Regional Director, Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office Specialist

hace 1 día


Panamá, Panamá, Panamá United Nations Population Fund A tiempo completo

About UNFPA

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is a global development agency that works to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled. As the lead UN agency for population and development, we are committed to advancing the health, well-being, and rights of all individuals, particularly women and girls.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly qualified and experienced Regional Director to lead our work in Latin America and the Caribbean. The successful candidate will provide strategic direction, leadership, and vision to drive our regional program forward, ensuring that our interventions are effective, efficient, and aligned with our global goals.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic direction and leadership to the regional office, ensuring that our programs and activities are aligned with our global goals and priorities.
  • Lead the development and implementation of regional strategies, including capacity development, technical support delivery, and advocacy.
  • Ensure that our regional office is responsive to the needs of country offices and country programs, providing high-quality integrated program and technical support.
  • Represent UNFPA at regional, international, and UNSDG-level forums, advocating for the ICPD agenda and promoting our regional perspective.
  • Foster collaboration and coordination among regional office business units, sub-regional offices, and country offices, ensuring timely, adequate, quality, and relevance of work.

Requirements

To be considered for this role, you must have:

  • A minimum of 15 years of increasingly responsible professional experience in public administration and international development, with at least 10 years in the field of population and development at the international level.
  • A deep understanding of the political, social, and economic landscape of Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • A strong track record of leadership in development programs, with proven ability to lead, develop, and motivate diverse teams to achieve demonstrable results.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Spanish, with knowledge of French and/or Portuguese an asset.
  • Fluency in English and Spanish required; and knowledge of French and/or Portuguese would be an asset.

Competencies

The ideal candidate will possess:

  • Values: Exemplifying integrity, demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system, embracing cultural diversity, and embracing change.
  • Core Competencies: Achieving results, being accountable, developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen, thinking analytically and strategically, working in teams/managing ourselves and our relationships, and communicating for impact.
  • Functional Competencies: Advocacy/advancing a policy-oriented agenda, results-based programme development and management, leveraging resources of national governments and partners, innovation and marketing of new approaches, resource mobilization, job knowledge/technical expertise.
  • Managerial Competencies: Providing strategic focus, global leadership and advocacy for the ICPD goals, leading, developing, and empowering people, creating a culture of performance, promoting organisational learning and knowledge sharing, engaging internal/external partners and stakeholders, and creating visibility for the organisation.

Benefits

This position offers a competitive remuneration package, including a net salary, health insurance, and other benefits as applicable.

Work Environment

UNFPA provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, diversity, integrity, and healthy work-life balance. We are committed to ensuring gender parity in the organization and encourage applications from underrepresented groups.



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