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.
Women’s political participation is one of UN Women’s primary areas of work, recognizing the role of women’s leadership in strong and stable democratic processes and inclusive societies. It is covered under the UN Women’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025 Impact Area 1 – Participation and Governance in Public Life: “Women and girls participate in leadership and decision making and benefit from gender responsive governance”; and across several Systemic Outcomes of the Strategic Plan, mainly: Outcome 1 on normative frameworks and policies, Outcome 5 on Voice Leadership and Agency; and Outcome 7 on UN coordination. UN Women works with various partners and stakeholders nationally, regionally, and globally to ensure more women of all ages fully participate, lead, and engage in political institutions.
The UN Women Liberia Country Office under its Strategic Note (2020 – 2025) focuses on delivering on four interlinked programme areas underpinned by UN Women’s Strategic Plan (2022 – 2025), in line with international normative frameworks, Governance and Participation in Public Life, Women’s Economic Empowerment, Ending Violence Against Women and Girls, and Women, Peace, and Security, and Humanitarian Action. The work under Governance and Participation in public life includes, supporting legal and policy reforms that facilitate women’s participation in public life; strengthened capacities of diverse women to engage in public and political life and peacebuilding mechanisms; support legal and policy responses to prevent, monitor and mitigate violence against women in politics; improve knowledge, data and statistics on women’s political participation; support women leaders in gender-sensitive political institutions including legislative bodies at national and local levels; and support initiatives aimed at changing gender norms so that women are accepted as legitimate and effective leaders. In addition, UN Women works to support gender and youth-responsive service delivery in County Service Centers (CSCs), promotes citizen inclusion and participation in local decision-making and development planning, including budgetary allocations by strengthening County Councils, and supports the implementation of the Local Government Act (LGA). UN Women collaborates with a range of partners and stakeholders including the legislature, National Elections Commission, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, women’s rights organizations to ensure more women are actively involved in politics and public life and benefit from gender responsive governance.
Reporting to the Programme Specialist, Women Political participation, the Programme Analyst contributes to the effective management of UN Women programmes in the Country Office by providing substantive inputs to programme design, formulation, implementation, and evaluation. The Programme Analyst guides and facilitates the delivery of UN Women programmes by monitoring results achieved during implementation and ensuring appropriate application of systems and procedures and develops enhancements if necessary. The Programme Analyst works in close collaboration with the programme and operations team, UN Women HQ personnel, Government officials, multi and bi-lateral donors and civil society ensuring successful UN Women programme implementation under portfolio.
Contribute technically to the development of programme strategies on women’s political participation
Provide substantive technical support to the implementation of thematic area
Provide technical assistance and capacity development to project/programme partners
Provide technical inputs to the monitoring and reporting of the programme/ projects
Provide substantive technical inputs to the management of people and finances of the Leadership and Governance programme
Provide substantive inputs to building partnerships and resource mobilization strategies
Provide substantive inputs to advocacy, knowledge building and communication efforts
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UN Women Programme Officer, Women’s Political Participation Liberia UN Women Jobs 2024
UN Women looking for “Programme Officer, Women’s Political Participation”. Applicants with an Advanced degree may apply on or before 03-Aug-24.
The UN Women has published a job vacancy announcement on 19/07/2024 for qualified applicants to fill in the vacant post of Programme Officer, Women’s Political Participation to be based in Monrovia , Liberia. For more jobs, please visit https://unjoblink.org
Company Name: UN Women
Job Title: Programme Officer, Women’s Political Participation
Duty Station: Monrovia , Liberia
Country: Liberia
Application Deadline: 03-Aug-24