UN Women
UN Women is dedicated to achieving gender equality and empowering women globally, as outlined in the Charter of the United Nations. Our mission is to eliminate discrimination against women and girls, empower women, and achieve gender equality as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action, and peace and security.
Gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, aiming for a more equal, just, peaceful, and sustainable world. In India, the Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Portfolio focuses on enhancing women’s economic rights and agency, creating a conducive environment for decent and safe employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for women in all their diversity. UN Women, in partnership with the European Union (EU), is implementing the WeEmpower India programme to advance women’s economic empowerment. This project aims to promote decent and safe economic opportunities, advocate for gender-responsive policies, and challenge discriminatory social norms.
Key Result Areas
- Increased Access to Safe and Decent Economic Opportunities:
- For women and girls in all their diversity.
- Enhanced Gender-Transformative Policies:
- Improve women’s access to safe and decent employment and entrepreneurship.
- Promotion of Positive Gender Norms:
- Increase women’s participation in economic and social life.
The project utilizes a three-pronged approach:
- Promoting Economic Opportunities:
- Implement Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) in private companies.
- Link women and girls to jobs in high-potential sectors like clean energy and STEM.
- Strengthen women’s entrepreneurship through mentorship, digital skills, and investor matchmaking.
- Gender-Responsive Policies and Decision-Making:
- Foster dialogues with stakeholders at central and local levels.
- Strengthen statistical capacity to address data gaps related to SDG 5 (gender equality).
- Utilize data for informed policy decisions.
- Collective Agenda-Setting and Norm Shifting:
- Engage partners including government, CSOs, private sector, EU institutions, and member states.
- Facilitate information sharing and challenge gender norms.
Job Summary
The Programme Officer, reporting to the Programme Manager, WEE, will play a key role in managing the WeEmpower India programme, with a focus on Private Sector and Employment. The incumbent will contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of the programme while ensuring effective communication and coordination with stakeholders. The Programme Officer will also lead a team of four personnel, ensuring successful programme delivery.
Duties and Responsibilities
Programme Strategy Development:
- Lead the development of strategies focused on private sector engagement through WEPs and women’s employment.
- Provide technical inputs to programme/project proposals and initiatives.
Programme Implementation and Management:
- Lead the implementation of programme activities, particularly those related to WEPs and women’s employment.
- Manage implementing agencies and provide technical inputs to the annual workplan and budget.
- Maintain relationships with stakeholders to support programme implementation and expansion.
Capacity Development:
- Lead technical training on WEPs implementation.
- Coordinate with gender data experts and provide technical support on relevant data parameters.
Monitoring and Reporting:
- Monitor programme progress using Results Based Management tools.
- Draft reports on programme results and provide substantive inputs to donor and UN Women reports.
Financial Management:
- Monitor budget implementation and provide inputs to financial reports.
- Supervise Programme Associates and Assistants.
Partnerships and Resource Mobilization:
- Provide inputs to resource mobilization strategies and maintain information databases.
- Participate in donor meetings and public information events.
Inter-Agency Coordination:
- Support inter-agency coordination on private sector engagement through WEPs.
Advocacy and Knowledge Building:
- Coordinate advocacy campaigns, events, and the development of knowledge products related to women’s economic empowerment.
Competencies
Core Values:
- Respect for Diversity
- Integrity
- Professionalism
Core Competencies:
- Gender Sensitivity
- Accountability
- Creative Problem Solving
- Effective Communication
- Inclusive Collaboration
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Leadership by Example
Functional Competencies:
- Programme formulation, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation skills.
- Knowledge of Results Based Management and Women’s Economic Empowerment.
- Ability to analyze data and trends, and identify opportunities for fundraising.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Master’s degree in social sciences, human rights, gender/women's studies, international development, or a related field.
- A first-level university degree with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted.
- Project/programme management certification is an advantage.
Experience:
- At least 2 years of experience in programme/project implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, especially in women’s economic empowerment.
- Experience working with the private sector to strengthen women’s economic empowerment.
- Experience in promoting women’s safe employment opportunities in formal sectors.
- Experience in liaising with government agencies or donors is desirable.
- Proficiency in office software (MS Word, Excel) and web-based ERP systems (preferably Oracle Cloud).
Language Requirements:
- Fluency in English is required.
- Knowledge of another official UN language (French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, or Spanish) is desirable.
- Working knowledge of Hindi or other Indian languages is an advantage.
Application Process
Interested applicants should apply through the UNDP jobs site: jobs.undp.org.
Application Information:
- All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/about-us/jobs
- Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment;
- UN Women will only be able to respond to those applications in which there is further interest.
Inclusion Statement
- At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits employ, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity, and organizational need.
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Note: In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
