Senior Policy Advisor (Funds and Programmes)

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Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Government
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: $87,130 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 04/09/2024
  • Location: United States 
Peace and Security
Roles and responsibilities:

The successful candidate will join a busy team that manages the UK’s humanitarian, peacebuilding and development work through the UN. You will also have the opportunity to work closely with other teams and policy leads in the UK Mission and in FCDO Headquarters. This role involves working closely with senior government officials and UK ministers’ offices. You will represent the UK at UN meetings and speak on its behalf.
Main roles and responsibilities:

  • Drive UK policy priorities with UNFPA and UN Women; build and maintain up-to-date understanding of UK priorities and Member States’ positions, including on gender equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights, conflict related sexual violence and humanitarian action, influencing a wide network of key contacts on these issues amongst Member States, the UN system and NGOs.
  • Manage effective relationships between the UK and UNFPA and UN Women, including strategic engagement with UKMIS and HQ seniors, to achieve UK policy objectives.
  • Represent the UK and negotiate on its behalf at the triannual UNFPA and UN Women Executive Boards to deliver UK priorities on oversight, accountability, transparency and programme effectiveness.
  • Represent the UK on relevant development policy issues in General Assembly and ECOSOC negotiations, ad hoc events and conferences.
  • Prepare statements, briefs and reporting on UNFPA and UN Women and related files. 
  • Support the FCDO HQ Institutional Lead for UNFPA and UN Women to provide effective and efficient programme management of the UK’s annual core contribution to UNFPA and UN Women.
  • Work closely with the FCDO Gender Leads to support the delivery of the UK’s women and girls priorities at the UN through strategic engagement with UN Women, including key moments such as the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), QCPR and Beijing +30.

Essential qualifications, skills and experience  

  • Passion for women’s rights, alleviating poverty, preventing conflict and advancing these agendas within a strong and vibrant international system.
  • Substantial experience of working in/with the UN Development and/or Humanitarian System.
  • Excellent negotiation, influencing and communication skills, including written communications and public speaking, in English. 
  • Good understanding of the challenges and sensitivities of working with other UN Member States.
  • An ability to build rapport with colleagues and wider stakeholders to enable excellent working relationships, with relevant experience to demonstrate this.  
  • Ability to deliver high quality results on multiple areas of work to tight deadlines, while maintaining strength of judgement, calm and a team-player attitude.
  • Reliable, capable under pressure, able to complete multiple tasks and high volume of work on deadline with colleagues and with considerable autonomy.
  • Some familiarity with governance functions such as audit and oversight, results-based management, evaluation, or budgets.
  • Language: English

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