International Consultant for the Development of a Costed Implementation Plan for Family Planning Nationwide Vacancy-Job Ref: BJPGUNFPA/0107/2025826

International Consultant for the Development of a Costed Implementation Plan for Family Planning Nationwide Vacancy-Job Ref: BJPGUNFPA/0107/2025826

Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea)

Job Description
How you can make a difference:

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.  UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices.

These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.
Job Purpose:

International  Consultant for the Development of a Costed Implementation Plan for Family Planning Nationwide, Review and Updating of the Eastern Highlands CIP and Review of and Preparation of a Report on the Space for SRHR Financing.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Office in Papua New Guinea seeks the service of experienced international and national consultant to support a consultative process towards development of national FP costed implementation plan (CIP) in Papua New Guinea and a provincial costed IP for Eastern highlands Province.

In 2022-2023, UNFPA supported the development of provincial-owned, broad- based FP costed implementation plans (CIP) in Eastern Highlands Province aligned to Papua New Guinea’s goal to achieve a CPR of 45% by 2024. FP costed implementation plans (CIPs) are concrete and detailed plans for achieving the goals of a family planning program over a set number of years. A CIP details the program activities necessary to meet FP goals and the costs associated with the activities.

A costed implementation plan is critical to give direction to a FP program within the context of the National population and family planning policies with the goal to reduce maternal deaths. This process of developing the CIP will lead to greater local ownership and aligns with ongoing government planning and coordination efforts within a relatively short development process. In addition, UNFPA needs a comprehensive report on the situation of the fiscal space for SRHR financing in Papua New Guinea in the broader context of health financing. The analysis of the fiscal space for SRHR financing is an imperative to direct policymakers in PNG on realistic changes that need to be made to increase domestic resources.

More specifically, the International consultants will be responsible for: (a) developing a Costed Implementation Plan (CIP) for Family Planning (FP) for Papua New Guinea,  (b) updating the CIP-FP for Eastern Highlands Province as a model to be presented to other provincial CIPs in the remaining 7th CP initial roll-out sites in a workshop; and (c) preparing a report on the country’s fiscal space for SRHR financing including key findings with figures, conclusions and recommendations.

You will report to:

The Consultant will be under the overall supervision of the UNFPA Representative and direct supervision of the Deputy Representative and Head of Programme and in close collaboration with the RHCS Analyst and other members of the SRHR Unit and the Programme Team, Communications Team and Operations Team.
You would be responsible for:

The Consultancy will include:

Preparatory work;
Consultations in Port Moresby with UNFPA, government counterparts (i.e., NDOH) and Civil society organizations (e.g. Marie Stopes) to prepare the national costed implementation plan for family planning and a report on national SRHR financing in PNG – key findings, conclusions and recommendations;
Travel to Eastern Highlands: lead/facilitate 2-day stakeholder consultation meeting to a) validate and update the costed implementation plan including development of targets, key strategies, actions and strategies, implementation, monitoring and evaluation approaches, b) update costing of the proposed activities and secure buy-in of Eastern Highlands Province for budget support in succeeding years; c)  finalize Eastern province FP-CIP for presentation in a workshop with the CEOs of the PHAs of the other 7th CP initial roll-out sites for possible replication: and d) prepare a final report of the FP-CIP development process and executive brief of the FP-CIP process; and
Debrief with UNFPA and the National Department of Health.

Qualifications and Experience:

Education:

Advanced degree in Public Health, Social Work, or any social science field related to reproductive health, demography and sociology.

Knowledge and Experience:

At least seven years of relevant experience in the area of reproductive health would be desirable
Minimum of five years’ experience in preparing Costed Implementation Plans, especially in Family Planning and SRHR Financing Reports is essential
Familiarity with UN policies and principles and PNG government planning and processes will be an advantage;
Willingness to travel; and
Proficiency in current office software applications.

Languages:

Fluency in oral and written English required
Required Competencies:

Values:

Exemplifying integrity,
Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system,
Embracing cultural diversity,
Embracing change

Core Competencies:
Integrity, commitment, cultural sensitivity and valuing diversity;
Developing people/Coaching and Mentoring;
Building and managing relationships; and
Personal leadership and effectiveness.

Functional Competencies:
Business acumen;
Implementing management systems;
Innovation and marketing of new approaches;
Client orientation;
Organizational awareness;
Strategic alignment of human resource practices;
Promoting organizational change and development;
Impact and influence; and
Job knowledge/technical expertise.

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