UN WOMEN Jobs - 64263- UN Women: Gender and Humanitarian Specialist

UN Women: Gender and Humanitarian Specialist

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UN WOMEN

Lieu :

Suva, FIDJI

Type de contrat :

TA International

Date de commencement :

Date limite de candidature :

02-Mar-16 (Minuit New York, États-Unis)

Niveau du poste :

P-4

Durée du contrat initial

Langues requises :

Anglais

Durée prévue de la mission :

364 days

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Historique

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.

The UN Women Pacific Multi-Country Office is based in Suva, Fiji and works alongside the 19 other UN agencies (FAO, ILO, OHCHR, UNDP Fiji Multi-County Office, UNDP Pacific Centre, UNDP Samoa Multi-County Office, UNAIDS, UNDSS, UNEP, UNESCAP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UN-Habitat, UNICEF, UNISDR, UNOCHA, UNV, WHO, WMO) in the region and in 14 countries: Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

The Fiji MCO has field presences in Kiribati, Nauru, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu and program presence in Tonga. Each field presence is led by a national Country Programme Coordinator. UN Women, in partnership with Pacific Islands Governments, regional organizations, CSOs, donors and UN agencies, focuses on delivering within four interlinked programme areas:

Advancing Gender Justice;
Ending Violence against Women (EVAW);
Improving Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE);
Increasing Community Resilience through the Empowerment of Women to Address Climate Change and Natural Hazards – IREACH.

Under the overall supervision of the Representative for the UN Women Pacific Multi-Country Office (MCO) in Suva, Fiji, the Gender and Humanitarian Specialist will provide technical leadership and strategic planning on Protection, Gender Equality and Humanitarian Response for the Pacific Humanitarian Protection Cluster; Provide technical support to programme formulation and results-based management for the Fiji MCO; Provide technical support to coordination, partnership building and resource mobilization for the Fiji MCO; and Participate in advocacy and knowledge building for the Fiji MCO. The Specialist will work proactively with local and regional women leaders and UN Entities, particularly, the Pacific Humanitarian Team (PHT) to ensure gender issues are addressed on efforts related to humanitarian action the Pacific region. The incumbent is responsible for UN Women’s strategic engagement in humanitarian response in the Pacific region in general, and strategic direction for the Pacific Humanitarian Protection Cluster specifically.

Devoirs et responsabilités

Provide technical leadership and strategic planning on Protection, Gender Equality and Humanitarian Response for the Pacific Humanitarian Protection Cluster:

Provide substantive leadership and coordination to the Pacific Humanitarian Protection Cluster;
Lead the formulation of high quality protection and gender equality programmes and activities for the Cluster;
Lead the design of transition strategies for the Pacific Humanitarian Protection Cluster by facilitating the development of a strategy for the Cluster proper linkages with disaster risk reduction, relief, and recovery and development efforts;
Lead the strategic thinking and policy decisions on mainstreaming gender and protection into humanitarian response; influence agenda and priority setting in relevant UN system-wide inter-agency task forces and governmental coordination mechanisms;
Provide gender mainstreaming technical support to interagency sector coordination mechanisms, governmental mechanisms and other relevant sectoral level processes focusing on humanitarian action;
Advise, support, guide and provide substantive inputs to ensure the formulation of high quality gender responsive country level humanitarian programmes and projects;
Provide substantive inputs to the interagency coordination mechanisms on humanitarian action and other strategic humanitarian financing mechanisms;
Provide technical support to GenCap, RedR and other gender advisors, gender focal points, and Gender Based Violence (GBV) managers/focal points in other agencies and organizations (including governments, UN, International NGOs, local NGOs, community and women’s groups), and other key actors at country and regional level;
Coordinate the delivery of protection training activities for Protection Cluster members, Pacific Humanitarian Team members, regional and national partners, and relevant authorities;
Advise Pacific and country humanitarian clusters in establishing or adapting existing systems to monitor the progress in gender mainstreaming by using inter alia the framework and checklists in the Interagency Standing Committee (IASC) Gender Handbook and GBV Guidelines and the Pacific Gender and Humanitarian Strategy.
Provide gender and humanitarian action advisory services to the Fiji MCO colleagues as needed.

Provide technical support to programme formulation, implementation and results-based management for the Fiji MCO:

Coordinate the implementation of disaster preparedness and humanitarian response and recovery programmes in the region; analyze progress on objectives and results, propose adjustments and solutions, where necessary;
Provide technical support to the development and implementation of specific flagship technical projects, programme approaches and modalities in the region, as appropriate to the UN Women Fiji MCO’s strategic direction and the UN Women’s Humanitarian Strategy;
Design, develop, manage and monitor flagship technical projects as appropriate to UN Women Fiji MCO strategic direction on humanitarian response;
Lead the formulation and development of UN Women’s humanitarian programme and projects in partnership with implementing partners;
Prepare technical guidelines, documents, briefs and other strategic papers and materials for use in the development and presentation of coherent country level strategic plans;
Lead the design of the country level annual work plan and strategic plans and ensure lessons learnt are captured to further guide recommendations and formulation of future humanitarian programme planning;
Undertake research and studies on gender and humanitarian action.

Provide technical support to coordination, partnership building and resource mobilization for the Fiji MCO:

Provide technical support to and develop UN Women’s engagement in existing inter-agency regional humanitarian coordination mechanisms and enhance coherence of UN system in promoting gender equality concerns in humanitarian response in the region;
Participate in and support relevant regional inter-agency and inter-governmental forums and UN system-wide inter-agency tasks forces in the region, as designated;
Provide technical support in the development of partnerships with member states and non-governmental partners in the region for key programming initiatives and build synergies for effective gender equality programming and advocacy;
Provide technical support to the identification and development of strategic partnerships and alliances at the country and regional levels to promote gender equality and women's advancement;
Contribute to fund-raising by developing new project proposals for use in resource generation for the region;
Mobilize and manage financial resources for gender and humanitarian action processes.

Participate in advocacy and knowledge building for the Fiji MCO:

Put in place mechanisms to ensure the flow of information between Country Offices, the Regional Office and Headquarters;
Promote the use and improvement of knowledge management mechanisms to share information about gender and humanitarian action related initiatives;
Share technical and strategic position papers, presentations, advisory and briefing notes;
Adapt HQ inputs for regional policy briefs/position papers in collaboration with other practices that address links between climate change and other development concerns such as governance, private sector, poverty alleviation, gender, crisis prevention and recovery, and capacity development;
Identify relevant lessons learnt to be disseminated between countries and identify and develop linkages between countries in the region as appropriate;
Promote UN Women’s mandate, mission and purpose and focus on sustainable development with special emphasis on gender and humanitarian;
Build strategic alliances with other key actors at country and regional level to advocate for gender sensitive programming in humanitarian action, disaster preparedness;
Contribute to the development of the UN Women regional and global knowledge hub.

Key Performance Indicators:

Quality advice in the formulation of strategy documents, programmes, and activities;
Timely and quality coordination support and inputs to inter-agency initiatives;
Timely and quality trainings;
Quality solutions to problems/issue areas in programme implementation;
Quality research on gender and humanitarian response;
Quality knowledge products.

Compétences

Core values and Guiding Principles:

Integrity:

Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.

Professionalism:

Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.

Cultural sensitivity and valuing diversity:

Demonstrate an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrating an international outlook, appreciating difference in values and learning from cultural diversity.

Core Competencies:

Ethics and Values:

Demonstrate and promote ethics and integrity by creating organizational precedents.

Organizational Awareness:

Build support for the organization and ensure political acumen.

Development and Innovation:

Support staff competence development, and contribute to an environment of creativity and innovation.

Work in teams:

Build and promote effective teams;
Demonstrate ability to work in a multicultural, multi-ethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.

Communication and Information Sharing:

Create and promote an environment for open and effective communication.

Self-management and Emotional Intelligence:

Stay composed and positive even in difficult moments, handle tense situations with diplomacy and tact, and have a consistent behavior towards others.

Conflict Management:

Surface conflicts and address them proactively acknowledging different feelings and views and directing energy towards a mutually acceptable solution.

Continuous Learning and Knowledge Sharing:

Share knowledge across the organization and build a culture of knowledge sharing and learning.

Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making:

Ensure fair and transparent decision making processes and manage risk.

Functional Competencies:

Demonstrated theoretical, intellectual and technical skills in development/programming;
Ability to advocate and to promote organizational priorities, initiatives and a better understanding of the organizational strategic agenda;
Ability to establish and maintain broad strategic networks and partnerships
Ability to introduce new approaches and strategic innovations to business processes;
Excellent public speaking skills;
Excellent communication skills.

Qualifications et expériences requises

Education:

Master’s Degree in climate sciences, environmental sciences, earth sciences, natural resource economics, political science, related social sciences or related discipline.

Experience:

A minimum of 7 years of experience in management and humanitarian programming, including in conflict, post-conflict and natural disasters’ settings and gender equality;
Programme and policy analysis, strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation and field experience in developing country contexts;
Substantive and technical experience in inter-agency coordination, experience working with governments, donors and CSOs internationally and in the field.

Languages:

Fluency in English is required;
Working knowledge of another official UN language is an asset.

Application Information:

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;
UN Women will only be able to respond to those applications in which there is further interest.

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.