Gender and Humanitarian Specialist

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Background

UN Women (UNW), 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 and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, the UN Women leads and coordinates the United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

UN Women Jordan Country Office leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action. As the Syrian conflict continues and its impact on neighboring countries and host communities deepens, there is an increasing recognition among all partners that the development and humanitarian challenges arising from the crisis must be met with accelerated action and enhanced capacity. In this respect, UN Women is contributing to the United Nations processes to support the Government of Jordan's efforts and the UN humanitarian response to the Syrian refugee crisis and its impact on Jordanian host communities.

UN Women’s work in humanitarian action is guided by global norms and standards. In Jordan, an interagency review process led by UN Women and UNHCR is currently ongoing, based on the Accountability Framework of the IASC's Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls in Humanitarian Action Policy and the Grand Bargain commitments. The findings and recommendations of the Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) review are expected to enhance the gender responsiveness and accountability of the humanitarian coordination structures and systems of the refugee response to the Syria crisis and the Covid-19 response in Jordan.

As an emerging crisis, the COVID-19 crisis will affect women, girls, boys and men differently. Understanding how the crisis has a gendered impact on the population is key to ensuring that the response of humanitarian partners guarantee the protection of all members of the affected population and contribute to addressing the needs and priorities of women, men, girls, and boys equitably and effectively.

Building on UN Women Jordan's Strategic Note (2018-2022) and its normative and coordination mandate, leveraging the technical expertise provided to humanitarian, resilience and sustainable development coordination platforms remain as a critical component of UN Women’s work. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in the already protracted refugee crises in Jordan has renewed the commitment of humanitarian partners to ensure coordinated efforts on gender mainstreaming.

The Specialist, under the supervision of the Jordan Country Office Deputy, will provide committed senior technical expertise to UN Women humanitarian programming, to interagency coordination structures such as the ISWG and SGFPN, establishing and reinforcing partnerships, developing research initiatives and capacity building strategies on gender, protection and PSEA.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Manage and coordinate inter-agency initiatives on gender in humanitarian action

• Oversee the GiHA review process, leading the technical team and liaising with the Reference Group when required.

• Ensure the recommendations and action plan are aligned with the HPF and ISWG strategies and annual work plans.

• Engage working group sector chairs, SGFPN and key humanitarian partners in the GiHA review action plan initiatives aimed to increase the gender responsiveness of the coordination mechanism and systems.

2. Provide gender technical support and analysis to inter-agency coordination

• Contribute to the strengthening process of the key humanitarian partners providing continuous guidance and technical support on gender in humanitarian action.

• Participate and contribute gender perspective to humanitarian coordination bodies, including Livelihoods, Protection, PSEA, SGBV, and Durable Solutions working groups.

• Contribute to the gender mainstreaming national led efforts of humanitarian strategies and plans, such as the Jordan Response Plan and Covid-19 Contingency Plan.

• Advocate for the engagement and meaningful participation of local women’s organizations and platforms in humanitarian coordination mechanisms.

• Provide advice on contextualizing/ localizing programme documents, country strategies, and knowledge products;

3. Provide capacity-building support to Jordan country office teams and partners

• Provide technical and policy support to the country office teams in developing and strengthening projects and programmes on gender in humanitarian action, ending violence against women, and protection;

• Implement and monitor capacity building initiatives, particularly related to GBV and PSEA;

• Coordinate proper monitoring and reporting for humanitarian action in collaboration with programme teams.

4. Manage the design and development of relevant research, assessments, and knowledge products on gender-responsive humanitarian action

• Provide inputs to policy recommendations and guidance to strategic planning and positioning on humanitarian action with a strategic focus on gender equality.

• Research and develop analytical reports, research papers, briefing notes, background papers, summaries, correspondence, and knowledge products on humanitarian action.

• Identify promising practices in humanitarian action.

5. Manage knowledge building and sharing for humanitarian action

• Identify and disseminate lessons learnt and good practices in collaboration with country offices;

• Ensure technical skills and knowledge are shared within and among MCO/ COs.

• Participate in and contribute to policy dialogues around gender equality and the empowerment of women.

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

• Strong knowledge and experience related to current policies and practices in the fields of gender equality, protection and humanitarian action, including humanitarian coordination;

• Strong knowledge of the region

• Strong networking skills

• Ability to interact with donors, identify and analyze trends, opportunities and threats to fundraising

• Ability to perform qualitative and quantitative policy research

• Ability to advocate and provide policy advice

• Strong analytical skills;

• Ability to write policy papers, speeches, briefings;

• Strong knowledge of programme development, implementation, results based management and reporting

Key Performance Indicators

• Timely and quality technical advice and support

• Quality reports and other strategic documents drafted and submitted in a timely manner

• Strong relationships with various partners and stakeholders

• Contributions to resource mobilization

• Timely and quality knowledge products

UN Women Values and competencies link : https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf?la=en&vs=637

Required Skills and Experience

Education and certification:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in human rights, gender, international relations, international development, international law or other social science 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 (such as PMP®, PRINCE2®, or MSP®) would be an added advantage

Experience:

• At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in designing and implementing humanitarian action, with a particular focus on gender;

• Technical experience in inter-agency humanitarian coordination;

• Experience in policy analysis and strategic planning;

• Experience working with, and building partnerships with governments, donors and civil society organizations internationally and in the field;

• Experience working with the UN is an asset; and

• Experience working in the region is an asset

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English is required;

• Knowledge of Arabic is an asset;

Application:

• All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from P11 form. 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.