Humanitarian Specialist

Contract

This is a P-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 74,649 USD and 97,747 USD.

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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. Crisis-affected populations everywhere face difficult challenges. But in the case of women and girls - who make up approximately half of the 235.4 million people1 in need of humanitarian assistance globally - the disadvantages, exclusion, and violence they face are exacerbated due to pre-existing gender-based discrimination and inequality, negatively affecting their ability to access the services they need, the enjoyment of their rights and their subsequent ability to survive and recover from crisis shocks. Further discrimination is often manifested through other forms of intersectionality, including age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity. While the humanitarian system has made progress in recent years in terms of commitments and available tools for the integration of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls into humanitarian action2, much remains to be done to translate policy and process into concrete action. Reporting to the Regional WPS-HA Advisor, the Humanitarian Specialist will oversee the development of Humanitarian programmes, provide capacity building to local and international partners, establish and strengthen partnerships, and develop relevant knowledge products on the Humanitarian portfolio in the context of the Syria Cross-Border Operation.

Duties and Responsibilities

Manage the development of programmes on Humanitarian:

• Manage the development of programme proposals;
• Provide advice on contextualizing/ localizing programme documents, country strategies, and knowledge products;
• Coordinate proper monitoring and reporting for humanitarian action in collaboration with programme teams.

Provide capacity-building support on gender mainstreaming to national and international partners:

• Provide technical and policy support to national and international partners in developing and strengthening gender mainstreaming of their humanitarian projects/ programmes;
• Implement and monitor capacity building initiatives;
• Provide technical support to partners on the implementation of humanitarian action.

Establish and strengthen strategic partnerships with stakeholders, regional/ international actors, and development partners:

• Build and maintain alliances and strategic partnerships for the advancement of humanitarian action;
• Build and maintain close liaisons with relevant donors and other actors supporting efforts towards humanitarian action, as delegated;
• Contribute inputs to updates and briefs on regional/country development situations to be used by stakeholders, CO and HQ;
• Maintain close contact with relevant staff in UN Women's HQ.

Manage the resource mobilization strategy for humanitarian action

• Participate in the implementation, monitoring, and periodic updating of the resource mobilization strategy for humanitarian action;
• Provide technical support to field-based presences in mobilizing resources for the implementation of humanitarian action;
• Research and analyze information on donors.

Manage the design of humanitarian action and the development of relevant knowledge products:

• Provide inputs to policy recommendations and guidance to strategic planning and positioning on humanitarian action;
• Research and develop analytical reports, research papers, briefing notes, background papers, summaries, correspondence, and knowledge products on humanitarian action;
• Identify promising practices and technical expertise in humanitarian action.

Manage the advocacy of humanitarian action through inter-agency coordination:

• Participate and contribute inputs to the relevant clusters of the cross-border operation;
• Coordinate specific efforts in mainstreaming gender and protection in disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts of other clusters and relevant working groups;
• Advocate for the engagement and participation of local organizations and civil society networks in humanitarian coordination mechanisms.

Manage advocacy and communication efforts of humanitarian action:

• During the emergency response, develop and implement communication and advocacy messages and contribute inputs to strategies on key gender and protection concerns;
• Develop information, education, and communication (IEC) materials, press releases, situation reports, and alerts and contribute gender and protection-related inputs to documents prepared by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Manage knowledge building and sharing for humanitarian action:

• Identify and disseminate lessons learned and good practices.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Timely and quality knowledge products;
• 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.

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.

Please visit this link 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

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, and briefings;
• Strong knowledge of programme development, implementation, results-based management, and reporting.

Required Skills and Experience

Education and certification:

• A 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 managing humanitarian programmes, with a particular focus on gender and protection in emergencies;
• Technical experience in inter-agency coordination, preferably protection cluster coordination, and/or ProCap/GenCap;
• 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;
• Experience working in the region is an asset.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English is required, and knowledge of Arabic is an asset;
• Knowledge of another UN official working 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/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form.doc. 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.

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.

Diversity and inclusion:

At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity, and organizational need.

If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.

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