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.
UN Women has recently signed a Strategic Partnership Framework (SPF) with the Government of the UAE that supports the acceleration of the sustainable development agenda through women’s economic empowerment in Africa and Latin America. Under the SPF, in line with UN Women’s Gender Equality Accelerator (GEA) on Women and the World of Work, concrete results in supporting women’s entrepreneurship and decent work will be advanced in Kenya and Chile, as well as at the global level, through promoting gender-responsive procurement (GRP) in the public and private sectors and fostering enabling markets for women. The GEA adopts a systematic approach for women’s economic empowerment that promotes job creation and the full realization of women’s rights, agency, leadership and economic autonomy and attainment of decent working conditions free from violence and harassment and tackles discriminatory social and legal norms through policy and programmatic change. Because procurement has a huge potential to shape financial flows and move the needle on gender equality, the GEA leverages GRP, which applies a gender perspective to procurement, in both the public and private sectors. The expected outcome of the SPF component is that governments and private sector organizations adopt gender-responsive procurement laws, legislation and policies and increase procurement spend from women-owned, led and gender-responsive businesses.
Under the guidance and direct supervision of the Head of Office in Chile, the Economic Empowerment Specialist, Gender-Responsive Procurement is responsible for managing the Accelerating Women’s Economic Empowerment component of the UAE SPF in Chile and will coordinate closely with the Programme Specialist, Gender-Responsive Procurement in the Economic Empowerment section at UN Women HQ.
1. Manage and coordinate UAE SPF component on Accelerating Women’s Economic Empowerment in Africa and Latin America, in Chile
2. Provide guidance, technical assistance and capacity development
3. Manage knowledge management on public and private GRP
4. Provide support for advocacy and stakeholder and partner engagement initiatives related to public and private GRP
The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation.
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The person to be hired must be Chilean citizen (by birth or naturalization). Applicants who do not hold the Chilean citizenship are not elegible for this position.
HOW TO APPLY:
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.
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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 on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.
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