Asociado Nacional en Políticas Públicas de Igualdad de Género, Adolescencia y Juventud

The National Associate in Public Policies on Gender Equality, Adolescence and Youth provides strategic leadership, high-level political and technical advice, and programmatic direction for UNFPA's agenda on gender equality, adolescence, and youth in Colombia. The role involves strategic integration of these agendas, policy dialogue, portfolio management, resource mobilization, and institutional positioning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of an integrated strategic vision for gender, adolescence and youth agendas, identifying convergence and complementarity opportunities.
• Analyze political, social, demographic and economic transformations in Colombia and their implications for gender, adolescence and youth agendas.
• Identify emerging trends, risks and opportunities affecting the Country Programme implementation and propose strategic responses.
• Translate national development and public policy priorities into technical and programmatic cooperation opportunities aligned with UNFPA mandate and standards.
• Design new approaches to respond to emerging country priorities while maintaining UNFPA normative and programmatic positioning.
• Promote innovative approaches linking rights, gender equality, youth, and sustainable development with economic and demographic transformations.
• Generate analysis and evidence to support strategic positioning and decision-making of senior management.
• Represent UNFPA in high-level spaces related to gender, adolescence, youth, violence, social policies, development and demographic transformation.
• Develop strategic relationships with ministries, administrative departments, Congress, territorial governments, autonomous bodies, academia and other relevant actors.
• Maintain ongoing political and technical dialogue with key decision-makers to identify priorities, cooperation opportunities and advocacy spaces.
• Provide strategic advice to UNFPA Representation and senior team on gender, adolescence and youth issues.
• Prepare or supervise preparation of position documents, strategic analyses, key messages, technical notes and other inputs for political dialogue.
• Identify opportunities for UNFPA participation in relevant national debates, providing evidence, international experience and public policy recommendations.
• Strengthen UNFPA positioning as a strategic and knowledge partner of the Colombian State.
• Incorporate economic dimension systematically into gender, adolescence and youth strategies recognizing interrelations with rights, inequality, economic participation, education, employment, autonomy, care, fertility and demographic changes.
• Promote strategies recognizing adolescents and youth as actors of economic and social development and transformation agents.
• Identify opportunities to integrate gender equality and youth agendas into productive development, employment, education, social protection, inequality reduction and territorial development policies.
• Promote analysis of economic and social costs of gender inequalities, gender-based violence, adolescent pregnancies, exclusion and other barriers affecting women, adolescents and youth.
• Develop alliances with economic, academic, financial and cooperation actors to generate evidence, innovation and resources for these agendas.
• Incorporate demographic dynamics analysis and their economic and social implications into youth and gender strategy design.
• Provide strategic direction and overall supervision to gender and adolescence and youth project portfolio.
• Supervise and guide coordinators responsible for different projects ensuring coherence with overall office strategy.
• Establish coordination mechanisms among projects to avoid duplication, promote complementarities and maximize results.
• Periodically review programmatic and financial progress of portfolio and propose corrective measures as needed.
• Support project coordinators in identifying and resolving strategic, technical, institutional and management issues.
• Promote a culture of results-based management, innovation, learning and accountability.
• Ensure projects incorporate gender, human rights, interculturality, intersectionality and life course approaches.
• Ensure portfolio articulation with other programmatic areas of the office.
• Supervise quality of technical and strategic products generated by projects.
• Promote knowledge exchange and good practices among teams of both areas.
• Lead resource mobilization strategy for gender, adolescence and youth agendas in coordination with Representation and relevant office areas.
• Systematically identify potential donors, strategic partners and new funding sources.
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with bilateral and multilateral cooperation, private sector, foundations, development banks, academia and other relevant actors.
• Technically lead preparation of concept notes, proposals, project documents and other resource mobilization instruments.
• Ensure funding proposals are strategically relevant, technically sound, financially sustainable and aligned with UNFPA mandate.
• Identify opportunities for joint or multisectoral proposals with other office areas and UN system agencies.
• Support technical negotiation with partners and donors as appropriate.
• Contribute to sustainable and diversified growth of office resource portfolio.
• Develop political advocacy strategies to position gender, adolescence and youth agendas in national and territorial decision-making spaces.
• Represent UNFPA in relevant interinstitutional and interagency groups.
• Strengthen collaboration with UN system and promote joint initiatives when strategically valuable.
• Build alliances with women's organizations, youth organizations, indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant communities, organizations of persons with disabilities, academia, private sector and other relevant actors.
• Promote effective participation of adolescents, youth and women's organizations in policy and program design, implementation and monitoring.
• Coordinate with communications area for public positioning of agendas and dissemination of evidence and results.
• Supervise strategic and programmatic monitoring of gender, adolescence and youth portfolio.
• Periodically analyze results, indicators, risks and financial execution.
• Promote systematic use of evidence for programmatic decision-making.
• Identify lessons learned, good practices and innovation opportunities.
• Ensure projects under supervision comply with UNFPA corporate standards on results-based management, financial management and accountability.
• Present periodic portfolio performance analyses and strategic recommendations to Representation.

Requirements

• Professional degree in Social Sciences, Economics, Law, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology, Anthropology, Public Administration, Economics, Education or related fields.
• Postgraduate degree, preferably Master's, in Gender, Public Policy, Development, Economics, Human Rights, International Relations, Youth Studies, Population and Development, Public Administration or related disciplines.
• Minimum seven (7) years of relevant professional experience in design, management, coordination and/or direction of programs and projects related to gender, rights, adolescence, youth, social development, public policies or related areas.
• Demonstrated experience in high-level political and technical dialogue with government institutions, international organizations and other strategic actors.
• Experience in design and formulation of public policies, national strategies or cooperation programs.
• Demonstrated experience in resource mobilization and proposal development for bilateral, multilateral donors, international cooperation, private sector or other partners.
• Experience in coordination and/or supervision of technical teams and project managers.
• Excellent command of Spanish language.
• Professional competence in English for communication, negotiation, analysis and drafting of technical documents.
• Deep knowledge of gender equality agendas, human rights, adolescence and youth.
• Physical and training capacities to travel nationally and internationally by air, land or river transport as required.

Skills

• Public Policy Design
• Gender Equality
• Youth Studies
• Adolescence Programs
• Programme Management
• Project Coordination
• Resource Mobilization
• Proposal Development
• Policy Dialogue
• Technical Dialogue Facilitation
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Policy Formulation Support
• Strategic Leadership
• Team Supervision
• International Cooperation
• Human Rights
• Social Development
• Technical Document Development
• Spanish Language
• English Communication Skills

Languages

Spanish, English