Inter-Agency Coordination Specialist

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UN Women

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: International contract
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 16/08/2024
  • Location: United States 
Movement building Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
Background:
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.

Key Functions and Accountabilities:
Provide technical contributions and substantive support to the implementation of the UN System-Wide Action Plan and Accountability Framework on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-SWAP), the Gender Equality Marker (GEM) and the synergies and complementarities with the UNCT-SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard and other related system-wide framework, such as the Secretary-General System-wide Gender Equality Acceleration Plan:
  • Provide coordination and technical support and guidance to the implementation of the UN-SWAP, collaborating closely with other UN entities, funds and programmes and UN coordinating bodies;
  • Coordinate and provide technical support to the UN-SWAP Help Desk Support service, including providing guidance, training and expert advice;

Provide substantive support to monitoring and reporting individual and aggregate results on the implementation of the gender mainstreaming strategy in the UN system to intergovernmental processes and high-level UN global coordination mechanisms:
  • Conduct quantitative and qualitative monitoring of policy, practice and progress made by the organizations of the UN System for enhanced gender mainstreaming and analysis of annual UN-SWAP reporting results;
  • Provide substantive support to the production of entity level reports and personalized letters on annual UN-SWAP reporting results and provide technical contributions to the quality assurance of self-reporting by UN entities;

Provide substantive support to the preparation of communication materials, capacity building initiatives, knowledge management and outreach efforts related to gender mainstreaming and system-wide accountability frameworks:
  • Provide technical contributions to the conceptualization and development of knowledge products to increase accountability for gender mainstreaming;
  • Lead the management of the UN-SWAP Knowledge Hub, an online repository of resources for each of the performance areas of the UN-SWAP;

Provide programme support to UNSCD management priorities:
  • Assist in the administration of the work of the Division including the development and monitoring of annual workplans and budgets and preparation of inputs for results-based budgeting;

Recruitment Qualifications:
  • Master’s degree or equivalent in gender issues, social sciences, economics or a related field is required.
  • A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
  • Qualifications/Training in data analysis, data research, and/or knowledge management is highly desirable.
  • At least five (5) years of progressively responsible work experience focusing on gender equality and women’s empowerment issues, including at the international level.
  • Experience supporting inter-agency bodies and UN Coordination mechanisms to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women required.
  • Experience supporting capacity-building related to gender mainstreaming is required.
  • Experience in the UN Common System is required. 
  • Fluency in English is required.

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