Background

Duties and Responsibilities

Profile: Gender and Crisis:

Crisis and Gender programming

Including development of programmes on women’s empowerment and gender equality, supporting national strategies and mainstreaming gender into crisis prevention and recovery programming areas and development results;

Training and guidance

Including  programmes to promote women’s empowerment and gender equality, developing capacity of national institutions, developing curricula on the subject and working with UN frameworks under which BCPR is mandated to deliver on, such as the Eight Point Agenda on Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Crisis Prevention and Recovery;

Analysis of women’s empowerment and gender equality in countries

Including assessing past and present UNDP initiatives in the area of women’s empowerment, gender equality and gender justice in the country;

Assessment of UNDP Programmes to identify interventions

Including assessment of all ongoing CPR programmes in the country, highlighting gaps in gender programming, that need to be addressed and actionable recommendations;

Develop inter-agency links to promote crisis prevention and gender programming

Including participation in inter-agency working group meetings on gender/women’s empowerment;

Policy advice to the Government

Including promotion of gender mainstreaming activities, development of national strategies and setting national benchmarks in close coordination with Peace Operations where relevant, and with other UN agencies;

Develop and maintain strong working relationships with all stakeholders

Including community leaders, NGOs, UN agencies, and community based organizations to enhance multi-agency and multi-sectoral cooperation and coordination;

Human Rights and Gender

Including mainstreaming into country activities and national policies.  

Duties and Responsibilities:

Competencies

• Demonstrating / Safeguarding Ethics and Integrity;
• Demonstrates and promotes the highest standard of integrity, impartiality, fairness and incorruptibility in all matters affecting his/her work and status.

• Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment understands the structure and hierarchy of UN/UNDP, process flows throughout the organization, products and services, their measures of effectiveness, and perceptions of clients;
• Knowledge of UNDP's approach to ICT for development and e-governance;
• Good knowledge of the socio-economic and political situation of the countries in the different regions;
• Excellent knowledge of development issues and internationally-agreed development goals.

• Self-development, initiative-taking;
• Takes appropriate risk in developing new or adapting existing methods and approaches to more effectively perform tasks or to solve problems in new and unique ways.

• Acting as a team player and facilitating team work;
• Works collaboratively with colleagues inside UN/UNDP as well as its partners and other stakeholders to pursue common goals;
• Good knowledge of social networks and mobile technologies .

• Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively;
• Delivers verbal/written information in a timely, clear, organized and easily understood manner;
• Excellent oral and written skills to develop knowledge products in relevant areas.

• Creating synergies through self-control tolerates conditions of stress, uncertainty or ambiguity and continues to maintain a positive outlook and to work productively.

• Managing conflict;
• Remains calm, composed and patient, regardless of his/her own state of mind in the face of conflict.

• Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others;
• Demonstrates commitment to ongoing professional development and keeps abreast of new developments in his/her professional field.

• Informed and transparent decision making;
• Accepts responsibility and accountability for the quality of the outcome of his/her decisions.

Required Skills and Experience

• Advanced university degree (Master, PhD) relevant to the thematic area (social sciences, development studies, international relations etc.)

• A least 7 years of field experience (preferably in crisis contexts) in sectoral gender sensitive programming and implementation;
• Specialized experience (UN experience in crises preferable) in an international context in the field of development programming (preferably at the UN) and results-based management with a solid understanding of gender sensitive indicators, monitoring and evaluation;
• Theoretical and practical experience in drafting, implementing, monitoring and evaluating public policies, strategies or concepts relevant to the selected thematic area;
• Proven and recent experience with technical assistance for project development, implementation, management and/or evaluation;
• Excellent drafting and formulation skills; proven record of official reports or papers/studies in the selected area;
• UN experience an asset;
• Experience with training and facilitation is an asset.

• Fluency in spoken and written English is a must, knowledge of another UN Language a plus. We are specifically looking for candidates with excellent French and Arabic language skills (fluent written and spoken)

• A current completed P11 form in English - a blank form can be downloaded from http://europeandcis.undp.org/files/hrforms/P11_modified_for_SCs_and_ICs.doc
• P11 form should, among other things, include names and contacts of at least three references and clearly indicate names of former and current supervisors (if applicable); in case of freelance consultants – list of partner institutions and contact details of projects supervisors. A file in .doc, .docx or .pdf format, containing the P11 form should be signed, scanned and uploaded into the system upon completion of the online application;
• Links to/examples of work, analytical reports, publications, online presence (e.g. blogs) in the subject matter that resulted from the consultant’s work should be included in the P11.
• Incomplete applications will not be considered. Please make sure you have provided all requested material.

Qualified women and members of minorities are encouraged to apply.