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Programme Officer - Private Sector & Employment - Women's Economic Empowerment
Organization: UN Women
Apply By: 05 Sep 2024
Location: New Delhi(Delhi)
About the Organization
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
Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment is an essential element of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – the roadmap to a more equal, just, peaceful, and sustainable world. The Women’s Economic Empowerment Portfolio in India focusses on strengthening women’s economic rights and agency while creating an enabling environment for decent and safe employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for women in all their diversity. UN Women is implementing European Union (EU) funded WeEmpower India programme to advance women’s economic empowerment in India. By promoting decent and safe economic opportunities, policy advocacy, and collaborative efforts including towards addressing discriminatory social norms, the project aims to create positive change for women and girls in all their diversity. The project envisions following result areas:
- Increased access to safe and decent economic opportunities for women and girls in all their diversity.
- Enhanced gender transformative policies and decision- making processes to improve women’s access to safe and decent employment and entrepreneurship.
- Positive gender norms that enable and increase women’s participation in economic and social life promoted.
The project adopts a three-pronged approach to deliver on results:
Promoting Economic Opportunities:
- Enable adoption and implementation of Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) by private companies to strengthen women’s effective participation and leadership in formal work /sector.
- Link women and girls to safe and decent jobs in high-potential sectors like clean energy and STEM fields.
- Strengthen women’s entrepreneurship through providing mentorship and networking opportunities, entrepreneurial and digital skills, access to /matchmaking with investors, as well as addressing barriers hindering access to markets and finance through gender lens investing approaches.
- Creating safe working spaces for women in Textile Supply Chain by addressing gender-based violence and harassment in predominate textile cluster.
Gender-Responsive Policies and Decision-Making:
- Foster dialogues with institutional stakeholders at central and local levels.
- Strengthen statistical capacity to fill data gaps related to SDG 5 (gender equality).
- Utilize data for informed policy and program decisions.
Collective Agenda-Setting and Norm Shifting:
- Engage partners (government, CSOs, private sector, EU Financing Institutions, EU Member States).
- Facilitate information sharing, synergies, and alliances for gender action.
- Challenge gender norms in areas relevant to the broader EU-India partnership agenda.
Reporting to Programme Manager, WEE, the Programme Officer contributes to the effective management of WeEmpower India by providing substantive inputs to programme design, formulation, implementation and evaluation. The Programme Officer guides and facilitates the delivery of UN Women programmes by monitoring results achieved during implementation and ensuring appropriate application of systems and procedures and develops enhancements if necessary. The Programme Officer works in close collaboration with the programme and operations team, UN Women HQ personnel, Government officials, multi and bi-lateral donors and civil society ensuring successful UN Women programme implementation under portfolio. The Programme Officer leads a team of 4 personnel (1 SC, 3 consultants).
Job Responsibilities
Contribute technically to the development of programme strategies in Women’s Economic Empowerment focused on Private Sector and Employment:
- Lead and contribute technically to the development of project strategies in the areas of private sector engagement through Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) and women’s employment;
- Provide substantive inputs to the design and formulation of programme/ project proposals and initiatives;
- Identify areas for support and intervention related to the programme.
- Provide substantive technical support to the implementation and management of the WeEmpower India programme with a focus on Private Sector and Employment:
Lead the implementation of programme activities;
- Provide substantive technical support to the implementation and management of WEPs engagement with private sector companies as well as enabling women’s access to decent and safe employment;
- Manage implementing agencies including CSOs recruited to deliver on project activities;
- Provide technical inputs to the annual workplan and budget;
- Lead the coordination of the call/request for proposals, including the organization of technical review committees, and capacity assessment of partners;
- Maintain relationships with stakeholders to support implementation and expansion of the private sector engagement and employment component.
Provide technical assistance and capacity development to project/programme partners:
- Lead in development and delivery of technical trainings to facilitate WEPs implementation;
- Work closely with technical experts on gender data and statistics as well as coordinate and provide technical knowledge on relevant data parameters pertaining to women’s participation and leadership in formal employment/ corporate sector as well as other relevant SDG indicators;
- Coordinate and provide technical support in the implementation of programme activities; Develop technical knowledge products;
- Maintain relationships with national partners to support implementation and expansion of the WeEmpower India programme;
- Identify opportunities for capacity building of partners and facilitate technical/ programming support and trainings to partners, as needed.
Provide technical inputs to the monitoring and reporting of the programme/ project:
- Monitor progress of implementation of activities and finances using results based management tools;
- Draft reports on monitoring missions, programme results s, outputs and outcomes;
- Provide substantive inputs to the preparation of donor and UN Women reports;
- Train partners on Results Based Management and monitor implementation;
- Review, coordinate and monitor the submission of implementing partner financial and narrative reports.
Provide substantive technical inputs to the management of people and finances of the programme:
- Monitor budget implementation and make budget re-alignments/ revisions, as necessary;
- Provide substantive inputs to financial reports;
- Supervise Programme Associates and Assistant.
Provide substantive inputs to building partnerships and resource mobilization strategies:
- Provide substantive inputs to resource mobilization strategies; analyze and maintain information and databases;
- Prepare relevant documentation such as project summaries, conference papers, briefing notes, speeches, and donor profiles;
- Participate in donor meetings and public information events, as delegated.
Provide technical support to inter-agency coordination on Women’s Economic Empowerment to achieve coherence and alignment of UN Women programmes with other partners in the country:
- Provide technical support to inter-agency coordination on private sector engagement through WEPs and employment to achieve coherence and alignment of UN Women programmes with other UN agencies as well as stakeholders;
- Provide substantive technical support to the Programme Manager, Representative and Deputy Representative on inter-agency coordination related activities by drafting background reports and briefs.
Provide substantive inputs to advocacy, knowledge building and communication efforts:
- Provide substantive inputs to advocacy, knowledge building and communication efforts including organizing events, trainings;
- Coordinate the development of knowledge products on private sector engagement through WEPs towards larger goal of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment;
- Support knowledge management and communications related activities;
- Develop background documents, briefs and presentations related to WEE;
- Coordinate and organize advocacy campaigns, events, trainings, workshops and knowledge products;
- Coordinate the development of knowledge management methodologies, and products on WEE.
Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience
- Master’s degree or equivalent in social sciences, human rights, gender/women's studies, international development, or a related field 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 2 years of progressively responsible work experience in development programme/project implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting and capacity building is required espeically in the area of women’s economic empowerment.
- Experience in the area of Women’s Economic Empowerment is required.
- Demonstrated experience of work with private sector on strengthening women’s economic empowerment.
- Demonstrated experience in promoting women’s decent and safe employment opportunities especially in formal employment.
- Experience coordinating and liaising with government agencies and/or donors is desirable.
- 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.
- Experience in the use of a modern web-based ERP System, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable.
Language Requirements:
- Fluency in English is required.
- Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable (French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish).
- Working knowledge of Hindi and/or other India language is desirable.
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