Deadline: 21 September, 2020
Location: New York, United States of America
UN Women is seeking to fill the position of Partnership and Coordination Specialist.
UN Women is the UN agency dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate civil society division’s contribution to jnter-governmental processes
- Manage and act as the lead focal point for the work on the status of women, the UN General Assembly, and other ad hoc initiatives
- Design, plan and implement IG processes, with inputs from other colleagues, including registration, liaising with UN Secretariat, and communication with civil society
- Facilitate active participation of civil society in CSW annual sessions and other high level meetings
- Build and maintain partnership with civil society
- Build and maintain relationships with civil society networks globally
- Represent UN Women/civil society division in the UN system wide NGO focal point initiatives
- Represent UN Women in conferences, panel-discussion, presentation, etc
- Coordinate the division’s work to strengthen the linkages between the global, regional and national women’s movements and normative processes, including through systems of regular outreach (both internally and externally)
- Coordinate the development and monitoring of the division’s annual Workplan
- Develop the annual workplan for the division with inputs from colleagues
- Monitor the implementation of the annual workplan and escalate issues as needed
- Develop and coordinate the division’s budget in partnership with the finance support staff and ensure a regularly updated budget review system
- Serve as focal point for the division’s risk register
Requirements
- Advanced degree or equivalent in International Affairs, Human Rights, Gender/Women’s Studies, Communications, or Development
- First degree with two years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree
- Seven years, minimum, of relevant national/international work experience
- Experience in management in a global multicultural setting
- Experience in project approvals, management and monitoring an asset
- Experience in inter-agency/multi-actor collaboration (highly desirable)
- Experience in the United Nations, multilateral or a civil society organisation (highly desirable)
- Fluency in English
- Knowledge of the other UN official working language (highly desirable)
To apply and for more information, click here.
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