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Key functions:

Strategic Policy Advice and Coordination:
- Advice and support the CO Senior Management to build strong institutional commitment and leadership to implement UNDP’s Gender Equality Strategy
- Provide Strategic Policy Advise to the government, Legislative and Judiciary bodies, and the oblasts
- Contribute technical policy advice to other Ministries; including the Ministry of Planning, Investment and Economic Development to ensure National Development Plan with well-articulated focus on gender progress as designed in support gender equality and women’s empowerment, with important also focus on the prevention of violence against women in all its forms;
- Ensure the roll out of an out of fragility framework

Programme Development and Management:
- Identify opportunities and lead in the conceptualization of strategic programme interventions that respond to gender differential needs and concerns
- Lead on the development of integrated programming with a specific focus on women’s economic empowerment and GBV prevention and responses;
- Provide advice on appropriate gender sensitive indicators
- Monitor political, economic and social developments trends and issues affecting women’s rights in Ukraine producing analytic reports and informing a strategic response to opportunities and challenges

Advocacy and Partnership building:
- Participate in and represent UNDP in activities to highlight key gender equality and women’s human rights issues and advocate for integration of gender equality issues into the development agenda;
- Maintain relationships with UNDP’s partners
- Ensure the development of a gender communications strategy for UNDP Ukraine

Resource Mobilization:
- Manage the effective application and reporting of the Gender Marker
- Identify and follow-up on strategic opportunities for resource mobilization for implementation of UNDP’s Ukraine Gender Strategy
- Build strong partnerships with donor agencies

Knowledge building and knowledge sharing:
- Distil and document lessons learned and recommendations for policy dialogue, public advocacy and future programming and organize dissemination of learning within the CO
- Contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice
- Organization and conduct of trainings on gender advancement, gender equality, women’s empowerment, women’s issues, and social development thematic areas

Qualifications

Experience

• Minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible professional experience in recovery and development, with special focus on advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in crisis and post-conflict countries;
• In-depth knowledge of feminist, green and circular economy is an asset;
• Understanding and experience in the design of integrated programming with a GBV prevention and response angle;
• Exposure to the humanitarian, development, and peace nexus work is an asset;
• Strong diplomatic skills in handling counterpart relations.