Gender Statistics Specialist

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Mission and objectives

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. Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
UN Women South Sudan has developed a Strategic Note for the period 2019 – 2021 which is focused on three strategic areas, as follows:
1) Global norms and standards;
2). Ending Violence against Women and Girls
3) Women Peace, Security and Humanitarian action

Context

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the Monitoring and Reporting Specialist and overall guidance from Deputy Country Representative, the IUNV Gender and Statistics Specialist will be responsible for providing technical guidance and support to UN Women South Sudan Office, in ensuring the effective planning, implementing, managing and reporting of gender and statistics in South Sudan Office

Task description

The following are the detailed duties and responsibilities of the UN Gender and Statistics Specialist:
1. Design and develop programme strategies in the area of Gender Statistics:
• Design and formulate programme/ project proposals and initiatives.
• Draft inputs to country strategy documents, briefs, policy dialogue and other documents related to Gender Statistics.
2. Manage technical assistance and capacity development to project/programme partners:
• Build and manage relationships with national partners to support implementation and expansion of the Gender Statistics programme. respond to any potential problems.
• Facilitate coordination mechanisms of the project by providing technical assistance.
• Provide technical assistance in the capacity development initiatives to implementing partners.
3. Contribute to gender data in the monitoring and reporting of the programmes/projects:
• Contribute to gender data in monitoring of programme/ project implementation using results-based management tools.
• Review quarterly reports and donor reports, focusing on results, output and outcomes. with a focus on enriching the reports with relevant gender data.
• Contribute to office donor and UN Women reports.
4. Build partnerships and support in developing resource mobilization strategies:
• Develop and manage the partnerships including National Bureau of Statics in South Sudan, donors, international agencies, civil society and philanthropic organizations and the private sector.
• Strengthen UN Women’s partnerships with key regional and national stakeholders, including NBS, UN agencies, civil society organizations and other data collecting organizations in the country in order to present a wide range of relevant data on gender equality and women’s rights to contribute to the regional and thematic monitoring of SDGs, other publications and other associated communications materials.
• Participate and/or represent UN Women in regional inter-agency statistical forums.
• Develop and implement partnerships and resource mobilization strategies.
• Provide inputs in relevant documentation on donors and potential opportunities for resource mobilization.
• Analyse and research information on donors, prepare substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation, identification of opportunities for cost sharing.
5. Contribute to inter-agency coordination to achieve a coherent and aligned presence for Gender Statistics in South Sudan:
• Provide technical inputs to technical inter-agency discussions related to SDGs indicators and monitoring in the region.
• Participate and/or represent UN Women in national inter-agency statistical forums.
6. Manage advocacy, knowledge management and communication efforts:
• Develop and review background documents, briefs and presentations related to the Gender Statistics.
• Represent UN Women in meetings and policy dialogues on issues related to Gender Statistics as necessary.
• Develop advocacy strategies and oversee their implementation.
• Identify best practices and lessons learned to guide project improvement and strategy planning.
• Develop knowledge management strategies, products and methodologies on Gender Statistics.