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Data: 16/09/2010
Job Title: Senior Management Officer
Location: India - New Delhi / France / Bangladesh / Pakistan
Job Posted: 10-Jun-2010
Closing Date: 28-10 -2010
Vacancy announcement Code: UNCAC-VAN-COD-002A
Appointment Type: Permanent
Remuneration: ($185,350: 00) Usd
Background / General description
United Nations Children Arm Conflict (UNCAC) with UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative approaches aimed at fostering women's empowerment and gender equality. UNIFEM South Asia Regional Office
(SARO) works for countries including India, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri- Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives, Bhutan and Iran.
Duties and Accountabilities
- Provide strategic and substantive leadership and manage the Women in Local Governance Programme effectively to ensure that progress is made in achieving its goals and objectives in line with its strategic and operational plans,.
- Collaborate with specialist research institutions across the globe as and when needed.
- Build strategic partnerships with government and civil society partners, donors, the media and the private sector
- Provide advice and support to UNCAC/UNIFEM SRO management, programmes and projects
- Provide top quality and innovative policy advocacy for promotion of UNCAC/UNIFEM’s vision and goal on good governance among critical stakeholders
- Lead and supervise the Governance team
1. Provide strategic and substantive leadership and manage the Women in Local Governance Programme effectively to ensure that progress is made in achieving its goals and objectives in line with its strategic and operational plans by:
- Leading and supervising a team of experts, consultants and project staff
- Supporting the partner training institutes to develop capacity building tools that empower women elected leaders to assert their rights individually and collectively ensuring that the training curriculum and tools are demand-driven and respond to the needs of the elected women representatives at the local governance level
- Orchestrating capacity building workshops/exercises at all levels of grassroot governance ensuring quality of content and expanse of outreach
- Supporting and strengthening linkages with existing women’s coalitions for becoming pressure groups and demanding accountability for incorporation of women’s needs
- Building capacity support for the UNIFEM team and government officials on issues related to good governance
- Setting up a monitoring and evaluation framework along with a learning and dissemination system for the programme
- Orchestrating timely delivery and quality assurance
2. Collaborate with specialist research institutions in the region and internationally with the objective of:
- Building research capabilities and creating a body of knowledge on promoting women’s political participation for gender-responsive governance
- Expanding, updating and maintaining a data base (qualitative and quantitative) on good governance and women’s leadership for use by a broad range of partners to strengthen women’s leadership capacity in the region
- Creating an evidence-based advocacy through research in governance
- Guiding the partners undertaking empirical research and analysis under the project to produce sound and credible data that can inform and improve project activities
- Contributing to knowledge networks and communities of practice through identification of best practices and lessons learned
- Assessing the policies and their impact on democratic governance in South Asia
3. Build strategic partnerships focusing on achievement of the following results:
- Establishing collaborations with national institutions and civil society organizations to strengthen implementation of gender-responsive governance
- Strengthening national and regional institutions of capacity delivery and administrative machinery that respond to the challenges of leadership and governance in South Asia
- Establishing collaboration with the media to campaign for stronger participation of women in politics
- Developing partnerships with bilateral and multilateral donors and the private sector on possible areas of collaboration
- Strengthening partnerships with government officials at all levels to ensure that UNIFEM inputs are aligned to national and regional responses
- Engaging in political dialogues with regional bodies like the SAARC and with national campaigns to expand spheres of influence and generate strong public discourses on local governance.
Email: [email protected]
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