UNDP AFG - Gender Mainstreaming Specialist (P3)

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 110,481 USD and 144,666 USD.

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Background

Background:

UNDP is the leading United Nations organization fighting to end the injustice of poverty, inequality, and climate change. Working with our broad network of experts and partners in 170 countries, we help nations to build integrated, lasting solutions for people and planet. UNDP has been working in Afghanistan for more than 50 years on climate change and resilience, gender, governance, health, livelihoods, and rule of law. Under the broader framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in close coordination with other UN agencies, UNDP is supporting Afghan people’s aspiration for peace, prosperity, and sustainability. UNDP is currently implementing its flagship crisis response programme, ABADEI (Area Based Approach to Development Emergency Initiatives), as part of the ongoing UN-led response to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and the breakdown of Afghanistan’s economy following the August 2021 shift in power.

ABADEI

The ABADEI Strategy is a tailored area-based integrated programming approach to support basic human needs, complementing short-term humanitarian life-saving assistance with the safeguarding of livelihoods and the strengthening of community resilience. It is centered around addressing worsening poverty and vulnerability, supporting community resilience and social cohesion, addressing climatic vulnerability and enabling the rehabilitation of small-scale infrastructure vital for basic human needs. It supports the creation of immediate sources of income through vocational skills training, cash-for-work, cash for market, small businesses and livelihood opportunities with particular focus on agri-business and regenerative agriculture infrastructure and services (critical for food security) that are under threat. It is sensitive to the chronic and newly emerging vulnerabilities of Afghan women and girls and aims at providing them assistance in a manner that does not exacerbate their susceptibility to violence and deprivation of opportunities and rights.

The Gender Mainstreaming Specialist will work closely with partner UN Agencies, technical advisors and experts, multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors, and civil society to help implement gender as a cross-cutting issue in the UNDP Programme. S/he provides quality technical support to partners in his or her area of work. The Gender Mainstreaming Specialist will be based in Kabul with regular field visits.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Gender Mainstreaming Specialist will:

• Support Gender Mainstreaming in the overall ABADEI program
• Support partnership building and resource mobilization
• Support knowledge management

1) Supports gender mainstreaming in ABADEI program activities from design through implementation, focusing on achievement of the following results

• Provides leadership with technical guidance in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, ensuring that results are delivered in accordance with the workplan, standards, allocations, framework and rules and regulations
• Supports effective application of RBM tools, establishment of management targets, and monitoring achievement of results.
• Maintains regular contact with UNDP’s implementing partners and other programme counterparts to ensure monitoring of programmes' progress and effectiveness and achievement of results.
• Conducts analysis and research of the gender dimension in political, social and economic situation and collaborates in preparation/revision of programme documents, AWP and other documents.
• Identifies, in close collaboration with national and international partners, programme areas of cooperation on gender equality issues.
• Facilitates assessment of the country’s policies and their impact on women’s economic empowerment, social cohesion and SDG design.
• Facilitates research and analysis on specific issues related to gender and development issues, (e.g., social cohesion, women’s economic empowerment, SDG programme design and approaches).
• Designs and formulates gender components of ABADEI programme, translating gender priorities into local interventions and ensuring coordination and networking with clients, stakeholders and programme partners.
• Conducts training and capacity building on gender equality for implementing partners
• Assists in the development of gender-based budgets and in monitoring and reporting on gender equality.
• Works closely with UN agency counterparts.
• Monitors and reports on gender indicators; and
• Contributes to and prepares the ABADEI gender mainstreaming strategy in cooperation with CO program teams
• Develops a gender communication strategy for ABADEI program, ensuring visibility of the gender equality component.

2) Supports ABADEI program in the creation of strategic partnerships and in resource mobilization for gender equality results, focusing on achievement of the following;

• Supports UNDP’s role in various gender working groups led by donors, or other coordination mechanisms.
• Provides input and supports engagement to policy dialogue on gender issues with the donors, civil society, private sector.
• Contributes to the implementation of CO partnerships and resource mobilization strategy to support achievement of effective integration of gender equality perspectives.
• Conducts research and analysis of information on existing and new partners.
• Develops ideas and concepts for possible areas of cooperation.
• Supports working relationships and creates programmatic linkages with relevant UN Agencies and counterparts as guided by the supervisor; and
• Supports the identification of funding opportunities for ongoing and new programmes and projects
• Lead application of RBM tools in the joint programmes and provide technical support to project staff on results-based management strategies and tools, project management platforms and systems as well as business processes in line with programming and reporting requirements.

3) Supports the provision of high-quality technical support and facilitation of knowledge building and management, focusing on achievement of the following results

• Identifies and synthesizes best practices and lessons learned directly linked to gender equality goals
• Coordinates and ensures gender equality inputs in the development of policies, institutions and advocacy that will address the country’s challenges and needs in achieving gender equality in collaboration with counterparts and strategic partners
• Ensures that lessons learned are captured and recorded into the CO knowledge networks

Perform other duties within your functional profile as assigned and deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the office

Competencies

Core Competencies

Achieve Results:

LEVEL 3: Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact

Think Innovatively:

LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems

Learn Continuously

LEVEL 3: Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences

Adapt with Agility

LEVEL 3: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands

Act with Determination

LEVEL 3: Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results

Engage and Partner

LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration

Enable Diversity and Inclusion

LEVEL 3: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity

Cross Functional and Technical Competencies

Digital & Innovation

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE DESIGN: Ability to to design, lead or manage processes that help a collective to become smarter together by bringing together diverse groups of people, data, information or ideas, and technology to design services or solutions

Business Development

HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN: Ability to develop solutions to problems b\ involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process

Partnership management

RESOURCE MOBILIZATION: Ability to identify funding sources, match funding needs (programmes/projects/initiatives) with funding opportunities, and establish a

plan to meet funding requirements

2030 Agenda: People

GENDER: UNDP's Gender Equality Seal Initiative

2030 Agenda: People

GENDER: Gender Issues & Analysis

2030 Agenda: People

GENDER: UNDP's Women's Economic Empowerment, including labour issues

Required Skills and Experience

UNDP STRONGLY ENCOURAGES QUALIFIED WOMEN TO APPLY FOR AVAILABLE POSITIONS FOR WHICH THEY MEET THE STATED MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Application Requirement

All Applicants MUST complete and attach the UNDP Personal History-P-11 Form (found here) to their applications in the vacancy site.

Submission of personal resume or Curriculum Vitae (CV) will not be acceptable and candidates who fail to attach the above required P-11 form will not be considered.

Min. Education requirement****:

• Master’s degree in Gender Studies or in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Political Sciences or related field

Relevant Experience:

• Minimum of five (5) years of progressively advancing experience and responsibility in managing gender equality programmes in international development organizations and/or bilateral development agencies.

Required Skills:

• Experience with the UN system is an asset.
• Demonstrated experience in developing projects targeting promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, and mainstreaming gender into programming across sectors is required.
• Demonstrated experience in designing gender equality indicators, monitoring gender equality achievements, and reporting on gender equality results for development projects is required.
• Proven ability to work in multi-cultural teams. Demonstrated programme/project management experience with sound knowledge of all aspects of the project cycle (design, implementation, monitoring & evaluation) is required.
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and working knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, as well as experience in the handling of web-based management systems is required.
• Experience from previous UN assignments and/or multilateral and bi-lateral aid organizations would be an asset
• Knowledge of Results-Based Management methodologies would be an asset.

Language Requirements:

Proficiency in English is required – both written and oral is required.

Proficiency in Pashto/Dari is desirable but not essential.