Gender Project Officer

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United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

  • 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: $77,884 USD-$102,090 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 13/06/2024
  • Location: Germany
Climate & Environmental justice Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role
Org. Setting and Reporting
The objective of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is to combat desertification and land degradation, and to mitigate the effects of drought (DLDD) in affected countries around the world, particularly in Africa, through effective action at all levels. Established in 1994, the UNCCD is the sole legally binding international agreement linking environment and development to sustainable land management. 

Responsibilities
  • • Contributing to the development of transformative projects and programmes that consider gender and tenure security developed by the Global Mechanism in line with the UNCCD Gender Action Plan, other relevant UNCCD policies and international best practice. • Contributing to the development of the land tenure Toolbox and roll out of the usage of the Toolbox. 
  • • Provide support in the development of gender responsive LDN transformative projects and programmes in close collaboration with the project managers by delivering support for improvements and/or providing gender related technical assistance on the implementation of ongoing project. 
  • • Supporting the development and implementation of joint collaborative mechanism between UNCCD secretariat and GM led projects to ensure that opportunities to promote and implement gender and tenure responsive approaches are executed efficiently and cost effectively. 
  • • Providing gender and tenure related technical input at different levels of proposal development and project lifecycle; providing technical review of final versions of project concept notes and/or full fledge project documents; and leading and taking responsibility for the gender and tenure -responsive design of the whole proposal, including coherence with the gender and tenure requirements of the funding source. 
  • • Assist in identifying and supporting the delivery of gender and tenure technical outputs during project design and project implementation. 
  • • Be proactive in canvasing suggestions for partnerships and resource mobilization, including with the private sector, to support projects and programmes advancing gender equality and tenure security and initiate follow-up processes.ks.  
  • • Performs any other job-related activities required to achieve the goals and objectives of the team, the Unit, the Programme or the secretariat.


Job - Specific Qualification
  • An advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in a field relevant to the assignment, for example in environmental management, agriculture economics, rural development, gender studies, social sciences, or another relevant 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.
  • At least five (5) years of proven ability and solid experience providing technical assistance in gender transformative approaches and developing successful proposals for external donor funding, including technical writing, particularly in the context of land/natural resource use and management, land and forest restoration, agriculture, food and water security is required.    
  • Demonstrated application of technical principles and concepts in project preparation and programme management is required.    
  • General knowledge of gender and tenure integration into transformative project design is required.    
  • For the post advertised, fluency in oral and written English is required. 

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