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.

African Girls Can Code Initiative 2018-2021 (AGCCI) is a new Africa wide programme developed and implemented by UN Women in partnership with ITU Africa Region. The aim of the AGCCI is to expose and equip young girls with digital literacy, coding, and personal development skills. The Initiative will have two components namely:

  1. AGCCI Boot Camps: organized annually in a number of countries and targeting young girls aged between 17 – 20 years from all African Countries. The first African Girls Can Code Boot Camp will be held in summer 2018 with 50 young girls aged 17-20 years from all AU member countries. ITU and UN Women aims to scale up the Boot Camps over the coming years, making it an annual event which will take place in different countries reaching more than 1, 000 girls within the 4-year period.
  2. Mainstream ICT, gender and coding into the national curricula – working closely with Ministries of Education and Ministries of ICT in all countries across Africa. This part of the Initiative will allow millions of girls both urban and rural girls to begin to learn the IT skills from the early stages of their education primary, middle school to high school. In this way ICT will be engrained in young girls and they will reap the benefit of the global digital boom.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Timely and quality programme design and inputs to Strategic Note
  • Timely and quality of programme delivery in line with budget and workplans
  • Timely and quality monitoring and evaluation of programmes
  • Relations with partners and stakeholders
  • Quality reports and timely submission
  • Regular communication with other agencies and partners
  • Quality of advocacy and communication initiatives
  • Communication products to share results of the AGCCI Boot Camps.

Competencies

Compliance with UN Core Values

  • Demonstrates integrity and fairness by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards.
  • Commitment to UN Women’s mission, vision, values and strategic goals.
  • Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
  • Treats all people fairly without favoritism.
  • Fulfils all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero

Required Skills and Experience

Education

  • Master’s degree or equivalent in International development, Public administration, or a related field is required

Expierence

  • At least 2 years of relevant experience in advocacy, program support and coordination, partnership building experience in gender, women’s and development related programs
  • Experience in African Affairs, women and gender issues policy formulation; training and capacity building
  • Experience and understanding of development, gender equality and women’s empowerment issues
  • Experience coordinating and liaising with AUC, UN agencies is an asset
  • Experience working in the UN System is an asset;

Language and other skills

  • Excellent knowledge of written and oral communication in English.
  • Full command of Microsoft applications, particularly Word, and other relevant software.