The Consultant reports directly to the Gender Technical Advisor and working in close collaboration with the SRH Specialist. UNFPA expands the possibilities for women and young people to lead healthy and productive lives. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV and AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect. Advancing gender equality and promoting the empowerment of women is a key programme priority of UNFPA defined in the UNFPA Strategic Plan. The Vanuatu country programme of the Spotlight Initiative will focus on eliminating intimate partner violence. Through a comprehensive approach, the Spotlight Initiative will focus its work on eliminating intimate partner violence through six key pillars: I) developing and implementing relevant legislation and policies, II) strengthening national and sub-national institutions, III) preventing violence through evidence-based programmes and campaigns, IV) ensuring the collection and use of prevalence and incidence data, V) establishing essential services for victims and survivors, and VI) partnering directly with women’s movements and civil society. The consultant will hold the lead responsibility for setting up and managing on going programme activities, research & networking, communications and monitoring and evaluation for the Spotlight programme in Vanuatu, including support for UNFPA in its lead technical role but also for other Recipient UN Organisations (RUNOs) namely UNDP, IOM and UNICEF. S/he will be part of the UNFPA Vanuatu Programme team, which provides integrated programme and technical support within a systems strengthening approach fundamental to implementation of UNFPA’s overall strategy in Vanuatu and the Pacific. Reporting to Gender Technical Advisor based in the Pacific Sub Regional Office in Fiji, the Programme Specialist will work with members of the Spotlight Initiative RUNOs as well as UN Women as an Associated Agency, UN Resident Coordinators Office as well as the National Steering Committee and Civil Society Reference Group, and Spotlight Initiative implementing partners.
