Antecedentes

• Expanding women’s voice, leadership and participation,
• Enhancing women’s economic empowerment;
• Ending violence against women and girls;
• Strengthening implementation of the women, peace and security agenda; and
• Making gender equality priorities central to national and local planning and budgeting.

• Participation of Gender Equality advocates in PIFS Forum Economic Ministers’ FEMM to bring gender perspective on economic, labour and trade policies, their implications and impacts
• Making regional trade policy more transparent and accountable to women citizens in Pacific island states
• Building regional database on social and economic indicators of gender equality/inequality in each Pacific Island state to monitor progress in closing gender gaps and reducing female poverty
• Research and analysis to support effective advocacy for gender-sensitive (and gender-just) economic, labour and trade policy-making and gender-sensitive poverty-reduction impact assessments
• Advocacy training for women on trade and economic policy issues and processes

• Addressing gender-differentiated impacts of land liberalization policies and land reform proposals in the Pacific
• Strengthening the legal and policy outcomes of projects to support rural women agricultural producers and traders
• Researching women’s access to social protection and secure housing and proposing legislative and policy reforms
• Empowering women producers, entrepreneurs and migrant workers:
• Strengthening the economic security and rights of women market vendors
• ‘Costing’ of women’s work in food production, care and gift economies
• Engaging with Pacific-based business leaders in industries which employ women or purchase goods and/or services from women in initiatives to empower women.
• Researching and preparing policy proposals to address key labour and migration issues

• Designing a PIC-relevant gender-budgeting project, for implementation in three countries
• Assessing the merits and options of imposing a tax on financial transactions to raise revenue for gender sensitive poverty reduction programmes

Deberes y responsabilidades

• Convene potential regional and national partner organizations (inter-governmental, academic, institutional, civil society and private sector) to validate the project concept and ensure harmonization of efforts
• Meet with other UN agencies to identify synergies and opportunities for joint and complementary activities
• Identify missing areas and target groups in the current draft programme document and develop the full regional umbrella programme document including log frame and budget;
• Carry out countries analysis and define priority countries for the WEE programme
• Develop priority countries based logframes, implementation arrangements and budgets
• Identify interested and appropriate donors and outline a Resource Mobilization Strategy for the Women in Economic Empowerment Programme
• For each priority country define partnership and resource mobilization strategy
• Facilitate mobilization of resources

Competencias

• Synthesises UN WOMEN data and reports and current political situations and scenarios, and contributes to the formulation of UN responses
• Seeks strategic every opportunities and events to introduce and disseminate UN WOMEN’s WEE knowledge products and policy materials for advocacy and capacity building work

• Effectively networks with partners seizing opportunities to build strategic alliances relevant to UN WOMEN’s mandate and strategic agenda 
• Develops positive ties with civil society to build/strengthen UN WOMEN’s mandate 
• Identifies needs and interventions for capacity building of counterparts, clients and potential partners
• Promotes UN WOMEN’s agenda in inter-agency meetings

• Makes the case for innovative ideas documenting successes and building them into the design of new approaches
• Identifies new approaches and strategies that promote the use of tools and mechanisms

• Understands more advanced aspects of primary area of specialization as well as the fundamental concepts of related disciplines
• Serves as knowledge provider in the area of expertise and shares knowledge with staff
• Keeps abreast of new developments and discourse in gender and economics and develops him/herself professionally
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments

• Identifies and develops activities to enhance the visibility of UN WOMEN
• Develops promotional activities based on monitoring/evaluation information identifying areas requiring higher visibility
• Reviews documents and materials intended for use within and outside the organization in order to ensure consistency and validity of messages

• Facilitates quality gender analysis of economic situations and scenarios, and contributes to the formulation of UN WOMEN/UN responses

• Develops innovative and creative approaches to meet programme and capacity development objectives
• Participates in dialogue about conceptual innovation in WEE at the country and regional levels

• Anticipates client needs
• Works towards creating an enabling environment for a smooth relationship between the clients and service provider
• Demonstrates understanding of client’s perspective

•  Promoting ethics and integrity, creating organizational precedents
• Building support and political acumen 
• Building staff competence, creating an environment of creativity and innovation
• Building and promoting effective teams
• Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication
• Creating an emotionally intelligent organization
• Leveraging conflict in the interests of UN WOMEN and setting standards

Habilidades y experiencia requeridas

• Minimum of Masters degree in economics/social science and a practicing feminist economist.

Experience:       

•  Minimum ten years working experience, with a focus on social and economic change/transformation for gender equality and the empowerment of women
• Demonstrated commitment to and track record in enabling women’s political engagement with macroeconomic policies and regional/global economic governance structures
• Experience in:
• Analysis of regional and international trade policy from a gender perspective
• Development economic and trade literacy training for non-specialists
• Designing programmes for policy-related research, policy analysis and economic literacy
• Planning technical and advisory services to promote adoption and implementation of gender-responsive budgeting
• Providing technical and advisory services for the implementation of gender-responsive budgeting
• Familiarity with UN and the UN inter-agency collaboration in the field of gender and development and economic security and rights
• Experience in project validation and preparation of full project documentation, resource mobilization in UN and donor formats
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and liaison skills with government, inter-governmental civil society academic, UN system and international and regional development partners.

• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Knowledge of one or more of the language of the countries in the Region would be an asset.