Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, women’s overall empowerment and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

In support of the Arab Republic of Egypt’s Vision 2030 and the National Strategy for the Empowerment of Egyptian Women (NSEEW), the work of the UN Women Egypt Country Office (ECO) is grounded in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA).

Under the Egypt/UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF 2023-2027) and the Entity’s five-year portfolio therein, UN Women implements its triple mandate of supporting normative standard-setting to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, implementing national programmes grounded in international norms and best practices in partnership with national stakeholders, and strengthening UN system coordination.

Since 2020, with the support of the European Union and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, through UN Women’s “Women’s Financial and Economic Inclusion Programme”, UN Women has partnered within the Government of Egypt’s national programme on women’s digital financial inclusion entitled “Ta7wisha” (“Savings”). UN Women’s contributions to the Government’s national programme will eventually reach 160,000 women across ten governorates in Upper Egypt by 2025. The goal of the nationally-led programme is to enable rural women – in part through their participation in women-led digital savings groups – to open bank accounts, access personal savings and micro-loans, increase their financial and digital literacy, advance greater economic engagement, and integrated into the formal economy.

UN Women’s partnership under the nationally led Ta7wisha programme focuses primarily in supporting the women-led digital savings groups. By substituting the tin box that was originally used by rural women to pool their savings under the classical version of Savings Groups, the digital SGs now enable rural women to individually and collectively onboard (or “be banked”) and track their personal savings and individual and group loans through the “Ta7wisha” mobile phone application developed in 2021. Further, the national programme supports women’s access to national ID cards and provides technical and market-focused support to the women-led digital savings groups to deepen their economic opportunities. The nationally led “Ta7wisha” programme builds upon a previous partnership between UN Women, the National Council for Women, and the CBE (2013-2017), in which by the end of the EU-supported project, rural women had increased their personal savings by no less than 3 – 4 times and reported use of such savings as a buffer against hardships, such as illness and family loss of income.

To technically contribute and support the implementation of UN Women’s work under the Women’s Financial and Economic Inclusion Programme and in support of the nationally led “Ta7wisha” initiative, UN Women is recruiting a National Programme Analyst.

Duties and Responsibilities

Reporting to the Deputy Country Representative, the Programme Analyst contributes to the effective management of UN Women’s Financial and Economic Inclusion in Rural Egypt Programme and its national partnerships, including the nationally led “Ta7wisha” Programme.

Working closely with the UN Women operations and Programme teams at the country, regional and global level, the Programme Analyst is responsible to coordinate the Programme’s implementation, ensuring the delivery of the UN Women Programme of work on financial inclusion by monitoring results achieved during implementation, financial oversight of the Programme and ensuring appropriate application of systems and procedures and develop enhancements if necessary.

The Programme Analyst works in close partnership with the National Council for Women, the Central Bank of Egypt, the Ministry of Planning and other government entities, the national banks involved in “Ta7wisha”, and working with civil society and academic partners. The Programme Analyst will be the primary focal point of the Programme for UN Women’s development partners, the European Union, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, on the day-to-day implementation of the work.

Specifically, the National Programme Analyst is responsible for:

Contribute technically to the development of Programme strategies in Financial and Economic Inclusion in Rural Egypt:

• Provide substantive inputs to the design and formulation of partnership proposals and initiatives.
• Identify areas for growth and partnership under the Programme.

Contribute to substantive technical support to the implementation and management of the Financial and Economic Inclusion in Rural Egypt Programme:

• Provide technical inputs around the Programme to UN Women Country Office’s annual/biannual workplan and budget.
• Ensuring strong complementarity and support to the nationally led “Ta7wisha” Programme, contribute to the implementation of Programme activities.
• Ensuring timely delivery of Programme activities and commitments, as outlined in the partnership agreements and the overarching financing agreements with UN Women’s development partners under the Programme.
• Ensure timely delivery of finances and responsible for overall day-to-day monitoring of the Programme budget.
• Review, coordinate, clear and monitor the submission of implementing partner financial and narrative reports.
• Build partners’ capacities and tools for strong results-based management.

Provide technical assistance and capacity development to project/programme partners:

• Provide technical support in the implementation of programme activities and develop technical knowledge products as required.
• Maintain relationships with national partners to support implementation and expansion of the programme.
• Identify opportunities for capacity building of partners and facilitate technical/ programming support and trainings to partners, as needed.

Contribute and provide technical inputs to the monitoring and reporting of the programme/ project:

• Contribute to the monitoring of the Programme’s overall implementation, including implementation of activities and use of finances using results-based management tools.
• Draft reports on monitoring missions, programme results, outputs, and outcomes.
• Draft donor and UN Women report under Financial Inclusion.

Contribute to the management of people and finances of the programme:

• Contribute to the monitoring of budget implementation, overall delivery and utilization and make budget re-alignments/revisions, as necessary.
• Provide substantive inputs to financial reports.
• Supervise UN Women personnel contracted under the programme, guiding the development of their individual workplans, their day-to-day performance.

Contribute substantive inputs to building partnerships and resource mobilization strategies:

• Provide substantive inputs to resource mobilization strategies and analyze/maintain information and databases.
• Prepare relevant documentation such as project summaries, conference papers, briefing notes, speeches, and donor profiles.
• Support convening of stakeholder meetings, donor dialogues and public information events on the programme, as delegated.

Provide substantive inputs to advocacy, knowledge building and communication efforts:

• Ensure strong visibility of UN Women’s programme partnerships and the impact of the work.
• Develop background documents, briefs and presentations related to Financial Inclusion.
• Coordinate and organize advocacy campaigns, events, trainings, workshops, and knowledge products.
• Coordinate the development of knowledge management methodologies, and products on women financial inclusion in Egypt.

Key Performance Indicators

• Timely and quality inputs to programme development
• Timely and quality implementation of Programme/Portfolio/ activities against set workplans, timelines, and budgets, in line with the Strategic Note
• Timely and quality technical assistance
• Quality and timely inputs to reporting.
• Strong relations with partners and stakeholders
• Enhanced best practices and lessons learned documented and circulated.

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/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf

Functional Competencies

• Good programme formulation, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation skills;
• Good knowledge of Results Based Management;
• Ability to gather and interpret data, reach logical conclusions, and present findings and recommendations;
• Good analytical skills;
• Good knowledge of women economic empowerment and financial inclusion in Egypt;
• Ability to identify and analyze trends, opportunities, and risks.

Required Skills and Experience

Education and Certification

• Master’s degree in social sciences, human rights, gender/women’s studies, international development, or a related field, required.
• A project/programme management certification would be an added advantage.

Experience

• At least 2 years of progressively responsible work experience at the national or international level in design, planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting and capacity building of development projects, required.
• Technical experience in women’s economic empowerment in general and in women’s productive clusters and entrepreneurship more specifically, required.
• Experience partnerships and coordination with government and development partners, required.
• Experience working in the UN System is an asset.
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, PPT, etc.) and knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, required.

Language Requirements

• Fluency (written & spoken) in English and Arabic is required;
• Knowledge of the other UN official working language is an asset.

Application: Incomplete submission can be a ground for disqualification. 

Interested Individual Candidate must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:

• All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment;
• 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, and;
• A cover letter with a brief presentation explaining your suitability for the vacancy;
• UN Women will only be able to respond to those applications in which there is further interest.

The above-mentioned documents MUST BE merged in a standalone file including all them, since the online application submission does only permit to uploading one file per application.

You can merge your documents by using Online resources. 

Incomplete submission can be a ground for disqualification. Make sure that you provide a valid email address for future communications.

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