Parity and coordination officer

Volunteering

Overview

Support implementation of UN Gender Parity Strategy and monitoring progress

You have:

• Experience in rolling out and reporting on development programmes or initiatives involving gender mainstreaming and women's rights.
• Experience with data collection, analysis and reporting, coordination, or monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience working as part of a team.
• Excellent use of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook is a requirement.
• Field experience in working in the United Nations or other international organizations, particularly in a duty station in Africa is highly desirable.
• Ability to live and work in difficult and harsh conditions of developing countries.

Contract

This is a UNV International Specialist contract. This kind of contract is known as International UN Volunteer. It is normally internationally recruited only. More about UNV International Specialist contracts.

Assignment is non-family (GOMA)

Under the direct supervision of the Senior Gender Adviser (SGA), Head of Gender Affairs, the UNV/Parity and Coordination Officer reports to the SGA and is responsible for supporting and overseeing the implementation of the UN System-Wide Gender Parity Strategy, the Mission Leadership Team (MLT) decisions and directives on Gender Parity, and the Gender Affairs annual work plan. In particular, s/he will have the following responsibilities:

• Support the implementation of the Department of Peace Operations (DPO) guidance on Gender-Responsive Peacekeeping Operations.
• Develop a detailed work plan, with clear targets, responsibilities and timeline, to implement MONUSCO MLT’s Gender Parity Decisions. • Ensure close monitoring of the progress on implementation by Hiring Managers, Director of Mission Support (DMS) and Gender Affairs, as per distribution of tasks fixed in the MLT Parity decisions. • Collect data regularly on vacancies and screen their compliance with the requirements set in the MLT Parity decisions. • Ensure immediate dissemination of job openings on the day of their advertisement to professional outreach networks and to in-Mission mailing groups, and establish mailing groups to increase outreach outside of the Mission. • Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual reports on parity progress and advancement towards the gender parity targets, including recruitment data and sex-disaggregated statistics and percentages per level for civilian personnel. • Extend any additional administrative and tracking support to the SGA in relation to advancing parity across the mission. • Review memorandums of selection regarding the procedures to identify gender biases in the selection process. • Maintain archive with vacancies advertised, with progress synopsis showing the results of screening and selection, as well as documentation of DMS decisions and Gender Affairs advice. • Monitor implementation and follow up on recommendations of the evaluation on the creation of an enabling workplace to advance gender parity with O/DMS, O/COS, O/SRSG, Gender Affairs, and carry out after action review to assess compliance and impact/results. • Support roll-out and conduct unconscious gender bias trainings for Hiring Managers. • Under close supervision of the SGA, prepare drafts of gender code cables and draft presentations and material to inform and advocate for gender parity within the mission • Drafts, collates and edits specific inputs for mission reports and documentation in relation to gender parity, as required. • Provide induction on all aspects of rolling out and monitoring progress of the MLT Gender Parity decisions to Human Resources officers, when advised by the SGA. • Act as coordination focal point for incoming requests to the Gender Affairs Section and support delegation of tasks and track deadlines. • Maintain and update knowledge management systems of Gender Affairs Section and archiving. • Support implementation of the Gender Affairs Section’s annual work plan and ensure implementation and reporting on the third focus area: Gender Parity. • Participate in national and/or regional meetings, workshops and training programmes relevant to the work of the team. • Provide assistance to the team during recruitment and onboarding processes. • Allocate 20% of the work time to providing administrative support to the team. • Perform other duties as required.

Accountability, Client Orientation, Communication, Creativity, Ethics and Values, Integrity, Knowledge Sharing, Planning and Organizing, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity, Self-Management, Technological Awareness, Working in Teams

rolling out and reporting on development programmes/initiatives involving gender mainstreaming and women’s rights is required. Experience with data collection, analysis and reporting, coordination, or monitoring and evaluation is highly desirable. Experience working as part of a team. Experience with human resources is an asset. Field experience, in particular working in the United Nations or other international organizations in a duty station in Africa is highly desirable.

Excellent use of Excel, Word, Power Point and Outlook is a requirement.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is the second largest country in Africa, and as a result is quite diverse.

Living conditions therefore vary between MONUSCO duty stations, with all usual amenities present in the capital Kinshasa, but only very basic conditions in remote duty stations in the provinces, where, for instance, there may be no guarantee of public power supply nor running water. The ability to live and work in difficult and harsh conditions of developing countries is essential.

Accommodation is very expensive in both Kinshasa and Lubumbashi. Supermarkets exist in the large towns (e.g. Bukavu, Kisangani), but consumer items are generally very expensive (as everything is imported). For food, local markets offer a much cheaper alternative.

All MONUSCO duty stations are considered non-family duty stations, except for Kinshasa, Lubumbashi and Entebbe which are now considered family duty stations, and most are currently under UN Security Phase III (“relocation phase”: internationally-recruited staff are temporarily concentrated or relocated to specified sites/locations). In addition to insecurity related to the relatively volatile political situation as well as various conflict situations, certain places are subject to increasing street and residential crime, including in Kinshasa and Goma.

Some degree of medical service is provided in all MONUSCO duty stations. Certain vaccinations are mandatory for MONUSCO personnel to enter the DRC, while others are compulsory for all other incoming persons. It is possible for incoming MONUSCO personnel, including UN Volunteers, to be asked to provide proof of some or all vaccinations, though this is unlikely. All UN Volunteers must ensure that they are up-to-date with all appropriate vaccinations, which should be clearly and properly endorsed in the International Certificate of Vaccination (“carte jaune”). Malaria is present virtually throughout the DRC, and it is therefore recommended to take prophylaxis.

The unit of currency is the Congolese Franc. The US dollar is the other preferred currency. It may be impossible to exchange traveller’s checks away from the capital city. Credit cards are usually accepted in major hotels only in Kinshasa. In larger towns and cities (e.g. Kinshasa, Goma, Bukavu, Kisangani), UN Volunteers are recommended to open US Dollar bank accounts, while in other places, banks may be absent (including ATMs) and VLA payments will be processed in cash. UN Volunteers have the possibility to send part of their allowances to a bank account abroad.

In addition to French, there are four major spoken languages in DRC, namely Lingala, Kikongo, Tshiluba and Swahili.

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