Education & Work Experience Master's Degree - 5 year(s) experience OR Bachelor's Degree - 7 year(s) experience Desired Languages Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable (French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish)
Job Description
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.
UN Women is mandated by the UN Security Council to lead on UN system-wide coordination on Women, Peace and Security, and to this end, UN Women has been working with governments, UN partners and civil society in the Arab States Region to support women’s participation and influence at all levels of decision-making to prevent and resolve conflict. Additionally, UN Women is committed to ensuring equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of humanitarian action, and that humanitarian responses seek to promote gender equality and more just societies. To this end, UN Women works in crisis prevention, preparedness, and response to reduce vulnerabilities, address risks, promote resilience, and leverage women’s leadership in crisis and post-crisis contexts.
In the Arab States region, the UN Women's Regional Office for the Arab States (ROAS), with support from the Government of Germany, contributes toward building sustainable peace by enhancing women’s leadership for sustainable peace in fragile contexts in the region. UN Women’s work focuses on strengthening women’s leadership and meaningful participation in peace and transition processes through implementing the below three outputs:
- Women peace actors have strengthened knowledge, capacity and technical expertise, and ability to influence peace processes and political and decision-making processes.
- International, regional, and national stakeholders have improved information-sharing, dialogue, and cross-fertilization towards inclusive peace and political processes.
- Peace process actors have increased access to systemized evidence-based knowledge that documents women's participation and influence and disseminate good practices and policies.
In addition, UN Women ROAS contributes to strengthening the resilience of vulnerable refugee and IDP women impacted by crises, displacement, and disasters due to climate change and exacerbated food insecurity in the region, with support from the Government of Japan. UN Women ROAS actively advocates for the inclusion of gender in humanitarian action across the region, mainly through its coordination work as the co-chair of the regional Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group for the Arab States/Middle East and North Africa (RGiHA WG AS/MENA).
Reporting to the Women Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action Regional Advisor, the Programme Specialist WPSHA exercises overall responsibility for planning, implementing, and managing UN Women interventions under their portfolio. The Programme Specialist WPSHA supervises and leads a Programme Associate. The Programme Specialist works in close collaboration with the WPSHA programme and operations team at UN Women ROAS, respective country offices and UN Women HQ staff, Regional stakeholders, multi and bilateral donors, and civil society ensuring successful UN Women programme implementation under the portfolio.
Key Functions and Accountabilities:
Design and develop programme strategies in the area of Women's Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action Design and formulate programme/ project proposals and initiatives; Draft inputs to regional strategy documents, briefs, policy dialogue, and other documents related to WPSHA.
Manage the implementation and management of the WPSHA programme in line with the regional Strategic Note and specifically the project ‘Enhancing Women's Leadership for Sustainable Peace in Fragile Contexts in the MENA Region -Phase III’
Finalize annual work plans and budgets and manage their implementation; Manage the technical implementation of the project; ensure synergies with other teams; Manage the submission of implementing partner financial and narrative reports; Provide guidance to personnel and partners on Results Based Management tools and performance indicators; Organize Project Steering Committee, project review, and/or evaluation meetings, as needed.
Manage technical assistance and capacity development to project partners
Manage the implementation of technical advice and guidance. Develop and implement technical tools, and initiatives; Build and manage relationships with regional partners to support the implementation and expansion of the project; respond to any potential problems; Identify capacity building needs of partners and lead the coordination of technical assistance, mentoring, training and capacity development initiatives to partners.
Manage the monitoring and reporting of the programme/ project
Manage the monitoring of project implementation and finances using results-based management tools; Oversee field missions and review reports on monitoring missions; Write quarterly reports and donor reports, focusing on results, output, and outcomes; Contribute and lead office donor and UN Women reports.
Manage the people and financial resources of the WPSHA programme
Manage the project/s budget and draft financial reports; Supervise a Programme Associate; Oversee recruitment processes, as necessary.
Build partnerships and support in developing resource mobilization strategies
Develop and implement partnerships and resource mobilization strategies for the WPSHA portfolio; Finalize relevant documentation on donors and potential opportunities for resource mobilization; Analyze and research information on donors, prepare substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation, identification of opportunities for cost-sharing.
Contribute to inter-agency coordination on WPSHA to achieve coherence and alignment of UN Women programmes with other partners in the Arab States Region
Provide technical support to the Regional Advisor and/or Regional Director/Deputy Director on inter-agency coordination on WPSHA-related activities by attending meetings, and events, and participating in groups and committees as needed; Coordinate with other UN agencies, government departments, donors, and NGOs to ensure the projects’ capacity development programme is harmonized and aligned with other regional efforts; Provide technical support to the coordination of the Regional GiHA Working Group.
Manage advocacy, knowledge-building, and communication efforts
Develop and review background documents, briefs, and presentations related to the WPSHA portfolio, with a specific focus on women’s participation; Represent UN Women in meetings and policy dialogues on issues related to WPSHA as necessary; Develop advocacy strategies and oversee their implementation; Identify best practices and lessons learned to guide programme improvement and strategy planning; Develop knowledge management strategies, products, and methodologies on [thematic area].
Provide capacity building and coordination support to Country Offices/ Multi Country Office/Programme Presence teams and partners in the Arab States Region on WPSHA
Provide technical and policy support to the country office, multi-country office programme presence programme teams in the region in developing and strengthening projects/ programmes on WPSHA; Implement and monitor capacity-building initiatives; Provide coordination support to Country Offices in the region to ensure peer and knowledge exchanges on the WPSHA portfolio.
**The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary fo
