Strategic Partnerships & Resource Mobilization Specialist

General

Description of assignment title: Specialist in Resource Mobilization, Strategic Partnerships and Communications

Assignment country: Djibouti

Duty stations: Djibouti

Work location: On UN premises

Expected start date: 09/02/2026

Duration: 4 months(with possibility of extension)
Long-term benefits and allowances

Sustainable Development Goal: 17. Partnerships for the goals

Host entity: UNFPA DJI

Modality: Onsite

Type: International

Volunteer category: Specialist UCoS from Apr
2026

Work schedule: Full-time

Number of Assignments: 1

• The UNFPA country office in Djibouti works in partnership with governments, other institutions and civil society to fulfil its mandate. Two frameworks guide our mission: the Programme of Action adopted at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• The three priority areas of our mandate are sexual and reproductive health, human rights and gender equality, and population and development issues.
• UNFPA provides the country with technical and financial support for the collection, analysis and dissemination of population data, in order to provide detailed information for planning and monitoring progress, thereby enabling effective and efficient decision-making.

• In Djibouti, UNFPA works closely with the Government, civil society organizations, United Nations entities,
• development partners, communities and other stakeholders to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender equality, the empowerment of women and young people, and the production and use of population data for sustainable development.
• The UNFPA Djibouti Country Office is entering an important phase of programme acceleration and strategic
• repositioning. The Office seeks to strengthen the visibility, coherence and sustainability of its interventions while
• expanding its partnership and funding base.
  
  Current and emerging programme priorities include:
• strengthening maternal and newborn health, including midwifery education, deployment and
• professionalization;
• reinforcing Maternal Death Surveillance and Response mechanisms;
• improving access to integrated sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence services;
• supporting the validation and operationalization of national gender-based violence standard operating
• procedures;
• expanding and strengthening multisectoral One-Stop Centres for survivors of gender-based violence;
• accelerating efforts to end female genital mutilation and other harmful practices;
• advancing adolescent and youth participation, leadership and access to information and services;
• supporting the realization of the demographic dividend;
• promoting gender-responsive budgeting and increased domestic financing for gender equality and sexual and
• reproductive health;
• strengthening population, health and gender data systems;
• supporting the progressive digitalization of civil registration and vital statistics;
• strengthening the digital monitoring of the National Gender Policy;
• improving the use of evidence, innovation and digital solutions for programme management and policy
• dialogue; and
• enhancing the preparedness and responsiveness of programmes in humanitarian and climate-related contexts.
• The assignment will help position these priorities as integrated investment opportunities that advance the ICPD
• agenda and contribute particularly to Sustainable Development Goals 3, 5, 10, 16 and 17, while strengthening
• national ownership and the sustainability of results. To translate these priorities into high-impact, visible and adequately financed programmes, the Country Office requires dedicated capacity to identify strategic partnerships, develop compelling funding propositions, engage emerging partners, strengthen donor relations and systematically communicate programme results. The International UN Volunteer Specialist
  - Resource Mobilization, Strategic Partnerships and Communications will support this ambition by connecting programme priorities, evidence, strategic partnerships and communications into a coherent country office positioning and resource mobilization approach.

• Under the direct supervision…