Mission and objectives

UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA Supports: 1. Reproductive health care for women and youth in more than 150 countries – which are home to more than 80 per cent of the world’s population 2. The health of pregnant women, especially the 1 million who face life-threatening complications each month 3. Reliable access to modern contraceptives sufficient to benefit 20 million women a year 4. Training of thousands of health workers to help ensure at least 90 per cent of all childbirths are supervised by skilled attendants 5. Prevention of gender-based violence, which affects 1 in 3 women 6. Abandonment of female genital mutilation, which harms 3 million girls annually 7. Prevention of teen pregnancies, complications of which are the leading cause of death for girls 15-19 years old 8. Efforts to end child marriage, which could affect an estimated 70 million girls over the next 5 years 9. Delivery of safe birth supplies, dignity kits and other life-saving materials to survivors of conflict and natural disaster 10. Censuses, data collection and analyses, which are essential for development planning

Context

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), established in 1967 as the UN Agency for sexual and reproductive health, works in more than 150 countries to promote gender equality and ensure universal access to reproductive health services, guided by its mission to achieve a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA advances global and national development priorities by supporting countries to end preventable maternal deaths, addressing unmet need for family planning, and eliminate gender-based violence and harmful practices, in line with the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Program of Action and the Sustainable Development Goals. UNFPA has operated in South Sudan since 2006 and established a full Country Office in 2012, working closely with government institutions, UN agencies, civil society organizations, and development partners to strengthen health systems, expand access to quality reproductive health services, train midwives, improve population data for planning, and prevent and respond to gender-based violence. Within humanitarian and recovery settings, UNFPA delivers life-saving sexual and reproductive health interventions and coordinates technical and protection initiatives to support women, girls, and young people. This online volunteering assignment forms part of UNFPA program portfolio in South Sudan, supporting national priorities and UN cooperation frameworks to enhance rights, resilience, and wellbeing across the country.

Task Description

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of UNFPA South Sudan Emergency Coordinator, the Online Volunteer will carry out the following duties: · Develop high-quality static and interactive maps illustrating humanitarian program coverage, service availability, population needs, and humanitarian response indicators. · Produce user-friendly dashboards, infographics, and visual summaries to support analysis, reporting, and decision-making. · Compile, clean, and harmonize datasets from humanitarian team, implementing partners, clusters, and secondary sources to ensure consistency and usability. · Support spatial analysis of needs, gaps, and service delivery coverage to inform planning, prioritization, and targeting. · Generate visual products for situation reports, donor reports, presentations, advocacy materials, and inter-agency coordination platforms. · Maintain and update geospatial datasets, shapefiles, and mapping layers relevant to UNFPA program areas. · Collaborate with humanitarian and monitoring teams to identify priority indicators and visualization needs. · Contribute to data quality assurance processes by identifying inconsistencies, gaps, or anomalies and proposing corrective measures. · Support inter-agency information management initiatives and ensure alignment with common humanitarian data standards where applicable. · Develop simple templates, guidance notes, or tools to standardize visualization formats across teams and partners. · Provide mentorship or technical support to implementing partners on basic data visualization and mapping techniques. · Ensure all visual products adhere to UNFPA branding, data protection, and ethical data use standards. Results/expected outputs: As an active UNFPA team member, efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality support rendered to UNFPA and its beneficiaries in the accomplishment of her/his functions, including: o Production of a core set of standardized maps showing program reach, service coverage, and priority humanitarian indicators for use in reporting, planning, and coordination. o Delivery of user-friendly dashboards or visual reporting tools that enable humanitarian and Monitoring teams to interpret data quickly and support evidence-based decision-making. o Improved availability and organization of program datasets through consolidated, cleaned, and documented data files ready for analysis and visualization. o Regular visual data products such as maps, charts, and infographics produced for situation reports, donor updates, presentations, and advocacy materials. o Strengthened spatial analysis capacity within the Country Office demonstrated through use of mapping products in planning discussions, proposals, and coordination forums. o Updated and maintained geospatial database including administrative boundaries, service locations, and program indicators relevant to UNFPA interventions. o Improved inter-agency coordination through contribution of maps and visual products to cluster or sector information-sharing platforms. o Increased data quality through identification of inconsistencies and provision of recommendations for data improvement.

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