Assistant technique à la Direction Régionale de Santé - Guidimakha

Provides UNFPA technical support to Mauritania's Guidimakha Regional Health Directorate for sexual and reproductive health, maternal health and gender-based-violence interventions. The role coordinates planning, quality assurance, data use and partnerships while strengthening mobile and community services for vulnerable populations in development and humanitarian settings.

• Support planning, implementation and monitoring of sexual and reproductive health, maternal-health and gender-based-violence interventions
• Coordinate with regional health authorities, districts, partners and humanitarian actors
• Provide technical support and build capacity through training, mentoring and supervision
• Organise formative supervision and uphold care-quality and humanitarian standards
• Collect, validate and analyse programme data for performance monitoring and decision-making
• Prepare technical reports and document results, good practice and lessons
• Monitor reproductive-health commodities and support mobile clinics and outreach strategies
• Represent UNFPA in regional technical coordination mechanisms and strengthen partnerships

• At least seven years of experience in planning, coordination, implementation, monitoring or management of health, reproductive-health, maternal-health, gender-based-violence or humanitarian programmes
• Master’s-level qualification in public health, medical sciences, health-services management, project management, demography, social sciences or a related field
• Experience with Mauritania’s health system and health policies
• Experience in capacity building, supportive supervision and technical coordination
• Ability to work under pressure and undertake frequent field missions
• Proficiency with common IT and data-management tools

• Knowledge of humanitarian approaches, MISP, Sphere and IASC standards

• Reproductive Health
• Maternal Health
• Gender-Based Violence Prevention
• Health Programme Management
• Health Systems Strengthening
• Quality Assurance
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Data Analysis
• Humanitarian Coordination
• Capacity Building

• Microsoft Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Outlook
• MISP
• Sphere
• IASC

• National Expert UN Volunteer assignment
• One-year assignment
• Frequent field missions, including to difficult-to-access areas