Intern - Gender - Addis Ababa

Summary of key functions:
The Gender Specialist will contribute to management and implementation of the Gender Equality Strategy at the Regional Level and provide substantive analytical policy and technical input towards mainstreaming gender across UNDP’s core practices and supporting gender equality and women’s empowerment in dedicated interventions. The Gender Specialist is responsible for supporting the Gender Practice Team Leader with regard to quality assurance on development effectiveness, gender seal process and organizational effectiveness across the Gender Team. The Gender Specialist will report to the Gender Practice Team Leader, Regional Center for Africa Addis Ababa/Ethiopia, and will work in close collaboration with other practices within the Regional Center, UNDP Regional Bureaus for Africa and UNDP BPPS in New York.

Programme Management/Implementation: Provide effective support to the Gender Practice Team Leader in supporting country offices in implementation of the Gender Equality StrategyPolicy Advocacy and Advisory Services: Contribute to and lead initiatives to foster a deeper practical understanding of the integration of gender in programmes and practice areas of UNDP Arab States Country OfficesKnowledge Management and Learning: Ensure facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing in the region and COsPolicy development, Gender Seal process

Duties and responsibilities:

Programme Management/Implementation: Provide effective support to the GPTL in programme implementation on the following results:

Assist the Gender Practice Team Leader with management and implementation of the Gender Equality Strategy and trickling it down to the Country office implementation, and UNDP’s work on gender mainstreaming across the focus within Country offices.Assist the Gender Practice Team Leader with Country offices Process of the Gender Equality Seal.Ensure that gender-related linkages with other projects and programmes are identified and incorporated in the documentation, including on-request support to country offices (COs) in the design and/or evaluation of gender-linked objectives, indicators, targets and activities of Country Programmes.Ensure that gender concerns are addressed during the design, monitoring and evaluation of country offices and regional programmes.Support, wherever possible, specific identification of gender gaps and successes in final project reports; external review by gender experts/ subject specialists of project and programme documents in all practice areas; and the development of performance indicators for establishment of gender baselines and continuing monitoring.

Policy Advocacy and Advisory Services: Contribute to and lead initiatives to foster a deeper practical understanding of the integration of gender in programmes and practice areas of UNDP focusing on the following results:

Provide and organize policy and advisory services to Regional Center in Addis Ababa and Country Offices and through country offices to Governments and other partners.Support the formulation of Country Offices programmes including clear and measurable goals, targets and indicators related to gender equality and women’s empowerment, focusing on outcomes.Organize capacity development events on gender concepts, gender analysis and planning for staff and counterparts across thematic areas

Contribute to production and commissioning of appropriate materials and organization of events on gender issues to make these available to colleagues; including

Policy advocacy, high-quality research on specific issues related to gender equality, poverty and Millennium Development Goals, environment and sustainable development, governance/crisis, prevention and recovery and institutional development, conferences and trainings, community of practices, and support to events and publications related to the thematic issues named above;Provide effective support and backstopping for, and timely feedback and corporate reporting on implementation of the gender equality.

Knowledge Management and Learning Ensure facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing, focusing on achievement of the following results:

Sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice;Contribute to the development global lessons learnt, best practices and generate knowledge needed to shape UNDP’s strategies globally;Contribute to  knowledge creation and dissemination related to national, regional and global know-how in the subject area, collaborating and building partnerships with internal and external networks or communities of practice covering prominent experts in government, non-government, think tanks, private agencies, international development organizations and the UN system.Participate in local Knowledge Management sharing events and support the corporate Knowledge Management agenda.

Policy Development

Contribute to the development and formulation of regional and global policies, norms and standards with the Gender Team in BDP, New York;Contribute experience and expertise to the formulation at the regional and central level of new and evolving global policies, norms and standards.

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