Pacific Gender Research Coordinator
Salary not disclosedPosted 10 days ago
Closes in 4 days
About the company
UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, working with partners in more than 150 countries to provide access to sexual and reproductive health services. Its mission is a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled, with goals of ending unmet need for family planning, preventable maternal death, and gender-based violence by 2030. UNFPA APRO, in partnership with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, is launching Phase III (2026-2029) of the kNOwVAWdata initiative to build comprehensive violence-against-women data ecosystems across the Asia-Pacific region.
About the role
The Pacific Gender Research Coordinator sits within the PSRO Gender and Human Rights section and reports to the PSRO Gender and Human Rights Advisor for day-to-day programmatic oversight. The role coordinates and supports implementation of UNFPA's Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and other Gender research across the Pacific, linking UNFPA PSRO offices with the kNOwVAWdata implementation led through the UNFPA Asia-Pacific Regional Office. It covers regional knowledge management, donor reporting to DFAT and steering committees, inter-agency research coordination, and engagement with academic and public health evidence generation. The coordinator also supports knowledge exchange across the 14 Pacific Island Countries and Territories and helps build a roster of VAW data experts and a human resource plan for the region. The duty station is Suva, Fiji, a Family Duty Station.
Key responsibilities
- Programmatic Coordination: coordinate between UNFPA PSRO offices and the kNOwVAWdata implementation through UNFPA Asia-Pacific Regional Office for timely programme delivery.
- Operational support: lead operational and administrative management of research projects on VAWG data.
- Implementing Partner support: provide technical and programmatic support for VAWG research across design, data collection, analysis and use.
- Donor Reporting: lead drafting, compilation and editorial review of narrative annual and progress reports for DFAT and steering committees.
- Impact Documentation: research, conduct stakeholder interviews, and write impact stories, feature articles and technical briefs on VAW prevalence data.
- Support Knowledge Exchange, Evidence Generation and Dissemination: create Pacific knowledge exchange opportunities for the 14 PICTs and document lessons learned from VAWG research initiatives.
- Identify Talent and Create a Human Resource Plan for Pacific: compile rosters of VAW data experts and support planning, recruitment and onboarding of national staff.
About the successful candidate
- Accountability
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Creativity
- Judgement and decision-making
- Planning and organising
- Professionalism
- Self-management