Gender Analyst

Job Title: Gender Analyst

Organization: UNDP

Job Identification: 14149

Location: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Apply Before: 10/28/2023, 06:59 AM

Degree Level: Advanced/Postgraduate Degree

Job Schedule: Full time

Grade: NPSA-9

Vacancy Type: National Personnel Service Agreement

Practice Area: Gender

Bureau: Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS

Contract Duration: 1 Year with Possibility for extension

Education & Work Experience: Master's Degree - 2 year(s) experience OR Bachelor's Degree - 4 year(s) experience

Required Languages: English, Kyrgyz and Russian

Vacancy Timeline: 2 Weeks

Mobility required/no mobility: no mobility required

Job Category: Gender Equality & Human Rights

Job Description

Background
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP:  we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and inspiring stories. 

UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

The promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women is central to the mandate of UNDP and intrinsic to its development approach. In line with the vision of the UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2025, the mission is to contribute to the eradication of poverty and a significant reduction of gender inequalities by empowering women and promoting and protecting their rights. Gender equality is a fundamental human right and it is also an essential foundation of a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.

The UNDP-Kyrgyzstan Country Programme (CP) 2023-2027 recognizes gender equality and women empowerment as a key cross-cutting themes driving development results. The new CP (2023-2027) will contribute to Gender as main UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2023-2027 (UNSDCF) Outcome and Strategic Plan. The CO aims to integrate the same principles in its office setting and culture to role model and best serve the people of Kyrgyzstan.

In this regard, UNDP Kyrgyzstan is recruiting a Gender Analyst to help adequate impact of gender mainstreaming throughout the country programme and consolidate an enabling environment for institutional effectiveness to deliver gender responsive and sustainable results, as well as to assist the Country Office meet the expected benchmarks within the recommendations from the UNDP Gender Seal Certification. The Gender Analyst will work closely with all relevant stakeholders within the UNDP system including the programme and project teams, in the identification, design, and implementation of critical gender interventions for UNDP in Kyrgyzstan, while maintaining a strong contribution to resource mobilization. Additionally, the position will also require extensive engagement, networking, and partnership building with international and national partners, including other UN agencies, government counterparts, civil society and non-governmental organizations, women's organizations and networks, bilateral and multilateral donors, and private sector actors. 

Duties and Responsibilities 

The Gender Analyst will work closely with the Senior Management, Programme Team (and associated projects), Operations Team and CO Gender Task Force, as well as engage with all staff to identify specific issues/barriers, and potential champions to articulate a well-thought plan and support its implementation. The Gender Analyst will support the integration of gender aspects in programming and operations to enhance the institutional effectiveness of gender mainstreaming and women empowerment.

Gender Equality, Gender Parity Commitments and Strategic Leadership:

• Facilitate and support the CO Gender Task Force in updating/implementation of Action Plans to address the recommendations from the Gender Equality Seal, increasing Gender Equality and Gender Parity; Work closely with CO Gender Focal point and cluster Team leaders for better collaboration, cross-learning and knowledge transfer.
• Facilitate and support the CO Senior Management and Programme Team leads to build strong organizational commitment and leadership to implement Strategies (for Gender Equality, Gender Parity, Communication, and Partnerships & Resource Mobilization), and ensure that gender focus within the country office is well articulated, clearly communicated, and supported by all spheres of operations and programme across the organizational hierarchy.
• Facilitate in Programme and Projects composite Gender Analysis (using Project Quality Assessments and Project Gender Marker) and development of Gender Action Plan for the Country Programme and projects with annual outputs to facilitate implementation of activities that promote gender equality and women’s empowerment.
• Provide actionable recommendations with appropriate actions to ensure that organizational culture, policies, practices and procedures lead to tangible yet gradual improvements in gender equality and gender parity focusing on managerial, programmatic and operational aspects of the Country Office.
• Lead, monitor and report on the implementation of the CO Gender Equality Strategy and action plan.

Gender Analysis and Programming:

• Carry out a participatory Country Programme and Projects gender analysis to fully consider the different needs, roles, benefits, impacts, risks and access to/control over resources of women, girls, and men (including considerations of intersecting categories of identity such as sex, age, social status, ethnicity, marital status, etc.) – this analysis should result in projects with Gender as Principal Objective/UNDP Gen3 Marker.
• Generate a set of appropriate measures/recommendations to address and promote gender equality in programming; collect gender-responsive baseline data relevant to programme/projects planning, implementation and monitoring.
• Provide technical inputs ensuring all aspects of the current and new project documents are gender-responsive (particularly focusing on women): work with the programme/project development teams, programme and project gender focal persons to ensure that results in frameworks and theories of change are gender-responsive and inclusive: facilitate in the development of gender-focused outputs and indicators and associated baselines and targets ensuring that all applicable indicators and baselines/targets are disaggregated by sex and other relevant, intersecting forms of identity;
• Identify and advise on new emerging areas for gender focused programming and new solutions in light of the changing development landscape as a result of technology, climate change and new challenges emerging due to the pandemic by working closely with the UNDP Accelerator Lab and in close coordination with all Country Office programme units and projects. 
• Maintain Gender marker, to ensure the projects are improving their gender indicators and targets. 

Knowledge management, gender mainstreamed project design, implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation:

• Lead efforts and provide technical support in the design and implementation of a dedicated CO Gender Portfolio/programme along with a detailed Resource Mobilization and Partnership plan guiding the CO in taking concrete steps towards ensuring the sustainability of Gender portfolio/programme. 
• Provide technical support in the implementation and monitoring of the CO/Projects contributions on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women particularly reporting of concrete Gender results on (a) UNSDCF Outcome on Gender Equality (b) UNDP Result Oriented Analysis Report and (c) Donor reports. Provide technical support to UNDP in facilitating UNSDCF Outcome on Gender Equality. 
• Provide gender-related inputs to the Project Appraisal Committee especially on Results Framework, Gender Analysis and associated Action Plan, and UNDP Social and Environmental Screening Procedure (including assessing potential negative impacts of the project on gender equality and specific activities to mitigate and/or minimize them). 

Develop Partnerships to promote Gender Equality :

• Assist the CO Programme teams, Accelerator Lab and project development/implementation teams in identifying and developing partnerships with gender equality/women’s governmental institutions, UN-WOMEN and other UN sister agencies, women-led local NGOs/CSOs, and relevant national/sub-national stakeholders including the corporate/private sector. 
• Provide technical assistance to programme and projects in strengthening partnerships with key women’s governing bodies such as the Ministry of Social protection responsible for gender equality and women empowerment. 
• Provide support in establishing a close partnership with UN agencies particularly through supporting UNDP contributions to UN Inter-Agency Gender Thematic Group to ensure synergies and joint approaches to common gender challenges.

Capacity Development of CO teams to enhance gender equality and gender parity: 

• Organize and conduct trainings, workshops, focus group discussions, dialogue and consultations with programme and project staff and personnel on gender advancement, gender equality, gender parity, women’s empowerment, women’s issues, and social development thematic areas related to UNDP’s Gender Strategic Plan in the Country Office.
• Provide technical inputs for strengthening Country Office Learning Plan.
• Maintain regular feedback sessions with management, Gender Focal Team to discuss issues, produce actionable recommendations and actions.
• Collate and document lessons learned and recommendations for policy dialogue, public advocacy and future programming, and organize dissemination of learning within the CO and with partners. 

Institutional Arrangement

Under the overall guidance of the UNDP Resident Representative and the direct supervision of the Deputy Resident Representative, the Gender Analyst will provide strategic direction and advice on gender across the work of the CO to ensure that gender equality is effectively mainstreamed within all projects and operational areas in line with UNDP’s global and Country Office Gender Equality Strategy.

Competencies

Core Competencies:

• Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements 
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible 
• Act with Determination:  LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:

• 2030 Agenda: People
• Gender:
• Gender Mainstreaming
• UNDP's Gender Equality Seal Initiative
• Gender and Institutional Development
• Women's Economic Empowerment, including labour issues
• Business Management
• Communication:
• Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience
• Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels
• Business Direction and Strategy
• System Thinking
• Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system
• Business Development
• Integration within the UN
• Ability to identify, and integrate capacity and assets of the UN system, and engage in joint work; knowledge of the UN System and ability to apply this knowledge to strategic and/or practical situations

Required Skills and Experience

 

Education:

• Master´s degree in humanitarian and/or social science(s), development studies with the focus on gender, gender or women studies is required.
• Bachelor´s degree with additional 2 years of qualifying experience will be given considered in lieu of Master´s degree.

 Experience:

• Minimum 2 years (with Master´s degree) or 4 years (with Bachelor´s degree) of progressively responsible professional experience in the area of gender equality and women empowerment is required;
• Experience and knowledge in gender audits, evaluations, participatory techniques and capacity assessments for gender mainstreaming, and gender equality is required;
• Experience in design and/or implementation of the development projects with the focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment is an asset;
• Hands-on experience in organizational leadership, change management / behavioral change, with public institutions, international organizations and civil society is an asset.
• Experience designing, implementing and facilitating training programmes and participatory methodologies, particularly on gender equality and women’s empowerment related topics is an asset. 

 Desired additional skills and competencies:

• Demonstrated capacity for strategic thinking, and expertise in global and/or national gender equality and mainstreaming strategies;
• Recognized and known research publications; comprehensive gender equality knowledge and experience, as well as the knowledge of gender situation at the country level; experience with UN/UNDP would be an asset.
• Excellent analytical, writing, communication and advocacy skills in developing gender strategies or relevant gender related strategic documents; 
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to work with people of different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds, different gender, and diverse political views;
• The ability to employ tact, courtesy and respect for diversity while dealing with a range of stakeholders with different backgrounds and personal value systems;
• Diplomatic savoir faire skills in handling counterpart relations.

Language:

Proficiency in English, Kyrgyz and Russian is required (written and spoken).

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Non-discrimination 

UNDP has a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.  
 

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