Gender Responsive Budgeting Specialist

Contract

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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 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 of its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations systems 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.

Over the past years, and in response to the need for increased accountability for implementation of gender equality commitments policies and financing decisions related to aid and domestic resources, UN Women played an active role with all its partners, to ensure that gender equality is mainstreamed in strategies, programmes and action plans.

Commitments to promote gender equality need to be backed by adequate funds and systematically monitored for progress in reducing gender discrimination. Yet there is a disconnect between such commitments and allocated funding in many national budgets, including in Jordan. To bridge this gap, UN Women and the Jordanian National Commission for Women (JNCW) have been working with national partners to implement gender-responsive budgeting (GRB). The approach entails channelling adequate resources to meet the different needs of both women and men. To this end, the GRB project aims to reduce gender-based inequalities by strengthening and operationalizing GRB in Jordan. Key partners will be the JNCW and the General Budget Department (GBD) within the Ministry of Finance (MoF).

Reporting to the Progamme Management Specialist, the Gender Responsive Budgeting Specialist is responsible for coordinating the GRB 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

1. Lead the coordination of the GRB Programme • Coordinate the overall Programme/Portfolio work plan development and implementation according to Strategic Note/ programme document; • Liaise with the Programme Boards, national counterparts, donors, UN Women and partners to ensure the Programme results are achieved and resources are managed; • Prepare and present work-plans, periodic narrative progress reports and expenditures status reports to the Programme Board and UN Women and other stakeholders as necessary; • Establish systems for project planning, implementation and monitoring in collaboration with partners; • Record and maintain documents on relevant Programme activities, issues, and risks.

Manage coordination with national partners and other stakeholders • Manage relationships with national implementing partners to support implementation of the GRB Programme/Portfolios, raise potential problems and provide solutions; • Provide substantial guidance to partners on establishment of performance indicators, and monitoring achievement of results; • Identify capacity building needs and support partners through technical assistance, mentoring, training, and cross partner learning and sharing, and capacity development initiatives; develop training materials and workshops, as necessary.

2. Oversee the monitoring and reporting on the GRB Programme/Portfolios • 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 by partners; oversee regular monitoring visits; • Finalize annual and quarterly reports; finalize the submission of implementing partner financial and narrative reports; • Provide inputs from GRB programme activities and results to Country Office reporting; • Ensure the delivery of baseline, monitoring, evaluation plans and reports (flash, progress and final) based on information compiled from colleagues and stakeholders

3. GRB Technical Assistance • Provide technical assistance with regards to GRB to line ministries, MOPIC, and GBD; • Develop and prepare all related materials to capacity building activities and assessment; • Ensure appropriate actions are taken to optimize use of programme funds to ensure the provision of the technical assistance to the line ministries.

4. Build partnerships and support in developing resource mobilization strategies • Coordinate the development of partnerships and resource mobilization strategies; • Determine programmatic areas of cooperation, based on strategic goals of UN Women, country needs and donors’ priorities and develop the relevant partnerships; • Participate in on-going coordination mechanisms to ensure coherence of the programme with other countrylevel processes.

5. Advocate and facilitate knowledge building and management and communication • Finalize briefs on programme achievements; • Ensure documentation of the programme implementation process and products produced are in accordance with UN Women guidelines; • Coordinate exchange of information and knowledge products internally and externally of the programme; • Organize major advocacy campaigns, events, trainings, workshops and knowledge products.

Key Performance Indicators

• Timely and quality implementation of Programme/Portfolio/Project activities against set workplans, timelines and budgets, in line with the Strategic Note • Quality and timely reporting • Excellent relations with partners and stakeholders • Regular and timely monitoring of activities • Enhanced best practices and lessons learned documented and circulated • Increase in resources mobilized • Performance of Staff members • Increase awareness of UN Women in the Country

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 • Excellent programme formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation skills • Excellent knowledge of Results Based Management • Ability to lead the development of detailed operational plans, budgets, and deliver on them for development results • Ability to synthesize program performance data and produce analytical reports to inform management and strategic decision-making • Excellent analytical skills • Strong knowledge of UN programme management systems

Please visit the link below for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-values and-competencies-framework-en.pdf

Required Skills and Experience

Education and certification:

• Master’s degree in public administration, law, human rights, gender equality, management, social sciences or other related areas is required. • A project/programme management certification would be an added advantage

Experience:

• Over 15 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 GRB; • Experience in coordinating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating development programmes and projects; specifically with different UN agencies; • Previous experience working in the UN system is an advantage.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and Arabic is required; • Working knowledge of another official UN language 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 . https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment/application-process . 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.

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