International Consultant – Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) and Coordination

Position description

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the overall guidance of the Deputy Country Representative, the GIHA advisor will work closely with the the GiHA Specialist, and also work in close coordination with other sectors to implement the following.

Technical Leadership and Strategic Planning:

• Advise, support, and provide substantive inputs to ensure the formulation of gender-sensitive UN humanitarian response in the emergency, recovery, and post emergency development stages;
• Actively participate in country-level programming processes, in particular assessments and recovery planning efforts to ensure that UN Women is strategically placed within the UN humanitarian and recovery context;
• Advise in the development and use of gender analysis and collection of sex and age-disaggregated data and promote its institutionalization.

Coordination, partnership, and resource mobilization support:

• In partnership with the humanitarian gender working group, participate and provide gender-related inputs to the interagency UN coordination mechanisms, and other relevant sectoral-level processes focusing on humanitarian issues including the various assessments;
• Advocate for the engagement and participation of national women-led organizations and civil society networks in humanitarian coordination mechanisms;
• Advise GiHA working group, at the national and sub-national level;
• Advise on the GiHA training for women-led organizations, community initiatives, and UN Women staff;
• advise on gender issues within the Inter-Agency Cross-cutting Group framework – which includes Accountability for Affected Population working group, a Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Child Protection (CP), PSEA;
• Support the drafting of project proposals in response to the humanitarian crisis and mobilize resources to fund UN Women’s coordination and technical support efforts;
• Build and maintain alliances and strategic partnerships for the advancement of humanitarian action;
• Map key coordination related work into a coordination strategy;
• Assess the resources needed to implement initiatives and request support from Humanitarian Action and Crisis Response Office (HACRO) and UN System Coordination Division to boost the capacity of the coordination function, including a strategic value proposition at the UN Humanitarian Country Team and its clusters;
• Support in ensuring that the Resident Coordinator’s Office and Gender Theme Group take stock of progress against UNCT-SWAP issues, define key accountabilities and update the Gender Theme Group work plan with remaining actions.

Capacity Building and Knowledge Management:

• Identify needs and opportunities to provide capacity-building support across sectors/ clusters in coordination;
• Facilitate capacity-building activities on concepts related to gender-responsive humanitarian action, and engendering information management and analysis;
• Support partners, and country staff capacity development to engage in gender in humanitarian response, and gender needs assessments;
• Contribute to the identification and documentation of challenges, lessons learned, and good practices from the implementation of gender-responsive humanitarian programming in Sudan.

Advocacy and Communication:

• Support UN Women’s advocacy efforts to help raise awareness and stimulate action in addressing the specific needs of displaced, returnee women and girls and advancing gender equality and women’s rights in South Sudan, especially in the most affected States and Counties;
• Develop Gender Alert, or other communication pieces as required.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Timely and quality technical advice and support;
• Quality reports and other strategic documents drafted and submitted promptly;
• Strong relationships with various partners and stakeholders;
• UN Women is well represented in important meetings on topics related to expertise;
• Contributions to resource mobilization;
• Timely and quality knowledge products.

Competencies

Core values:

• Integrity;
• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and sensitivity regarding gender issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative problem solving;
• Effective communication;
• Inclusive collaboration;
• Stakeholder engagement.

Functional Competencies:

• Strong background in humanitarian action, returnee, IDP and refugee response, gender equality, and human rights/women’s rights
• Strong understanding of Do No Harm principles around the delivery of SGBV and protection services;
• Excellent research, analytical, and writing skills;
• Ability to think and work logically and work precisely with attention to detail;
• Initiative, sound judgment, and demonstrated ability to work harmoniously with staff members of different national and cultural backgrounds;
• Ability to work independently and meet tight deadlines in a high-pressure environment.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in gender, international relations, humanitarian action, international development, or other social science fields is required;
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted instead of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

• At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in gender equality and women’s empowerment, humanitarian action, and gender protection in emergencies;
• Substantive and technical experience in inter-agency and humanitarian coordination;
• Experience in conducting research, assessments, gender analysis;
• Experience working with, and building partnerships with donors, and civil society organizations internationally and in the field;
• Experience working with the UN is an asset.

Application instructions

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