UN Women are hiring a Regional Gender and Humanitarian Specialist for West and Central Africa

Organizational Context

UN Women works to eliminate discrimination against women and girls, building on the vision of equality enshrined in the United Nations Charter. female empowerment. and achieving the equality of women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian assistance, peace and security.
As a partner and beneficiary of humanitarian aid, UN Women is committed to the equality of women, men, boys and girls. The impact of conflict is often measured in casualties. Women and girls are at increased risk due to displacement, collapse of normal protection structures and support, and gender-based violence. In May 2015, UN Women addressed gender in the humanitarian response and established the Humanitarian Response and Crisis Response Office in 2017 to play an advocacy, coordination and capacity-building role to integrate gender equality into the humanitarian response. strengthened. 

In November 2021, UNWOMEN adopted a new Humanitarian Strategy (2022-2025). The goal of UN-Women’s humanitarian work is to ensure effectiveness in addressing gender needs, work across the humanitarian development and peace continuum, and embody a two-pronged approach. (i) Support gender mainstreaming in coordinating, planning, prioritizing and financing humanitarian assistance in the immediate aftermath of emergencies and humanitarian crises; ii) Contribute to the long-term restoration and protection of women’s and girls’ rights in emergencies and protracted crises through a nexus approach using the LEAP framework.

UNWOMEN works closely with UN system partners, national agencies and civil society organizations to ensure accountability and coherence in its commitment to gender equality in the humanitarian response. UN Women works with gender equality institutions and organizations, from grassroots to intergovernmental organizations, to strengthen their standing and capacity as advocates for gender equality in humanitarian response, recovery and beyond.

About the portfolio/ thematic area

The number of people affected by humanitarian situations globally increased from 52 million in 2014 to almost 132 million in 2019 [1]. Most of this population (at least 22 million) lives in West and Central Africa with a range of humanitarian priorities, including climate shocks, armed conflict, terrorism, epidemics and food insecurity due to natural disasters. Masu. The increase in terrorist attacks by Boko Haram in the Sahel region has created new complications for the region.

West and Central Africa face numerous conflict situations (Central African Republic, Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Mali, Democratic Republic of the Congo), with more than 10.7 million refugees and internally displaced persons receiving life-saving assistance and assistance. need protection. Women, girls and children make up the bulk of this population. Post-conflict, state and non-state civilian infrastructure and services have been systematically destroyed or shut down. Lack of access to lifesaving and medical care, and insecurity due to displacement, increase women’s safety and protection. Violence, particularly rape and violence against women, and precarious conditions exacerbate existing gender inequalities, putting women at risk of increased violence in their homes and communities. Regarding terrorism in West and Central Africa, women in many countries are afraid to let their daughters go to school, public places or markets for fear of being kidnapped, the latter being severely traumatized. there is This escalation of violence raises protection issues for internally displaced persons, vulnerable people and refugees, as women, girls and children are often targeted as part of Boko Haram’s new conflict strategy. 

Municipalities and individuals in the affected areas are crisis resilient and have already survived many crises of different types over the last few decades. Life-saving humanitarian aid is essential to absorb the impact of these socks and must continue.
The Sahelian countries have faced successive political and humanitarian crises for many years. This situation makes the Sahelian countries increasingly vulnerable to disasters and humanitarian emergencies.
Under the direct supervision of the Regional Policy Advisor for Peace, Security and Humanitarian Relief, Gender Humanitarian Experts contribute to the effective implementation of the United Nations Humanitarian Strategy for Women and Disaster Risk Reduction Programs in West and Central Africa. Scope of gender equality and humanitarian responsibility will be agreed with incumbents as appropriate.

[1] https://www.unocha.org/es/node/951883Duties and Responsibilities

Functions

Provide technical support to Country Office teams to develop programmes on humanitarian action:

• Manage the development of integrated strategies for providing technical assistance, policy advocacy and program support in the region.
• Manages the development of local humanitarian response program documentation.
• Oversees the contextualization/localization of program documents, national strategies and knowledge products to ensure proper oversight and reporting of humanitarian action programs.
• Provide technical assistance to conscientious objectors at GIHA to ensure coherence between conscientious objectors’ responses to emergencies and protracted crises and UN
• Women’s global strategies and policies.
• Assist in the development of national Humanitarian Needs Profiles (ENTs) and contributions to Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs).

Lead the design of humanitarian action programmes in the region and the development of relevant knowledge products:

• Lead the provision of policy recommendations and guidance for strategic planning and positioning on gender issues and the humanitarian response.
• Guides and advises regional/national committees. United Nations women’s representatives in inter-ministerial groups that influence policies related to the humanitarian response.
• She leads the research, development, and presentation of analytical reports, research papers, briefing notes, background material, summaries, communications, and issues on humanitarian action.
• She identifies promising practices, technical expertise and strategic opportunities.

Lead the provision of technical support to Country Office teams and partners:

• Provide gender expertise to relevant interagency and intergovernmental fora, clusters and interagency coordination mechanisms. Working with the UN Women office and her UN
• Women partners to contribute to gender equality, humanitarian response and gender tool development/adaptation and training/mentoring.
• Lead country office program teams in the development and enhancement of policies, projects/programs and methodologies. and ensure proper monitoring. Develop, implement and monitor development efforts.
• CO Programs/Projects She leads the provision of technical policy advice to managers/experts. Provides emergency planning and coordination support to country offices to strengthen UNW’s humanitarian emergency response.
• Assist country offices in rapid data collection/assessment in the event of a sudden emergency and provide information to humanitarian/emergency services as required.

Establish and strengthen strategic partnerships with stakeholders, regional/ international actors:

• Build and strengthen strategic partnerships to advance the gender equality and humanitarian action agenda and gender equality.
• Establish and strengthen close links with relevant donors and other stakeholders to support efforts to improve gender equality and humanitarian delivery.
• GiHA technical advisory capacity to UN-led humanitarian and coordination mechanisms.
• Support strengthened multi-agency partnerships with United Nations and international NGO humanitarian actors.

Manage the resource mobilization strategy for humanitarian action in the region.

• Participate in the implementation, monitoring and regular updating of the resource mobilization strategy for humanitarian action in the region.
• Provide technical support to field personnel in the region to mobilize resources for humanitarian response.
• Research and analyze information about donors.

Manage the advocacy of humanitarian action through inter-agency coordination.

• Work closely with and advise regional/national agencies and interagency groups that influence policy related to humanitarian response.
• Participate in and contribute to regional humanitarian clusters.
• Coordinate regional GIHA teams and provide technical expertise to gender groups in different countries.
• Coordinate specific efforts to mainstream gender and protection in other clusters and related working groups;
• Facilitate the participation of local organizations and civil society networks in humanitarian coordination mechanisms.

Manage advocacy and communication efforts of humanitarian action

• During emergency response, you will develop and implement communication and advocacy messages and contribute to strategies on key gender and conservation issues;
  Prepare information, education and communication (IEC) materials, press releases, situation reports and alerts, and provide gender and protection-related inputs to documents produced by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
  Manage knowledge building and sharing to increase women’s contributions to humanitarian planning processes:
  Identify best practices and lessons learned to support regional and country offices in improving humanitarian programming and strategic planning.
  Ensure that technical skills and knowledge are shared within and between country offices.
  Innovative approaches to managing and monitoring regional knowledge platforms and gender and humanitarian action;
• Collect information at the regional level, including regional mechanisms and reports as appropriate.
  Provide strategic information and draft briefings and policy briefs on humanitarian emergencies in the region.

Key Performance Indicators

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies:

• Mindfulness and perceptivity Regarding Gender Issues
• Responsibility
• Creative Problem working
• Effective Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Leading by Example

Functional Competencies

• Strong knowledge and experience related to current programs and practices in the fields of gender equivalency, protection and philanthropic action and collaboration.
• Strong knowledge of the region
• Strong networking chops
• Capability to interact with benefactors, identify and dissect trends, openings and pitfalls to fundraising.
• Capability to perform qualitative and quantitative policy exploration.
• Capability to endorse and give policy advice.
• Strong logical chops.
• Capability to write policy papers, speeches, briefings.
• Strong knowledge of programme development, perpetration, results- grounded operation and reporting

Required Skills and Experience

Education and certification

• Master’s degree or original in mortal rights, gender, transnational relations, transnational development, transnational law or other social wisdom fields is needed.
• A first– position university degree in combination with two fresh times of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A design/ programme operation instrument( similar as PMP ®, PRINCE2 ®, or MSP ®) would be an added advantage.

Experience

• At least 7 times of precipitously responsible experience in designing and managing philanthropic programmes, with a particular focus on gender and protection in extremities and recovery
• Specialized experience ininter-agency collaboration, rather protection cluster collaboration, and/ or ProCap/ GenCap in a philanthropic setting;
• Experience in policy analysis and strategic planning;
• Experience working with, and erecting hookups with governments, benefactors and civil society associations internationally and in the field;
• Experience working with the UN is an asset;
• Experience working in the region is an asset

Language requirements

• Fluency in French and English (both oral and written) is required ;
• Knowledge of the other UN official working language is an asset;

Application

All operations must include( as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form( P- 11) which can be downloaded from https//www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About20Us/Employment/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form.doc. Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment. operations without the completed UN Women P- 11 form will be treated as deficient and won’t be considered for farther assessment.

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Closng date : 14 Sept 2023