Main Responsibilities
- Policy advocacy
- Developing and coordinatingthe Ghana CO’s policy influence and advocacy agenda and efforts of the Country Office (CO), working closely with the technical leads in the Programme Team, aligned with the results framework as defined by the Country Programme Document and Annual Work Plans.
- Assessing implications of new policy developments and strategies on partnerships, programme execution, and ensuring their integration into the country programme.
- Providing policy support and inputs for strategic planning in line with UNFPA programme policies and procedures, the priorities and development objectives of the national and county level governments in collaboration with Government counterparts, NGOs and other partners.
- Identifying integrated policy solutions across programme components and between national and regional levels.
- Coordinating policy dialogue on emerging issues with the Government, donors, civil society, private sector, academic and research community, contributing to development of Government policies as relevant.
- Working closely with UNFPA personnel to ensure that policy advocacy and outreach is strongly grounded in the experience and insights of the programmes that UNFPA supports.
- Partnership development, Funding and Financing
- Leading the development, implementation and monitoring of the Country Office Resource Mobilization and Partnership strategy and plans, including both Funding and Financing objectives
- Collecting intelligence and information from available resources, traditional and non-traditional partnership engagements to identify entry points and opportunities for UNFPA.
- Providing technical support to programme officers and implementing partners to identify resource gaps and partnership opportunities for programme development and provide technical input to the development of resource mobilization documents.
- Coordinating, supporting and engaging communication with donors and partners.
- support maintaining and strengthening partnerships with existing donors, establish networks, develop new partnerships for UNFPA Ghana.
- Fostering and building knowledge-based partnerships with local/ youth led civil society organisations and groups, private sector entities, parliamentarians, think tanks and NGOs to create a multiplier effect for UNFPA’s mandate in Ghana.
- Ensuring that partnership monitoring and oversight mechanisms are established and implemented.
- Knowledge management and Communications
- Maintaining comprehensive analysis, briefs, reports and statistics for the Country Office.
- Identifying capacity strengthening needs of the CO on results-based proposal writing as needed.
- Providing inputs to improve the visibility of the country programme, in close collaboration with communications colleagues including through high quality annual reports, donor reports, online presence etc.
Fostering partnerships for evidence based, behavioral insights led social and behavior change communication plans, working closely with programme colleagues.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree in Public Policy, Political Science, International Relations, International Development, Economics, Public Administration, Management or other related discipline is required.
- 2 years of relevant experience
- Fluency in English language; knowledge of other official UN languages, preferable French, is desirable
- Strong written and oral communication skills to foster partnerships at a high level of representation and produce high quality policy, analytical documents and proposals.
- Strong negotiation, liaison, and analytical skills, including ability to produce high quality policy briefs and knowledge products.
- Ability to network within the development community and private sector.
- Experience using office software packages and web-based management systems such as the ERP system, Quantum, QuantumPlus, Quantum PowerBI,etc
Project description and context:
Crossroads International will engage Canadians, Canadian stakeholders, Crossroads staff and volunteers, local partner organizations and women and men in sub-Saharan Africa to become Gender Equality Champions both in Canada and overseas.
The Volunteer Cooperation Program (VCP) aims to reduce gender inequalities and alleviate poverty by addressing gender-based violence, inequalities in access to resources and economic opportunities, and barriers in exercising strategic forms of choice, voice, and influence.
Description of the partner
UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency with a mission to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA was established in 1969, the same year the United Nations General Assembly declared “parents have the exclusive right to determine freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children.” UNFPA’s goal is to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health, realize reproductive rights, and reduce maternal mortality to accelerate progress on the ICPD agenda, to improve the lives of adolescents and youth, and women, enabled by population dynamics, human rights, and gender equality.
In 2018, UNFPA launched efforts to achieve three transformative results, ambitions that promise to change the world for every man, woman and young person:
1.) Ending unmet need for family planning
2.) Ending preventable maternal death
3.) Ending gender-based violence and harmful practises
UNFPA calls for the realization of reproductive rights for all and supports access to a wide range of sexual and reproductive health services – including voluntary family planning, maternal health care and comprehensive sexuality education.
UNFPA in Ghana has just started implementation of its 8th Country Programme Cycle (2023 – 2027). The focus of this programme covers:
- Strengthening institutional and community systems capacity for quality of SRHR and GBV information and services.
- Addressing discriminatory gender and social norms, including actions to prevent and respond to gender-based violence and harmful practices.
Adolescents and youth empowerment and engagement.
The 8th Country Programme is being implemented with relevant central and local government ministries, departments and agencies, civil society organisations and women and youth groups, as well as with private sector, academia, faith-based groups and development partners. The Programme Analyst, Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation, will support in strengthening UNFPA’s normative role and policy advocacy by leading continual environmental scanning, research and analysis, and communications to guide and influence policy formulation, implementation and monitoring. The incumbent will proactively lead on developing strategic partnerships for the advancement of UNFPA’s Strategic Plan working closely with programme colleagues, with a wide range of stakeholders, from the government to civil society, donors, and communities, especially youth, adolescents, and the furthest behind populations.
Eligibility criteria
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- Be a Canadian Citizen or permanent resident of Canada.
- Willing to conduct fundraising and public engagement activities before, during and after the placement
- Share the commitment of preventing and addressing sexual misconduct
- In good physical and mental health (medical examination required)
- The volunteer needs to bring their own computer.
- The volunteer must be available to attend an online pre-departure training.
Personalized support before, during and after the mandate provided by an experienced and welcoming team. The Crossroads’ experience includes the following:
- Daily living allowance (depending of the country of assignment)
- Plane ticket and local transport
- Pre-assignment online training from 11 – 15 March 2025.
Crossroads International is committed to addressing gender-based violence by supporting the innovative work our partner organizations in ending violence against women and girls.
APPLICATION
To apply for this position, we kindly ask that you fill out Crossroads’ online application form.
Please contact our volunteer mobilization team if you have any question: volunteer@cintl.org
We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.
