Grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, UN Women will work for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations System efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors. UN WOMEN's Peace and Security Section is responsible for providing technical support to UN WOMEN Country Offices in a number of areas, including: conflict prevention and peace building, justice sector and security reform, promoting women's political participation and mainstreaming gender issues into governance reforms. It has global components but is grounded in country-level activities. |
Key Results Expected
Project Coordination and Management: - Manage UN Women and Peace building Support Office (PBSO) project, ‘Building Back Better: Gender-Responsive Peace building’. Management includes implementation of HQ level and country level project components of the programme and provide technical assistance as appropriate, undertake monitoring missions to country project sites;
- With the PBSO, identify cross-regional needs and develop capacity development support;
- Develop, manage and oversee programme budget, in consultation with the PBSO and UN Women offices and HQ units, and in close collaboration with administrative and financial staff;
- Ensure high-quality, results-oriented reporting on the global programme, for internal and external audiences (e.g. UN, donors), including providing guidance to Sub-Regional Offices and partners in the submission of timely, quality reports and contributions;
- In partnership with the PBSO, develop global annual work plan and time-line, facilitating and monitoring compliance, in consultation and coordination with UN Women offices;
- Establish systems for documenting and analyzing the conditions enabling notable impact of these initiatives (including contracting consultants for commissioned research). Frequent field missions are an essential part of this. Ensure information flow between field and HQ on lessons learned, promising approaches, less promising approaches;
- Ensure effective information flow, communication and coordination with and between the PBSO, UN Women Sub-Regional offices, global partners, consultants and UN Women Regional Section and thematic clusters;
- Supervise support staff including consultants providing services linked to the implementation of this programme;
- Ensure procurement and staffing requirements of the programmes are met and comply with UN WOMEN and UN rules and regulations.
Policy Development and Support, and Knowledge-sharing: - In partnership with the PBSO, manage the working level coordination of the implementation of the Secretary-General’s action plan for gender-responsive peace building (October 2010, A/65/866-S/2010/466);
- Produce studies and thematic technical papers as required;
- Provide UN, Government and CSO partners with technical support on gender-responsive peace building, as requested;
- Organize expert preparatory meetings, panels and other interactive events on gender and peace building;
- Support institutional learning in the area of peace and security including preparation of briefs, managing production of knowledge products, participation in appropriate global knowledge events, informing UN WOMEN staff about the work of the section (via a monthly update, or updates to the UN WOMEN website with public and internal information).
Representation, Partnership Building and Advocacy: - Strengthen UN WOMEN partnership through engagement with other UN agencies, multilateral organizations, donors, government authorities and CSOs; supports the organization of high-level consultation meetings and other governance related advocacy. In particular, maintain and strengthen UN Women’s partnership with the Peace building Support Office;
- Represent UN Women in international fora to encourage greater commitment to, collaboration on the implementation of gender equality policies (in Peace and Security)
- Strengthen partnerships with other UN agencies and international policy making forums to highlight and reinforce accountability mechanisms for the implementation of SCRs 1325, 1820, 1888 and 1889; support inter-agency work and processes pertaining to gender, conflict prevention and peace building within the UN system, when requested;
- Contribute to the development of strategic approaches to policy dialogue, resource mobilization, partnerships, and outreach.
- Establish and nurture relationship with academia, research institutes, civil society and experts in Peace and Security to expand and share knowledge, exchange views on latest findings, incorporate cutting-edge thinking in UN work on gender equality.
- Develop and drive donor outreach and fundraising plans to mobilize resources for the programme, in coordination with relevant sections.
Learning and Knowledge management: - Support the development of policy and knowledge, as appropriate and under the guidance of the Peace and Security Advisor;
- Monitor and provide substantive guidance and technical inputs to ensure the quality of knowledge products and capacity development tools commissioned under the ‘Building Back Better’ Programme;
- Provide feedback to UN Women offices on case studies and other related knowledge products and publications as requested and needed;
- Recruit, monitor and assess performance of consultants and other service providers hired to design and develop knowledge products related to the programme;
- Produce knowledge products to meet UN Women needs and standards of quality.
Impact of Results The Programme Specialist impacts on the success of the efforts to develop and implement UN wide commitments, and UN Women policy strategies. |
CORE VALUES / GUIDING PRINCIPLES: - Integrity: Demonstrating consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.
- Cultural Sensitivity/Valuing diversity: Demonstrating an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrating an international outlook, appreciating differences in values and learning from cultural diversity.
CORE COMPETENCIES - Ethics and Values : Demonstrating / Safeguarding Ethics and Integrity.
- Organizational Awareness : Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment.
- Developing and Empowering People / Coaching and Mentoring: Self-development, initiative-taking.
- Working in Teams : Acting as a team player and facilitating team work.
- Communicating Information and Ideas : Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively.
- Self-management and Emotional intelligence : Creating synergies through self-control.
- Conflict Management / Negotiating and Resolving Disagreements.
- Knowledge Sharing / Continuous Learning : Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others.
FUNCTIONAL: - Extensive experience with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook & the Internet. Knowledge of UNDP rules and policies related, human resource management, procurement and administration and financial management, familiarity with UN Women would be a strong asset;
- Experience in operating web-based management systems and ERP systems, in particular ATLAS; Ability to quickly learn corporate software applications is a definite advantage.
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| Education: - Advanced university degree (Masters) in conflict and peace studies, international development, gender studies or any related discipline.
Experience: - A minimum of five years of professional experience including strong gender-responsive peace building project management experience;
- Experience working in a peace building/conflict setting;
- Experience supporting the development of policy for gender responsive peace building/development;
- Experience engaging in policy advocacy for gender-responsive peace building;
- Experience working in the UN’s peace building architecture;
- Experience coordinating UN inter-agency work;
- Solid UN/UNDP experience in the area of managing projects, including budgets, procurement and human resources would be preferable.
Language Requirements: - Fluency in English is required.
NOTE: In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment. More information on UN Women can be found through www.unwomen.org.
All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment
Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment. |
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