Job Title: UN Women Deputy Representative, (Programme and Operations)
Job ID: 36652
Job Location: Abuja, NIGERIA
Organisation: United Nations Development Programme – UNDP Nigeria
Type of Contract: FTA International
Post Level: P-4
Languages Required: English
Duration of Initial Contract: One Year
Background: – 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. – Placing women's rights at the centre of all its efforts, the UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States' priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
Duties and Responsibilities: – The Deputy Representative is supervised by the Country or Multi-Country Representative who provides strategic guidance and direction to the incumbent. The Deputy Representative supports the Representative in the overall management of the CO/MCO. The incumbent is responsible for substantially contributing to the design, implementation, management and oversight of the country/multi-country programme and to the operations supporting its implementation to ensure effective and efficient delivery of results as planned in UN Women's Strategic Plan and the Multi/Country Office's plans. – The incumbent is expected to bring innovative thinking which fits and adapts to the changing environment to the strategic development of the programme portfolio, and to help raise resources to fund it. He/she also plays a key role in ensuring effective use and management of UN Women resources (material, financial and human) in compliance with UN women programming and operational policies and regulations .
Education:
• Advanced university degree in international development, public administration, public policy or other relevant social science fields.
Experience:
• A minimum of seven years of relevant professional experience that combines intellectual, strategic and managerial leadership in development programmes with a strong focus in the area of gender equality and women's empowerment at the international level, preferably in developing countries within the UN system, Agencies, Funds or Programmes.
• Several years field-based experience working with multi-cultural teams required.
• Experience with programme management tools and platforms used by the UN system, including familiarity with ATLAS or a similar enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is highly desirable.
Language:
• Proficiency in written and spoken English. Knowledge of another UN working language is desirable.
Application:
• 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.
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