Programme Assistant Empowering Migrant Women Workers in the Informal Sector

Contract

This is a SB-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as Service Board / Service Contract. It is normally only for nationals. More about SB-3 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.

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

An area of UN Women’s economic empowerment work globally is migrant women’s work, aligned with the organizations strategic plan Outcome 4 on income security and decent work for women. UN Women is focused on promoting and protecting low skilled migrant women worker’s rights at all stages of migration, but especially in the informal sector jobs, they are concentrated in. To that end it addresses migration, development and governance issues-oriented to (a) ensuring women’s economic, social, civil and political rights in source migrant communities, in other words the varied and interacting drivers of migration, that give women the choice to migrate or not to; In other words interventions would address all potential migrants in source migrant sites (b) ensuring women’s social, economic, civil and political rights as migrants just prior to departure, in countries of employment and on return. Women’s economic empowerment pilots in countries of employment would also address marginalized non-women from communities hosting migrants so as to forge cohesion between them, and returnee women migrant workers would be facilitated among other things in respect of productive investment of remittances. All of this ensures safe, orderly, and regular migration, fulfills normative imperatives and maximizes the development impact of migration.

Further, the ROAS region is a key destination site for migration. Much migration happens within the Africa region and into North Africa and the Arab States. So too climate change that is increasing propelling displacement and migration is becoming a huge threat to sustainable development in Africa and the Arab States. A pan Africa Strategy has thus been developed by West/Central Africa, East, and Southern Africa, and North Africa with migration and trafficking as one of 3 priority issues led by the UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States. The work is assuming a Joint Program format that addresses the links between trafficking, smuggling, and women’s migration for work with the ultimate goal of ensuring their empowerment. UNWomen ROAS is also addressing gender, climate change, and migration as a thematic area of work.

Key strategies that UN women deploy in this work undertaken with partners – governments, civil society, international development co-operation agencies, and other UN agencies – is knowledge generation and dissemination forms the basis for policy advocacy and reform from a gender perspective, technical assistance, and capacity building within policy and institutional environments to support the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies, laws, plans with budgets, programs that robustly address potential and migrant women’s priorities.

Under the guidance and supervision of the Senior Global Advisor on International Migration, based in the UN Women ROAS office, and in line with UN Women rules and regulations, the program associate will support the development of the strategic vision for migrant women workers and women informal sector workers, support to program development, delivery of technical services for research, advocacy, capacity building, designing community-based pilots, support to partnership building and coordination, operational support. A work plan with achievements for the duration of the assignment will be agreed upon commencement of work.

Duties and Responsibilities

Provide technical support to the development of the strategy for migrant and non-migrant women informal sector workers

• Assist in designing, setting up and conducting UN Women and partner consultations and contribute to discussions;
• Document minutes of consultations
• Research relevant material that contributes to strategy, provide feedback to, assist with formatting final strategy

Provide technical support to the design and implementation of the Africa Strategy that addresses links between trafficking, smuggling, and women’s migration for work with the ultimate goal of ensuring their empowerment

• Assist in designing, setting up and conducting UN Women and partner consultations and contribute to discussions;
• Document minutes of consultations
• Research relevant material that contributes to strategy, provide feedback to, assist with formatting final strategy
• Support research initiatives under the strategy through inputs into concept notes, research design, co-ordinating the compilation of stakeholders and technical resources, and interview schedules, developing or supporting development of questionnaires, providing feedback to research

Support global, regional, national program development on empowerment of migrant and non-migrant women in the informal sector, including gender, climate change and migration; links between trafficking, smuggling, and women’s migration for work with the ultimate goal of ensuring their empowerment and other relevant themes

• Assist in designing, setting up and conducting UN Women and partner consultations and contribute to discussions;
• Document minutes of consultations
• Research relevant material that contributes to program development, provide feedback to, assist with formatting final programs
• Support development of program budgets
• Support preliminary research initiatives under the programs through inputs into concept notes, research design, coordinating the compilation of stakeholders and technical resources, and interview schedules, developing or supporting the development of questionnaires, providing feedback to research

Support the delivery of technical services for research, advocacy, capacity building, designing community-based pilots

• Support on-line identification of information and analysis,
• Support to research design development, development of advocacy and capacity building tools, and pilots
• Support substantive and logistics preparation of face to face and virtual meetings, side events, training sessions,
• Deliver presentations as needed,
• Writing policy briefs as needed;
• Assist in the review, analysis of reports, and other relevant materials.

Support to partnership building and coordination

• Expand existing databases on partners, thematic experts on migration and informal work,
• Support Follow up on substantive and operational links and meeting with partners

Provide administrative and logistical support to fore-mentioned tasks (1-5) including financial management as needed

• Provide administrative support in the preparation of programme work plans, budgets, and proposals on programme implementation arrangements, including tracking the delivery of funds;
• Provide administrative support to the executing agencies / responsible parties on routine delivery and reporting of programme supported activities and finances;
• Create projects in Atlas, prepare budget revisions, revise project awards and status; and determine unutilized funds and the operational and financial close of a project;
• Provide administrative support in monitoring and preparation of budget and the finances of programmes/projects, and in the preparation of FACE forms;
• Prepare non-PO vouchers for development projects;
• Process payment for consultants, as delegated;
• Create requisitions in Atlas for development projects; register good receipts in Atlas.
• Make travel arrangements for the Programme Team, including travel requisitions and claims;
• Support resource mobilizing through donor mapping, setting up meetings with donors, supporting narrative and financial reporting to donors as needed

Key Performance Indicators:

• Timely and accurate administrative and logistical support to events, workshops, and missions;
• Full compliance of administrative activities with UN Women rules, regulations, policies and procedures;
• Timely and accurate tracking of data for RO management and donor purposes;
• Quality maintenance of internal systems and files;
• Quality and timely support to programme team.

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/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf?la=en&vs=637

Functional Competencies:

• Knowledge of programme management;
• Ability to create, edit and present information in clear and presentable formats;
• Ability to manage data, documents, correspondence and reports information and workflow;
• Good financial and budgeting skills;
• Good IT skills.

Required Skills and Experience

Education and certification:

• Completion of secondary education required.
• Bachelors degree in public administration, gender studies, international development, international relations, social or environmental sciences, or other similar subject is an asset.

Experience:

• At least 3 years of progressively responsible experience in administrative or program management/support.
• Experience in working in a computer environment using multiple office software packages;
• Experience in the use of ATLAS is an asset;
• Experience in supporting a team is an asset.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and Arabic is required
• Knowledge of the other UN Working languages 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.

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.