Coordination Analyst, Gender in Humanitarian Action

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UN Women

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Humanitarian
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Nationals-only contract
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 25/01/2024
  • Location: Bangladesh
Gender in emergencies Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role
1. Provide coordination and technical support to the GiHA WG:
  • Support the development, implementation and monitoring of the GiHA WG workplan, in alignment with gender assessments findings and current response priorities;
  • Coordinate GiHA WG meetings, ensuring timely preparations and minute keeping;
  • Coordinate and support the organization of GiHA WG advocacy activities and campaigns events;

2. Support knowledge and information production and management:
  • Work with the GiHA WG to ensure sex- age- and disability disaggregated data is available to inform decision making of the ISCG and other stakeholders;
  • Lead and coordinate the development of GiHA WG knowledge products, including periodic gender assessments that highlight key gender issues to be addressed by different sectors;

3. Coordinate and lead GiHA WG capacity development activities to advance gender mainstreaming in the response
  • Provide technical support to the GIHA WG members and the sector coordinators on standards, policies and guidance related to GiHA, and support further adaptation of global standards and technical resources to the specific needs of the refugee crisis in Cox’s Bazar;
  • Identify capacity development needs of the different sectors vis-à-vis gender mainstreaming guidance and tools.

4. Provide technical inputs and advice to sector working groups (SWG) and the ISCG
  • Provide gender inputs to the Joint Response Plan and related processes, ensuring gender data and analyses inform related planning and programming;
  • Contribute substantive gender specific inputs to Inter-Sector Coordination Group meetings, participating in related meetings on behalf of the GiHA WG;

5. Provide technical support to strategic partnerships building and resource mobilization

  • Support localization and participation through facilitating engagement and contributions from local WLOs and WROs to humanitarian analyses and decision-making;
  • Track and monitor humanitarian funding made available for gender equality and empowerment of women and girls’ programming and to local women’s organizations, including in the context of the JRP appeals, and ensure that GiHA WG members are aware of fundraising opportunities;

6. Provide technical support to the management of people and finances related to GiHA WG activities

  • Monitor budget implementation and GiHA coordination activity expenditures, maintaining an updated budget utilization plan and performing budget revisions when required;
  • Oversee the recruitment and work of short-term deployments to GiHA WG activities as needed;

Required Skills and Experience
  • Master’s degree or equivalent in public administration, law, social sciences, human rights, gender/women’s studies, or a related field is required;
  • A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree;
  • Minimum 2 years of directly relevant professional experience at the national or sub-national level in Bangladesh in the field of gender-responsive humanitarian action;
  • Experience in utilizing the following tools: IASC Gender Handbook; IASC Gender Equality Framework; Gender and Age Marker is required;
  • Direct experience of coordinating and liaising with government officials and in facilitating engagement of women’s rights organizations and networks in crisis responses is required;
  • Fluency in English, and Bengali is required

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