Programme Manager - Women's Economic Empowerment

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UN Women is the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide.

UN Women is the global champion for gender equality, working to develop and uphold standards and create an environment in which every woman and girl can exercise her human rights and live up to her full potential. We are trusted partners for advocates and decision-makers from all walks of life, and a leader in the effort to achieve gender equality.

Job Description

The Associate Livelihood Officer will work closely with multi-functional teams in UNHCR on matters including but not limited to protection, education, cash, partnerships, research and analytics, GBV and solutions. S/he will work with relevant external stakeholders from government line ministries, development actors, private sector, financial service providers, UN agencies, international organisations, NGOs, research institutions and universities. S/he will ensure effective implementation of livelihood projects and cash-based interventions, with the focus on strengthening the self-reliance of refugees and asylum seekers.

UNHCR is seeking candidates with demonstrated experience in livelihoods and economic inclusion of marginalized groups as well as developing and managing differentiated cash-based programming.  The candidate should be proactive, always looking for new opportunities and persuasive in mobilizing public institutions, donors and other partners around new models of economic and social inclusion.

Job Responsibilities

Oversee the programmatic development of WeEmpower India for India Country Office based on the Strategic Note:

• Advise and guide the development of WeEmpower India programme aligned with UN Women’s initiatives in WEE, including design and formulation programme initiatives;
• Provide strategic and specialized technical advice to support Programme planning, implementation, monitoring and progress reporting;
• Manage and coordinate overall programme direction, implementation, including strategy and collaborations/partnerships building, reporting, visibility, monitoring and evaluation;
• Develop and Operationalize WEPs adoption and implementation strategy with the private sector;
• Liaise with UN Women’s Ending Violence Against Women Specialist for technical guidance and collaboration on interventions around creating safe workplaces for women under the project;
• Coordinate with various thematic units within UN Women India for a convergent programme design and implementation approach.
• Review and provide feedback to ongoing projects/ programmes on related strategies and documents, workplans, case studies, and related knowledge products and publications;
• Provide strategic and specialized technical advice on the development of systems, processes and mechanisms to support programme planning, implementation, monitoring and progress reporting;
• Review and evaluate proposals and oversee the preparation of donor proposals and reports;
• Finalize policy documents, briefs and other strategic papers/ materials for the use in the development and presentation of policy and programmatic positions;
• Oversee management of implementing agencies recruited towards delivery of project activities;
• Coordinates with EU Delegation in India;
• Coordinates with WEPs Secretariat in HQ/ WEPs focal points in UN Women’s Regional Office;
• Oversight and Supervision of WEE Portfolio also to align with WeEmpower India Priorities.

Provide technical support to the implementation of the Programme:

• Provide technical advice and manage/supervise technical experts embedded in Ministries/Departments especially around work on policy advocacy, data and statistics as well as social norm change;
• Convene relevant actors required for delivery of programme results;
• Assess annual work plans and provide recommendations to assure compliance with programme goals and results based indicators;
• Analyze and ensure alignment of project budgets with logical framework matrices and work plans;
• Oversee programme quality control and identification of potential challenges;
• Ensure aligned programme plans with operations plan;
• Provide technical advice and manage technical experts embedded in Ministries/Departments especially around work on policy advocacy, data and statistics as well as social norm change;
• Liaise with UN Women’s Ending Violence Against Women Specialist for technical guidance on gender based violence.

Oversee monitoring and reporting for the Programme:

• Ensure development of programme monitoring framework (PMF) and institute monitoring mechanisms;
• Review and recommend programme monitoring standards, criteria, and other indicators for measuring and assessing progress/results;
• Oversee the monitoring of progress against  mutually agreed results frameworks and performance indicators;
• Gather information and prepare reports on progress of programme implementation for India Country Office and donors;
• Prepare technical reports;
• Provide technical support in the preparation of audits and follow up on the implementation of audit recommendations;
• Develop, coordinate and provide training on results-based management to India Country office.

Review budget management for Programme and manage people:

• Supervise, guide and oversee the work of the team to ensure the delivery of quality results according to established standards and goals;
• Perform staff performance reviews, ensure capacity development of staff members by suggesting development opportunities;
• Monitor programme financial situation to ensure adherence to delivery rates and utilization of resources to meet agreed upon targets and results;
• Ensure effective information flow, communication and coordination between offices, programmes and projects.

Build partnerships and support in developing resource mobilization strategies:

• Identify, develop and manage the diverse range of partnerships that UN Women needs to support its work on women’s economic empowerment, including for resource mobilization;
• Review and develop  partnerships and resource mobilization strategies;
• Finalize relevant documentation on donors and develop potential opportunities for resource mobilization;
• Analyze and research information on donors, prepare substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation, identification of opportunities for cost sharing;
• Determine programmatic areas of cooperation, based on strategic goals of UN Women, country needs and donors’ priorities and develop the relevant partnerships;
• Represent UN Women in relevant fora to encourage greater commitment to and collaboration on the realization of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment policies;
• Represent UN Women in UN inter-agency working groups and other high level academic and policy conferences and events to participate in strategic discussions and establish cooperation/collaboration.

Lead knowledge building and sharing efforts:

• Lead knowledge management and communications related activities;
• Lead the process of identifying and synthesizing of best practices and lessons learned that are directly linked to the implementation of the programme and contribute to their global dissemination;
• Contribute to the development of regional and global knowledge products on WEE;
• Develop and maintain relationships with academia, research and training institutes civil society and thematic technical experts, and relevant stakeholders including EU to gain and share knowledge, exchange views on current issues/trends and to incorporate cutting-edge thinking on gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.
• The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Master’s degree or equivalent in Social Sciences, Political Science, Development, Public Administration, Gender is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A project/programme management certification would be an added advantage.

Experience:

• At least 7 years of progressively responsible experience in programme management, including programme design, programme coordination, monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting and capacity building especially in the area of women’s economic empowerment.
• Strong understanding of women’s economic empowerment policy and programme landscape in India.
• Demonstrated experience of work with government on gender mainstreaming and policy advocacy especially in the area of women’s economic empowerment.
• Demonstrated experience of work with private sector on strengthening women’s economic empowerment.
• Demonstrated experience in promoting women’s decent and safe employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.
• Experience in setting priorities, budgets, work plans, participating in programme development and programme writing is required.
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.

Language Requirement:

• Fluency in English is required.
• Working knowledge of Hindi and/or other India language is desirable.
• Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable.

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