JOB SUMMARY:
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. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality (GE) and gender mainstreaming translate into action globally. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts.
In South Sudan UN Women actively engages in women, peace, and security, WEE, EVAW Governance and women leadership, and Humanitarian action and UN coordination. UN Women, South Sudan Country Office leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action. UN Women work in humanitarian include mainstreaming gender in humanitarian work, reviewing relevant policies and strategies, participating in cluster meetings and humanitarian working groups to ensuring gender mainstreaming, strengthening the gender capacity of humanitarian actors (GIHA trainings), developing gender alerts, and conducting gender analysis to identify gender gaps to inform Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) and related programming as well as resilience work.
Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls GEWE) is crucial to progress across all the Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda. There is the need for gender-responsive performance management and strategic planning, sex-disaggregated data, reporting and resource tracking, while drawing on gender expertise to mainstream gender equality in the preparation of the Cooperation Framework. The gender thematic group in South Sudan is working with the UNCT in enhancing the gender mainstreaming efforts.
South Sudan Context
South Sudan is categorized as humanitarian setting with South Sudanese continuing to suffer from the increasing effects of years of conflict, violence, destroyed livelihoods and infrastructures, climate change and inadequate basic services. According to Humanitarian needs overview 2023, out of the estimated 11.5 million inhabitants 8.9 million people are considered in humanitarian need (2.2M are women, 2.0M are men, 2.4M are girls and 2.5M are boys), and more than 2.1 million South Sudanese refugees are in neighboring countries and two additional million are considered Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), out of which 55% are women and girls. The situation has been made worse with the influx of over 291,224 individuals which have been recorded at border crossings into South Sudan since the fighting in Sudan erupted on 15 April 2023. Heavy rains and flooding continue to interrupt humanitarian service delivery, Intercommunal tensions and violence have been increasingly reported in several areas.
Existing gender inequalities coupled with the humanitarian impact on the displaced and returnee women and girls contribute to increased burden of unpaid care activities as women continue to hold on the burden of managing water, food, and energy at the household level. Compounded with cultural norms and practices, including decision making, access to resources including humanitarian assistance. In addition, coping strategies such as early or forced marriage to increase personal security and livelihoods, for young women and girls within a crisis setting is common.
It is against this background that UN Women is looking for a consultant who is passionate about gender equality and willing to work with the UN Women Humanitarian and coordination team in South Sudan.
Under the overall guidance of the Deputy Country Representative, The GIHA advisor will work closely with the the GiHA Specialist, and also work in close coordination with other sectors to implement the following.
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Application:
All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form.doc. 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.
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.
Diversity and inclusion:
At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, 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 based on qualifications, competence, integrity, and organizational need.
If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.
UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
ABSTRACT:
United Nations Development Programme International Consultant-Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) and Coordination South Sudan UNDP Jobs 2024
United Nations Development Programme looking for “International Consultant-Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) and Coordination”. Applicants with an Advanced degree may apply on or before 02-Aug-24.
The United Nations Development Programme has published a job vacancy announcement on 17/07/2024 for qualified applicants to fill in the vacant post of International Consultant-Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) and Coordination to be based in , South Sudan. For more jobs, please visit https://unjoblink.org
Company Name: United Nations Development Programme
Job Title: International Consultant-Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) and Coordination
Duty Station: , South Sudan
Country: South Sudan
Application Deadline: 02-Aug-24