Historique
Devoirs et responsabilités
- Provide support to the Chief of Research and Data in developing the new strategy, including for example, consulting with key stakeholders within and outside of UN Women, mapping existing work on gender research and data etc.
- Actively lead a UN-Women wide community of practice on research and data, as one part of efforts to strengthen and coordinate the organization’s capacity in this area.
- Consult on and identify major gaps in research and data, spurring research institutions to take up the agenda and to contribute to filling identified gaps.
- Identify strategic opportunities to strengthen the availability and quality of gender statistics, and develop and manage the partnerships needed to deliver them, including for example with the UN Statistics Division, regional commissions, OECD and others.
- Convene groups of key thinkers on gender to input, advise and steer UN Women’s research and data agenda.
- Represent UN Women in inter-agency working groups and fora on research and data, including for example the inter-agency working group on statistics and the inter-agency expert group on MDG indicators.
- Identify and carry out pieces of research, data and policy analysis, to help position UN Women as a key broker of knowledge on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
- Keep abreast of emerging development issues to galvanize UN Women’s analytical capacity to respond.
- Commission and manage research on key cross-cutting issues and in order to help UN Women to forecast and respond to emerging research issues.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of peer review and quality assurance mechanisms for UN Women’s policy knowledge products.
- Work creatively and flexibly across UN Women, to identify synergies and linkages in relation to research and data.
- Contribute to internal reviews of UN Women policies and programmes to ensure good use of evidence.
- Work with policy teams to build a high quality evidence base for their work, including action-oriented research to link academic and policy research with knowledge generated from practice at country level.
- Provide advice and expertise to Policy Division colleagues on the existence, availability and applicability of sources of evidence and research on thematic issues related to gender equality.
- Produce internal guidance notes and briefings on the latest gender research for colleagues across the organization.
Compétences
- Integrity: Demonstrating consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.
- Cultural Sensitivity/Valuing diversity: Demonstrating an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrating an international outlook, appreciating differences in values and learning from cultural diversity.
Core Competencies:
- Ethics and Values: Promoting Ethics and Integrity / Creating Organizational Precedents
- Organizational Awareness: Building support and political acumen.
- Planning and organizing: Proven ability to plan strategic direction and ability to organize and service intergovernmental bodies and international technical meetings
- Developing and Empowering People / coaching and mentoring: Building staff competence, creating an environment of creativity and innovation
- Working in Teams: Proven record of building and managing teams and creating an enabling and collaborative work environment, including the ability to effectively lead, supervise, mentor, develop and evaluate staff.
- Communicating Information and Ideas: Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication
- Self-management and Emotional intelligence: Creating an emotionally intelligent organization
- Conflict Management / Negotiating and Resolving Disagreements: Leveraging conflict in the interests of the organization & setting standards. Ability to interact and negotiate with high-level government officials are required
- Knowledge Sharing / Continuous Learning: Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning.
- Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making: Fair and transparent decision-making; calculated risk-taking
- Commitment to continuous learning: Willingness to keep abreast of new developments in the field of gender equality thematic areas Leadership - Proven track record of excellent management and technical leadership skills and ability to delegate appropriate responsibility, accountability and decision-making authority.
- In-depth understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methods, particularly in relation to gender.
- A substantial background in gender research.
- Ability to develop and maintain partnerships with government counterparts, UN agencies, donors, and NGO partners.
- Proven excellent written and oral communication skills
- Proven analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to leverage information technology, executive information systems, management techniques and tools for optimal office performance.
- Excellent strategic planning, goal-setting and prioritization skills.
- Effectiveness in establishing and fostering good relations with Strong, proven commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Qualifications et expériences requises
- Masters (or equivalent) in a relevant social science discipline, with a substantial gender component.
- A minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible work experience carrying out research and analysis in a development policy and/or research context.
- Significant record of data analysis, research and writing, including on gender and development.
- Fluency in written and oral in English is required. Knowledge of another UN working language is very desirable.
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. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.