Representative

Provide executive leadership for UNFPA in Afghanistan, safeguarding operational space for women and girls through political dialogue, humanitarian diplomacy and inter-agency leadership. The Representative directs a major crisis portfolio, mobilises financing, manages enterprise risk and leads a multidisciplinary country team.

• Lead political and policy dialogue with de facto authorities, diplomatic missions and donors
• Position sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and population priorities in United Nations crisis strategies
• Direct adaptive humanitarian and development programmes in a volatile high-threat environment
• Build multi-year funding alliances and negotiate complex donor agreements
• Exercise executive oversight of enterprise risk, internal controls, audit readiness and financial stewardship
• Lead a large multidisciplinary team and maintain workforce safety, well-being and duty of care
• Represent UNFPA in country and humanitarian teams and system-wide planning mechanisms

• Advanced university degree in public health, medicine, sociology, demography, gender, international relations, development, economics, public administration, management or a related field
• A minimum of fifteen years of increasingly responsible professional experience in public administration and international development
• International experience in population and development, sexual and reproductive health or humanitarian programming
• Experience in advocacy, policy dialogue and high-level representation
• Proven ability to lead teams and achieve high-quality results
• Field experience
• Experience leading complex humanitarian crises and fragile-state operations
• Fluency in English
• Fluency in another official United Nations language depending on duty-station requirements

• Reports to the Regional Director
• Job description is pending classification at the D-2 level