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Post title: Field Monitoring Specialist

Project ID: UKR02GEN in the framework of donor-funded project “Strengthening humanitarian response to the need of most vulnerable women and female adolescents affected by armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine through multi-sectorial prevention and response to GBV and access to SRH services”

Location/Duty station:  Severodonetsk, Ukraine

Type of Contract: Individual Service Contract

Languages Required: English, Ukrainian, Russian  

Duration of Initial Contract: till 31 of December 2015 with possible extension

Job purpose:

UNFPA CO Ukraine is implementing project “Strengthening humanitarian response to the need of most vulnerable women and female adolescents affected by armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine through multi-sectorial prevention and response to GBV and access to SRH services” co-funded by DIFD, Government of USA and UNFPA.

The project is addressing two key inter-dependent objectives:

• To address immediate needs of GBV survivors (life-saving protection) through coordination, continuous monitoring and assessment of GBV prevalence, advocacy and multi-sectorial referral mechanism at the regional levels.
• To strengthening capacity of local service providers (Legal protection, socio-psychological support, health care, security) to respond to GBV (including referral and provision of services to survivors) and implement community-level prevention programs. 

Field Monitoring Specialist under the overall guidance of the GBV Sub-cluster Coordinator – Chief Technical Adviser and direct supervision of Senior Field Coordinator will support and maintain work of the Regional Working Group on GBV through partnership and coordination with multiple actors and effectively run the project activities in the region.

Duties and responsabilities:

• Support functioning of the regional multi-sectoral Working Group on GBV (GBV RWG) to  ensure proper multisectorial coordination and response to GBV in the region;
• Maintain regular contacts and ensure active engagement into activities of the GBV RWG of  all relevant partners, including government authorities and institutions,  NGOs, UN Agencies, international organizations;
• Work in close cooperation with the Protection, Health and other Cluster partners in the region to ensure that GBV response is  integrated into overall humanitarian response actions;
• Attend on behalf of national GBV sub cluster  humanitarian coordination meetings in the region, including Protection cluster meetings and  substantively contribute to the discussion, keeping GBV issues on the Agenda and regular sharing of  information on GBV sub-cluster activities;
• Provide support to impmention of project activities in the region as required by CTA and Project manager;
• Provide regular reports as required by GBV CTA and Senior Field Coordinator;
• Support and promote  GBV Information Provision and Awareness Activities in the region;
• Ensure project activities visibility in the region through maintaining contacts and engagement of regional mass media.

Measurable outputs of the wokr assignment:

• Regional multi-sectoral Working Group on GBV (GBV RWG) established and functioning;
• GBV response is effectively integrated into overall humanitarian response in the region;
• Smooth project activities implementation in the region  with engagement of relevant regional stakeholders;
• GBV issues regularly included onto the agenda of humanitarian coordination meetings;
• CO timely receives required reports of good quality.

Requirement and qualifications:

• University degree in Social & Political Sciences, Gender Studies, Human Rights Law, International Relations, Public Administration and other related fields;
• 5 years of relevant work experience;
• Experience of work with the international organizations, high-level government officials representing central executive and legislative bodies and local administrations;
• Experience in preparing and facilitation of meetings, workshops;
• Good analytical and presentational skills;
• Good understanding of legal and governing basis of functioning of the institutional structures of Ukraine in respective field and established contacts with relevant institutions in the region;
• Good command in office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.).
• Fluency in Ukrainian and Russian. Working level of English will be very strong asset.

How to apply 

Applicants that fulfil the above requirements are requested to submit a CV and a cover letter describing their professional interests in working for UNFPA.

The deadline for submission of applications is 2 November, 2015.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Please, indicate Field Monitoring Specialist (Severodonetsk) in the subject.

E-mail: [email protected]