Programme Analyst

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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.  The Humanitarian section of the Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division supports UN Women to fulfill its coordination mandate in humanitarian action. The Section specifically works on supporting Member States, UN Women Country Offices (COs), and in collaboration with other UN entities Partners, including women’s organizations and networks to promote UN coordination and improved normative and accountability mechanisms on women’s meaningful participation (prevention, mitigation, and preparedness) in humanitarian response efforts. 

Reporting to the Humanitarian Specialist, the Programme Analyst will support UN Women’s co-chair and Secretariat functions of the IASC Gender Reference Group (GRG), including through promoting knowledge sharing across the GRG and, contribute to UN Women’s role as the ‘Gender Desk’ monitoring the implementation of the IASC Gender Policy through the annual gender accountability framework analysis. The Programme Analyst will also support in managing and monitoring programmatic progress of UN Women’s GiHA Coordination Project being implemented at the global level and across nine crisis contexts. The Programme Analyst will support other areas of the Humanitarian Section’s work on an as-needed basis.

Key Functions and Accountabilities:

Support the monitoring and reporting for the global ‘GiHA Coordination Project – Phase:

• Support monitoring of mutually agreed results frameworks and performance indicators;
• Assist in gathering information and preparing progress reports on programme implementation; prepare technical reports;
• Provide inputs to briefing notes, policy documents, and research efforts that contribute to strengthened GiHA coordination efforts across the Inter-Agency Standing Committee and other humanitarian coordination spaces;
• Support the global team in the process of identifying and synthesizing of best practices and lessons learned that are directly linked to the implementation of the programme and contribute to their global dissemination.

Support management of deployments from Standby Partners: 

• Process requests from country offices to Standby Partners;
• Coordinate between country offices, Human Resources, and Standby Partners to ensure a standardized process and proper record-keeping;
• Track deployment data and maintain personnel files;
• Contribute to UN Women’s participation in the Standby Partnership Network.

Facilitate Gender Reference Group Secretariat and Co-Chair Functions:

• Assist in managing internal communication for GRG;
• Develop external communication materials on behalf of the GRG Secretariat;
• Develop and maintain regular meeting minutes, facilitate information sharing across the membership and support other secretariat functions;
• Contribute to work-planning and monitoring responsibilities;
• Update and maintain GRG webpage as needed

Support the roll-out of the localized Gender Accountability Framework (GAF) and Dashboard:

• Support in the development of advocacy materials and rollout of the recently endorsed GAF;
• Liaise with design and translation consultants in the development of final deliverables of advocacy materials;
• Foster communication with GAF stakeholders, including GiHA Working Groups, Cluster Coordinators, and the GCCG to engage with the new localized GAF;
• Collaborate with the data analyst on the creation and maintenance of the dashboard;
• Liaise with the IASC Secretariat to promote the hosting of the dashboard on the IASC website

Recruitment Qualifications:

Education and certification:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in social sciences, human rights, gender/women’s studies, international development, or a related field 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 would be an added advantage.

Experience:

• At least 2 years of progressively responsible work experience in humanitarian programme/project implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting and capacity building is required.
• Experience in gender in humanitarian action is required.
• Familiarity with the UN system’s work in humanitarian action is desirable. 
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable (French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish).

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