United Nations Development Programme
Experience: 0 to 3 Years
Skill Required: Research, Survey and Report Writing
Apply By: 06-10-2022
The duration of the assignment is until 30 April 2023. Whereas an external candidate will be offered a temporary appointment; subject to release agreements, staff members in UN Women may be administered as a temporary assignment and staff members in the UN Common system may be administered under a loan arrangement.
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.
The Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division (PPID) sets the programmatic standards, assures the quality of programme design, and provides guidance to country level programme work of UN Women, as well as supporting the coordination role of UN Women at regional and country level. The division has global policy expertise, manages Global Trust Funds, and Global Programmes, and provides technical capacity to countries on request, including a humanitarian response capacity.
The UN Women Strategic Plan (2022-2025) is based on key findings from an extensive consultative process and draws from the analysis of lessons learned and recommendations from evaluations, audits, and other assessments, including those from the 25-year review and appraisal of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Given the interconnected nature of global challenges, UN Women will focus on integrated approaches with seven systemic outcomes to address the root causes of inequality and affect broader systems change, across its four thematic focus areas: 1) governance and participation in public life; 2) women’s economic empowerment; 3) ending violence against women and girls; and 4) women, peace and security, humanitarian action, and disaster risk reduction.
The Integrated Results and Resources Framework (IRRF) outlines the specific results that UN Women aims to achieve and their respective set of indicators. One of the seven systemic outcomes, Outcome 3 envisions that: More men and boys, and women and girls, adopt attitudes, norms and practices that advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, including those that promote positive social norms.
This is a relatively new area of work for UN Women which requires the development of baselines, milestones and targets for the IRRF, as well as programmatic guidance, internal capacity building, and collaboration with United Nations and expert partners.
The Research and Data Section (R&D) in PPID is responsible for leading UN Women’s research and data agenda and for positioning UN Women as a global knowledge broker on gender equality and women’s empowerment. It leads UN Women’s work on gender statistics, and produces knowledge products including UN Women flagship publications such as Progress of the World’s Women, The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development (World Survey) and the global Beijing review reports.
The Political Analysis and Programme Development Unit (PAPDU) supports the organization to strengthen programming, including through innovation and drawing upon promising practices derived from UN Women and its partner experience.
Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Chief, Research and Data section and with matrix reporting to the Programme Specialist, Political Analysis and Programme Development Unit, the Research Specialist on Social Norms is responsible for laying the groundwork for the implementation of key elements of UN Women’s Strategic Plan.
Duties and Responsibilities
Commission and manage research on key aspects of gender and social norms:
Programme Guidance
Build networks of external partners on social norms
Support internal capacity building and knowledge management
Key Performance Indicators
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