Background:
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, the UN Women leads and coordinates the United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world.
The UN Women Albania Country Office is currently implementing its Strategic Note 2022-2026, which aims to ensure that All Women and girls enjoy and exercise their human rights in a gender equal society and meaningfully contribute to Albania’s sustainable and inclusive socio- economic development and EU integration”. To achieve such result, across its interventions, UN Women Albania addresses key thematic areas in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2022 – 2026, specifically Outcome C1: By 2026, governance is more transparent and accountable, enabling people and especially vulnerable groups, to enjoy quality, inclusive services, enhanced rule of law and access to justice in line with Albania’s human rights commitments; and Outcome C2: By 2026, gender responsive governance strengthens equality and non-discrimination, promotes women’s empowerment and human rights, and reduces violence against women and children.
Over the past years, UN Women ECA RO is implementing a Flagship Programme Initiative (FPI): Making Every Woman and Girl Count: Supporting the monitoring and implementation of the SDGs through better production and use of gender statistics (Women Count) that aims to affect a radical shift in the production, availability, accessibility and use of quality data and statistics on key aspects of gender equality and women’s empowerment. Within the framework of Women Count Phase II, UN Women will be providing technical support in designing, planning, and implementing various data collection activities, and developing guidance and methodological research towards improving gender data collection, analysis, and use, but also exploring non-conventional data source to generate gender data and evidence.
In addition, the UN Women Albania CO is implementing the project “EU for Gender Equality Phase II- Gender Equality Facility in Albania”, supported by the European Union, which includes a specific component on building capacities of central and local government to mainstream/integrate gender perspectives in the production and use of data to inform public policies.
Overall, the project aims to ensure that Albanian institutions more consistently apply gender responsive governance to strengthen equality and non-discrimination, promote women’s empowerment and human rights in line with the EU Gender Equality acquis.
About the Position
Reporting to the Project Management Specialist and Regional Specialist Gender and Statistics and in day-to-day coordination with the National Project Coordinator, the Data and Research Analyst is responsible for managing the gender data portfolio, including relationships with national partners and stakeholders, donor, the monitoring and reporting the activities.
Functions
1. Technical support to the implementation of the Women Count and data component of EU for Gender Equality II project
2. Planning, results-based monitoring, reporting and communications
3. Strategic partnerships with stakeholders, regional/international actors and development partners
Perform any other job-related duties, both programmatic and technical, as assigned by the supervisors
Key Performance Indicators
Competencies :
Core Values:
Core Competencies:
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Functional Competencies:
Education
Experience
Language Requirement
Fluency in English and Albanian are required.
Statements :
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:
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