Background

UN Ladies, grounded within the imaginative and prescient of equality, enshrined within the Constitution of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination and violence towards girls and ladies; the empowerment of girls; and the achievement of equality between men and women as companions and beneficiaries of improvement, human rights, humanitarian motion and peace and safety. Ending violence towards girls is likely one of the precedence areas that UN Ladies focuses on, globally and in Kosovo. UN Ladies possesses the worldwide and native experience to handle and fight GBV in Kosovo. As well as, as a part of UN Ladies’s complete method, they work with native companions to boost information assortment and evaluation to supply a greater understanding of the character, magnitude, and penalties of violence towards girls and ladies: information assortment and evaluation helps UN Ladies and different stakeholders perceive what works and doesn’t work to handle this GBV.

Violence In opposition to Ladies and Ladies (VAWG), Gender-Based mostly Violence (GBV), and Home Violence (DV) stay essentially the most pervasive human rights violations globally, affecting roughly 1 in 3 girls worldwide. In Kosovo, VAWG and DV persist as prevalent types of violence, predominantly impacting girls and ladies.

By this challenge “Addressing results of gender based mostly violence in Kosovo, and empowering survivors to battle stigma and communicate out” funded by the Authorities of the UK/ British Embassy in Prishtina. UN Ladies will work in partnership with 4 native NGO’s engaged on girls’s rights and gender equality. This challenge will handle stigma-based myths and prejudices amongst most people and people working in providers that help survivors, together with health-workers, police, prosecutors and judges by way of campaigns (with media protection) and different academic actions, utilizing gender transformative method instruments. Moreover, will empower survivors of GBV to actively declare their rights by way of information and entry to obtainable providers which can in the end facilitate their reintegration into the society. This will likely be executed by way of capability constructing of service suppliers and consciousness elevating actions for survivors addressing the lack of awareness survivors have on what providers can be found to them. By the multi-stakeholder engagement to ship this challenge, this can deliver societal adjustments which in flip will have an effect on authorized, political and cultural approaches to GBV.

Though there was some progress in making use of some areas of the Istanbul Conference, little or no work has been executed to handle the stigma that GBV survivors face, nor to boost consciousness of the providers obtainable to survivors, together with on entry to justice. As an alternative, the main target has been on encouraging survivors to report instances to the police, after which with little consideration to follow-up help.

Due to this fact, the challenge goals are:

• Educate and alter societal perceptions of GBV to take away its stigma and advocate for an finish to violence towards girls and ladies;
• Assist girls and ladies survivors, together with to make sure they’re conscious of of their rights, and what providers, together with judicial, can be found to them.

To help implementation of the challenge, the UN Ladies Workplace in Kosovo seeks to recruit a nationwide Mission Coordinator who will work below the direct supervision of the UN Ladies Head of Workplace. The Mission Coordinator will oversee the work of the staff, coordinate actions, and monitor and report on the implementation of challenge actions, whereas selling gender equality and the empowerment of girls below current partnerships and in shut collaboration with and in synergy with UN businesses, nationwide actors, civil society, and strategic companions.

Duties and Obligations

Abstract of Key Capabilities:

Underneath the supervision of the UN Ladies Head of Workplace in Kosovo, the Mission Coordinator will likely be liable for:

• Administration of challenge implementation and supervision of the Mission staff;
• Collaborate with related authorities and embassy officers;
• Managing the supply of technical help and capability improvement to challenge companions;
• Strategic partnerships and advocacy help;
• Managing the monitoring and reporting of the challenge;
• Managing the human and monetary assets of the challenge;
• Drafting Letters of Settlement, challenge plans, budgets; put together Phrases of Reference for nationwide and worldwide consultants, specialists/ establishments, and CSOs; and supervising and evaluating their efficiency in delivering required outputs;
• Endeavor shut supervision of consultancies which can be commissioned by the challenge, and troubleshoot as wanted;
• Participating in high quality management of visibility and communication supplies ready below the challenge, akin to coaching supplies, manuals, research, analyses, studies, visuals, and related, in step with company and donor visibility pointers;
• Preparation of periodic challenge progress updates, and analytical, progress and different studies, in step with company and donor necessities;
• Creating and updating quarterly work plans and expenditure plans based mostly on the agreed annual work-plan;
• Contributing to coordination on gender equality to attain coherence and alignment of UN Ladies programmes with companions within the nation;
• Managing advocacy, information constructing, and communication efforts;
• Correct identification of and follow-up with all related counterparts;
• Guaranteeing that challenge documentation/communication is correct, a monitoring system is in place for efficient challenge monitoring and closure, and human assets adjustments on the challenge are anticipated;
• Offering programmatic and technical help to the UN Ladies workplace, as assigned.
• The Mission Coordinator studies to the Head of Workplace.

1. Handle the day-to-day implementation of the challenge

• Develop detailed implementation plan and for the challenge and be liable for the day-to-day implementation of actions.
• Assessment programme annual work plans to guarantee compliance with the challenge targets and results-based indicators.
• Guarantee coordination and linkages of the challenge throughout actions and different ongoing initiatives by different actors on the nation degree and within the area.
• Construct and handle relationships with nationwide companions to help implementation and enlargement of the programme;
• Assess and coordinate acceptable implementation technique within the execution of actions;
• Present technical help to UN Ladies and implementing companions in addition to consultants and collaborators, in direction of the achievement of supposed outcomes;
• Flag in a well timed method problems with strategic concern and search recommendation from workplace administration to find acceptable options;
• Present programmatic and technical help to UN Ladies together with for the workplace annual workplan, technique paperwork, briefs, coverage dialogue and different paperwork associated to gender equality, as deemed obligatory.

2. Handle the human and monetary assets of the challenge

• Handle the challenge’s monetary assets in full compliance with UN Ladies guidelines and laws;
• Monitor the challenge finances repeatedly and interact in finances revisions, in addition to in expenditure monitoring and reporting in accordance with UN Ladies guidelines and laws and donor necessities and make finances re-alignments/revisions, as obligatory;
• Supervise and coordinate with the challenge staff;
• Mobilize certified nationwide and worldwide specialists which can be wanted for the challenge actions; draft Phrases of Reference for consultants and supervise and consider their efficiency in delivering required deliverables on the anticipated high quality;
• Monitor the allocation and disbursement of funds to implementing companions, if related;
• Present inputs and clarifications associated to preparation of monetary studies to the donor;
• Handle programme information and help info assortment and dissemination: guarantee challenge documentation (submitting) and communication is correctly executed, and monitoring system is in place for efficient challenge closure;
• Guarantee efficient info circulate, communication, and coordination throughout the workplace, between programmes, initiatives, and operations.

3. Handle the results-based monitoring and reporting of the challenge

• Apply results-based administration (RBM) instruments in establishing administration targets and monitoring achievement of outcomes;
• Handle the monitoring of mutually agreed outcomes frameworks and efficiency indicators;
• Monetary and substantive monitoring of challenge actions, identification of operational and monetary issues, improvement of options;
• Undertake monitoring missions to make sure well timed supply and high quality of outcomes and put together studies on monitoring missions;
• Present inputs to the workplace Quarterly Monitoring Reviews (progress towards deliberate actions and outputs) in addition to annual reporting;
• Put together and coordinate inputs for the mid-term evaluate;
• Handle the submission of implementing companions’ monetary and narrative studies as wanted; make sure that progress studies from accountable events are correctly monitored in step with challenge outputs and timeline earlier than approving;
• Determine capability constructing wants of companions and lead the coordination of technical help, mentoring, coaching, and capability improvement initiatives to companions;
• Put together programme staff for audits and monitor implementation of audit suggestions, as obligatory.

4. Present substantive inputs to advocacy, information constructing, and communication efforts for the challenge

• Handle the implementation of the communication and visibility plan of the challenge in step with visibility pointers and requirements of the donor (UK) and UN Ladies;
• Contribute to creating advocacy methods and oversee their implementation;
• Develop background paperwork, challenge summaries, convention papers, briefing notes, and shows associated to the challenge;
• Coordinate and set up advocacy campaigns, occasions, trainings, workshops, and information merchandise in cooperation with Communications, Programme and Operations Items of collaborating companions;
• Finalize related documentation on donors and potential alternatives for useful resource mobilization;
• Present inputs to project-related merchandise, together with updates to varied stakeholders and the donor, as requested.

5. Construct partnerships and contribute to coordination on Gender Equality

• Develop and implement partnership methods to contribute to the general aim and outcomes of the challenge;
• Coordinate with different UN businesses, authorities departments, donors, and CSOs to make sure the challenge’s capability improvement element is harmonized and aligned with different in-country efforts;
• Foster shut collaboration with the Ministry of Justice, Kosovo Police, Kosovo Institute for Public Administration, Line Ministries, Company for Gender Equality, Social Staff, Well being Staff, Ladies Civil Society organizations, youth networks and media;
• Contribute to donor coordination with related improvement and integration actors, as requested;
• On a steady foundation, talk progress and coordinate with the embassy of UK in Kosovo in addition to with different UN Ladies workplaces implementing related interventions;
• Symbolize UN Ladies in nationwide and worldwide fora, as requested by the UN Ladies Head of Workplace.

Every other duties and duties as assigned.

Influence of Outcomes

The change that the challenge expects to see is that GBV stigma for ladies survivors in Kosovo is eliminated and that ladies GBV survivors have the information to grasp their rights and be capable to entry providers.

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Variety
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies:

• Consciousness and Sensitivity
• Accountability
• Inventive Downside Fixing and Determination Making
• Efficient communication and Inclusive collaboration
• Actively promotes gender equality throughout Mission Actions
• Shows cultural, gender, faith, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptableness
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Main by Instance

Please go to this hyperlink for extra info on UN Ladies’s Core Values and Competencies – https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf?la=en&vs=637

Required Expertise and Expertise

Schooling and certification:

• Grasp’s diploma or equal in Gender/Ladies’s Research, Improvement Research, Human Rights, Public Coverage, Regulation, Public Administration, Social Research, or intently associated fields.
• A primary-level college diploma (BA) together with two further years of qualifying expertise could also be accepted in lieu of the superior college diploma (MA).

Expertise:

• At the very least two (2) years’ expertise with Masters diploma or 4 years of progressive expertise with Bachelor’s Diploma in programme administration, together with programme design, coordination, monitoring and analysis, and donor reporting of internationally funded initiatives with a concentrate on gender equality and girls’s empowerment.
• Expertise in offering technical help and capability constructing on gender equality and girls’s empowerment on the central and native degree is required;
• In-depth information of the authorized and coverage framework on gender equality and worldwide devices and mechanisms, and thorough understanding of gender inequalities and the standing of girls within the nation;
• A strong observe file of main groups successfully;
• Confirmed potential to coordinate, work, and construct and preserve strategic partnerships with public establishments, improvement and integration actors, donors, and civil society organizations;
• Earlier work expertise with the UN System, and embassies is taken into account an asset;

Language Necessities:

• Wonderful proficiency in Albanian and English, is required.
• Information of Serbian is taken into account an asset.

Different expertise

• Wonderful pc expertise, pc literacy: Microsoft Home windows, proficient use of processing instruments akin to Microsoft Workplace package deal (Phrase, Excel, and PowerPoint)

Utility Directions:

All candidates should full a PERSONAL HISTORY FORM (P-11). Failure to reveal prior employment or making false representations on this kind will likely be grounds for withdrawal of additional consideration of his/her utility or termination, the place the appointment or contract has been issued.

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