Antecedentes

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. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

To ensure that the voice and experience, knowledge and expertise of civil society contribute effectively to normative intergovernmental processes and to support multi­stakeholder alliance building for gender equality 2030, UN Women is engaging widely and comprehensively with civil society at all levels. In order to support the Section’s effort to strengthen civil society movement building, civil society participation in intergovernmental processes, and in particular the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), and in monitoring and expanding civil society spaces, it is critical to enhance the Section’s work through innovative use of technology and data.  The Section seeks a temporary staff member to fulfil specific, short­term functions to support these aspects of the Section’s work.

Under the supervision of the Chief, Civil Society Section the Technical Analyst is responsible for providing substantive inputs to the mapping of civil society stakeholders and constituencies that are crucial for the Section’s advocacy efforts; providing coordination support to the Civil Society Section on CSW events, maintaining and updating systems and data  in the Civil Society Section, and monitoring and analyzing data.

Deberes y responsabilidades

Provide substantive inputs to the mapping of civil society stakeholders and constituencies that are crucial for the Section’s advocacy efforts:

  • Create an online system to regularly record and store data for the Section’s reports;
  • Manage the Section’s email campaign system for CSO outreach.

Provide coordination support to the Civil Society Section on CSW events:

  • Enhance and adapt the online CSW side event scheduling system for upcoming session and support the migration to UN Women hosting;
  • Assist CSW side event organizers with room reservation and technical services, respond to queries and liaise with UN partners servicing the meetings;
  • Maintain and update the CSW procedural website and publish calendar of side events on CSW website;
  • Support the roll-out of the a new, improved CSW registration system and manage the technical aspects of NGO online registration for CSW;
  • Carry out advanced analysis of CSW registration data for targeted, multi­lingual outreach and advocacy efforts;
  • Assist with registration data cleaning and data transfer to UN Security and other peak activities of the Section in relation to CSW.

Maintain and update systems and data  in the Civil Society Section:

  • Create an online system to regularly record and store data for the Section’s reports;
  • Manage the Section’s email campaign system for CSO outreach;
  • Provide substantive inputs to the design of a comprehensive NGO database/search engine;
  • Develop and deploy a pilot NGO database/search engine to house the NGO data currently available in the Civil Society Section and keep the Section’s CSO data up-to-date;
  • Liaise with other parts of UN Women working with NGOs (Funds, etc.) to record their NGO interactions and NGO relations and develop interfaces for automated data synchronization with their databases.

Monitor and analyze data:

  • Monitor and analyse data on the protection of civil society spaces, including by programming interfaces to relevant external databases and tracking systems;
  • Liaise with other innovation focal points in UN Women and the UN system to explore best practices for data collection, analysis and sharing.

Provide other support as assigned by supervisor.

Key Performance Indicators:

  • Timely and accurate mapping of civil society stakeholders;
  • Timely, efficient and effective coordination of event scheduling;
  • CSW procedural website and calendar regularly unpated;
  • Development of systems;
  • Accurate analysis of relevant data.

Competencias

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:

  • Excellent knowledge of online conference management systems design and Java programming language;
  • Excellent planning and organizational skills;
  • Strong interpersonal and communications skills;
  • Knowledge of UN Women and gender equality issues is an important asset;
  • Ability to conduct excellent data analysis;
  • Good presentation and communications skills;
  • Good planning, goal-setting and prioritization skills.

Habilidades y experiencia requeridas

Education:

  • Master’s degree (or equivalent) in one or more of the following disciplines: Computer science, Information technology, Communications, and other related fields.

Experience:

  • At least 2 years of progressively responsible experience in an international and/or corporate organization;
  • Strong experience in online conference management systems design and in Java required;
  • Experience in online publishing and use of content management systems required;
  • Experience with UN Women and UN DESA online systems and server environments Sitecore, SharePoint, is highly desirable;
  • Demonstrated experience in supporting civil society participation and side event planning/logistics at the Commission on the Status of Women or other ECOSOC functional commissions is a distinctive advantage.

Languages:

  • Written and oral proficiency in English is required;
  • Knowledge of French and/or Spanish is an asset;
  • Knowledge of other UN working languages is a plus.

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.