Policy Specialist, Women’s Political Participation

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UN Women

  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy
  • 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
  • Renumeration: $94,871-$122,627 / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 31/07/2024
  • Location: Fiji
Political participation
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.

Duties and Responsibilities

1.  Oversee the development and implementation of a Women’s Political Participation (WPP) strategy for the region:
  • Manage the development and implementation of an integrated strategy for the delivery of technical assistance, policy advocacy and programme support in the Pacific, guided by understandings of the challenges and priorities in the region and global good practices.
  • Manage the development and implementation of regional programme documents on WPP for the Pacific, in collaboration with Partners.
  • Oversee the localization of programme documents, country strategies, and knowledge products, and ensure proper monitoring and reporting in WPP.

2.  Provide capacity building support to UN Women Fiji MCO teams including NPPs and partners:
  • Provide substantive contextualized technical and policy support to UN Women Fiji MCO teams to implement and localize corporate guidance, knowledge products and tools on WPP, ensuring policy and strategic coherence, and avoiding duplication.

3.  Support UN Women Fiji MCO’ s coordination mandate on WPP:
  • Provide substantive support on WPP to UN entities in mainstreaming gender into joint programmes on electoral assistance and WPP more broadly (including Peace Building Fund projects) and strategic documents (CCA/UNSDCF).
  • Guided by relevant UN policy frameworks, support gender mainstreaming into joint programming on electoral assistance.

4.  Manage advocacy, knowledge building and sharing for WPP:
  • Provide thematic support to the Representative and Deputy Representative on high level advocacy efforts in support to Member States in WPP.

5.  Manage partnerships building and resource mobilization for WPP in the region:
  • Develop and implement partnerships and resource mobilization strategies.

6.  Lead and manage personnel under their supervision:
  • Manage the performance of personnel under their supervision by provide managerial direction, guidance, and leadership as well as performance feedback and coaching.

7.  The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation.

Required Skills and Experience
  • Master’s degree or equivalent in political science, gender studies, law, human rights, international relations, or other social science fields 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 7 years progressively responsible experience in designing and managing programmes and advocating for gender equality and WPP, ideally with some experience in developing countries is required.
  • Experience in programme, policy analysis, and strategic planning is required.
  • Experience working with, and building partnerships with governments, donors, and civil society organizations internationally and in the field is required.
  • Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.
  • Fluency in English is required.

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