Description of assignment title: Gender, Climate Change and DRR Officer
 

Assignment country: Nepal

Sustainable Development Goal: 5. Gender equality
 

Volunteer category: International UN Volunteer Specialist
 

DoA reserved for persons with disabilities: No
 

Host entity: UNWomen
 

Type: Onsite
 

Duration: 12 months (with possibility of extension)
 

Task description:

Under the direct supervision of the Programme Specialist (WPS, Humanitarian, DRR Programme), the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

a. Build partnerships and support in developing resource mobilization strategies:

• Provide technical support to the development of partnerships and resource mobilization strategies
• Identify potential programmatic areas of cooperation, based on strategic goals of UN Women Nepal, countries’ needs and donors’ priorities and develop the relevant partnerships.

b. Advocate and facilitate knowledge building and management and communication:

• Ensure documentation of the programme implementation process and products produced are following UN Women guidelines
• Contribute to the exchange of information and knowledge products internally and externally of the programme
• Organize major advocacy campaigns, events, training, workshops and knowledge product
  Provide media advocacy support
• Support the organization with consultations, meetings, and training for the programme unit (including on virtual platforms).
• Develop background research for preparing thematic briefs, speaking points, periodic progress reports, meeting and events reports, etc.
• Develop in preparing case studies and human-interest stories
• Participation in partner meetings and stakeholder consultations
• Assist with documentation and record-keeping of project documents.

c. Provide technical inputs on Gender and DRR and climate change programme/portfolios:

• Support in developing different tools
• Analyse and document climate risk trends in Nepal from a gender perspective
• Identify and advise on strategic entry points and emerging areas of work on UN Women’s cli-mate change, DRR and humanitarian programme
• Support development of new areas of programming in the country related to gender-responsive DRR and Climate change, including drafting of project proposals, TORs and documents, and providing support to UN Women country offices.
• Support country office with innovative approaches for developing women’s resilience to climate change by introducing new skills, technology, livelihood options, entrepreneurship.
• Provide support to monitoring, and reporting. This includes preparation of analytical reports, briefing notes, background papers, summaries, correspondence and talking points; preparation and finalization of knowledge resources, collection and analysis of data, and providing in-puts to quarterly reporting.

d. Support coordination with UN System, Development Partners:

• Support coordination efforts with UN System, International Development Partners to support mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment, raise potential problems and provide solutions.
• Guide to establish performance indicators, and monitoring achievement of results in line with the workplan
• Identify capacity building needs and support partners through technical assistance, mentoring, training, cross-partner learning, and capacity development initiatives
• Provide coordination support and participate in meetings including with other UN Agencies, government and development partners.

e. Support in providing inputs to advocacy, knowledge building and communication efforts specific to all governance programme:

• Support with background research for project briefs and presentations
• Support coordination and organization of advocacy activities and campaigns events, training, workshops, and knowledge products.
• Assist with inputs towards the development of knowledge management products
• Assist with documentation and collation of best practices and review of relevant literature (including laws and policies).

Eligibility criteria:

Age: 27 – 80
 

Additional eligibility criteria:

This assignment is funded by the Government of Finland, therefore specific criteria apply:

• Candidates must be Finnish nationals and must have knowledge of Finnish or Swedish.
• Candidates must be at least 27 years of age at the time of application.
• Candidates who already served on a UN Volunteer Specialist assignment funded by the
• Government of Finland are not eligible.

Selection process:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. The selection will be done by the UN Host Entity at the level of the country of assignment. Interviews will be conducted by the UN Host Entity in March.

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Nationality:

Candidate must be a national of a country other than the country of assignment.

Donor priorities:
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Required experience:

3 years of experience in DRR, Gender and Climate Change. Demonstrable ability to provide programmatic and coordination support in the areas of gender, DRR, climate change, building women’s resilient to disaster; Experience on DRR and climate change context in South Asia is strongly desirable; Demonstrated experience working with and building partnerships with donors and civil society organizations internationally and in the field. Working experience with UN Women or other United Nations agencies an asset.

Area(s) of expertise:

Energy and environment

Driving license:
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Languages:

English, Level: Fluent, Required

Required education level:

Master degree or equivalent in International affairs, social science, policy, and/or any relevant field directly related to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls Climate change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Gender Equality

Competencies and values:

• Accountability
• Adaptability and Flexibility
• Client Orientation
• Commitment and Motivation
• Commitment to Continuous Learning
• Communication
• Creativity
• Ethics and Values
• Integrity
• Leadership
• Planning and Organizing
• Respect for Diversity
• Self-Management
• Working in Teams.

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