NOTE: This vacancy has been re-opened to widen the applicant pool. All applicants who applied previously need not re-apply.

The Position:

The Technical Services Analyst position is within the Product Quality Assurance Team in the UNFPA Supply Chain Management Unit (SCMU). You report directly to the Product Quality Assurance Team Lead. The position aims at provision of Technical Services for Pharmaceuticals and Hormonal Contraceptives. The Technical Services Analyst will work closely with the new integrated HQ division (name To Be Decided), the UNFPA Supplies Partnership, the Humanitarian Response Division, other HQ Business Units, the Regional Offices, and the Country Offices and with the Supplier community.

The Product Quality Assurance Team is the life force of UNFPA’s supplies, whereby the team ensures that contraceptives, medicines, medical devices, and kits UNFPA deliver to women and girls are safe, effective and will do no harm.

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:

As the Technical Services Analyst, you will support the Product Quality Assurance Team Lead’s effort on the management of Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) products by reviewing and finalising technical specifications, conducting technical evaluations, supporting capacity-strengthening and technical assistance activities to strengthen local production of health products, and developing and updating guidance documents related to the technical requirements and quality assurance business processes.

Qualifications and Experience:

Education:

• Advanced University degree in Biomedical Engineering, Material Science, Medical Laboratory Science/Technology, Biomedical Sciences, Public Health, or related field is required.
• Strong technical understanding of medical devices.
• Completion of relevant training, academic and/or professional certification in Quality Assurance of health products is an asset.

Knowledge and Experience:

• A minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience. Experience with UN organizations, international NGOs, hospitals, or other high-level health facilities) dealing with regulatory function, product manufacturing, quality assurance and quality control of medical devices is required.
• Demonstrated knowledge of international markets (sources, certifications, and controls) is required.
• Technical knowledge of contraceptive and medical devices, including WHO standards and guidelines, and IMDRF and GHTF standards is a strong advantage.
• Work experience with the UN or an international organization is an asset.
• Work experience or support to developing countries is an asset.
• Experience in producing detailed technical specifications, guidance and SOPs for use and maintenance of medical devices is an asset.
• Experience in supervising staff is an asset.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communications skills.

Languages:

Fluency in English is required; knowledge of other official UN languages, preferably French and/or Spanish, is an asset.