Emplois au PNUD - 4430- Research Analyst, Gender

Research Analyst, Gender

Lieu :

New York, ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE

Type de contrat :

200 Series

Date de commencement :

02-Jun-2008

Date limite de candidature :

23-Apr-08 (Minuit New York, États-Unis)

Niveau du poste :

L-2

Durée du contrat initial

1 year

Langues requises :

Anglais

Durée prévue de la mission :

1 year

Le PNUD s’engage à recruter un personnel divers en termes de genre, de nationalité et de culture. Nous encourageons de même les personnes issues des minorités ethniques, des communautés autochtones ou handicapées à postuler. Toutes les candidatures seront traitées dans la plus stricte confidentialité. Le PNUD ne tolère pas l’exploitation et / ou les atteintes sexuelles, ni aucune forme de harcèlement, y compris le harcèlement sexuel, et / ou toutes formes de discrimination. Tous/tes les candidats/tes selectectionnes /ées devront ainsi se soumettre à de rigoureuses vérifications relatives aux références fournies ainsi qu’à leurs antécédents.

Historique

The Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) is UNDP’s policy Bureau and backbone of the global practices. BDP has a key role to play in helping country offices to accelerate human development through strengthening the practice areas within UNDP’s programmes. BDP supports the development and design of projects that are responsive, effective and contribute to the national-level policies and results. Driven by demand, BDP provides the tools, analysis and capacities that country offices need to make a real difference in UNDP’s practice areas.

BDP support of UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2008-2011 and its 6 thematic areas (Poverty Reduction, Governance, Environment and Energy, HIV/AIDS, Capacity Development, and Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment) together with the regionalization process require it to support a strong and vibrant practice architecture which can ensure that UNDP, at all levels, benefits from consistent and coherent policy direction, rigorous quality standards and valuable service platforms.

The Knowledge Management Research Analyst (KMRA) will work with the Knowledge Management Specialist in the Practice Group and will liaise with KM Services Teams (KMST) at the Regional Service Centres (RSCs). All activities of the KM Team in HQ and KMST in RSC will support the goals and outcomes established by BDP in support of UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2008-2011.

Gender equality and women’s empowerment are human rights that lie at the heart of development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. This is why gender equality and women’s empowerment integrating dimensions UNDP’s work in all four main areas, namely poverty reduction, democratic governance, crisis prevention and recovery and the environment and sustainable development.

Under the guidance and supervision of the Knowledge Management Specialist the KM Research Analyst will assist in facilitating the global gender networks and conduct in-depth research and analysis in the area of gender equality and women’s empowerment, mainly through web and document searches and networking with policy advisers and external experts. The research will support knowledge and information needed to enhance the depth of network products and services.

Devoirs et responsabilités

Research / Content Development

Conduct in-depth research and analysis as required by the network products and services;
Liaise with internal and external partners to identify the appropriate advisors/contacts to respond to Network queries;
Draft network products including: consolidated replies to network queries and summaries of e-discussions;
Support the Knowledge Management Specialist, Policy Advisors and the Communities of Practice (COP) with research and analysis during the development of selected BDP Knowledge Products;
Contribute to the improvement of existing knowledge products and conduct additional research as needed;
Actively promote the Service Delivery Platform and the Practice Workspaces; solicit content submissions from practice members; help to insure that content to be published in the workspaces is adequately tagged, named, summarized.

Practice Management/Coordination

Support the Knowledge Management Specialist and the Practice Manager in the implementation of a Quality Assurance process for publications and flag substantive discrepancies between content residing on the Practice web platforms (workspaces, Service Delivery Platform, intranet, extranet) to maintain coherence and policy consistency;
Liaise with the Gender Policy Advisors to identify new content and ensure quality and consistency across similar documents in the workspace;
Enhance linkages with internal and external sources of knowledge in coordination with the UNDP team of KM Research Analysts and stay abreast of other COPs, innovations, best practices and lessons learned.

Knowledge Management

Support the Knowledge Management Specialist in shaping the KM strategy of the Practice and the annual work plan;
Support the Gender Practice Leadership in KM activities through enhancing the ability of practitioners to access internal knowledge and experts;
Advise practitioners on the application of practice knowledge and expertise; provide hands-on guidance for Gender Policy Advisors on KM applications and tools;
Support Policy Advisors with content management procedures and with the production, selection and maintenance of high quality content on the Workspace;
Advocate for the adoption and implementation of new corporate standards for knowledge products development;
Access and codify the impact of UNDP knowledge management work: monitor and maintain network member lists and performance indicators and report on Practice network performance and utilization.

Practice Advocacy and Communications

Internal advocacy and communications: Collect content and prepare periodic News Updates.
External advocacy and communications: Liaise with UNDP Communications Specialist to identify and disseminate success stories shared by COPs to appropriate networks and forums.

Compétences

Corporate:

Demonstrates integrity and fairness, by modeling the UN/UNDP’s values and ethical standards;
Promotes the vision, mission and strategic goals of UNDP;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

Functional:

Knowledge Management Advocacy and Support:
Ability to produce high quality outputs and in a timely manner while understanding and anticipating the evolving client needs;
Ability to focus on impact and results for the client, promoting and demonstrating an ethic of client service;
Strong organizational skills;
Ability to work independently, produce high quality inputs;
Sound judgment and the ability to manage competing priorities.

Partnership building and team work:

Demonstrated well developed people management skills;
Strong ability to work in teams; creating an enabling environment, mentoring and developing staff;
Good negotiating and networking skills;
Demonstrated flexibility to excel in a multi-cultural environment;
Provides constructive coaching and feedback.

Communications:

Ability to write clearly and convincingly, adapting style and content to different audiences and speak clearly and convincingly;
Strong presentation skills in meetings with the ability to adapt for different audiences;
Strong analytical, research and writing skills;
Strong inter-personal, negotiation and liaison skills.

Qualifications et expériences requises

Minimum 2 -3 years experience in programme activities for UNDP or another international organization preferably in a capacity that involved work related to Knowledge Management and gender equality and women’s empowerment issues with a focus on UNDP’s practice policies.
Excellent written and oral communications skills in English
Masters Degree in International Relations, Economics/Management, Development Studies or related field