Since 2001, UN Women (previously as UNIFEM) in Kyrgyzstan has been implementing catalytic initiatives on promoting women’s economic, political and social rights. The programmes and projects focus on several key areas, including promoting women’s economic empowerment, ensuring women’s political participation in times of peace and conflict and violence-free society. These programming directions aim at contributing to the efforts of national partners in ensuring pro-poor socio-economic development, with particular focus on promotion gender responsive and human rights based governance system in Kyrgyzstan. In 2011 EU-UN programme ‘Operationalising Good Governance for Social Justice’ was commenced in Kyrgyzstan with funding from EU. Within this programme following its mandate UN Women takes leadership role in ensuring that commitments on gender equality are translated into actions, contributing to the fulfillment of the following set of results: - Demonstrated and practiced improvements in good governance, at national and municipal levels;
- Strengthened capacities of government agencies and civil society networks to effectively support good governance and dialogue initiatives; and
- Increased awareness of the requirements and results of democratic governance and social pressure for good governance.
With the aim to ensure effective implementation of the programme objectives, UN Women Sub-regional office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA SRO) plans to contract a Programme Coordinator on Gender Mainstreaming (GM) who will be responsible for managing UN Women part of programme and operational tasks under the programme. A specific focus shall also be given to coordination and sharing knowledge and experience with UN agencies-programme partners. The Programme Coordinator promotes a client-oriented approach consistent with UN Women/UNDP rules and regulations and committed to high standards of quality, productivity and timeliness in the delivery of tasks. Under direct supervision of UN Women Country Representative to Kyrgyzstan and guidance from Programme Specialist of the EECA SRO, Programme Coordinator ensures implementation of the EU-UN programme ‘Operationalising Good Governance for Social Justice’ (SJP) in Kyrgyzstan. |
Strategic Leadership, Oversight and Reporting - Manage UN Women part of the SJP - effectively and in a synergy with UNDP - to ensure that progress is made in achieving its goals and objectives in line with programme document. This covers: strategic planning/implementation/monitoring, communication and partnership-building, evaluation and knowledge management; ensuring information flow and team-building across the diverse network of partners and stakeholders involved in the programme;
- Safeguard, monitor and facilitate quality assurance of all SJP services and products pertaining to UN Women’s outputs and activities;
- Undertake technical assistance and monitoring missions to the project sites;
- Recruit, monitor and assess implementation and quality of the technical assistance services related to UN Women part of the programme;
- Identify capacity development needs and develop adequate solutions to ensure effective programme implementation;
- Monitor the development of, and provide substantive guidance and technical inputs, to ensure the quality of products and capacity development tools commissioned under the programme, with emphasis on ensuring evidence-based approaches (e.g. training materials, training workshops, tools, knowledge-sharing publications and outreach materials developed);
- Develop, finalize and implement annual work-plans and budget forecasts to ensure timely and effective implementation within the given timeframe;
- Manage and oversee overall programme budget (UN Women part), in consultation with UN Women SRO, and in close collaboration with administrative and financial staff;
- Develop and drive donor outreach and fundraising plans to mobilize additional resources for the programme, in coordination with UN Women SRO;
- Ensure high-quality, results-oriented reporting on the programme, for internal and external audiences (e.g. UN, donors).
Management and Coordination - Ensure effective information flow, communication and coordination and coherence with and between participating UN Agencies, UN GTG, other UN Women projects and activities in the country, national programme partners, consultants;
- Coach and supervise staff and consultants recruited in support for this programme implementation.
Evaluation and Learning - Ensure oversight and overall coordination related to the programme monitoring and evaluation, including facilitating coordination among evaluation experts, UN Women SRO, and the UN Women HQ Evaluation Unit, as well as coordinate the plans and activities with UNDP-Kyrgyzstan for coherence of efforts;
- Develop wide strategic distribution of the programme's findings and knowledge-related publications, inclusive of select case studies, good practices and lessons learned; Document, and analyze lessons learned that might be useful for the UN system at large and UN Women in particular for global institutional learning;
- Ensure timely and proper documentation of the programme implementation in accordance with the UN Women Documenting Guide.
Communications and Advocacy - Advocate key programme findings and messages at relevant events, briefings, conferences to a variety of audiences in close consultation and coordination with UNDP-Kyrgyzstan and other participating UN agencies;
- Work in partnership with key communication and media actors to promote key programme messages;
- Develop and ensure the implementation of annual communications and advocacy plans and identify and seize strategic advocacy opportunities on an ongoing basis;
Developing Partnership and Network - Strengthen and enhance partnership/consultation/coordination with national and local state actors, national and international civil society actors, especially, women's organizations, UN agencies, donors, academia for more effective and coordinated programme implementation;
- Utilize effectively ongoing coordination mechanism to ensure coherence of the programme with other processes in the country including national development policy-making, UN programming and coordination processes (UNDAF, UN Gender Theme Group, etc.), donors’ council work, etc;
- Ensure effective partnership, networking and coordination between other ongoing UN Women programmes, projects and activities in the country for a more holistic and coherent approach to programme implementation.
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Education: - Master degree or equivalent in Economics or Social sciences or other related field;
Experience: - 10 years of relevant work experience;
- Experience of providing management advisory services;
- Managerial experience;
- Strong knowledge of the issues in the relevant component, general understanding of all the major Programme issues. Be familiar with development methodologies, including participatory approaches to strategic planning, strategic management and the management of institutional change in developing countries;
- Experience of work with the international organizations, high-level government officials representing central governmental bodies and local administrations;
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.).
Language Requirements: - Proficiency in English and Russian. Knowledge of Kyrgyz is an advantage.
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 online applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from
http://www.unwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/P_11_form_UNwomen.doc). 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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