UN WOMEN: GENDER SPECIALIST

The UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works 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 center of all its efforts, the 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. Pakistan is one of the eight pilot countries for the 'One UN' initiative, whose objective is UN system wide coherence for greater development impact. Under the 'One UN Pilot' UN organizations will work together as a coordinated UN Country Team (UNCT) under the leadership of the UN Resident Coordinator along with Cross-cutting Issues Co-chairs with a view to having common programmes, a common budget and a common administrative system. The UN system in Pakistan is committed to strengthening its support to country through its strategic interventions around gender equality and women's advancement through the development of new programmes; through consistent technical support to the UN Resident Coordinator (RC) and UNCT to continuously establish and implement programme focused on gender equality and women's empowerment and to mainstream gender into the work of the UN system as a whole. In addition to development challenges, Pakistan is also prone to recurring natural disasters, environmental challenges and is being severely affected by ongoing conflict in its North West frontier province. This is further compounded by perpetually spiraling violent radicalization seeping into the mainland further marginalizing women, enhancing their exclusion and exacerbating their pre-existing vulnerabilities. The UN Gender Specialist is expected to work in liaison with the UN Humanitarian Gender Advisor and Post Crisis Needs Assessment Gender Advisor to highlight links between long term development paradigms and humanitarian response. The UN Gender Specialist shall provide strategic technical support by identifying important considerations for social inclusiveness in the context of natural disaster mitigation, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and social transformation. To this end, the UN System wishes to continue to acquire services of the International Gender Advisor specialized in strategy development and coordination, project analysis and inter-agency technical capacity building on gender equality. The UN Gender Specialist`s principal duties will include - identifying new and emerging needs and new delivery modalities for technical guidance and support; developing and maintaining technical partnerships with diverse and widening remit of stake-holders; and, to ensure that technical knowledge is updated, generated, collected and disseminated for effective technical, capacity building and policy dialogue.

Duties and Responsibilities

Reporting, Duties & Responsibilities: The UN Gender Specialist will work supervised by UN WOMEN Country Director and the UN Resident Coordinator (RC). He/she will work in collaboration with the Cross Cutting Issues Working Group (CCIWG) with the objective to support the ONE UN initiative in addition to making substantive contributions to Humanitarian Response in Pakistan. The UN Gender Specialist will give specialized advice to the Resident Coordinator's office to enhance integration of Gender Equality through affirmative action and mainstreaming; internal UN coordination as well as country-coordination on gender within the One UN Initiative; work closely with the Thematic Working Groups' Co-chairs; Humanitarian Cluster Chairs to promote and sustain inter-agency cooperation and harmonization of gender-related activities in the one UN Initiative. Advisory Functions: Strengthen UN's role in the ongoing multi-sectorial interventions and emerging areas of development for integrating Gender Equality (GE) by participating as an active member of the UN Cross-cutting Issues Group; Along with the CCIWG, identify strategic programme opportunities and develop further programmatic frame-works for strategic UN role -through consultation and collaboration with the development partners - in addressing issues around GE including emergency response, peacemaking and peace building, HIV & AIDS, aid effectiveness and human security; Identify and provide analytical based advice on UN's comparative substantive role and specific contribution in the changing development agenda, and participate in policy dialogue around GE and Women's Empowerment; Continue to provide technical support to Inter Agency Group (IAG)on GE, especially in supporting and monitoring further development and implementation of UN Joint Programming with specific emphasis on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Issues; Contribute substantively on knowledge management and ensure documentation and dissemination of lessons learned; keep track of resource mobilization efforts for programming under the IAG on GE; With the supervision of the CCIWG Co-chairs carry out ongoing advocacy to maximize UN support towards the realization of national plans and priorities; Study and synthesize proposals from partners and advise on the relevance to UN programming; Provide substantive support to enhancing UN's participation in inter-agency and inter-governmental processes, with particular emphasis on UNDAF, Poverty Reduction Strategies, CEDAW compliance amongst others; Scope and identify GE capacity building needs within the UN system - including training needs- and of external partners, including relevant government bodies to provide substantive recommendations and develop comprehensive capacity building initiatives for addressing identified unmet needs. Design and manage effective guidelines for donor reporting in other to ensure efficient implementation and compliance with donor requirements; Contribute to strengthening and maintaining strategic partnerships with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) especially specialized groups working towards GE and women's empowerment in Pakistan; Inter-agency support includes: Ensuring that gender perspectives are well integrated and supported through available or emerging resources; That the UN entities are able to harmonize activities and results on gender; that their results framework embody gender perspectives at their core; Providing technical support for knowledge management on gender issues for UN organizations participating in the One UN Pilot, ensuring documentation and dissemination of lessons learned for UN coordination; draw on UN good practices and experiences on gender equality, including from other One UN pilots; In conjunction with UNWOMEN, supporting the UNCT in monitoring and reporting of UN work focused on gender; Ensuring that existing UN policies and any new guidance on gender equality work are widely disseminated and supported at country levels; Supporting the UNCT and CCIWG in identifying and negotiating agreements with donors/funding mechanisms; Contributing to the development and implementation of an integrated strategy for the delivery of technical assistance and programme support in One UN GE commitment; One UN GE Content Development & Management: With the guidance and supervision of CCI Co-chairs and in collaboration with other CCI Advisors contribute substantively to One UN CCI Content Management by ensuring Prescriptive content on gender equality is continuously updated and available through the UN web site; Good practices around GE are continuously identified, documented and made available to clients and peers through the web site; Appropriate and up-to-date information and learning tools on GE are available; Matrix Management by ensuring products and results, handovers and consultations are prepared; effective and efficient management of partnerships is comprehensively and timely reflected; Interface with Humanitarian Gender Advisor: The UN Gender Specialist will regularly highlight any existing or emerging gaps in addressing gender concerns with crisis response; advice on filling those gaps, identifying available or requisite resources for addressing the identified gaps; The UN Gender Specialist will contribute to providing wider inter-agency understanding on the long term impact of conflict on gender relations during and after recovery in terms of drawing lessons for promoting women's agency role in resettlement phase; Deliverables: Regular reporting minutes of IAG on gender equality meeting Quarterly Reporting on GEI Lessons learnt on gender equality Strategy 2011 onwards One UN report on gender One UN report on gender

Competencies

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: Promoting Ethics and Integrity / Creating Organizational Precedents Organizational Awareness: Building support and political acumen Developing and Empowering People / Coaching and Mentoring: Building staff competence, creating an environment of creativity and innovation Working in Teams: Building and promoting effective teams Communicating Information and Ideas: Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication Self-management and Emotional intelligence: Creating an emotionally intelligent organization Conflict Management / Negotiating and Resolving Disagreements: Leveraging conflict in the interests of the organization & setting standards Knowledge Sharing / Continuous Learning: Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making: Fair and transparent decision making; calculated risk-taking Functional Competencies: Substantive experience and record of accomplishment in the area of gender equality and women's empowerment issues; Demonstrated People Management Skills; Familiarity with women's rights organizations and networks in the region and globally; Good knowledge of UN Women and the UN system; Proven ability to advocate and provide policy advice; Ability to lead strategic planning, programme development and implementation, results-based management and reporting; Ability to develop and maintain strong partnerships and mobilize resources;

Required Skills and Experience

Education: Master's Degree or equivalent in Social sciences and/or other related subjects; Experience: At least 7 years of substantive experience at National/International senior level position; Experience on similar positions within the UN system is desirable but is not a requirement; Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc) and experience in handling of web based management systems; Language Requirements: Fluency in English. Working knowledge of another UN language and the national language will be an asset. 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. 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.

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.