Vacancies at United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)

The Country Action Specialist, (Convergence Hub) reports to the Regional Representative.  The SUN Country Action team is critical in supporting the SUN Movement to achieve the objectives set out in SUN 3.0, and provides the capacity to ensure SUN Countries are at the centre of everything the Movement does, empowering SUN Country Focal Points and/or Country Coordinators to act.  The team is currently organised into five Hubs, and the Country Action Specialist supports the Convergence Hub countries, focusing particularly on the French speaking  countries. 

The Country Action Specialist, Convergence Hub is based in Nairobi and is part of a small team established to support the development of National Nutrition Plans, facilitate information sharing and knowledge exchange, and identify advocacy opportunities across the countries within the defined portfolio.  The Specialist will work closely with national counterparts and other stakeholders, including representatives of the SUN Networks, to strengthen the institutional capacity for nutrition by identifying, creating and strengthening opportunities to accelerate progress in countries; identifying successful interventions and moving quickly to scale up results and ensuring effective peer learning and knowledge exchange across the Movement.  

The role supports the Regional Representative  to build and maintain effective understanding, communication and technical support across the broad national and international community of stakeholders to understand risks and challenges so that resources may be mobilised and technical assistance provided as necessary.
Education

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in nutrition, public health, international development, public policy or  related field.
• A bachelor's degree with a combination of two additional years of relevant experience may be accepted  in lieu of the Master's degree.

Experience

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in international development, public health, nutrition or related field is required.
• Demonstrated professional work experience in an international setting, with at least three (3) years in a field setting is required.
• Experience working in humanitarian contexts, preferably in the nutrition sphere,  is highly desirable
• Experience working in the Africa region is desirable (especially Francophone Africa as the Country action Specialist will also cover French speaking  countries).

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Role of the Menstrual Hygiene Country Markets Specialist

Reporting to the Menstrual Hygiene Markets Specialist, and coordinating with the Country Fund Portfolio Manager and wider SHF technical team, this role will support the coordination, oversight and advancement of SHFs MH Markets work in the priority countries. These include but are not limited to Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and, potentially, India.This will also require collaboration with external stakeholders, partners and third-party service providers. 

This role will add technical MH Market expertise in the SHF countries of operation and strengthen the delivery of activities and programs. It will enhance the capacity to engage with government partners and other stakeholders from a technical perspective, increase the MH Market understanding for the individual countries and help identify opportunities to expand SHFs work and partnerships. 

Specifically, this role will support in the timely and successful delivery of several SHF MH Market programs and activities, including but not limited to: 

• SHF’s “MHH Markets support program for SMEs”; 
• The roll-out of the MH Market Maturity Framework;
• The provision of technical assistance to national governments;
• The development and adoption of ISO menstrual product standards in LMICs. 
• Identification and information gathering for new opportunities, partnerships and MH Market players. 
• Representation of SHF at conferences, events and public meetings as well as support with advocacy efforts.
• In addition this role will support the achievement of the broader organizational goals including but not limited to partnerships, resource mobilization, communications, operations and events. 
• The role will require official travel, which will take up about 15% of  the assignment.

Education

• A Master's degree in finance, marketing, business administration, economics, international development or another relevant social science discipline.
• A bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business administration, marketing, international development, or another relevant social science discipline with a combination of two additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of the master's degree.

Experience

• Minimum  of five (5) years experience required of relevant professional and technical experience in market-based approaches to MH in the context of emerging markets/low and middle income countries. 
• Experience working for a for-profit- or social- menstrual health enterprise, or supporting MH enterprises is required.
• Experience in approaches for market assessments, specifically for menstrual health markets is required.
• Experience in menstrual product standards development is desirable . 
• Experience working with governments on policies or regulatory reforms in MH or related women’s health or WASH is desirable.