The Programme Specialist, HDP Nexus, is located in the UNFPA Philippines Country Office. The Specialist plays a pivotal role in strengthening the integration of humanitarian, development, and peace approaches within UNFPA Philippines’ Country Programme (CPD9, 2025–2029). The Programme Specialist, HDP Nexus, is located in the UNFPA Philippines Country Office. The Specialist plays a pivotal role in strengthening the integration of humanitarian, development, and peace approaches within UNFPA Philippines’ Country Programme (CPD9, 2025–2029).
Responsibilities :
Lead the integration of the HDP nexus approach across UNFPA programme areas, ensuring coherence between humanitarian action, risk-informed and climate-resilient development, and peacebuilding efforts at national and subnational levels.
Provide technical guidance and quality assurance for the design, implementation, and monitoring of programmes in line with CPD9 and national priorities, and relevant humanitarian and development frameworks
Support evidence-based programming by assessing vulnerabilities, risks and barriers, and identifying opportunities for resilience building, particularly for women, adolescents, and marginalized groups, including climate-related demographic risks and the implications of climate impacts on SRHR and GBV services.
Generate innovative approaches to operationalize the HDP nexus—linking humanitarian preparedness, anticipatory and early action, gender-responsive recovery, systems strengthening, accountability to affected populations (AAP) and localization.
Facilitate effective use of population data, risk analytics, and gender-responsive evidence to inform nexus planning and decision-making.
Monitor financial and programmatic performance of nexus-related interventions, ensuring timely, accountable and high-quality delivery.
Serve as UNFPA’s focal point for humanitarian preparedness and response, ensuring coordination and alignment with the Humanitarian Country Team and relevant cluster mechanisms (Health, Protection/GBV, SRHR), while strengthening linkages with early recovery, resilience, and development actors.
Facilitate rapid assessments, mapping of partners, development of contingency and response plans, and contribute to anticipatory and early action planning, in coordination with government and UN counterparts.
Contribute to inter-agency coordination on humanitarian and early recovery, promoting conflict-sensitive, gender-responsive, and risk-informed approaches to ensure UNFPA mandate areas (SRHR, GBV, A&Y) are integrated into multisectoral responses.
Requirements :
Advanced university degree in public health, international relations, gender, development studies, humanitarian affairs, or a related field.
Minimum five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian and/or nexus programming, including experience in fragile, conflict-affected, or disaster-prone settings, required.
Demonstrated expertise in programme design, implementation, and monitoring using a resilience or HDP framework, required.
Experience in inter-agency coordination and familiarity with IASC humanitarian architecture, required.
Proven track record of policy engagement and partnership building with government, UN agencies, and civil society, desired.
Knowledge of SRHR, GBV, gender, and youth programming in humanitarian contexts is required.
Experience with the UN system or international organizations is desirable.
