UNFPA Surge Roster - SC 2025

UNFPA SURGE RESPONSE ROSTER –Supply Chain Management in Emergencies Specialist 

UNFPA is building a roster of highly qualified Supply Chain Management in Emergencies Specialist ready to be deployed to humanitarian crises worldwide. As a member of our roster, you will be called upon to provide critical support in ensuring the timely and efficient delivery of essential supplies and services to affected populations. This is a unique opportunity to make a tangible impact on the lives of millions of people.
 
UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.
 
We promote gender equality and empower women, girls, and young people to take control of their bodies and their futures. We work with partners in more than 150 countries to provide access to a wide range of sexual and reproductive health services. Our goal is ending unmet need for family planning, preventable maternal death, and gender-based violence and harmful practices including child marriage and female genital mutilation by 2030.  
 


What We Offer:
 

• The opportunity to make a direct impact during humanitarian emergencies, protecting the health and rights of women and girls.
• Deployment for short term (3 to 6 months) surge missions as part of UNFPA humanitarian response.
• A platform to utilize your expertise in Supply Chain Management

Key Responsibilities (upon deployment):

Rapid Assessments/Field Visits

• As appropriate, participate in joint field assessments or undertake UNFPA specific field visits/assessment missions to gain a better understanding of existing supply gaps and needs

Programme Implementation and Coordination

• Support in the development and regular update of the costed supply plan, ensuring collaboration and engagement from programme and operations teams
• Implement a systematized approach for updates to the supply plan, kit contents and timelines for supply prioritization
• Provide guidance, support and advice to the programme team related to specific products and quantification of items.
• Support the Emergency Response Coordinator, the GBViE and the SRHiE specialists in projecting future needs of emergency supplies. 
• Ensure that the coordination and communication mechanism between program management and the operation unit are well set up.
• Support the programme team in the development of distribution plans based on response plan priorities and supply plan objectives.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Establish a monitoring mechanism that takes into consideration collection of essential supply data, including consumption data and issues data with IPs and supported service delivery points
• Undertake monitoring visits to ensure proper inventory data collection and reporting
• Work with the programme team to collect relevant services data in a manner which can be used to inform supply provision
• Utilize data collected to update supply plans and associated procurement plans with programme team

Liaising/Coordination with Partner Agencies

• Liaise with humanitarian stakeholders working in relevant sectors/Clusters, such as Health, WASH, Protection, Logistics, Camp Management, etc. to ensure inclusion of commodities specific to UNFPA’s mandate into the prioritisation of needs definition and supply distributions.
• Establish partnerships with humanitarian health supply partners to ensure consistent and coordinated forecasting and supply planning for health supply gaps<