UN WOMEN: COORDINATION AND PLANNING SPECIALIST
The UN Women (UNW), 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. UN Women will provide support to Member States' efforts and priorities in meeting their gender equality goals and for building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors. 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 translate into action. UN Women supports improved UN coordination and accountability mechanisms, and up-scaling of the quality of support provided to Member States in addressing national gender equality priorities. UN Women's coordination work at regional level is led by the ECA Regional Director, currently located at UN Women headquarters in New York, working with the Regional Directors' Team [RDT or UNDG-ECA Group] and the Regional Coordination Mechanism [RCM], including meetings 4-6 times per year in different countries of the region. At the country level UN Women supports and works within UN Country Teams. UN Women has placed emphasis on improving its planning and results based management as an organization. The Coordination and Planning Specialist will support and provide guidance to UN Women ECA team in the sub regional and country offices in results-based planning, management and reporting. The Coordination and Planning Specialist reports to the Europe and Central Asia Regional Director who provides overall strategic guidance and direction to UN Women's work in the region. In carrying out the functions, she/he will work closely with the ECA sub-regional and Country Offices, with relevant units in headquarters such as Policy, Programme, Partnerships, Inter-governmental and Coordination teams. The Coordination and Planning Specialist supports the Regional Director, who is a member of the Regional Director's Team (RDT) to: a) manage and implement activities to enhance system wide coherence on gender equality and the empowerment of women; b) support UN Women country presences on the ground in their coordination roles with the UNCTs in the identification of technical expertise, the implementation of corporate-level accountability tools; and c) provide support to UN Women country presences to ensure high quality planning processes at regional and country level, including through application of results-based programme planning and management. In the absence of a UN Regional Center in the ECA region, and until the UN Women Regional Architecture is finalized, the Coordination and Planning Specialist will be located within the ECA Regional Division at UN Women headquarters.
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Summary of key functions:
Support to the Regional Director on UN programming and coordination at the Regional Level and in support to country-level work , including to the UNDAFs, GTGs and related Working Groups and Task Forces:
Support UN system partnership and alliance building at the Regional level:
Support enhanced results-based planning management and reporting practices at the country level to ensure coherence, effectiveness and efficiency:
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Impact of Results: The successful management of coordination activities will facilitate and enhance the ability of the Regional Director to work effectively within the context of UN system priorities in the region and support coherent UN response and implementation in line with national strategies and priorities. The key results also impact on the success of the UN Country Team activities, strengthening of overall coordination capacity, design, implementation and operations of UN activities, creation of strategic partnerships in support of regional and national priorities. Support to results based programme planning and management will improve focus of UN Women programming, its alignment with clear national and corporate objectives, and better results reporting.
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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. | |
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