UN Programme Officer Jobs – United Nations Women (UN WOMEN)
Job Title: Programme Officer
Organization: United Nations Women (UN WOMEN)
Duty Station: Uganda
Reports to: Coordination Specialist
About US:
The 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, the UN Women leads and coordinates the United Nations system-wide efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action. It provides strong and coherent leadership and technical advice in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
Job Summary: The Programme Officer will support the UN WOMEN through the analysis of political, social and economic trends and helping in the formulation, management, operation, humanitarian partner support and evaluation of program activities within his/her portfolio and provides advisory services to partners in local government, UN and CSOs in West Nile and Northern Uganda. Through the Coordination Specialist, provides analysis for formulation of strategies and briefings to senior management while being based in Yumbe with regular travel to the Refugee settlements in Northern Uganda. The jobholder will mainly be responsible for the following;
Tasked with the administration and implementation of humanitarianprogrammes, processes and procedures;
- Finance, administrative and monitoring and evaluation support to Humanitarian programmes;
- Advocacy support and facilitation of knowledge building and management.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Technical Support:
- Under the guidance of the supervisor, supports the organisation, coordination, monitoring and support to the activities of UN Women Humanitarian Projects in West Nile and Northern Uganda and partners in relation to the administrative implementation of the project;
- Actively participates in the formulation, design, implementation, monitoring and reporting of UN Women Humanitarian Programmes in West Nile and Northern Uganda;
- Offer technical advice and support to implementing partners and to apply lessons learnt and recommendations from project evaluation;
- Ensure quality and timely implementation of the programme, including documentation of good practices, success stories as well as high quality and timely reporting for results;
- Work in liaison with partners, monitor programme delivery and take timely corrective action as necessary, in line with UN Women policies and procedures;
- Maintain budget awareness and ensure funds are utilised in line with agreed plan and budgets. Entering projects into Atlas, finalization of contribution agreements; determination of required revisions; coordination of the mandatory and budget re-phasing exercises, closure of projects through review;
- Financial and substantive monitoring and evaluation of the projects, identification of operational and financial problems, development of solutions;
- Maintain awareness of contractual obligations with donors and ensure full compliance of reporting requirements;
- Conduct environmental policy scanning on a continuous basis for West Nile and Northern Uganda and regularly update and advise the head office accordingly.
- Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting:
- Work in close collaboration with the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist – collect, compile, analyse and share periodic data/ information on programme performance to inform continued programme efficiency and effectiveness;
- Ensure effective application of RBM tools, establishment of management targets (BSC) and monitoring achievement of results, in close collaboration with the M&E Specialist;
- Ensure that aggregate reports are regularly prepared and submitted on time.
Administrative and Miscellaneous Duties:
- Ensure all travel undertaken complies with all requirements for travel and is approved in line with the travel plan;
- Assist in writing program proposals;
- Perform any other duties as required.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal applicant for the United Nations UN WOMEN Programme Officer job opportunity must hold a Master’s Degree or equivalent in Social Sciences, especially in gender studies, Gender Based Violence or related field.
- At least five years of relevant experience at the national or international level in gender equality and women’s empowerment programming and implementation as well as providing management advisory services, hands-on experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of development projects;
- Demonstrate analytical and advocacy skills on gender equality, women’s rights and empowerment of women issues especially with regard to policy advocacy in line with security council resolution 1325, CEDAW and BFPA;
- Broad knowledge, familiarity and experience with UN inter-agency coordination processes and or results based management for advancing gender equality and women’s rights would be an asset;
- Strong links with national networks on gender equality and women’s rights in Uganda;
- Experience in capacity building, gender mainstreaming and gender auditing required;
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages, experience in handling of web based management systems.
- Language: Fluency in written and spoken English, advanced spoken level of local languages in West Nile and Northern Uganda and basic working knowledge in any of the UN working languages in Uganda.
Personal Competencies:
Functional Competencies:
Advocacy/Advancing A Policy-Oriented Agenda:
- Preparing information for advocacy;
- Identifies and communicates relevant information for a variety of audiences for advocating UN Women’s mandate.
Results-Based Programme Development and Management:
- Contributes into results through primary research and analysis;
- Assesses project performance to identify success factors and incorporates best practices into project work;
- Researches linkages across project activities to identify critical points of integration;
- Monitors specific stages of projects/programme implementation;
- Analyzes situation to identify gender and humanitarian programme opportunities in West Nile and Northern for project development and implementation;
- Participates in the formulation of project proposals and ensures substantive rigor in the design and application of proven successful approaches and drafts proposals accordingly.
Building Strategic Partnerships: Maintaining a network of contacts:
- Maintains an established network of contacts for general information sharing and to remain up-to-date on partnership related issues;
- Analyzes and selects materials for strengthening strategic alliances with partners and stakeholders, including identifying of areas for strengthening of capacities.
Resource Mobilization:
- Providing inputs to resource mobilization strategies;
- Analyzes information/databases on potential and actual donors;
- Develops a database of project profiles;
- Identifies opportunities for project proposals for presentation to donors, in close consultation with senior management.
Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing:
- Basic research and analysis;
- Generates new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things;
- Documents and analyses innovative strategies and new approaches.
Fundamental knowledge of own discipline:
- Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principles of a professional discipline or technical specialty relating to the position;
- Possesses basic knowledge of organizational policies and procedures relating to the position and applies them consistently in work tasks;
- Strives to keep job knowledge up-to-date through self-directed study and other means of learning;
- Demonstrates good knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments;
- Demonstrates in-depth understanding and knowledge of the current guidelines and project management tools and utilizes these regularly in work assignments.
Core Competencies:
- Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity;
- Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment;
- Self-development, initiative-taking;
- Acting as a team player and facilitating team work;
- Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively;
- Creating synergies through self-control;
- Managing conflict;
- Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others. Promoting learning and knowledge management/sharing is the responsibility of each staff member;
- Informed and transparent decision making.
NB: The United Nations does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (Application, interview meeting, processing, or training). The United Nations does not concern itself with information on applicants’ bank accounts.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates desiring to serve the United Nations Women (UN Women) in the aforementioned capacity should express their interest by visiting the UN recruitment website and clicking Apply Now.
Deadline: 9th June 2017