Regional Gender Monitoring, Reporting and Knowledge Management Specialist

Job Title: Regional Gender Monitoring, Reporting and Knowledge Management Specialist

Organization: United Nations Volunteers (UNV)

Host entity: UNICEF

Assignment country: Panama

Expected start date: 30/10/2023

Sustainable Development Goal: 5. Gender equality

Volunteer category: International UN Volunteer Specialist

Type: Onsite

Duration: 6 months (with possibility of extension)

Number of assignments: 1

Duty stations: Panama City

Details

Mission and objectives

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of all children, everywhere, in everything the organization does—through programs, advocacy, and operations. Equity, with an emphasis on the most disadvantaged and excluded children, boys, girls, and adolescents, translates this commitment to children's rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that every child has the opportunity to survive, thrive, and reach their full potential, without discrimination, prejudice, or favoritism. Whenever any child experiences inequality of opportunity in their life across social, political, economic, civic, and cultural dimensions, their rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education, and protection of a society's most marginalized citizens, while addressing inequity, not only gives all children the chance to develop their potential, but also leads to sustained growth and stability for countries. This is why a focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards the realization of the human rights of all children, which is UNICEF's universal mandate as outlined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.

Context

Developed in tandem with UNICEF’s new Gender Policy and Gender Action Plan (GAP), The UNICEF Strategic Plan for 2022-25 emphasizes structural and norms change to transform the underlying drivers of gender inequality and reflects an intersectional approach to the compounding social exclusion and marginalization related to factors like poverty, racism, disability and migration. With this new, transformative approach, UNICEF is strengthening the mainstreaming of gender equality throughout our programming and systems, while increasing investment in gender-related data. The GAP commands that results related to gender must be clear and specified from the start of all programmes across all Goal Areas. This will require strengthened gender analysis and gender data reporting, monitoring and research to inform evidence -based programming priorities and practices. The regional gender team is responsible for analyzing and collating gender-related data from country programmes as part of the annual corporate reporting process, and for working with selected COs to document promising practices in gender transforming programming for UNICEF’s annual gender equality report. Furthermore, the regional gender team has been producing a wide range of technical resources related to gender research, evidence and programming that need to be made more readily available internally and externally for a wide range of audiences, through UNICEF’s SharePoint pages and external website. COs in the region also produce gender knowledge products that should be more widely disseminated across the region for cross-learning. The regional gender monitoring, reporting and knowledge management specialist will support the regional gender team to re-structure and update its internal and external digital pages to ensure all UNICEF gender products from LAC are readily available for target audiences, will devise dissemination strategies for these products and will support the section to monitor gender-funded programmes across the region and to undertake its annual reporting function. In addition to duty station specific vaccine requirements, appointments are subject to confirmation of fully vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the appointment. It does not apply to UN Volunteers who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their contracts. UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for UN Volunteers with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process and afterwards in your assignment.

Task description

Working closely with gender team members, develop a monitoring plan for all the regionally/globally funded gender programmes in LAC (regional, multi-country or country based), identifying key reporting and deliverable dates and donor requirements that the regional gender team needs to deliver on and/or oversee. Support team members to ensure gender-related narrative reports are produced by COs/RO teams as per donor requirements, on time and with the expected technical quality. Work closely with gender Programme Associates to ensure grant-related narrative and financial reports are aligned. Organize a SharePoint filing system for the gender team to ensure that all documentation pertaining to such programmes (technical and financial) is well organized, updated and easily accessible by all team members. Systematically collaborate with LACRO’s planning and monitoring team to devise strategies and capacity development initiatives to improve the quality of UNICEF gender equality data, analysis and reporting in the region. Provide technical assistance to CO teams, in particular to gender staff and focal points, in preparation for CO annual reporting of gender results, including support for the identification of gender outputs (especially those marked as gender principal or significant) and indicators that will require reporting against. This may include the organization and delivery of regional webinars on gender monitoring and annual reporting. Support the regional quality assurance and technical review of 2023 CO annual reports, including narrative reports (COARs), results reports (in the RAM platform) and indicator reporting, extracting and collating relevant gender information for the regional team’s analysis. - Collate information from LAC COs on their annual reports against the global mandatory gender Core Standard Indicators (CSIs) as required by HQ. - Support the selection and documentation of ‘2023 best gender results from LAC’ based on set criteria and produce a report with this information for submission to HQ for global use. - Support the drafting of the gender section of the regional office annual report (ROAR). - Use available data and dashboards to generate intelligence to inform the regional gender team’s mid-term review of the Regional Office Management Plan (ROMP) and 2024 annual planning exercise, in particular contrasting UNICEF data with broader regional data related to progress against relevant SDG targets and indicators. In relation to gender knowledge management (KM): - Support the development and implementation of dissemination plans for all new regional and country-led gender products, including those related to regional gender programmes, with a particular focus on supporting UNICEF COs to utilize these in gender transformative programming. This includes planning and delivering product launches and associated communications strategies, in collaboration with the regional communications team, as relevant. - Identify opportunities and facilitate gender cross-regional exchange and learning with Country Offices. This includes producing bilingual monthly email updates to the regional gender network and support to the organization and delivery of virtual network meetings. - Represent the regional gender team in the LACRO Knowledge Management working group. - Review all existing UNICEF regional LAC gender external ‘landing pages’ or ‘websites’ and all available gender resources that are yet to be made publicly available, to develop a proposal on how to better organize, link and harmonize all sites in a coherent, user-friendly manner, including with relevant links to global, other regional and country websites. - In tandem, review all internal LAC regional gender SharePoint pages/folders to develop a proposal on how to better organize, link and harmonize all folders/pages in a coherent, user friendly manner, including with relevant links to global, other regional and country pages. - Facilitate appropriate consultation processes to ensure that the proposed gender LAC website and SharePoint page structures are aligned with other LACRO KM and communications initiatives before embarking on their implementation. - On request of regional team members, provide support to oversee translation, editing and design processes for new regional gender products.

Eligibility criteria

Age

27 - 80

Nationality

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

Requirements

Required experience

5 years of experience in project and/or knowledge management, programme monitoring and evaluation, international development communications or other relevant programmes; experience in gender programming is an asset, as is experience working in the UN or other international development organization; • Experience working with multi-country or regional projects or programmes; ability to work virtually effectively with colleagues in different countries, time-zones and languages; • Demonstrated experience in analyzing and synthetizing large volumes of data and information in user-friendly language and formats and in using digital platforms for knowledge dissemination for different audiences; • Excellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting, formulation, reporting and organization skills; • Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing; • Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners across the region; familiarity with tools and approaches of communications for development; • Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a challenging environment; ability to work effectively in a multicultural team of international and national personnel; • Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various MS Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, etc.) and email/internet; familiarity with database management; and office technology equipment; • Experience in website and SharePoint environment management will be considered a key asset; • Self-motivated, well organized and with the ability to work with minimum supervision; ability to work with tight deadlines; • Sound security awareness; • Have affinity with or interest in gender equality, child rights, volunteerism as a mechanism for durable development, and the UN System.

Area(s) of expertise

Development programmes, Communication

Driving license

-

Languages

English, Level: Fluent, Required Spanish, Level: Working knowledge, Required

Required education level

Master degree or equivalent in project management, monitoring and evaluation, communications for development, gender studies or area related to international development; a first-level university degree or equivalent in combination with relevant training and/or professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.

Competencies and values

• Care, respect, integrity, trust and accountability • Builds and maintains partnerships • Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness • Drive to achieve results for impact • Manages ambiguity and complexity • Works collaboratively with others

Other information

Living conditions and remarks

Panama is in Central America with a population of 4,300,000 million, the official language is Spanish, but most Panamanians are bilingual. Panama has a lower crime rate than many other countries in the region. Panama City is largely a safe city – but care does need to be taken in some areas and with personal property. It is your choice whether you opt for a house or an apartment. Beautiful spacious houses, with gardens are available. Those staff that have opted for an apartment have done so on the basis that they offer more security and more facilities. Conditions of service The contract lasts for the period indicated above with possibility of extensions subject to availability of funding, operational necessity, and satisfactory performance. Travel to duty station will be provided in the event the duty station is not within commuting distance from the place of recruitment. The applicable Volunteer Living Allowance (VLA) is provided monthly to cover housing, utilities, and normal cost of living expenses. Life, health, and permanent disability insurance are included (health insurance for up to 3 dependents), as well as final repatriation (if applicable) and exit allowance for satisfactory service. Specific UN Volunteer entitlements, including insurance coverage, Volunteer Living Allowance (VLA), Expertise differential, Entry / Exit lump sums, among others, are available at: https://app.unv.org/calculator. The complete UN Volunteer Conditions of Service is available at: https://explore.unv.org/cos.

Inclusivity statement

United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.

Reasonable accommodation

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for UN Volunteers with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process and afterwards in your assignment.

Note on Covid-19 vaccination requirements

In addition to duty station-specific vaccine requirements, appointments are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the appointment. It does not apply to UN Volunteers who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their contracts.

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