Coordination Support Officer

Contract

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UN Women works with a range of stakeholders in Bangladesh including the government, civil society and women’s organizations, UN agencies and donors, to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment. Within the UN system, UN Women is mandated to lead, promote and coordinate efforts to advance the full realization of women’s rights and opportunities.

As part of the UN coordination systems in Bangladesh, UN Women chairs the UN Gender Equality Theme Group (GETG) and leads the Strategic Priority-5 (SP5) on Gender Equality and Ending GBV of the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF). Through UN Women’s leadership and active participation in the UN Country Team, UN Women helps bolster capacities to make achieving gender equality through UN programmes and policies, advocates for greater resources, and guides and implements joint development programmes.

Under the direct supervision of the Coordination and Partnership Officer and overall guidance from the Deputy Country Representative and Country Representative, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

Assist Bangladesh Country Office (BCO) on UN inter-agency coordination for gender equality and empowerment of women: • Support the Coordination Officer in the secretariat responsibilities for the GETG/SP5 including regularly organizing and managing meetings, ensuring documentation, and coordinating with UN agencies as required. • Assist in preparing background materials and analytical documents on gender dynamics for use by Gender Equality Theme Group, SP-5 and in supporting gender main-streaming efforts in different interagency groups of the UN Country Team (UNCT) • Contribute to the monitoring and reporting processes on UNCT accountability to gen-der equality commitments and assist in developing the progress reports. • Participate at the internal and external meetings as required for continuing active inter-agency coordination.

Provide technical support for external stakeholder engagement: • Provide support in coordinating activities, forums and events for multi-stakeholder engagement for gender equality and women’s empowerment, including civil society, youth networks, government and Development partners. • Assist the office in documenting meeting discussions in the Local Consultative Group.

Support Knowledge Management, Monitoring and Reporting of UN Women activities: • Support BCO with monitoring by providing technical inputs to UN Women quarterly progress reports and contribute to the drafting of Quarterly/Annual reports • Keep records and file all documents related to coordination of UN Women BCO programme in the office internal filing system. • Provide technical inputs to background documents, briefs and presentations and development of knowledge products • Assist the Office to coordinate advocacy initiatives and campaigns events, trainings, workshops.

• Accountability • Adaptability and Flexibility • Commitment and Motivation • Commitment to Continuous Learning • Communication • Integrity • Judgement and Decision-making • Planning and Organizing • Professionalism • Working in Teams

demonstrated interest and/or experience (up to two years) development coordination, supporting programme planning and/or, monitoring and reporting of development programmes. • Previous experience as a volunteer and/or experience in a developing country con-text, (i.e. studies, volunteer work, internship) would be preferable.

Dhaka is the centre of political, cultural and economic life in Bangladesh. Although its urban infrastructure is the most developed in the country, Dhaka suffers from urban problems such as pollution, lack of public transport and overpopulation. In recent decades, Dhaka has seen modernization of services, communications and public works. The city is attracting large foreign investments and greater volumes of commerce and trade. It is also experiencing an increasing influx of people from across the nation; this has reportedly made Dhaka one of the fastest growing cities in the world.

Historically, Bangladesh has been a safe country for internationals, but a series of security incidents since 2016 have led to increased security measures for UN international staff and volunteers. While Dhaka is not categorized as a hardship station and a cessation of incidents is expected to lead to relaxation of security measures, the volunteer should be prepared for limitations in freedom of movement on foot, by public transport, and to certain locations.