UN WOMEN Jobs - 74915- UN Women: Policy Specialist, Ending Violence again

UN Women: Policy Specialist, Ending Violence against Women and Girls

Advertised on behalf of

UN WOMEN

Location :

New York, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Type of Contract :

TA International

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

09-Oct-17 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

P-3

Duration of Initial Contract :

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

6 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 is 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 will lead and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action.

The Policy Division works on analysis, research and knowledge management that provides the evidence base for the advice and guidance UN Women provides to the intergovernmental processes, the UN system, and to UN Women country and regional offices on issues of gender equality, women’s empowerment and violence against women and girls. It identifies emerging issues and trends, and develops and proposes new strategies for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through innovative approaches and lessons learned about what works in practice.

The Ending Violence Against Women (EVAW) Section is responsible for a number of functions including supporting the normative work on EVAW at the global level, developing and managing global level programmes and providing policy and technical advice to regional and country offices on EVAW. UN Women is working to implement with partners a Prevention and Access to Essential Services to End Violence against Women Global Flagship Programme. The programme builds on existing work carried out and led by UN Women together with other partners, including the outcomes of CSW 57 by bridging research with policy recommendations; formulating global guidelines for the provision of services; and strengthening inter-agency understanding and collaboration in new areas such as prevention.

The EVAW Section is supporting various UN Women country and regional programmes on EVAW, which aim at addressing all forms of violence against women and girls. These programmes aim to support transformative change on the ground to end violence against women and girls, in numerous countries globally. The EVAW Section works to ensure coherence, alignment, and strong technical quality of these large programmes, in line with regional/country context.

Under the supervision of the Section Chief the Policy Specialist is responsible for providing technical advice and inputs to UN Women country and regional offices to develop and implement programmes on EVAW, providing technical and operational advice on the prevention of violence against women and girls and leading on learning and knowledge management of the FPI on Prevention.

Duties and Responsibilities

Provide technical advice and inputs to UN Women country and regional offices to develop and implement programmes on EVAW:

Provide technical advice to support and strengthen inter-agency partnerships, planning, monitoring and reporting on UN Women programmes on EVAW;
Provide programmatic and technical support to UN Women country offices on EVAW, including conducting trainings and participating in programming workshops and medium term technical support missions;
Provide coordination, liaison and planning support to regional offices work in support to global programmes on EVAW;
Provide support to the establishment of partnerships with research institutions and other relevant stakeholders to ensure that research findings are transformed into policy recommendations and that the interventions of global programmes on EVAW are based on the latest evidence and research findings, while building the knowledge base;
Provide technical inputs into capacity building initiatives, within and beyond UN Women, to build the body of expertise on findings from global programmes on EVAW, and to support the scale-up and replication of good practices;
Organize expert meetings, advocacy events, panels and other interactive events on EVAW, particularly as regards UNW programmes on EVAW.

Provide technical and operational advice on the prevention of violence against women and girls:

Provide technical advice and inputs in the review of the innovative evidence-based approaches to the prevention of violence against women and girls and coordinate the development of toolkits, guidance and tools to support programming/monitoring/advocacy on this topic, as necessary;
Develop technical inputs to strengthen the UN and other partners’ institutional capacities in preventing violence against women and girls;
Develop technical inputs to intergovernmental forums, as well as relevant entities, regarding the prevention of violence against women and other related topics, as relevant.
Provide technical advice to EVAW resource mobilization initiatives and documentation, as relevant.

Lead on learning and knowledge management of the FPI on Prevention:

Provide technical advice and inputs on the creation and dissemination of knowledge products to the prevention of and response to violence against women and girls;
Collate, analyze and consolidate lessons learnt/best practices linked to in-country programming and contributing to the development of new UN Women knowledge products, research and policy;
Provide feedback to UN Women offices on case studies and other related knowledge products and publications as needed.
Maintain knowledge product platform as required.

Provide any other technical support as requested by supervisor.

Key Performance Indicators:

Timely and accurate technical advice and inputs to UN Women country and regional offices;
Timely and accurate technical and operational advice on the prevention of violence against women and girls;
Quality and timeliness of knowledge products on the prevention of and response to violence against women and girls.

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;
Leading by Example.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: http://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-employment-values-and-competencies-definitions-en.pdf.

Functional Competencies:

Good knowledge of violence against women and gender related issues including on the prevention of and response to violence against women and girls;
Ability to organize and complete multiple tasks by establishing priorities;
Ability to handle a large volume of work under time constraints;
Ability to establish, build and sustain effective relationships with clients, demonstrating understanding of client’s perspective;
Good communications skills, with proven expertise in writing cogent and convincing policy and programme documents for development practitioners;
Good analytical and problem-solving skills, including skills in marshalling evidence, including quantitative data, to support programming and policy;
Ability to use information technology, executive information systems, statistical data, management techniques and tools for optimal office performance;
Ability to work as a member of a team.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Advanced university degree (Master's level) in law, social sciences, political science/ international affairs (i.e. international development studies, gender/women’s studies) or a related technical field.

Experience:

Minimum of 5 years of experience in programme and policy analysis in one of the following fields: violence against women, human rights, gender and development;
Experience working with women’s organizations and governments desirable;
Experience of country level implementation of projects and programmes, particularly within the UN System strongly desirable.

Languages:

Fluency in English is required;
Knowledge of the other UN official working language is an asset.

Application:

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.

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.