UNFPA Ghana Calls For Job Applications
ROLE: Project Officer – Monitoring and Reporting – Peacebuilding Fund
The position
UNFPA Ghana contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) 2023-2025, collaborating with Ghana’s government and people to promote long-term economic and social development, peace, and human rights.
UNFPA, in collaboration with UNDP, is implementing a peace-building project in Ghana’s three northern regions titled Enhancing social cohesion and social contract, through empowerment of women and youth, as part of its efforts to end conflict-related gender-based violence and harmful practices and increase the voices of young people in local government. The initiative seeks to prevent and solve the underlying causes of localised and spillover conflicts, as well as vulnerabilities to violent extremism in Northern Ghana.
The project would specifically empower local governance institutions, actors, and customary governance structures to enable more inclusive, responsive, and responsible governance, economic development, and quality service delivery in these marginalised regions, resulting in a peace dividend.
How to make a difference:
UNFPA is the primary UN organisation responsible for achieving a future in which every pregnancy is desired, every childbirth is safe, and every young person’s potential is realised. The UNFPA strategic plan (2022-2025) maintains the validity of the organization’s existing strategic orientation and focuses on three transformative outcomes: the abolition of needless maternal deaths, the elimination of unmet family planning needs, and the abolition of gender-based violence and harmful behaviours.
These findings reflect our strategic commitments to accelerate progress towards achieving the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategy plan encourages UN Member States, organisations, and individuals to “build forward better” while addressing the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recouping lost gains, and achieving our objectives.
In a world when fundamental human rights are under threat, we require principled and ethical employees who reflect international norms and standards and will defend them bravely and with full conviction.
UNFPA is looking for applicants who can transform, inspire, and produce high impact and sustained results; we require staff who are transparent, excellent in how they handle the resources entrusted to them, and committed to delivering excellence in programme results.
Job Purpose:
• To offer monitoring, analytical, reporting, and programmatic support to the Peace Building Fund (PBF) Project, as well as to help implement activities and track results as defined in Ghana’s PBF Programme Document.
You’d be liable for:
- Assist with project execution planning at the short (quarterly, annual) and medium (two-year) levels.
- Coordinate with UNFPA, UNDP, and other partners, especially implementing partners, to ensure that project planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting go smoothly.
- Plan and implement a project monitoring and evaluation system, including a database, and coordinate UNFPA-specific and joint field monitoring visits to project locations and activities.
- Oversee the creation of high-quality project reports for management review.
- Plan, implement, and report on high-quality projects, as well as conduct research and document best practices.
- Engage and network with partners to promote the project’s aims and the wider goal of peace and security.
- Support the development of project proposals to promote peace and security in Ghana.
Qualifications & Experience
- A minimum of seven years of expertise in programme monitoring, evaluation, learning, and reporting.
Education:
- A master’s degree in social sciences, such as demography, sociology, international development, or statistics. Proven work expertise in project management, monitoring and evaluation, governance, gender, and youth development is required.
Knowledge and experience:
- Comprehensive understanding of peacebuilding, governance, gender, youth, population, and development dynamics.
- Research experience in cross-border conflicts, peace and security, gender and social norms, and the humanitarian, peace, and development nexus in Ghana.
- Experience with planning processes and effective group facilitation skills
- At least one year of experience working with an international organisation on peacekeeping, governance, gender and social norms, population issues, data, and development.
- Knowledge/skills in developing/updating digital data systems to aid programme execution.
- Excellent communication/presentation, report-writing, and documentation abilities.
- Experience developing manuals, protocols, training materials, and tools.
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with varied groups from various backgrounds.
- Strong understanding of global and national conflict resolution and development processes in Ghana.
- Understanding the UN system and the development sector is advantageous.
Languages: Fluency in both oral and written English.
Required Competencies:
• Proficiency with current office software applications.
Values:
- Demonstrating honesty, devotion to UNFPA and the UN system, respect for cultural variety, and acceptance of change.
Core competencies:
- Achieve results,
- Be accountable,
- Develop professional expertise/business acumen.
- Think critically and strategically.
- Working in teams and managing ourselves and our relationships.
Location: Accra.
How to Apply for this UNFPA Ghana Job
To submit your application, click the link below and fill out all the required fields on the online application form.
Closing Date: March 11, 2024
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