UN Women: Programme Officer - Governance, Peace and Security

Responsibilities:

Strategic leadership, oversight and reporting

• Support the implementation of the 2012 GPS Work Plan;
• Overall, effectively assume strategic and substantive leadership for the integration of UNWOMEN’ strategies and values in governance, peace and security programmes throughout the sub region. This covers supporting fundraising, communication and partnership-building, evaluation and knowledge management; and ensuring information flow and team-building across the diverse network  of partners and stakeholders involved in various GPS programmes;
• Facilitate quality assurance of all GPS programmes and undertake technical assistance and monitoring missions to the projects sites;
• Identify capacity development needs and develop adequate solutions to ensure effective programme implementation;
• Monitoring the development of, and provide substantive guidance and technical inputs, to ensure the quality of products and capacity development tools commissioned by country teams with emphasis on ensuring evidence-based approaches;
• Ensure high-quality, results-oriented reporting on the GPS programmes, for internal and external audiences contributing substantively to monthly, six monthly and annual reports;
• Close on-going projects on GPS;
• Maintain and implement donor reporting and accountability schedule ensuring quality production of reports;
• Oversee coordination of the UN Regional and National Gender and Human Rights Advisory/Theme Groups.

Evaluation and learning

• Support the implementation of UN WOMEN’s bi-annual evaluation plan and overall monitoring and evaluation for the UN WOMEN projects;
• Support governments to prepare CEDAW country repots and CSOs shadow report in countries that are due for reporting;
• Develop and oversee wide strategic distribution of GPS programmes’ findings and knowledge-related publications, inclusive of select case studies, good practices and lessons learned;
• Document, and analyse lessons learned that might be useful for the UN system at large and UN WOMEN in particular for global institutional learning.

Communications and advocacy

• Support staff for the development and implementation of communications and advocacy plans and identify and seize strategic advocacy opportunities on an on-going basis.
• Ensure maintenance of a calendar of the most relevant international/regional for a relevant to GPS programmes, facilitate access to that information by partners and relevant UN WOMEN staff, and coordinate UN WOMEN participation.

Developing partnerships and networks

• Strengthen and enhance partnership/ co-operation/ consultation/ coordination with, where appropriate, national and local state actors, national and international civil society actors, specially, women’s organisations, bilateral institutions, UN, donors and private foundations for more effective and coordinated GPS programme implementation;
• Utilise effectively on-going coordination mechanism to ensure coherence of the programme with other country-level processes including national development policy-making, UN programming and coordination processes;
• Ensure effective partnership, networking and coordination between other on-going UN WOMEN programmes, projects and activities in the sub-region
• Participate in United Nations Country meetings, the development of United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks as well as joint programming processes as per delegation by the Regional Director;
• Maintain a roster of donors for the sector and initiate resource mobilisation actions.

Requirements:

• Either a Master’s degree in sociology, gender studies, social, legal or political sciences with five years progressively relevant professional work experience in the area of gender and development, with experience in the area of gender and governance, peace and security, OR Bachelor degree in same field with seven years relevant experience in monitoring and evaluation or programme management in development work;
• Knowledge on gender and human rights, with a focus on international, regional and national frameworks on gender and governance, peace and security;
• Knowledge on CEDAW, economic empowerment, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, peace and security, women in politics, capacity development, United Nations Development Assistant Funds (UNDAFs) and joint gender programmes is an asset;
• Commitment to gender equality and women’s rights and strong team working skills;
• Excellent communication in English. French or Portuguese will be an advantage.

To apply, submit a CV, completed

United Nations Personal History Form

(P.11) and motivation letter indicating ‘GPS Programme Officer’ in the subject line to

hr [dot] southafrica [at] unwomen [dot] org (h)r [dot] southafrica [at] unwomen [dot] org

Type of contract: Service contract/ SC-10 level.

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