strategies and technical guidelines for the integration of GBV and SRHR as well as other relevant and pertinent guidance as requested and required.
• Lead and/or contribute in writing proposals and engaging in resource mobilization efforts to support joint programming.
• Lead development of SRH and GBV guidelines and standard operating procedures to support quality case management of SRH and GBV across the multi sectoral response areas.
• Provide strategic guidance for the implementation of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support strategy, inclusive of supervision and mentoring structures.
• Ongoing management of multiple implementing partners across social, health, security and justice services in both the humanitarian and development responses.
• Provide technical support to the development of relevant advocacy and policy documents to address SRH and GBV and broader gender equality issues through various key ministries and humanitarian partners.

B. Partnerships and Coordination

• Lead and coordinate within UNFPA to support technical assistance for the development and implementation of the Action Plans under the SRH and GBV Technical Working Groups (TWGs) and ensure strong and effective UNFPA participation in all TWGs to ensure linkages.
• Work in close collaboration with the relevant counterparts, the chairs of the various working groups/clusters, and other stakeholders to strengthen and facilitate inter-agency, multi-sectoral SRH and GBV response interventions at national level.
• Represent UNFPA at the ICCG and liaise with other humanitarian cluster and sectors, Humanitarian Coordinators, managers and gender advisers in other agencies and organizations (including governments, national and international NGOs and women’s groups)
• Work in close partnerships with other sectors to ensure GBV and SRH is mainstreamed across other areas of humanitarian intervention such as Shelter, Cash, WASH and Health sectors.
• Promote and facilitate the inclusion of GBV and SRH into all assessment tools, preparedness and contingency planning, the Humanitarian Response Plan and other appeal processes and documents.
• Support and lead implementation of integrated Gender Equality, SRHR, population dynamics programmes to ensure quality services across the humanitarian, peacebuilding and development nexus.
• Maintain coordination across both the humanitarian, peacebuilding and development structures to ensure that UNFPA programming is integrated across the sectors.
• Coordinate with the UNFPA regional office and HQ as and when needed for information sharing and channeling technical support to GBV field level coordination in Myanmar.

C. Capacity Building:

• Provide technical support to revise, develop and standardize contextualized training and IEC materials.
• Ensure case management assessments are conducted annually with all implementing partners with a view