Programme Specialist - Gender Coordination, NPSA 10

The Programme Specialist supports the Resident Coordinator and UN Country Team in Namibia to integrate gender equality and women's empowerment across UN Cooperation Framework implementation, coordination, accountability, partnerships, and joint initiatives. The role provides gender analysis, policy advice, technical support, and facilitates access to UN Women regional expertise to strengthen gender mainstreaming and system-wide accountability.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality gender analysis, policy advice and strategic support to the RC, RCO and UNCT.
• Coordinate or contribute to gender analysis, including Country Gender Equality Profiles/Briefs and other analytical products using sex-disaggregated and gender-sensitive data.
• Prepare policy briefs, talking points, background notes and other strategic products to inform UNCT engagement, advocacy and policy dialogue on gender equality.
• Support the UNCT to draw on relevant national, regional and international normative commitments including CEDAW, Beijing Platform for Action, CSW, 2030 Agenda and Women, Peace and Security commitments.
• Facilitate access by the RC/RCO and UNCT to specialized technical expertise from UN Women ESARO and global teams.
• Provide technical support to integrate gender equality across the CCA and Cooperation Framework cycle including planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluations and reporting.
• Support rigorous gender analysis in CCA updates and review Cooperation Framework results and joint programmes from a gender perspective.
• Support Results Groups and other UNCT mechanisms to mainstream gender equality in their workplans and reporting.
• Identify opportunities for joint UN programming, advocacy, analysis/data and resource mobilization advancing gender equality.
• Provide substantive and secretariat support to the Gender Theme Group including workplan implementation and meetings.
• Support the UNCT-SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard reporting cycle and implementation of resulting action plans.
• Support application and quality assurance of the Gender Equality Marker in Joint Work Plans and UN INFO.
• Support capacity development for UNCT members and partners on gender mainstreaming and related priorities.
• Promote coherence between gender equality and other cross-cutting UNCT priorities such as Leave No One Behind, human rights, disability inclusion, youth and PSEA.
• Support strategic engagement with government institutions, women’s rights organizations, civil society, youth, persons with disabilities, development partners and other stakeholders.
• Support coordinated UNCT contributions to national and intergovernmental processes on gender equality.
• Support development of common UN advocacy messages and joint initiatives on priority gender equality issues.
• Promote meaningful engagement of women’s rights and women-led organizations in Cooperation Framework implementation and policy dialogue.
• Work with RCO partnerships and UN Women ESARO to identify opportunities for joint resource mobilization and financing for gender equality priorities.
• Provide gender inputs to partnership, financing and joint resource mobilization strategies.
• Document and synthesize results, good practices, lessons and emerging issues from UNCT work on gender equality.
• Contribute to timely reporting on UN Women ESARO’s support to Namibia and support results harvesting for regional and corporate reporting.
• Undertake other gender-related coordination tasks as agreed with the RCO and UN Women ESARO.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Gender Studies, International Development, Human Rights, Public Policy, Social Sciences or a related field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience in gender equality/women’s empowerment, development planning, policy, programme coordination, monitoring or related work.
• Demonstrated experience in gender mainstreaming and results-based planning is required.
• Experience with UN system coordination, Cooperation Framework processes, UNCT-SWAP/GEM, normative frameworks, and partnership building with government, civil society and UN entities is highly desirable.
• Experience in the Namibian development context is an asset.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of a national language of Namibia is an asset.
• Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable.

Skills

• Gender Equality
• Women’s Empowerment
• Gender Mainstreaming
• Results-Based Planning
• Programme Coordination
• Policy Analysis
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• UN System Coordination
• Cooperation Framework Processes
• UNCT-SWAP
• GEM Framework
• Normative Frameworks
• Partnership Building
• Gender Analysis
• Technical Support
• Policy Advice

Languages

English