Jobs in Egypt - Country Representative at UN Women

Country Representative at UN Women

Location: Maadi

Deadline: 22-Aug-2019

Job Description:

Identify development planning and programme needs, opportunities and approaches to strengthen UN Women country presence and relevance;
Lead the design, planning, formulation, preparation and development of the Country Strategic Note;
Participate in the regional programme strategy and provide advice to the Executive Director, Regional Director and Senior Management on the strategy, direction and planning of programmes and projects;
Manage and ensure the quality of results-based and rights-based programming through the formulation of programme goals and objectives, the development of strategies and implementation of frameworks in line with corporate guidelines and consistent with corporate policies and strategies;
Monitor the use of results-based management approach to programme planning and design.

2. Lead the management of the Egypt CO:

Lead the office in the delivery of operational goals;
Lead the preparation, submission of the Annual Workplan and budget and oversee the implementation, including providing direction, guidance and technical support;
Oversee and approve programme work plans and monitor the overall progress and compliance of the CO;
Approve the optimum and appropriate allocation and use of resources;
Lead and manage the preparation of UN Women mandated country reports;
Manage the CO’s collaboration with audit review and timely response to audit reports;
Supervise the development and implementation on CO communication plans, based on UN Women’s communication strategy;
Provide managerial direction, guidance and leadership to staff and provide performance feedback and coaching to staff under supervision;
Maintain and update CO security strategy, plan, and measures to ensure full compliance with UN security policies, procedures and requirements.

3. Represent UN Women in UN system coordination:

Serve as member of the UN Country Team (UNCT) and support the UNCT programming and advocacy to ensure gender equality and women’s empowerment issues are fully integrated into UN programming processes, including the Comprehensive Country Assessment (CCA)and UNDAF;
Provide leadership and guidance to the UNCT in supporting enhanced response to national partners in advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment and UN reform;
Support the coordination and promotion of accountability with the UN Resident Coordinator System to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment and UN reform;
Advise the UNCT on the implementation of key policy commitments to gender and women’s rights;
Partner with RC and UN system partners to strengthen UN system interagency coherence, collaboration, cooperation resource mobilization, advocacy, common services, and operations;
Actively seek out participation of UN Women in UN system thematic and other working groups to establish effective networks and keep abreast of ongoing debates and thinking on development;
Facilitate joint programming and promote UN competencies to advance gender equality and women’s human rights.

4. Represent UN Women and lead advocacy strategies:

Represent UN Women in intergovernmental forums, public information/relations events and key meetings, participate in policy dialogue; discuss policy initiatives, report on progress achieved and/or present policy papers/ideas;
Meet with high level and senior government officials as well as multi-lateral, bi-lateral agencies and NGOs;
Participate in regional, country and other critical meetings and events to evaluate the impact and efficiency of UN Women policies and programmes and provide input in strategic discussions;
Lead and support advocacy for gender equality and women’s empowerment to ensure that UN support towards realization of the national plans and priorities are done in a gender responsive manner, and within agreed international frameworks that promote and protect gender equality.

5. Create and maintain strategic partnerships and lead resource mobilization strategies:

Lead the conceptualization, design and implementation of CO’s resource mobilization strategies;
Establish and maintain relations with government, partners, stakeholders and donors to achieve active collaboration, cooperation and alliances on programme development and implementation and resource mobilization;
Maximize partnership opportunities to mobilize resources;
Review donor reports for quality assurance and compliance;
Establish a reporting accountability framework to ensure that donors are duly informed on a timely basis;
Negotiate and/or approve cost-sharing agreements with donors.

6. Knowledge management, innovation and capacity building:

Promote critical thinking and innovative approaches and good practices in CO’s programming and operations to maximize efficiency and achieve concrete and sustainable results;
Approve the implementation of innovation and best practices in the CO to ensure optimum efficiency and efficacy in programming and operations;
Promote learning and development by providing opportunities for training and capacity guiding to enhance the competencies/productivity of staff members;
Lead the production of knowledge product

Job Requirements:

Education:

Master’s degree or equivalent in development related disciplines, economics or public policy or other social science fields.

Experience:

A minimum of 10 years of extensive development experience that combines strategic and managerial leadership in aid development cooperation, some of which in gender and women’s issues programming, at the international level, preferably in developing countries within the UN system, Agencies, Funds or Programs or UN Mission;
Field based experience working with multi-cultural teams;
Experience in leading a team.

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To Apply:
https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=86806

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