Deadline: 9 September 2015
The UN Women is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Programme Officer, based in New Delhi, India.
UN Women is the UN’s global entity for gender equality and women’s empowerment. It is an inter-governmental body that provides financial and technical assistance to innovative approaches aimed at fostering women’s empowerment and gender equality at global, national, regional and sub-national levels.
Key Job Responsibilities
The Programme Officer will perform the following functions-
- Management of the UN Women MCO EVAW programme;
- Management of strategic partnerships under the EVAW programme;
- Facilitation of knowledge building to enable informed programme responses;
- Providing technical support to both the programme unit on Violence against Women and UN Women management;
- Managing partnerships and extend relationships to networks from the UN community, bilaterals, national governments, NGOs in India, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka;
- Serve as the primary point of contact with the UN Women MCO partners on EVAW;
- Total responsibility of all relevant disbursement information;
- Ensure that UN Women MCO incorporates reports on progress of the grantees in their annual reports on implementation of UN Women MCO Strategy;
- At the inception of the programme, work with the grantee to prepare a Performance Monitoring Framework to clarify indicators of success, methods of baseline and data collection, and tracking requirements for the grantee;
- Review financial and narrative reports from grantees and flag areas that need attention. Total responsibility of relevant donor reports;
- Link and position grantees with overall UN Women MCO strategic results and UN Country Teams and other partners;
- Identify capacity-building and technical support needed from grantee(s);
- Support media and communication outreach for the grantee(s), Where possible, the Programme Officer facilitates grantees to reach the media and use other forms of communication to expand their reach, and/or involve them in relevant media and communications initiatives in which UN Women MCO is involved;
- Representing UN Women MCO, on the advice of the RPD, at different global / regional/ national meetings and conferences on EVAW;
- Support the resource mobilization process for UN Women MCO on EVAW;
- Facilitate documentation and advocacy processes in relation to EVAW which help to set up institutional and policy mechanisms to arrest or reduce violence against women;
- Development of partnerships with the UN Agencies, , government institutions, bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors, private sector, civil society in the specific thematic areas based on strategic goals of UN Women MCO, country needs and donors’ priorities;
- Analysis and research of information on donors, preparation of substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation, identification of opportunities for initiation of new projects, active contribution to the overall office effort in resource mobilization;
- Identification of sources of information related to policy-driven issues;
- Identification and synthesis of best practices and lessons learnt directly linked to UN Women MCO goals;
- Sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice;
- Documentation of successful initiatives under the EVAW initiatives.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Masters degree in Social Science, Social Work, Gender and Development studies or any other related field;
- Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience in the field of women / social development in strategic planning, program design and management, institutional strengthening and evaluation at the national, regional or international level;
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages, experience in handling of web based management systems;
- Fluency in English and working knowledge of the national language of the duty station.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted through online process.
For more information, please visit UN Women.
