Adolescent Development and Gender Specialist

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United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: International contract
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 16/10/2023
  • Location: Cambodia
Child protection/ Children’s rights Youth
Summary of key functions/accountabilities:
Management and/or advisory support to Deputy Representative
  • Actively participate in Programme Management Group; partnerships, research, financial and contract review committees; and other key country-specific leadership teams to ensure strategic inclusion of gender and adolescence in all country-specific programming.
  • Coordinate with the Regional Gender and Adolescence Advisors/Specialists to plan, utilize, monitor, and report on any global/regional funding for these areas, or other programmatic funds with large gender and adolescence components that are allocated to the country-specific interventions for the Country Programme, under the Country Office senior management.

Program development and planning (including emergency contexts)
  • Lead and/or support the evidence-based programme planning on gender and adolescent development and participation, incorporating robust measurement and evaluation of results - especially in the event of the Mid-Term Review.
  • Provide technical leadership on integration of gender and adolescent participation into country programming phases, including strategic planning, SitAns,  annual reviews, and in the programmatic assessment and institutional strengthening components of gender and adolescent reviews.

Program management, monitoring and delivery of results (including emergency contexts)
  • Provide technical support in indicator identification, measurement and performance tracking as it relates to gender and adolescence mainstreaming, in collaboration with PME section and sectoral teams.
  • Lead cross-sectoral collaboration and coordination on key programmatic results on gender and adolescence including through meaningful participation approaches such as Generation Future and U-Report, ensuring coherence, maximization of synergies and efficiency in utilization of resources and delivery of results.

Advisory services and technical support
  • Provide technical support and guidance to national government, NGOs, UN Agencies and other country-level and local-level partners on aspects of gender and adolescence programming and to ensure incorporation of gender and adolescent development and participation indicators and measures in programmes/projects, policy initiatives, proposals, and M&E systems.

Advocacy, networking and partnership building
  • Liaise and consult with sections, government and other external partners (civil society, NGOs, UN Agencies, private sector) to identify areas for convergence, and develop and reinforce partnerships in gender and adolescence programming.

Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
  • Initiate documentation and sharing of the country-level experience in gender and adolescent programming and lessons learned, which will be shared with internal network and external partners and utilized for South-South cooperation.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
  • Advanced university degree (Masters or higher) in the social sciences (i.e. sociology, demography, psychology, political science, gender studies, social policy or economics), public health, public policy, public administration, international development, or in an area relevant to UNICEF’s sectoral work (e.g. Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, Child Protection, Social Inclusion, HIV/AIDs, etc.).
  • Academic credentials in gender and adolescents are a strong asset.
  • Minimum five years of progressively responsible professional experience and demonstrated track record of having undertaken and led substantive programming and research on gender and adolescence and development, including in key issue areas that are the focus of UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan

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