UN WOMEN: DEPUTY FUND MANAGER - New York, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Background | |
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (hereafter 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, 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. Established in 1996 by the General Assembly Resolution 50/166, the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women (hereafter UN Trust Fund) is a leading global, interagency grant-making mechanism administered by UN Women on behalf of the United Nations (UN) system. The UN Trust Fund supports civil society organizations, governments and UN Country Teams in their efforts to turn policy promises into actions that can afford concrete benefits for the survivors of violence and contribute to prevention of violence. The strategic focus on creating a knowledge hub of successful preventive and support programmes, as well as its effort to pull the available expertise and resources within UN system and beyond, are important elements of the UN Trust Fund’s aim to trigger steps that can turn policy promises into concrete deliverables with tangible results. The UN Trust Fund awards grants on a competitive base, through an annual global call for proposals distributed widely through various list serves of UN agencies, civil society organisations, member states, regional organisations and media. The current UN Trust Fund active portfolio amounts to over US$ 61 million, with 96 programs supported in 86 countries. The UN Trust Fund has a funding drive of reaching US$ 100 million in annual grant-making by 2015. This is also an explicit goal of the UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign. The management structure of the UN Trust Fund includes a Global Advisory Committee, Regional and/or Sub-regional Advisory Committees and the Secretariat. The Secretariat, under the direct supervision of the Chief of the UN Trust Fund, supported by a team of portfolio specialists, is responsible for the overall management of the UN Trust Fund’s programmes and operations, including programme strategy development and implementation, resource mobilization, grant management and influencing policy priorities for assurance of sustained attention to ending violence against women. It is in this context that the UN Trust Fund is seeking to employ the services of a Deputy Fund Manager who will be assisting in the overall management and oversight of The Fund’s operations. The Deputy Fund Manager, under the supervision and guidance of the UN Trust Fund Chief, will contribute to strengthening knowledge generation and achievement of results of the Fund’s active portfolio, and to expand the pool of partnerships and commitments to the work of The Fund. She/he will develop a roadmap for an incremental outreach to a wide range of stakeholders and implement activities to map and cultivate public and private partnerships.
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Duties and Responsibilities | |
The Deputy Fund Manager, under the supervision and guidance of the UN Trust Fund Chief will be responsible for the following main tasks: Strategic planning and management:
Partnership Development:
Coordination:
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Competencies | |
Core values/guiding principles: Integrity:
Cultural Sensitivity/Valuing diversity:
Core Competencies: Ethics and Values:
Organizational Awareness:
Developing and Empowering People / Coaching and Mentoring:
Working in Teams:
Communicating Information and Ideas:
Self-management and Emotional intelligence:
Conflict Management / Negotiating and Resolving Disagreements:
Knowledge Sharing / Continuous Learning:
Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making:
Functional Competencies Task Management Skills:
Partnering and Networking:
Communications:
People Skills:
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Required Skills and Experience | |
Education:
Experience:
Language Requirements:
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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