Coordinator - Gender Responsive Budgeting (Open to Indian Nationals Only)

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Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women, men and diverse genders as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

All human development and human rights issues involve gender dimensions. UN Women globally focuses on key priority areas that are fundamental to women’s equality, and that can unlock progress across the board. UN Women’s priority areas include increasing women’s leadership and participation in political spaces, ending violence against women, enhancing women’s economic empowerment, engaging in all aspects of women peace and security processes, making gender equality central to national planning and budgeting through Gender Responsive Budgeting and advancing gender in intergovernmental processes.

UN Women’s work on Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) or Gender Budgeting (GB) involves ensuring that national and state planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation processes incorporate a gender perspective. UN Women’s GRB programmes at the regional and country level have made significant contribution towards this by building political support, developing technical resources and capacities, generating good practices for improving women's access to services and increasing accountability for Gender Equality and Women’s empowerment (GEWE). At the forefront of global, regional and local advocacy for application of GRB, UN Women has built partnerships with diverse government, inter-governmental and non-governmental partners to further efforts and demonstrate GRB’s relevance to sustainable development, aid effectiveness, public sector reform and financing for development.

UN Women’s India Country Office, based in New Delhi is implementing a project with the objective of strengthening institutional mechanisms for GRB resulting in an increase of gender perspective in budgets, improved availability of data, and tracking of progress on gender equality initiatives across ministries and select states/UTs. It will aim to create a conducive policy environment and enhance institutional capacities on gender budgeting at the national and State/UT level. It will identify strategies and operational approaches to strengthen on-going efforts in the area of GRB. Insights generated from this project will enable key stakeholders at the national and state level to accelerate their efforts to ensure that women’s priorities are adequately reflected in national and state budgeting processes, and to make concrete changes for adequate resource allocation towards women’s priorities.

UN Women through this programme will work with national ministries including Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Ministry of Finance and line ministries to deepen anchoring of GB across union ministries and sectors. It will create and strengthen institutional mechanisms for GRB and institute methodological changes in Planning-Budgeting and Auditing (PBA) systems for enabling gender responsive actions in select States. The project will aim to enhance capacities of government officials and other stakeholders to implement the gender responsive PBA measures, and leverage technology to advance gender budgeting.

Within this context, UN Women seeks the services of a Coordinator – Gender Responsive Budgeting to be based at UN Women, New Delhi. Reporting to the Country Programme Manager – Intergovernmental Processes, UN Women India, the Coordinator – Gender Responsive Budgeting is responsible for coordinating the gender budgeting portfolio which includes coordinating relationships with national partners and stakeholders, and the monitoring and reporting, and the finances and personnel of the portfolio.

Duties and Responsibilities

Coordinate the Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) Programme:

• Coordinate the overall Programme work plan development and implementation according to programme document;
• Gather inputs and coordinate the preparation of work-plans, periodic narrative progress reports to the donor, MWCD and UN Women;
• Establish systems for project planning, implementation and monitoring, in collaboration with partners;
• Record and maintain documents on relevant Programme activities, issues, and risks;
• Lead project team to deliver results.

Guide coordination with national partners and other stakeholders:

• Coordinate relationships with national and state partners to support implementation and expansion of the GRB Programme, raise potential problems and suggest solutions;
• Establish effective coordination with Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Finance, NITI Aayog and civil society experts/academics for strengthening GRB in India;
• Liaise and oversee coordination with state governments for streamlining the technical support at state level and preparation of GRB action plans;
• Finalize the situational analysis plan and methodology in consultation with identified experts and line departments;
• Identify capacity building needs and support through technical assistance, training and capacity development initiatives, as needed.

Coordinate the monitoring and reporting on the GRB Programme:

• Gather and compile all information necessary for monitoring and reporting on programmes and projects from the planning to the evaluation stages;
• Monitor the implementation of activities and the expenditure of funds; conduct regular monitoring visits, team meetings, as required;
• Draft and provide inputs to annual and quarterly reports; coordinate the submission of implementing partner financial and narrative reports;
• Provide inputs from GRB programme activities and results to Country Office reporting.

Manage people and finances of the GRB programme:

• Coordinate development and preparation of financial resources of the programme including budgeting and budget revisions, and expenditure tracking and reporting;
• Monitor the allocation and disbursement of funds to participating partners;
• Ensure expenditures status reports to the donor, and UN Women;
• Supervise and guide Programme Analysts, Project Assistant, IT Specialists and Technical Consultants.

Build partnerships and support in developing resource mobilization strategies:

• Provide inputs to the development of partnerships and resource mobilization strategies;
• Lead advocacy with key government partners, and build policy consensus on women’s budgets.

Advocate and facilitate knowledge building and management and communication:

• Document the programme implementation process and products and advocate for scale up or institutionalization in the government;
• Contribute to the exchange of information and provide inputs to the development of high quality knowledge products internally and externally of the programme;
• Guide the roll out and implementation of e governance tool;
• Coordinate the organization of major advocacy campaigns, events, trainings, workshops and knowledge products.

Any other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Timely and quality implementation of Programme activities against set workplans, timelines, and budgets, in line with the Programme document.
• Quality and timely reporting, and in line with all UN Women operational rules and regulations, including security.
• Strong relations with partners and stakeholders.
• Regular and timely monitoring of activities.
• Enhanced best practices and lessons learned documented and circulated.

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and sensitivity regarding gender issues
• Accountability
• Creative Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Leading by Example

Functional Competencies:

• Good programme formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation skills and budgeting
• Good knowledge of Results Based Management
• Ability to gather and interpret data, reach logical conclusions and present findings and recommendations
• Good analytical skills
• Knowledge of UN programme management systems
• Demonstrated knowledge of gender responsive programme
• Ability to work with diverse government stakeholders

Required Skills and Experience

Education and Certification:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in public administration, law, human rights, gender equality, management, social sciences, finance or other related fields is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A project/programme management certification would be an added advantage.

Experience:

• At least 2 years of progressively responsible experience at the national or international level in managing complex and multi-component programme interventions with national partners, preferably related to thematic area;
• Experience in coordinating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating development programmes and projects is an asset.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and good command over Hindi.

Interested applicants should apply to this vacancy announcement through UNDP jobs site: jobs.undp.org

Application Information:

• All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/about-us/jobs
• Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment;
• UN Women will only be able to respond to those applications in which there is further interest.

Note:

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.