ASSISTANT REPRESENTATIVE

Assistant Representative Development Financing, Resource Mobilization & Partnership

Duty Station

Kigali, Rwanda

Type of Post

Fixed Term

Deadline

2025-04-05

The Position:

The Assistant Representative is a senior position based in UNFPA Rwanda's Country Office, a member of the Country Office Senior Management Team, and reports directly to the UNFPA Country Representative.

How you can make a difference:

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2018-2021), focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices.

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 that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

Job Purpose:

UNFPA Rwanda has been collaborating with the Government of Rwanda to deliver on the ICPD Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within national development frameworks and the UN Delivering as One (DaO) context. In line with its Country Programme, UNFPA works to ensure that sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights (SRHR), gender equality, youth empowerment and population and data are central to national initiatives to promote social economic development.

The Assistant Representative is a senior position based in UNFPA Rwanda's Country Office, a member of the Country Office Senior Management Team, and reports directly to the UNFPA Country Representative..S/he works closely with the other members of the country office management team to analyze and assess relevant political, social and economic trends and provide substantive inputs to project formulation and evaluation, joint programming initiatives and provides technical assistance to the government in the articulation of national development frameworks. S/he facilitates the work of consultants, technical advisers and experts and promotes partnership, synergy and strategic alliances with counterparts in government, multilateral and bilateral agencies and the civil society. S/he contributes to UN systems coordination through participation in policy dialogues and the provision of inputs into joint common system initiatives.

The incumbent will support the representative in provides vital technical inputs to all activities pertaining to external relations and private sector partnership and assists the country office in innovative financing, mobilizing resources and partnerships in support of UNFPA Mandate and Programming in Rwanda.More importantly, the position will lead UNFPA’s efforts to articulate and implement its value proposition in development finance, and the use of innovative financial approaches to support program interventions in the country. S/he will lead resource mobilization efforts and work with other colleagues to develop funding proposals and strategic partnerships while demonstrating “value for money” to donors through effective articulation and communication of results.

Main Responsibilities/Expected Results: Under the overall guidance of the Representative and in collaboration with the other members of the CO management team, the Assistant Representative will perform the following functions:

A. Thought Leadership - S/he will

Leverage access to senior government and national officials to prompt and advocate for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Rwanda; Analyze and interpret the political and socio-economic environment relevant to population and development, reproductive health and gender and identify opportunities for UNFPA assistance and intervention;Keep abreast of new policy developments and strategies, analyse policy papers, strategy documents, national plans and development frameworks and advise the Representative including preparing briefs and inputs for policy dialogue, technical assistance coordination and development frameworks; Contribute substantially to the implementation of UNFPA activities in line with the national priorities and in accordance with the UNFPA’s Strategic Plan, programme policies and procedures while taking into account political, social and cultural sensitivities;Advise management on the policy dialogue needed for the preparation and revision of national and local level plans of actions ensuring that UNFPA’s priorities are taken into account in National Development Plans and Sector Plans through active participation and leadership in relevant working groups with Government and Development Partners.

B. Dev…