The UN Women (United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women) is recruiting for the following position:
Job Title: Programme Officer – Economic Empowerment
Location: Abuja, NIGERIA
Type of Contract: Service Contract
Post Level: SB-4
Starting Date: (date when the selected candidate is expected to start) – 14-May-2012
Duration of Initial Contract: One year
Summary of Key Functions:
• To build the capacity of women cooperatives to basic means of production
• To increase the economic potentials of women to compete within the limited
• To serve as a catalyst in order to ensure the involvement of women in mainstream development activities, as often as possible at the pre-investment stage.
• Programme Management and Implementation
• Support management of UN WOMEN
• Support the achievement of Gender Equality through Women Empowerment and reduction of violence against women.
• Research and Advocacy
• Facilitation of Knowledge Building and Information Sharing
• Facilitate capacity building for relevant stakeholders
Specific Tasks:
• Develop the proposal for the gender mainstreaming and women economic empowerment and itsimplementation framework.
• Liaise closely with the Gender Desk Officer of relevant stakeholders and institutions on empowerment of women
• Develop new proposals for funding for activities for economic empowerment and capacity building for the Nigeria police
• Support other tasks in the UN WOMEN office as assigned by supervising officer
• Propose and implement a resource mobilization strategy for possible donor support based on outcome of stakeholder consultation on programme development
• Conduct continuous analysis of the gender and economy context in Nigeria to influence the project's response to emerging economic issues affecting women.
• Undertake follow-up action on programme implementation activities and prepare relevant reports. Draft changes in programme work plans as required under the UNDAF in Akwa Ibom State
• Coordinate and Assign/undertake monitoring visits to UN WOMEN gender and economic programmes and projects sites/partners, assess local conditions and resources and monitor UN WOMEN inputs. Communicate with local counterpart authorities on project feasibility and effectiveness
• Provide overall technical and advisory oversight to the different stakeholders of the project through the focal desk officers.
• Provide overall coordination for the activities on economic empowerment of women
• Record and harmonize gender concerns and observations at the national, zonal activities on economic empowerment.
• Analyse programme implementation reports and evaluate against established programme recommendations, plans of actions and deliverables. Report outcomes of analysis and make recommendations.
• Facilitate the engagement of consultants for any activity that may required the services of consultants within the economic empowerment and capacity building for the police
• Facilitate training activities for the Nigeria police on VAWG.
• Participate in training programmes, including preparation of training materials and facilitation of sessions within UN WOMEN's programme areas
• Contribute to accurate and timely inputs for project status report required for donors, management and annual reports etc.
• Attend technical meetings with partners, prepare reports and undertake follow-up action
• Perform all other duties as may be assigned by the UN WOMEN Representative.
Core Competencies:
• Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity
• Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment
• Self-development, initiative-taking
• Acting as a team player and facilitating team work
• Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively
• Creating synergies through self-control
• Managing conflict
• Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others. Promoting learning and knowledge management/sharing is the responsibility of each staff member.
• Informed and transparent decision making
Qualifications:
The Consultant will have an advance degree in social sciences with current and relevant experience in practice or research in the area of gender equality and women economic empowerment.
Experience:
o Minimum of 2 years of professional experience, including in-depth knowledge of programming on gender equality, with profound knowledge of women's rights, gender issues and gender analysis in Nigeria;
o Experience in programme coordination and implementation;
o Previous work with UN Agencies and/or civil society organizations will be an advantage;
o Strong communication and writing skills in English are required.
How to Apply:
Interested Candidates should apply online through the website by clicking on the Apply now button. The system will prompt you to upload a CV on the next page.
Please note that instead of a CV you're required to download the UNDP Personnel History Form (P11) .
Complete it and upload when prompted.
Applications without a fully completed P11 form will not be considered.
Only applicants that are shortlisted will be contacted.
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Deadline: 02 April 2012.
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