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 leads
and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments
on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action
throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in
support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective
partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
The
UN Women Representative (Ethiopia) will report to the Director,
Regional Office (Kenya) who provides general direction and guidance.
The UN Women Representative is responsible for translating UN
Women's Strategic Plan (SP), in line with regional and national
priorities, into development initiatives and results by developing,
implementing and managing programs and projects; and
developing effective partnerships with Government counterparts, UN
system agencies and organizations, CSOs, and with bilateral donors in
order to promote inter-agency partnerships, support for UN reform, and
mobilization of visibility and resources to advance gender equality and
women's empowerment. Within the UN Country Team the UN Women
Representative will lead and coordinate UN collective efforts to for
greater gender equality, in the context of high-level representation
among other UN entities.
In addition, the UN Women
Representative will act as UN Women’s liaison to the African Union and
ECA in Addis Ababa. Under the overall guidance of the Regional Director
and UN Women headquarters she/he, will enhance cooperation between the
institutions, and influence policies at regional level. UN Women’s
strategic partnership with these institutions will bring UN Women’s
value added technical expertise, advocacy and capacity building from a
gender and women’s human rights perspective.
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Duties and Responsibilities
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Summary of key functions:
- Strategic country program development and planning
- Country program management and oversight
- UN inter-agency coordination
- Liaison Office to African Union and ECA
- Representation and advocacy
- Strategic partnerships and resource mobilization
- Knowledge management
Strategic Program Development and Planning
- Assess national social development trends and identify emerging issues of relevance to the mandate of UN Women to identify opportunities for development planning to advance UN Women goals and objectives in the country.
- In
close consultation/collaboration with national development stakeholders
and partners, identify strategic program opportunities, approaches and
modalities to strengthen UN Women country presence and relevance.
- Lead the
formulation, planning and preparation of the Country SP based on UN
Women's SP and regional and national priorities, in
collaboration/consultation with government, civil society, UN and
stakeholders and Director, Regional Office and Director, Programme
Division.
- Manage and ensure the
completion of high quality, results-based and rights based country
programs and projects. Oversee the appraisal and approval of UN Women
programs in line with corporate guidelines and consistency with
corporate policies and strategies.
Country Program management and Oversight:
- Establish
the Country Office (CO) annual work plans in collaboration and
discussion with the team and set objectives, performance measurements,
standards and expected results. Ensure regular program monitoring and
evaluate progress for timely action and intervention to achieve results.
- Set
performance plans and evaluation standards. Regularly conduct
performance assessments, provide feedback and guidance to ensure optimum
performance and accountability according to UN Women standards of
integrity, ethics and accountability framework.
- Oversee, monitor and ensure quality control in the implementation of high quality,
results-based and rights-based for country programs and projects in
line with corporate policies, guidelines and strategies.
- Establish
CO security strategy, plan and measures that are in full compliance
with UN security policies, procedures and requirements, to ensure the
protection and well-being of staff and their dependents as well as to
minimize risks in program planning and operations.
- Lead
and manage the country budget preparation and submission processes to
ensure budget proposals are correctly presented and submitted in a
timely manner.
- Monitor the utilization of allocated funds to ensure transparency and compliance with UN .
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financial policies and accountability framework. Decide on the optimum
and appropriate allocation and management of CO resources.
- Lead
and manage the preparation of UN Women mandated country reports and
submit timely reports ensuring relevancy, quality and appropriateness of
content and presentation.
- Contribute
to regular assessments of the regional, and country strategic plans and
implementation plans and identify lessons learned and areas of emphasis
to underpin consistently improved programming and future SP
development.
- Plan and manage monitoring and evaluation of programs and projects. Evaluate results and take appropriate action.
UN Inter-Agency Coordination:
- Participate
actively as a member of the UN Country Team (UNCT) to ensure that
gender equality and women's empowerment issues are fully integrated into
UN programming processes such as Common Country Assessment (CCA)/ UN
Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and Country Programs.
- Provide
leadership and guidance to the UNCT in supporting enhanced response to
national partners in advancing gender equality and women's empowerment
and UN Reform.
- Support the
coordination and promotion of accountability within the UN Resident
Coordinator System to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment
and UN Reform.
- Advise the UNCT on the implementation of key policy commitments to gender and women's rights.
- Partner
with UN system and agencies to enhance collaboration, resource
mobilization and joint ideas to influence agenda and priority setting.
- Actively
seek out participation of UN Women in UN system thematic and other
working groups to establish effective network and to keep abreast of
ongoing debate and thinking on development, facilitate joint programming
and promote UN Women competencies to advance gender equality and
women's human rights.
Liaison Office to African Union and ECA:
- Under
the overall guidance of the Regional Director and UN Women
Headquarters, strategically position UN Women within the relevant organs
of the African Union and ECA to achieve its strategic goals.
- Liaise
with the African Union and the ECA to support the Regional Director in
his/her leadership and coordination role vis a vis these two important
intergovernmental organizations. Serve as the focal point and the
manager for all matters relating to cooperation between UNWomen, AU and
ECA.
- Manage the development of
and/or enhancement of appropriate partnership programmes and areas of
collaboration between UN Women, AU, and ECA in close collaboration with
Regional Director and UN Women Headquarters.
- Propose
strategies and policies to support AU institutions and organs such as
NEPAD, the African Parliament, and Peer review Mechanism.
- In consultation with Regional Director promote
better knowledge of AU’s mandate and activities among UN Women’s
Country Offices and foster increased sharing of information, and
experience between UN Women and AU in areas of mutual interest
- Collaborate
with ECA in the identification, formulation and implementation of
programme of cooperation in areas of joint undertaking and mutual
interest
- In liaison with Regional Office
promote continuous and enlarged exchange of information, between ECA and
UN Women’s Country Offices as well as other Units in Headquarters.
- Support
and backstop regional programmes/projects based in Addis Ababa and
executed by or in association with the AU and the ECA.
Representation and advocacy:
- Represent
UN Women in intergovernmental forums and other key meetings and events,
as designated/appropriate to speak on policy issues, participate in
policy dialogue, discuss policy initiatives, report on progress achieved
and/or present policy papers/ideas to influence setting of agenda
and/or advocate UN Women competencies and mandate.
- Represent
UN Women in the UNCT to contribute to the mainstreaming of UN Women’s
policies in joint programming and initiatives, under the leadership of
the UN Resident Coordinator.
- Participate
in regional, country and other critical meetings and events to evaluate
the impact and efficacy of UN Women policies and programs and provide
input in strategic discussions and provide technical advice on policies
and programs.
- Advocate on behalf of UN Women to help raise awareness and stimulate action to advance gender equality and women's rights.
- Carry
out ongoing advocacy to ensure that UN support towards realization of
the national plans and priorities are done in a gender responsive
manner, and within agreed international frameworks that promote and
protect gender equality.
Strategic partnerships and resource mobilization:
- Maintain
active relationship and partnership with the Government, NGOs, UN
system and agency partners, intergovernmental and non-governmental
organizations, regional commissions, institutes, academia, media, and
private sector on women's issues to enhance collaboration, resource
mobilization and/or share ideas and to influence agenda and priority
setting.
- Conceptualize, design and implement country resource mobilization strategies.
- Plan and oversee the implementation public information and fund raising events.
Knowledge Management:
- Introduce innovation and best practices to enhance program and operational performance.
- Collaborate
with UN Women units and other internal and external development
partners to identify and/or share best program and management practices.
- Lead
and manage the process of developing, capturing, institutionalizing and
disseminating lessons learned to build the capacity of clients and
stakeholders and contribute to UN Women knowledge management efforts.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of global, regional and national knowledge networks and practices.
- Produce knowledge products to meet UN Women needs and standards of quality
Impact of Results: The
successful performance of the UN Women Representative of his/her key
functions directly result in effective and strategic development,
implementation and management of high quality country programs and
projects and achievement of quality results which in turn directly
impact on the credibility and image of UN Women as an
effective and efficient partner and as the leading knowledge-based
technical and advocacy organization for gender equality and the
empowerment of women.
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Competencies
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Core Competencies and Guiding Principles:
- Integrity:
Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN
Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.
- Professionalism: Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.
- Cultural
sensitivity and valuing diversity: Demonstrate an appreciation of the
multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its
staff. Demonstrate an international outlook, appreciating difference in
values and learning from cultural diversity.
- Proven expertise in writing cogent and convincing documents.
- Strong
communications and public speaking skills. Proven analytical and
problem solving skills. Teamwork. Ability to build, inspire and manage
teams.
- Strong management, planning, goal-setting
and prioritization skills. Effectiveness in establishing and fostering
good relations with government counterparts, UN agencies, donors, and
NGO partners. Effectiveness in strengthening accountability and
results-based management in supporting organizational priorities, policy
and decision-making processes.
Core Competencies:
- Ethics and Values: Demonstrate and promote ethics and integrity by creating organizational precedents
- Organizational Awareness: Build support for the organization and ensure political acumen
- Development
and Innovation: Support staff competence development, and contribute
to an environment of creativity and innovation
- Work in
teams: Build and promote effective teams. Demonstrate ability to work
in a multicultural, multi ethnic environment and to maintain effective
working relations with people of different national and cultural
backgrounds.
- Communication and Information Sharing: Create and promote an environment for open and effective communication.
- Self-management
and Emotional Intelligence: Stay composed and positive even in
difficult moments, handle tense situations with diplomacy and tact, and
have a consistent behavior towards other.
- Conflict
Management: Surface conflicts and address them proactively
acknowledging different feelings and views and directing energy towards a
mutually acceptable solution.
- Continuous Learning and
Knowledge Sharing: Share knowledge across the organization and build a
culture of knowledge sharing and learning.
- Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making:Ensure fair and transparent decision making processes and manage risk.
Functional Competencies:
- Ability to conceptualize and convey strategic vision from the spectrum of development experience.
- Proven ability to lead and manage human, financial and programme resources.
- Strong negotiation, advocacy and interpersonal skills
- Proven expertise in writing cogent and convincing documents
- Strong communications and public speaking skills
- Proven analytical and problem solving skills
- Teamwork. Ability to build, inspire and manage teams
- Strong management, planning, goal-setting and prioritization skills
- Effectiveness in establishing and fostering good relations with government counterparts, UN agencies, donors, and NGO partners.
- Effectiveness
in strengthening accountability and results-based management in
supporting organizational priorities, policy and decision-making
processes.
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Required Skills and Experience
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Education:
- Master's degree or equivalent in development related disciplines, economics or public policy or other social science fields.
Experience:
- Minimum of 15 years
of extensive development experience that combines strategic and
managerial leadership in development cooperation, some of which in
gender and women’s issues programming, at the international level,
preferably in developing countries within the UN system, Agencies, Funds
or Programs or UN Mission.
Language:
- Written and oral proficiency in English is required.
- Knowledge of an additional UN official language will be an asset.
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