Policy Advisor, Women’s Economic Empowerment

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UN Women

  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 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: 01/05/2025
  • Location: Panama
Economic justice
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.

The UN Women Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean in Panama, guided by the LAC regional strategy and aligned with UN Women’s Strategic Plan on economic empowerment, focuses on key priorities within this thematic area. These priorities include integrating a gender perspective into the adoption and localization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), fostering macroeconomic environments that promote gender equality, and advancing women’s economic rights. The office also prioritizes the eradication of female poverty through gender-responsive policy making and budgeting, ensuring equal employment opportunities and decent work for all genders, and enhancing women’s access to resources. Additional priorities involve gender mainstreaming in national planning and budgeting processes, promoting women’s entrepreneurship, and strengthening the relationship between women and the private sector.

Reporting to the Regional Director, the Policy Advisor for Women’s Economic Empowerment will oversee the development of programs and resource mobilization strategies in these thematic areas. The role includes providing capacity building to country offices and multi-country offices in the region, establishing and strengthening partnerships, and leading the creation of relevant knowledge products on economic empowerment with a special emphasis on care, livelihood strategies and decent work, gender budgeting and macroeconomics and financial inclusion of women facing structural discriminations in LAC. This position is integral in ensuring that the organizational priorities are effectively translated into actionable outcomes and impactful results.


Education and certification:
  • Master’s degree or equivalent in economics, human rights, international relations or other social science fields 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.

Experience:
  • At least 10 years progressively responsible experience in designing and managing programmes and advocating for gender equality and women´s economic empowerment, ideally with some experience in developing countries is required.
  • Experience in programme, policy analysis, and strategic planning is required.
  • Experience working with, and building partnerships with governments, donors and civil society organizations internationally and in the field is required.
  • Experience leading and coaching staff in international settings is required.
  • Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.
  • Fluency in English and Spanish is required.

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