The Position:
The Regional Demographic Resilience and Policy Adviser serves as the principal adviser at the regional level for substantive analysis, rights and evidence-based advocacy, policy dialogue/advice, capacity building and technical assistance in population and development issues. The Adviser focuses on incorporating demographic dynamics within development policies and highlighting the implications of population issues for environmental, economic, and social trends and policies in the region. This includes leadership on demographic changes of societies in all stages of demographic development – population growth, population aging, population decline, low fertility, migration and urbanization – by focusing on the human capital over the life course as well as on the linkages with other megatrends – including climate change, inequality and digitization.
The Adviser will assume substantive leadership of EECARO’s Demographic Resilience Programme, The Demographic Resilience programme in the region, assists countries in strengthening their capacity to anticipate, assess, and address demographic changes they are experiencing, and ensure they have the skills, tools, political will and public support to manage them.
The Adviser supports country efforts to address demographic change and related population issues to promote sustainable development – and inter alia the implementation of Agenda 2030, as well as the ICPD Programme of Action – and to support the formulation of national development strategies.
To these ends, the Adviser works with the EECARO, EECA Country Offices, UNFPA HQs and other Regional offices. The Adviser will work under the overall guidance and leadership of the Regional Director and report directly to the Deputy Regional Director.