Gender Programme 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: 28/08/2024
  • Location: Thailand 
Child protection/ Children’s rights Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
 UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfil their potential from early childhood through adolescence. 


How can you make a difference? 

UNICEF EAPRO is seeking a Gender Programme Specialist who will provide technical support around the implementation and programme management to both UNICEF country offices and regional office sectors towards the implementation of the UNICEF GAP and Adolescent Girls’ Programme Strategy. They will also play a role in working with adolescent and gender specialists or focal points across the 14 country offices (in coordination with the regional adolescent specialist), and regional sectors such as Education, Child Protection, Health, WASH, Nutrition, Climate, Gender, Social and Behavioral Change, Emergencies and other enablers to ensure office-wide contributions to EAP Gender-ADAP convergent programming. A portion of their time will contribute to regional programming around adolescent girls, towards strengthening enabling environments and resilience-building and supporting adolescents girls to be changemakers at local and national levels.

Responsibilities under this role include providing technical and programme coordination support to regional adolescent girls’ programmes including the DFAT supported TUSIP and Girls’ Education programmes. This includes supporting the coordination among various partners working on other programme components; financial and narrative reporting to the donor; and coordination among internal UNICEF teams and other UN agencies working on this topic. The Gender Programme Specialist will serve as the anchor for coordination and management of the monitoring, learning, technical support and knowledge management for UNICEF’s participation in programming for adolescent girls and the UNICEF Gender Action Plan. 

Summary of results-based key functions/accountabilities:
  1. Support the Regional Gender and Adolescent Advisor’s leadership of the Gender and Adolescent Girls’ priorities in the EAP region;
  2. Planning, M&E, annual reporting for progress achieved on gender and adolescent girls’ programming in UNICEF EAP region;
  3. Programme management and coordination for regional adolescent girls and gender programmes (CEFM and FGM/C), and other adolescent girls’ related initiatives in the region;
  4. Communication, advocacy and knowledge management for the Gender and Adolescent Girls’ portfolio.
 
Minimum requirements:

  1. Advanced university degree (Masters or higher) in the social sciences (i.e. gender and development, sociology, demography, psychology, political science, social policy or economics, communications, intercultural/multicultural studies, Diversity & Inclusion), public health, public policy, public administration, international development, or in an area relevant to UNICEF’s sectoral work (e.g. Gender, Adolescent Development and Participation, Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, Child Protection, Social Inclusion, HIV/AIDs, etc.).
  2. Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience and demonstrated track record of having undertaken and led substantive programming and research on gender, adolescent girls’ and/or youth in key issue areas that are the focus of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan;
  3. Fluency in written and spoken English, with excellent analytical writing skills, is required.  

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