The United Nations General Assembly created UN Women: the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women in July 2010, as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates of four parts of the UN system working on all aspects of gender equality and empowerment of women (GE/EW). UN Women supports the achievement of UN System-wide goals on gender equality and the empowerment of women. UN Women’s mandate builds on inter-governmental agreements articulated in the Beijing Platform for Action (PFA), the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Millennium Declaration, and relevant Security Council resolutions. In the culturally and linguistically diverse sub-region of the Pacific, the UN system serves 15 Pacific Island countries. Key amongst these are the 10-country UN Multi-country office (MCO) in Fiji; the 4-country UN Multi country office in Samoa, and the Delivering as One UN initiative in the country office in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Over the past four years, in response to the demand of Pacific Island governments for a more accessible and responsive presence at country level, UN agencies have established multi-agency UN Joint presences in the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of Nauru, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), Palau and Tuvalu. The presence of UN Women in the Pacific has grown significantly in the past 4 years. UN Women Pacific currently operates from a Sub-Regional Office(SRO) in Fiji, which oversees the efforts of UN Women staff in national and sub-national offices in PNG; in the UN MCO in Samoa that serves four Pacific Island countries; and in association with the UN Joint presences in Solomons, Vanuatu and Kiribati. UN Women has a roving officer working with the Micronesian states of the Northern Pacific. UN Women’s efforts in the Pacific respond to national priorities and opportunities for advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment. UN Women offers technical expertise, programming support and financial assistance to governments, NGOs and UN Country Teams (UNCT) on efforts related to women’s economic empowerment, ending violence against women and girls, women’s leadership in political and civic areas, incorporating gender equality perspectives in national planning and budgeting – including in the context of efforts to address HIV and AIDs -- and supporting women’s leadership to achieve peace and security. Amongst the key national and regional programmes that UN Women is supporting are initiatives on enhancing women’s political leadership and participation, forging partnerships with local governments to create Safe Cities for Women and Girls, and managing a Pacific Fund to resource and develop capacities to strengthen services and responses to end violence against women. UN Women works closely with regional inter-governmental organizations, participates actively in and convenes UN inter-agency initiatives and joint programmes throughout the Pacific, including by bringing a gender equality perspective to UN Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAFs) at country level. In order to fulfil the growing demands for its technical and programming support in the light of the transition to UN Women, the organization will recruit a Chief Technical Advisor (CTA) to provide policy advice, technical guidance and programme development support to UN Women programmes and to UN Country Teams. The CTA will focus, especially, on policies and programmes related to ending violence against women and to women’s economic empowerment. Reporting to the UN Women Regional Programme Director (RPD - OIC) for the Pacific, the CTA will participate in shaping UN Women’s regional strategies for these and other substantive areas in conformity with the organization’s Strategic Plan 2011 to 2013 and with UN system-wide priorities for the region. |
Supervised by the Regional Programme Director (RPD - OIC), the CTA will undertake the following responsibilities and produce the following deliverables: Regional / national strategies: - As determined by the RPD, participate in the development of the UN Women 2011 to 2013 strategy for the Pacific, bringing knowledge of the region to the task of ensuring that the Plan is relevant, realistic and responds to key opportunities and challenges in the region;
- Finalize coherent regional thematic strategies, as part of the Pacific overall strategy, to guide UN Women’s work on economic empowerment and ending violence against women. The strategies will be developed in collaboration with relevant thematic managers and advisors and based on consultation with key partners in the region and will inform, align with and feed into thematic strategies at global level;
- Support UN Women staff at country level to develop country strategies/programmes that bring together the various initiatives that UN Women is supporting into a coherent, results-driven country programme. The advisor will ensure that at least two such country programmes (with countries to be determined by UN Women leadership) are finalized and approved by June 2012;
- At the request of and to backstop the RPD, undertake representational functions for inter-governmental and inter-agency initiatives.
Technical Assistance to End Violence against Women and Girls (EVAW): - Perform selected functions of the regional EVAW specialist until such specialist is recruited. Specific deliverables will be identified in consultation with the RPD;
- In addition to the regional strategy (see Section 1, above), the CTA will provide ongoing advice to UN Women teams and UNCTs to enhance and improve their efforts to support countries to end violence against women and girls;
- Support staff of UN Women (especially the Country Programme Manager, PNG) and government/NGO partners to advance the Safe Cities for Women and Girls pilot project in Port Moresby through: assisting with resource mobilization, including the development of proposals and background documentation; developing a Performance Monitoring Framework and undertaking regular technical assistance and monitoring visits to ensure that the programme is achieving the results intended; and writing programme and donor reports and ensuring that these are of high quality and submitted in a timely fashion;
- Working with UN, government and civil society partners to finalize the design and ensure implementation of the Pacific UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign, as part of the Secretary General’s global UNiTE campaign, including by ensuring that the campaign is driven by clear targets, messages and high-level leadership.
Women’s economic empowerment: - In addition to the regional strategy (see above), the CTA will provide ongoing advice to UN Women teams and UNCTs to enhance and improve their efforts to support countries to advance women’s economic empowerment, with a specific focus on supporting the leadership/organisation of rural women and their contribution to livelihoods, food security and to mitigating the impacts of climate change;
- Guided by the RPD and in consultation with UN Women staff and partners, develop a new, multi-year regional programme on strengthening women’s economic empowerment and rights;
- Finalize the Performance Monitoring Framework, and provide technical support for implementation and resource mobilization for the UNWomen / UNDP joint programme on Women’s Economic Security and rights ( including Gender Equality in the Marketplace/informal economy, plus financial inclusion, legal empowerment, etc.).
Other Technical Support Activities: - Oversee regular updating and expansion of a roster of qualified consultants that UN Women and UN Country Teams in the Pacific can access on a regular basis to fill in short-term and focused technical assistance needs or surge capacity. The roster will develop in consultation with UN Women staff and with UN Country Teams;
- Assist UN Women to submit timely and high quality programmatic and donor reports on all of its initiatives in the Pacific;
- Develop a strategy for strengthening partnerships across the Pacific, including with women’s networks, governments, regional and sub-regional inter-governmental organizations, and the private sector;
- As determined by the RPD, support efforts to work with UNCTs across the region to strengthen the impact of their gender equality initiatives, including by strengthening gender equality components in their UNDAFs, providing as needed training on gender equality issues, and supporting gender theme groups to produce relevant results.
Summary of concrete deliverables for the CTA: - Coherent regional thematic strategies, as part of the Pacific overall strategy, to guide UN Women’s work on economic empowerment and ending violence against women;
- Two UN Women country programmes/strategies finalized and approved by June 2012;
- Design and ensure implementation of the Pacific UNiTE to End Violence campaign;
- A new, multi-year regional programme on strengthening women’s economic empowerment and rights;
- A framework and strategy for rigorous impact evaluation of the Pacific EVAW Fund;
- Performance Monitoring Frameworks for Gender Equality in the Marketplace and for the Safe Cities for Women and Girls programmes;
- Regular updating and expansion of a roster of qualified consultants;
- Timely and high quality programmatic and donor reports, as needed;
- Strategy for strengthening partnerships across the Pacific.
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Core Values/Guiding Principles: - Integrity: Demonstrating consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct;
- Cultural Sensitivity/Valuing diversity: Demonstrating an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrating an international outlook, appreciating differences in values and learning from cultural diversity.
Core Competencies: - Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN's values and ethical standards.
- Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNWOMEN.
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
- Treats all people fairly without displaying favoritism.
Functional Competencies: - Knowledge of the UN system, reform processes, including Delivering as One, UN Joint programming and UNDAF design , delivery, monitoring, evaluation;
- High level policy advocacy and mobilization of political commitment and resources to advance Gender Equality;
- Track record in mentoring, coaching and guiding learning programmes and professional growth of regional, national and local programme staff;
- Demonstrated competence in results-based programme conceptualisation, consultation, design and resource mobilization;
- Demonstrated ability to design, oversee and guide programme related research and knowledge product development and dissemination;
- Ability to lead and train others to develop their skills in Human Rights Based Approaches and results-based management and reporting;
- Ability to guide formulation, oversight of implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development programmes;
- Ability to convey complex and challenging norms and principles for gender equality to diverse audiences;
- Ability to engage proactively and constructively with UN colleagues, Regional organisations and key development partners working towards common development goals and results.
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