Consultancy: TAHub03_Call for Individual Technical Experts: Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Consultancy Application requirement:
Specific details will be determined based on the technical assignment for which the candidate is eligible for.
To be registered for future assignments kindly submit your CV and cover letter, as well as three relevant examples of your previous work.
Background of consultancy:
The 2gether 4 SRHR is a joint United Nations Regional Programme that brings together the combined efforts of UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, and WHO to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of all people in Eastern and Southern Africa.
One of the objectives of the programme is to provide timely and quality-assured technical assistance (TA) to continental and regional economic communities, parliamentary fora, participating in United Nations agencies, and countries.
To achieve this, the Programme developed a regional SRHR Technical Assistance Hub, which is a roster of pre-determined quality-assured technical experts, professional organizations, institutions, and partners working on SRHR in the region.
This call is for technical experts to apply for consideration to be added to the Technical Assistance Hub. Applicants will be assessed based on each call, relevant qualifications, previous experience and examples of previous work. Once included in the roster you will have preferential access to consulting opportunities to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all people in East and Southern Africa.
Selected candidates will be contracted by one of the four participating UN agencies of 2gether 4 SRHR (UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF and WHO) or other partners using their internal policies and procedures. Inclusion in the TA Hub does not constitute a contractual obligation by any participating party.
How you can make a difference:
UNFPA is the lead United Nations agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is intended, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled. The UNFPA Strategic Plan for 2026-2029 articulates the organization’s response to a complex global environment, providing a roadmap for resilience and renewal. It is designed to accelerate the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This mandate is pursued through a focus on four interconnected outcomes: ending the unmet need for family planning; ending preventable maternal deaths; ending gender-based violence, harmful practices and HIV; and adapting to demographic change through evidence and rights-based policies.
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 who transform, inspire, and deliver high-impact and sustained results and ensure effective external relations, communications, and partnership-building and resource mobilization in a rapidly changing development and funding landscape. We need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them, and who commit to delivering excellence in programme results.
Purpose of consultancy:
This call seeks to identify technical experts to support countries to effectively implement and institutionalize humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) Nexus approaches in their programming, planning, and partnerships.
In a world of increasing fragility and protracted crises, there is a critical need to fully integrate HDP continuum approaches into national efforts and programming. This approach ensures that life-saving humanitarian action, long-term development initiatives, and peacebuilding interventions are mutually reinforcing, contributing to lasting stability and resilience for the populations served, particularly women, adolescents, and youth.
To this end, 2gether 4 SRHR seeks qualified and experienced technical experts to be added to the TA Hub who can be deployed to provide technical guidance and strategic support to countries to operationalize HDP Nexus approaches.
The technical experts will support countries to ensure that the HDP approach is incorporated into relevant policies and strategies, to develop guidance for countries to operationalise the HDP, support the design of HDP interventions that contribute to collective outcomes that reduce humanitarian needs, address root causes, and build sustainable peace.
Scope of work: (Description of services, activities, or outputs)
Selected technical experts will be invited to register for the TA Hub to provide technical assistance to regional institutions and countries in one or more of the following areas:
● Researchers with experience in undertaking operational and programmatic research relating to the HDP and SRHR to generate evidence to inform country responses, identify entry points, gaps and opportunities to strengthen SRHR within HDP programming.
● Policy Specialists with experience in working on the SRHR and HDP to provide support to countries to develop national HDP Nexus, to review and incorporate HDP into existing policy frameworks.
● Programme Specialists with experience in designing SRHR and HDP interventions that can support countries to develop national interventions that incorporate SRHR into HDP Programming.
● Experts with experience in designing capacity building programmes, including the development of course materials for national policy makers and implementers to incorporate the SRHR into the HDP Nexus.
Duration and working schedule:
Assignments will be determined based on specific technical assignments identified by the participating UN agencies, countries and other regional partners
Place where services are to be delivered:
Details will be determined based on the specific technical assignments identified by the participating UN agencies, countries and other regional partners.
Delivery dates and how work will be delivered (e.g. electronic, hard copy etc.):
Details will be determined based on the specific technical assignments identified by the participating UN agencies, countries and other regional partners.
Monitoring and progress control, including reporting requirements, periodicity format and deadline:
Regular check-in meetings.
Supervisory arrangements:
Technical experts will be contracted by the relevant UN agency and/or partner using their identified procurement processes.
Expected travel:
Travel will be based on the nature of the assignment that the technical expert may be contracted for
Required expertise, qualifications and competencies, including language requirements:
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Inputs / services to be provided by UNFPA or implementing partner
Specific details will be determined based on the technical assignment for which the candidate is eligible for.
Other relevant information or special conditions, if any:
Specific details will be determined based on the technical assignment for which the candidate is eligible for.
To be registered for future assignments kindly submit your CV and cover letter, as well as three relevant examples of your previous work.
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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.
