UN WOMEN Jobs - 113314- International Consultant-Gender in Humanitarian Ac

International Consultant-Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Coordinator

Advertised on behalf of

UN WOMEN

Location :

Home-Based, SUDAN

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

28-Jul-23 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

SIX MONTHS

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

SIX MONTHS

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 support to Member States’ efforts and priorities in meeting their gender equality goals and for building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

Since Saturday 15 April, intense fighting has been taking place in Sudan between the Sudan Army Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). After a bitter disagreement between the two most powerful generals on the integration of the RSF into the regular army of the respective armed forces, heavy fighting, and street battles have broken out, especially in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, Marawi in the Northern State, North, South and East Central Darfur, Blue Nile Region and Blue Kordofan, and Eastern Sudan, and the Blue Nile. While some states remain relatively calm such as Red Sea State, armed Conflict continues in Khartoum, Marawi, and Darfur Region and is expected to continue.

The Sudan's health system is on the verge of collapse, as many hospitals have been forced to close because they have run out of blood, medicines, and medical supplies, while in some cases medical personnel have been unable to go to work. Additionally, an initial rapid gender assessment has established that IDPs receiving States such as the Blue Nile, White Nile, and the Red Sea have started to experience pressure on infrastructure such as water, health, shelter, electricity, and high food prices. Households, especially de jure and de facto female-headed households can no longer provide for themselves due to a lack of income and a breakdown of the banking system. Initial rapid gender assessment has also established that most IDPs are being hosted by families, contributing to overburdening of such families

Access to a population in need is difficult and many humanitarian activities have been suspended due to insecurity. Even before the fighting broke out, humanitarian needs in Sudan were at an all-time high, with a third of the population – approximately 16 million people – in need of humanitarian assistance majority of women and girls. At present, there are already more than 2.7 million internally displaced persons in the country, some of them multiple times. It is expected that these numbers will rise as fighting spreads and intensifies.

It is against this backdrop that UN Women is looking for a Gender Humanitarian Coordinator to support humanitarian efforts in addressing the needs of crisis-affected women, girls, boys, and men in Sudan. This position will require experience and an in-depth understanding of humanitarian coordination mechanisms, humanitarian action programming, gender equality, and women’s empowerment issues.

Duties and Responsibilities

Main duties and Reporting arrangements

Under the overall guidance of the Country Representative, and the direct supervision of the GiHA Programme Specialist, the GiHA Coordinator will also work in close coordination with the Information Management Specialist, GBV Specialist, Programme Specialist, Women, Peace and Security, Gender and Political Participation, Programme Specialist, Women Economic Empowerment, Gender and Statistics Advisor, and other relevant staff. The list of duties provided herein is non-exhaustive.

Technical Leadership and Strategic Planning

Advise, support, guide, and provide substantive inputs to ensure the formulation of gender-sensitive UN humanitarian response in the emergency, recovery, and post emergency development stages.
Conceptualize the country office approach in the humanitarian area proposing a strategy and action plan with concrete actions for the short and medium term and ways to implement within the context of the CO Programme from 2023 onwards, including linking to DRR.
Identify the role that potential partners at the local level could play towards ensuring the implementation of gender-sensitive humanitarian responses during the emergency and recovery periods and engage with them for appropriate action.
Actively participate in country-level programming processes, in particular assessments and recovery planning efforts to ensure that the UN Women is strategically placed within the UN humanitarian and recovery context.
Lead the development and use of gender analysis and collection of sex and age-disaggregated data and promote its institutionalization.

Coordination, partnership, and resource mobilization support

In partnership with the humanitarian cross-cutting issues group, participate and provide gender-related inputs to the interagency UN coordination mechanisms, and other relevant sectoral-level processes focusing on humanitarian issues including the various assessments.
Provide linkages with the Gender Theme Group for a sustainable approach to coordination efforts in humanitarian action.
Advocate for the engagement and participation of women-led local organizations and civil society networks in humanitarian coordination mechanisms.
Lead the establishment of the GiHA working group, at the national and sub-national level
Coordinate GiHA training for women-led organizations, community initiatives, and UN Women staff
Coordinate and lead on gender issues within the Inter-Agency Cross-cutting Group framework - which includes Accountability for Affected Population working group, a Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Child Protection (CP), PSEA.
Lead or support the drafting of project proposals in response to the humanitarian crisis and mobilize resources to fund UN Women’s coordination and technical support efforts.
Propose programmatic areas of cooperation with and approach relevant UN Agencies, bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors, private sector, civil society, women’s organisations, and other specialized humanitarian partners, to establish a partnership based on strategic goals of UN Women, and country priorities in humanitarian action and DRR.
Build and maintain alliances and strategic partnerships for the advancement of humanitarian action.

2. Capacity Building and Knowledge Management

Identify needs and opportunities to provide capacity-building support across sectors/ clusters in coordination.
Facilitate capacity-building activities on concepts related to gender-responsive humanitarian action, and engendering information management and analysis.

Support partners, and country staff capacity development to engage in gender in humanitarian response, and gender needs assessments.
Provide substantive technical support to Sudan Country teams in developing and strengthening projects/ programmes.
Contribute to the identification and documentation of challenges, lessons learned, and good practices from the implementation of gender-responsive humanitarian programming in Sudan.

Advocacy and Communication

Support UN Women’s advocacy efforts to help raise awareness and stimulate action in addressing the specific needs of displaced women and girls and advancing gender equality and women's rights in Sudan, especially in the most affected districts.
Identify opportunities and contribute to resource mobilization through contribution to proposals.
Develop Gender Alert, Gender Tipsheets, SitReps, press releases, or other communication pieces as required.

Key Performance Indicators

Timely and quality technical advice and support.
Leadership around expertise in the region.
Quality reports and other strategic documents drafted and submitted promptly.

Strong relationships with various partners and stakeholders.
UN Women is well represented in important meetings on topics related to expertise.
Contributions to resource mobilization.
Timely and quality knowledge products.

Competencies

Core Values:

Respect for Diversity
Integrity
Professionalism

Core Competencies:

Awareness and sensitivity regarding gender issues
Accountability
Creative problem solving
Effective communication
Inclusive collaboration
Stakeholder engagement

Functional Competencies

Strong background in humanitarian action, mixed migration and refugee response, gender equality, and human rights/women’s rights.
Strong understanding of Do No Harm principles around the delivery of SGBV and protection services.
Excellent research, analytical, and writing skills.
Ability to think and work logically and work precisely with attention to detail.
Initiative, sound judgment, and demonstrated ability to work harmoniously with staff members of different national and cultural backgrounds.
Ability to work independently and meet tight deadlines in a high-pressure environment.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Master’s degree or equivalent in gender, international relations, humanitarian action, international development, or other social science fields is required.
A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted instead of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in gender equality and women’s empowerment, humanitarian action, and gender protection in emergencies
Substantive and technical experience in inter-agency coordination.
Experience in resource mobilization, especially with humanitarian financing mechanisms.
Experience working with, and building partnerships with donors, and civil society organizations internationally and in the field.
Experience working with the UN is an asset; and

Languages:

Fluency in spoken and written English is required.
Knowledge of Arabic language is highly desired

Please note that applications without a completed and signed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

UN Women Personal History form (P-11) can be downloaded from https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2022-07/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form-en.doc.

UNWOMEN 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.