Jobs - 26258- UN Women: Gender Equality Advisor for the Libya Co

UN Women: Gender Equality Advisor for the Libya Coordinated Needs Assessment

Location :

Tripoli, LIBYA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

24-Oct-2011

Application Deadline :

21-Oct-11 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

90 working days spread over 4 Months

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

Following the beginning of hostilities in Libya, and the adoption of the United Nations Security Council resolution 1970 (2011) dated 26 February 2011, on 10 March 2011, the Secretary General nominated Mr. Abdel-Elah Mohamed Al-Khatib, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Jordan as his Special Envoy to "provide leadership and oversee the coordination of the United Nations system" in regards to the Libyan crisis, working closely with Governments in the region and with the international community. On 17 March 2011, the Security Council adopted resolution 1973 (2011), calling for a cease fire and establishing the no-fly zone. On 29 March 2011, a conference was held in London where the Secretary General agreed that the UN would coordinate post-conflict efforts in Libya and nominated Ian Martin as his Special Advisor tasked with coordinating all UN post conflict planning efforts.

On 13 April, the UN-WB-EC framework agreement and the UN-WB partnership framework were triggered to support collaborative efforts in monitoring the situation in Libya and prepare the groundwork for coordinated post conflict responses. In parallel to the political efforts by the Special Envoy to reach a cessation of hostilities, the UN undertook a pre-assessment designed as an analytical effort to build a common knowledge base of the Libyan context and identify potential risks and recovery opportunities in the post conflict period. The pre-assessment included the participation of the World Bank, with close coordination with the EU and its own information gathering efforts.

At the 2 September meeting in Paris, the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) requested the international community, under the leadership of the United Nations, to provide immediate assistance in assessing and responding to a set of critical needs within a very short time frame (September to December). The NTC also requested that preparations be initiated for assessing transitional requirements identified during the mentioned meeting, defined as needs and results to be achieved in order to secure the country's future stability and development in the months and years to come.

At present UN Women does not have a presence in Libya. However UN Women has been supporting the process of integrating gender equality into all coordinated needs assessments. The person hired will be deployed to Libya to ensure that gender equality and women's empowerment is integrated into all stages of the coordinated needs assessment.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the guidance of the Team Leader for LCNA and in consultation with the UN Women Arab States section Chief and the Peace & Security cluster Chief, the Gender Advisor will be responsible for the following tasks:

Participate in all meetings and consultations held for preparing the LCNA;
Support the implementation of the methodology for the LCNA ensuing that it includes a gender equality perspective in all processes;
Provide inputs in the development of tools for data collection and analysis;
Work closely with crisis analysts for the integration of gender equality and gender and crisis analysis into desk reviews of existing crisis analyses by various entities, diagnostic study and strategic forecasting;
Provide inputs into Government led crisis analysis and framework of Strategic Priorities;
Participate in stakeholder consultations;
Facilitate consultations and dialogue with key stakeholders such as CSOs/women's organizations and key government institutions amongst others;
Provide technical support across the sectors, specifically ensuring that gender equality and women's rights analysis is a core part of all sectoral assessments and reports;
Enhance the strategic communication and development deficit analysis ensuring that gender equality concerns are given due space;
Ensure the quality of the final report by integrating the gender equality issues identified in the assessment, and reviewing all components of the LCNA to ensure that gender issues and women's rights identified in the needs assessment portion of the LCNA in each sector are supported by indicators and financial allocations in the TRM and the proposed budget;
Amend the cross-cutting guidance note on gender based on how relevant or not it was in practice;
Generate lessons learned for other coordinated needs assessment processes;
Generate data to add to our efforts to really assess where the money is allocated for post conflict needs;
Time permitting, the generation of a UN Women Country Programme options paper at the end of the assessment.

Competencies

Core Values/Guiding Principles:

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;
Working in Teams: Building and promoting effective teams;
Communicating Information and Ideas: Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication;
Self-management and Emotional intelligence: Creating an emotionally intelligent organization;
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.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Advanced degree in social sciences - focus on gender issues and humanitarian/conflict response.

Experience:

Minimum ten years experience in working with gender issues as well as conflict resolution, humanitarian assessments and response;
Previous experience on needs assessments with the UN is preferable;
Strong communication and writing skills in English;
Experience in emergency/conflict situations;
Experience of working with multilateral/bilateral agencies and stakeholders;
Experience of working with large teams.

Languages:

Fluency in English is a requirement. Strong Arabic skills are important.

Note:

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.

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.