Sexual and Reproductive Health Officer – RH Coordination, MISP & IM

Host entity: UNFPA

Volunteer type: National

Areas of expertise: Community development, Emergency preparedness, crisis response, Communication, advocacy, public information

Application deadline: 28/10/2026

Mission and objectives

UNFPA has been working in Yemen since early 1970s. UNFPA’s 5th Country Programe for Yemen from 2012-2015 has been extended since 2016. The current country programme has been directed to a humanitarian response upon the activation of a Level 3 emergency response in Yemen on 1 July 2015.

UNFPA’s response in Yemen aims at meeting the reproductive health needs of women and girls and ensuring that they are protected from gender-based violence, working in close partnership with local authorities, non-governmental partners and UN agencies across the country.

Assignment context

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 (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and 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 Yemen, sudden climate-induced flooding combined with protracted conflict-driven displacements create emergency survival crises daily. The inter-agency Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) led by UNFPA ensures life-saving aid pipelines (including Dignity Kits, hygiene packages, and emergency food rations) are deployed to highly vulnerable displaced families within 48 to 72 hours of a trigger shock. To support this mechanism, the RRM Information Management (IM) Officer operates at the National UN Associate tier to govern field registration tracking engines, clean up data registries across partners, maintain mapping systems, and streamline information visibility pipelines.


The assignment will contribute to effective coordination with implementing partners and relevant humanitarian working groups, improve the collection and analysis of reproductive health data, support rapid assessments, and strengthen health information systems to ensure that response activities are evidence-based, well-coordinated, and responsive to the needs of women and girls affected by the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, with authorized field missions.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of head of reproductive health unit, reproductive health specialist the national UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
1. Closely with the RH coordinator and thematic team leader, the reproductive health team and field officer ensuring the implementation of the program activities for the assigned projects (MISP including CMR), through regular follow up with the implementing partners, advocacy efforts, coordination mechanisms and providing technical assistance.
2. Assist and support the functionality of the RH working group at national and subnational level, ensuring that relevant coordination functions are effectively performed with emphasis on partners engagement, mapping of services, updating the RH partners information and 4W.
3. Work closely with program officers, field coordinator and RH officers and team, and the Implementing Partners to ensure the timely implementation of SRHR humanitarian work plans and identify and address any barriers to implementation.
4. Actively participate in both Health Cluster, and Protection GBV Working Groups, relevant discussions at nutrition and WASH clusters to ensure that integration of RH and needs of WGRA are effectively reinstated and priorities into humanitarian response plans and implementation
5. In collaboration with the emergency response team at MoPHP, support the conducting rapid assessments followed by more in-depth assessments. Aggregate the findings in platform for records and long term monitoring.
6. Assist and facilitate the role of the Head of section, and relevant field officers in developing and/or revising training materials according to local context and implement relevant training sessions on The Minimum Initial Services Packages (MISP) and Clinical Management of Rape (CMR), for different humanitarian actors.
7. Assist the program analysts and specialist in developing a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework for each grant/project, ensure follow up with the field team on the 4W, and 3 W, support the SRH coordination forum compilation of partner’s achievement. Support both the head of section and the coordinator, in addition to the field officers to design, build, and maintain health information systems for the SRH Working Group to enable regular SRH data compilation across the Health Cluster.
8. Work closely with the RH coordinator, RH team, field officers and partners assisting in preparation of sitreps for OCHA and Health cluster on regular basis for the RH working group updates, presentation, inputs to sitreps.
9. Support the program analysts and specialist to analyze and report on implementation of the assigned program activities, measure progress, identify obstacles/challenges in the implementation of projects that needs to be addressed and document the impact and achievement of each project in line with the annual work plans targets, and UNFPA strategic targets,
10. Support the program analysts and specialists in the analysis of processed data and information and perform data quality and consistency control to analyze and report on implementation of the assigned program/project activities, measure progress, identify obstacles/challenges in the implementation of projects that need to be addressed and document the impact and achievement of each project in line with the annual work plans targets, and UNFPA strategic targets,
11. Coordinate with partners to ensure that monitoring system are properly designed, and that data collection and analysis from field visits are coordinated and standardized to feed into to program performance monitoring
12. Provide other forms of assistance as required and instructed by the direct supervisors.

Skills and experience

●Minimum of 3 years of professional field experience managing emergency registration tracking systems, humanitarian information pipelines, or mobile data applications.
● Strong familiarity with mobile data environments, specifically KoboToolbox, ODK, and relational database systems.
● Prior experience cleaning large datasets and generating basic visual performance tracking tables or maps.
● High precision in document management combined with a strict professional stance toward data safety and participant confidentiality.
● Excellent collaborative and cross-cultural interpersonal capability to operate effectively within high-pressure field teams.
● Sound situational security awareness inside complex field operational settings.

Competencies and values

Values:
• Exemplifying integrity
• Commitment to UNFPA and the UN system
• Embracing diversity and context fluidity
• Embracing operational resilience

Core Competencies:
• Achieving results responsibly
• Being thoroughly accountable
• Developing technical tracking acumen
• Analytical and structural thinking
• Collaborative data teamwork
• Safe and transparent communication

Functional Competencies:
• Database and Information Management
• Managing sensitive field registries securely
• KoboToolbox tool configuration and rollout
• Supporting emergency logistics pipelines
• Grassroots analytical reporting grids

Living conditions

As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials. National UN Volunteers are part of the medical insurance plan.

National UN Specialist volunteers in Yemen are entitled to:
- Monthly Living Allowance 1,385.92 $
- Non Pensionable Bonus 364.50 $
- Well - Being Differential 415.78 $
-Annal and learning leaves
- free medical and life insurance
- free access to different learning platforms


The complete UN Volunteer Conditions of Service is available at https://explore.unv.org/cos.”

Full eligibility requirements, conditions of service and application instructions are available on the official UNV platform.