Humanitarian Analyst (National)

Contract

This is a SC-4 contract. This kind of contract is known as Service Board / Service Contract. It is normally only for nationals. More about SC-4 contracts.

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. UN Women also coordinates and promotes the UN system’s work in advancing gender equality, and in all deliberations and agreements linked to the 2030 Agenda. The entity works to position gender equality as fundamental to the Sustainable Development Goals, and a more inclusive world.

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the UN Women PNG office is supporting efforts in the development and implementation of programming on protection and response to COVID-19 including protection against sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA). UN Women plans to implement long-term recovery and resilience-building plans, including life-saving protection from gender-based violence, risk communication, women’s economic empowerment initiatives for disaster affected communities and increase capacity of humanitarian stakeholders in gender and protection mainstreaming through DRR.

Under the overall guidance of the Country Representative and reporting to the UN Women eVAW Technical Specialist, the Humanitarian Analyst will be responsible for implementing components of the UN Women Protection portfolio. The Humanitarian Analyst guides and facilitates the delivery of the Protection program by initiating and coordinating activities; building capacity of local partners; monitoring results achieved during implementation; ensuring appropriate application of systems and procedures. The Humanitarian Analyst will coordinate with cluster actors (WASH, Health, Shelter, Food Security) and work closely with the GBV and Child Protection Sub cluster teams from UNFPA and UNICEF. The Humanitarian Analyst will work alongside the Protection Specialist (International Consultant) who provides technical support to the program.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Interagency Coordination and Support:

• Provide secretariat support to the Protection Cluster and liaison with GBV and Child Protection in collaboration with UNFPA, UNICEF and GoPNG partners.
• Raise awareness on Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) in humanitarian emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic amongst disaster actors.
• Participate and provide gender related inputs to the interagency UN coordination mechanisms, government mechanisms and other relevant sectoral level processes focusing on humanitarian issues including the various assessments.
• Build and maintain alliances and strategic partnerships for the advancement of humanitarian action;
• Provide necessary support to build and maintain close liaisons with relevant donors and other actors supporting efforts towards humanitarian action, as delegated.

2. Technical leadership and planning:

• Develop and implement strategies that promote gender equality and empowerment of women, disability inclusion in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and other emergencies.
• Provide substantive inputs to ensure the formulation of gender sensitive UN humanitarian response in emergencies, recovery, and post emergency development stages.
• Actively participate in country level programming processes, assessments, and recovery context.
• Support the development and use of gender analysis and collection of sex and age disaggregated data and promote its institutionalization.
• Support the development of a UN Women proposal in any joint appeals.

3. Capacity building

• Support the development and facilitation of technical workshops and webinars on Protection, DRR, Gender in Emergencies.
• Identify opportunities for capacity building of partners and facilitate technical/ programming support and trainings to partners, as needed. Implement and monitor capacity building initiatives.
• Provide technical support to partners on implementation of humanitarian action.

4. Advocacy and Communication:

• Support UN Women’s advocacy efforts to help raise awareness and stimulate action in addressing specific needs to displaced women and girls and advancing gender equality and women’s rights in PNG, especially in the context of COVID-19.
• Support the development of communications and advocacy tools such as policy briefs, knowledge products, Gender Alert, Situational Reports (SitReps), press release or other communication pieces as agreed with supervisor.

5. Programme management and reporting

• Monitor progress of implementation of portfolio project activities and budgets using results-based management tools.
• Draft reports on monitoring missions, programme results s, outputs and outcomes.
• Provide substantive inputs to the preparation of donor and UN Women reports.
• Monitor budget implementation and make budget re-alignments/ revisions, as necessary.
• Oversee and monitor the performance of partners receiving funds from UN Women for humanitarian action.

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
• Good knowledge of Results Based Management
• Ability to gather and interpret data, reach logical conclusions and present findings and recommendations
• Good analytical skills
• Demonstrated experience in gender-based violence support
• Ability to identify and analyze trends, opportunities and threats to fundraising
• Knowledge of UN programme management systems

Required Skills and Experience

Education and certification:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in social sciences, human rights, gender/women's studies, international development, or a related field 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.

Experience:

• At least 3-5 years of progressively responsible work experience in development programme/project implementation, disaster preparedness/response and coordination, monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting and capacity building.
• Familiar with DRR, Humanitarian and emergency response coordination
• Experience in the field of gender equality, violence against women and girls.
• Experience coordinating and liaising with government agencies, CSO’s and/or donors.
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages and experience in handling of web-based management systems.