UN WOMEN Jobs - 56142- UN Women: Programme Manager

UN Women: Programme Manager

Advertised on behalf of

UN WOMEN

Location :

Cairo, EGYPT

Type of Contract :

FTA International

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

03-Aug-15 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

P-5

Duration of Initial Contract :

1 year

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

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. 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.

In partnership with the Swedish International Development Cooperation, UN Women has launched a regional programme; “Women for Women and Men for Women.” This three year regional programme, aims to respond to new challenges and opportunities in the region regarding gender equality and women’s empowerment. It seeks to understand the root causes of gender inequalities and to address them through an innovative bottom-up approach.

With the overall goal to enhance gender equality in the region, the programme intends more specifically to contribute to the following:

Understand the root causes of gender inequality in order to develop evidence-based advocacy and awareness-raising tools; including on masculinities and working with men and boys;
Strengthen the capacities and networks of GEWE civil society organizations, with a particular focus on the sustainability of new and emerging movements;
Develop community-based solutions to promote gender equality based on innovative approaches and South-South exchanges.

The regional project will be implemented in a Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Egypt, and a Project Coordinator in each programme country will be recruited to manage and oversee the respective project activities in the country. The programme manager will be based in Cairo, Egypt. UN Women is seeking to recruit a Programme Manager for the day-to-day management, implementation, and effectiveness of the Regional Programme. In particular, s/he is responsible for the monitoring and review of the Regional Programme portfolio, work-plans and budget, for preparing reports as required by donor and UN Women management, and to mobilize resources as needed. The Programme Manager is responsible for facilitating linkages between the work of the Country Offices, Regional Office and UN Women HQ teams. In addition, the Programme Manager will provide strategic advice on the programme implementation in close consultation with the Global Programme Steering Committee and Country Steering Committees.

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the Arab States Deputy Regional Director, the Programme Manager will fulfill the following functions:

Oversee the implementation of the regional programme;
Facilitate knowledge product generation, sharing and management;
Establish and support partnerships within and beyond UN system;
Direct supervision of 4 project coordinators and other project staff.

Duties and Responsibilities

Summary of Key Functions:

Implementation of project activities;
Provision of top quality advisory and programme development services;
Facilitation of knowledge building and management;
Creation of strategic partnerships and implementation of the resource mobilization initiatives;
Management.

Implementation of project activities:

Exercise overall responsibility for planning, implementation, management, monitoring, coordination and reporting aspects of the “women for women” programme;
Develop annual action plans, provide overall advice, guidance and supervision of programme activities, and technical support throughout the programme cycle;
Periodically update the overall programme framework on the basis of reviews, lessons learned and best practices derived from different thematic areas and evaluations;
Define appropriate modalities of execution, implementation, partnership and funding for the programme;
Implement the monitoring and evaluation framework for the regional programme, with specific and measurable indicators;
Ensure that all programming under the regional programme is monitored, reviewed and evaluated according to UN Women procedures;
Coordination and supervision of the experts and consultants working as part of the programme on any of the components;
Be responsible for the timely preparation and quality control of all substantive technical reports, briefs and required documents;
Ensure timely production and submission of all partial and/or progress reports by all project partners and country offices;
Effective application of RBM tools and monitoring achievement of results on an ongoing basis;
Organize PSC, project review and/or evaluation meetings. Prepare background document, briefs, issue papers, progress reports for the PSC meetings and for donor reporting. Follow-up on the implementation of PSC decisions and recommendations;
In collaboration with the programme support team, initiate procurement of goods and services including preparation of equipment specifications, ToRs and RFPs, managing process for the selection of suppliers, contractors and partners;
Conduct field visits to supervise, coordinate and monitor field level activities of the programme in country.

Provision of top quality advisory and programme development services:

Thorough analysis and research of the political, social and economic situation in the country, as well as discourse on engaging men and boys, and root causes of gender equality, and preparation of substantive inputs to the UNW country office programme planning;
Identification of areas for support and interventions within the thematic/sectorial areas assigned;
Design and formulation of project initiatives within the area of responsibility, translating UNW’s priorities into local interventions.

Facilitation of knowledge building and management:

In coordination with UN Women Country Offices in the region, ensure that knowledge is retrieved from the implementation of country action plans through periodic reporting, meetings, analysis of documents produced, lessons learned exercises, and other means;
Ensure that this knowledge is documented and systematized and fed back into programme development including by contributing to the regional knowledge hub as well as networks both within UN Women and beyond;
Supervise the development and production of publications and other knowledge products on women’s political participation and economic empowerment in close coordination with the UN Women HQ teams.

Creation of strategic partnerships and implementation of the resource mobilization initiatives:

In the context of UN Women’s lead role in Gender Equality, support the development of strategic partnerships and alliances with other UN organisations, multilateral organisations, regional organisations, academic and technical organisations; contribute to the negotiations in establishing such partnerships, drafting of agreements and monitoring their implementation;
Ensure close co-operation with other UN Women teams; develop alliances and working partnerships (thematic, advocacy, regional resource facilities, etc.);
Identify and develop resource mobilization opportunities in support of the regional programme;
Through the global and country level Programme Steering Committees, maintain ongoing communications with the EC on the implementation of the programme and provide regular updates and opportunities for the EC’s substantive input for the implementation of the programme.

Management:

Monitor, analyze and maintain an overview of the progress of project implementation to ensure that timely technical, managerial and administrative support is provided to all the country offices;
Supervise the regional programme staff;
Provide oversight on the contracting of project services to implementing agencies, ensuring compliance with UN procedures;
Review financial reports in accordance with UN Women procedures and submit the reports to UN Women HQ and donors in a timely manner;
Oversee the release of funds to counterparts, liquidation of funds and other processes;
Liaise with appropriate officers of the partner UN, government and donor agencies, monitor and make necessary arrangement for the timely flow of project funds to the country offices.

Impact of Results

The key results will have a decisive impact through the achievement of the programme objectives through enhancing the capacities of civil society to provide community based solutions on addressing inequalities; and contributing regional knowledge and experience-sharing on engaging men and boys and the root causes of gender inequalities.

The programme will also have impact on the capacity of the UN system to support country offices in the design and implementation of strategies and activities that contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment in the region. It will provide a new evidence base in the region, through the first regional men and masculinities surveys, and provide opportunities for knowledge sharing, south-south exchanges and community based solutions.

Competencies

Core values 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.

Core Competencies:

Ethics and Values:

Demonstrate and safeguard ethics and integrity.

Organizational Awareness:

Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment.

Development and Innovation:

Take charge of self-development and take initiative.

Work in 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.

Communicating and Information Sharing:

Facilitate and encourage open communication and strive for 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 others

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:

Encourage learning and sharing of knowledge.

Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making:

Demonstrate informed and transparent decision making.

Functional Competencies:

Advocacy/Advancing A Policy-Oriented Agenda:

Preparing information for advocacy;
Identifies and communicates relevant information for a variety of audiences for advocating UN Women's mandate.

Results-Based Programme Development and Management:

Contributes into results through primary research and analysis;
Assesses project performance to identify success factors and incorporates best practices into project work;
Researches linkages across programme activities to identify critical points of integration;
Conducts continuous monitoring and evaluation of projects/programme implementation;
Analyzes country situation to identify opportunities for project development;
Participates in the formulation of project proposals and ensures substantive rigor in the design; and application of proven successful approaches and drafts proposals accordingly.

Building Strategic Partnerships:

Maintaining a network of contacts;
Maintains an established network of contacts for general information sharing and to remain up-to-date on partnership related issues;
Analyzes and selects materials for strengthening strategic alliances with partners and stakeholders.

Innovation and Marketing New Approaches:

Enhancing processes or products;
Generates new ideas and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things;
Documents and analyses innovative strategies/best practices/new approaches.

Resource Mobilization:

Providing inputs to resource mobilization strategies;
Analyzes information/databases on potential and actual donors;
Develops a database of project profiles. Identifies opportunities for project proposals for presentation to donors.

Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing:

Basic research and analysis;
Generates new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things;
Documents and analyses innovative strategies and new approaches.

Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise:

Fundamental knowledge of own discipline;
Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principles of a professional discipline or technical specialty relating to the position;
Possesses basic knowledge of organizational policies and procedures relating to the position and applies them consistently in work tasks;
Strives to keep job knowledge up-to-date through self-directed study and other means of learning;
Demonstrates good knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments;
Demonstrates in-depth understanding and knowledge of the current guidelines and project management tools and utilizes these regularly in work assignments.

Client Orientation:

Establishing effective client relationships;
Researches potential solutions to internal and external client needs and reports back in a timely, succinct and appropriate fashion;
Organizes and prioritizes work schedule to meet client needs and deadlines;
Anticipates client needs and addresses them promptly.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Master's Degree in Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Political Sciences, Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics or related field.

Experience:

Minimum 10 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in providing management advisory services, hands-on experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of women empowerment projects;
In-depth knowledge of gender issues in the Arab States region;
Familiarity with the United Nations System and UN Women is an asset;
Previous experience with UN processes, including those related to women’s empowerment and gender equality;
Knowledge on working with small grants, and masculinities as well as research background an asset.

Language:

Written and oral proficiency in English is required, working knowledge of Arabic and/or French is an asset.

Application procedure

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, please group all your documents into one (1) single PDF document. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

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.