Agency: UN Women
Title: Programme Coordinator, Women, Peace and Security
Job ID: 21345
Practice Area – Job Family: UNW Programme Team
Vacancy End Date: 28/02/2019 (Midnight New York, USA)
Time Left: 13d 15h 37m
Duty Station: Tunis, Tunisia
Education & Work Experience: I-Master’s Level Degree – 5 year(s) experience
Languages: Required:
Grade: NOC
Vacancy Type: FTA Local
Bureau: Arab States
Contract Duration: 1 Year with possibility for extension
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.
UN Women has launched a regional program “Women, Peace and Security in the Arab States” in partnership with the Government of Finland. This program seeks to leverage the global normative framework on women, peace and security to address the women’s rights and gender equality challenges faced in the region by countries both affected by crisis and transition, and those supporting communities displaced by crisis. To this end it targets Iraq and Tunisia as countries in crisis and transition, and Jordan – in its role responding to the Syria crisis.
This program intends more specifically to contribute to the creation of an enabling environment for implementation of Women Peace and Security (WPS) commitments, by addressing attitudinal and cultural biases through strong accountability frameworks and continued building of evidence based advocacy.
Under the overall guidance, direction and reporting directly to the UNWOMEN Representative fot Tunisia and Libya, the Programme Coordinator is responsible for coordinating the Finnish funded project which includes coordinating relationships with national partners and stakeholders, and the monitoring and reporting, and the finances and personnel of the portfolio.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Coordinate the Women, Peace and Security Programme
- Coordinate the overall Programme/Portfolio work plan development and implementation according to Strategic Note/ programme document;
- Liaise with the Programme Board, national counterparts, donors, UN Women and partners to ensure the Programme results are achieved and resources are managed;
- Prepare and present work-plans, periodic narrative progress reports and expenditures status reports to the Programme Board and UN Women;
- Establish systems for project planning, implementation and monitoring, in collaboration with partners;
- Record and maintain documents on relevant Programme activities, issues, and risks
Guide the coordination with national partners and other stakeholders
- Coordinate relationships with national partners to support implementation and expansion of the Women, Peace, and Security Programme/Portfolio, raise potential problems and provide solutions;
- Provide guidance to partners on establishment of performance indicators, and monitoring achievement of results;
- Identify capacity building needs and support partners through technical assistance, mentoring, training, cross-partner learning, and capacity development initiatives
Coordinate the monitoring and Reporting on the Programme in the Women, Peace and Security area
- Gather and compile all information necessary for monitoring and reporting on programmes and projects from the planning to the evaluation stages;
- Monitor the implementation of activities and the expenditure of funds by partners; conduct regular monitoring visits;
- Write annual and quarterly reports; review and coordinate the submission of implementing partner financial and narrative reports;
- Provide inputs from Women, Peace and Security programme activities and results to UN Country Office reporting.
Manage financial resources and supervise staff
- Supervise and manage a team of professional and administrative staff, review performance and mentor/ coach staff;
- Coordinate development and preparation of financial resources of the Programme including budgeting and budget revisions, and expenditure tracking and reporting;
- Oversee and monitor the allocation and disbursement of funds to participating partners.
Build partnerships and support in developing resource mobilization strategies
- Coordinate the development of partnerships and resource mobilization strategies;
- Identify potential programmatic areas of cooperation, based on strategic goals of UN Women, country needs and donors’ priorities and develop the relevant partnerships.
Advocate and facilitate knowledge building and management and communication
- Ensure documentation of the programme implementation process and products produced are in accordance with UN Women guidelines;
- Contribute to the exchange of information and knowledge products internally and externally of the programme;
- Organize major advocacy campaigns, events, trainings, workshops and knowledge products
Key Performance indicators:
- Timely and quality implementation of Programme/Portfolio activities against set workplans, timelines and budgets, in line with the Strategic Note
- Quality and timely reporting
- Strong relations with partners and stakeholders
- Regular and timely monitoring of activities
- Timely and quality implementation of advocacy events in line with work plan
- Enhanced best practices and lessons learned documented and circulated