UN Career Jobs – National Gender Specialist – United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Job Title: National Gender Specialist for Nationally Determined Contributions Process
Organisation: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Grade: SB4
About UNDP
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s Global Development Network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in over 170 countries, employing participatory approaches to developing local solutions to national and global development challenges. UNDP’s core vision is to help countries achieve simultaneous eradication of poverty and significant reduction of inequalities and exclusion. We do this through three main areas of work which are: (1) sustainable development (2) inclusive and effective democratic governance, and (3) climate and disaster resilience.
Job Summary: The National Gender Specialist for Nationally Determined Contributions Process will support the development of an in-depth gender analysis to better understand where women and men are situated in climate change priority sectors, the barriers for women’s empowerment and participation in contributing to each sector, and the opportunities for policy articulation to strengthen the integration of gender equality into NDC planning and implementation processes. This includes sectorial analyses, analysis of sex and gender disaggregated data for evidence-based identification of gender differences in vulnerabilities, gaps in resources, and opportunities for supporting climate change adaptation and mitigation actions. This will also include setting of programming objectives/actions in at least 2 key sectors, development of indicators, and a baseline for monitoring and reporting; multi-stakeholder consultations (interviews, surveys, working sessions, etc) and one national workshop.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
The Gender Specialist will perform the following tasks:
- Formulate a detailed methodology and work plan for the in-depth gender analysis, an approximate timeline needed to complete the study and the required technical resources.
- Conduct a desk review of the relevant climate and gender-related policies, mechanisms, institutional structures and frameworks to assess the national gender situational analysis. It will also identify priority sectors and conduct a capacity needs assessment within key climate sectors and gender machineries for gender mainstreaming in the NDC process.
- Conduct interviews, surveys, working session as part of a multi-stakeholder consultative process to key Government actors and other stakeholder groups (i.e. civil society, academia, private sector, UN Agencies) involved in the relevant climate and gender decision making and planning processes to ensure broad integration of perspectives.
- Organize a national workshop on gender integration into the NDC planning process.
- Carry out a participatory gender analysis to fully consider the different needs, roles, benefits, impacts, risks and access to/control over resources of women and men, relevant to inform the NDC implementation.
Other specific tasks:
- Identify and synthesize best practices and lessons learnt directly linked to gender equality and women’s empowerment
- Develop a Gender Action Plan for the project with annual outputs to facilitate implementation of activities that promote gender equality and women’s empowerment.
- Provide inputs to the UNDP Social and Environmental Screening Procedure including assessing potential impacts of the project on gender equality and specific activities to mitigate and/or minimize them
- Prepare communication products to increase publicity for the thematic area gender including the drafting of related success stories and updating of the Gender Equality and Women Empowerment portfolio of the project.
- Assist in analysis and research of the status of gender equality and women’s empowerment in Uganda including evolving developments, constraints, opportunities and successes.
- Identify and propose potential areas/opportunities for support and intervention by UNDP beyond the NDC for resource mobilization.
- Support the monitoring the gender equality and women’s empowerment thematic area of the NDC implementation.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Office of the United Development Programme (UNDP) National Gender Specialist job opportunity should hold a Master’s degree in any of the related areas: gender, climate change, environment, sustainable development.
- The ideal candidate for this job opportunity should have seven years of experience in relevant technical areas in climate change/environment and gender;
- Proven ability to undertake gender analysis, design relevant criteria and gender strategy;
- Demonstrated understanding of issues related to climate change/environment, NDCs, Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS), Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) .
- Experience in designing and facilitating capacity building processes;
- Previous experience in conducting research and analysis in the area of gender equality and at least one other related theme, including climate change mitigation and/or adaptation, NDC, environment and/or sustainable development.
- Demonstrated experience in designing and facilitating capacity building processes in developing countries.
- Strong understanding of the links between climate change/environment and gender issues.
- Demonstrated experience working on policy and programmatic issues with national and local governments and civil society organizations.
- Experience or strong familiarity with the work of UNDP and/or other multilateral, bilateral and civil society development partners.
- Excellent analytical, writing, and communications skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work in an independent manner
How to Apply:
All interested Ugandan nationals who wish to join the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the aforementioned capacity are encouraged to click on the link below and follow the application instructions after reviewing the job details.
Deadline: 27th February 2018
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