Coordination and Standards Specialist Vacancy-Job Ref: JKMLUNWOMEN/0106/202641
Bamako (Mali)
Job Description
UN Women, founded on 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.
Its integrated triple mandate – supporting standards development, coordinating the United Nations system and operational activities – enables it to act globally to translate gender equality standards and rules into lasting and meaningful change.
Within the United Nations system, UN Women ensures more effective coordination and coherence of action in support of gender equality, as well as the integration of gender perspectives into the System’s initiatives. To promote and sustain these achievements, the Strategic Plan [Click the Apply button below to apply, and Create my CV to build a CV tailored to this offer, professionally] includes objectives and indicators for coordination in the areas of intervention and results, and defines the areas in which UN Women exercises leadership, provides support, or drives action.
In line with these global guidelines, UN Women Mali remains committed to promoting coherence and harmonization in the integration of gender considerations across the entire UN Country Team in Mali, in order to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment. Specifically, UN Women supports the integration of gender equality into joint planning documents. The entity also provides expertise, analysis, and data, and facilitates partnerships, particularly with women’s organizations. UN Women also oversees the institutionalization of the gender equality marker in joint funding mechanisms, while emphasizing the development of joint programs to promote shared accountability, transparency, and the achievement of collective results for women and girls.
Under the authority of the Resident Representative, the Coordination and Normative Specialist is responsible for supporting the coordination roles within the United Nations Country Teams, in identifying the technical expertise needed for the implementation of accountability tools at the institutional level, with an emphasis on the processes of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF), the standards and procedures of the Gender Thematic Groups (GTGs), the system-wide strategy on gender parity, intergovernmental processes such as CSW, CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action and the SDGs, as well as other relevant normative processes at the national level.
The Coordination and Normative Specialist will also work closely with the Office of the Resident Coordinator and other United Nations agencies to help create enabling environments to achieve and maintain gender parity within the UNCT.
The Coordination and Normative Specialist will lead capacity-building activities related to gender mainstreaming and UN coordination, including providing input and technical advice to other UN entities on gender mainstreaming in program and policy development and implementation.
The Coordination and Normative Specialist will seek partnership opportunities in coordination, including joint funding initiatives for gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE).
The Coordination and Standards Specialist works closely with the Coordination Unit and intergovernmental units at the regional office and headquarters levels. They will also play a key role as the technical focal point for the coordination mechanism involving partners, civil society platforms, and government institutions to institutionalize gender in national policies and strategies.
III. Scope of the work
- Provide technical support to the Resident Representative and the country office regarding inter-agency coordination:
Provide technical support and guidance to the Resident Representative, including through participation in national groups, inter-agency coordination efforts and related technical bodies, as well as the GTG.
Provide analysis and advice to the country office regarding engagement with United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) and the Resident Coordinator (RC) on gender-sensitive development assistance.
Provide technical support and ensure guidance to the RCO and UNCT regarding system-wide processes and requirements related to GEWE.
Provide technical support to the Representative to lead the inter-agency GTG.
Provide technical support to the UN Women Country Representative, as needed, on inter-agency coordination – assisting the country office in identifying strategic thematic entry points, including inter-agency pooled funds, and partners to significantly advance GEWE through targeted coordination and technical assistance.
Provide substantial support to the UN Women Country Representative, as needed and in close collaboration with relevant programme coordinators, to increase her provision of technical assistance and sector-specific gender analysis on gender equality and women’s empowerment across the UNCT, enabling UN Women to act as the UNCT’s “think tank” on gender equality.
Support the UN Women country office to ensure that it is actively engaged in promoting gender in humanitarian action, by providing operational and quality technical assistance, training and gender analysis, according to the needs of the national context.
Provide support to the UN Women Country Representative, as needed, to monitor the work of the GTG to ensure it is effective in bringing partners together around strategic actions on GEWE.
Provide technical support to the Country Representative in her active participation and contribution to the coordination mechanism with partners to ensure that GEWE is highly prioritized.
2) Provide technical advisory support on gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) as a guiding principle in the development and implementation of the Cooperation Framework:
Provide advice and input on the UNSDCF roadmap to ensure that the UNSDCF development process ensures strong integration of GEWE, in line with UNCT-SWAP requirements, and facilitates the active participation of women’s CSOs and national mechanisms for women.
Provide substantial support for the development of a rigorous gender analysis in the Common Country Analysis (CCA) in order to explain the immediate, underlying and deep causes of gender inequalities, gender-based discrimination and differentiated impacts.
As Secretary of the GTG, and in close collaboration with the RCO, coordinate the work of the GTG to review and provide technical guidance and input at each stage of the UNSDCF to ensure the integration of gender equality considerations into strategic prioritization, the results matrix, joint programmes and monitoring and evaluation.
3) Ensure overall coordination and quality assurance of the UNCT-SWAP gender equality dashboard exercise:
Provide information and support to the RC and UNCT on how to meet or exceed UNCT-SWAP requirements, and monitor the implementation of the action plan and related recommendations to ensure consistency in their application and implementation throughout the region.
In close cooperation with the UNCT-SWAP Support Service, provide quality assurance and technical support for comprehensive and annual UNCT-SWAP country-level reports via the online platform, as required.
Autres informations
Ensure that the action plan informs the GTG work plan and the UNSDCF process.
Localisation
Provide advisory support to the UNCT and the UN Women country office to strengthen UNCT reporting and the use of the UNCT GEM, with the aim of increasing financial allocations for GEWE at the national level.
Supporting the capacity building of UNCT and GTG by deploying learning and training materials in collaboration with UNSCD on
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