Background:
The 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 centre of all its efforts, UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
The Strategic Partnerships, Coordination and Intergovernmental Bureau leads and coordinates UN Women’s implementation of its system-wide and interagency mandates and functions. Central to this is the operationalization of the intergovernmental mandate expressed in its founding resolution in which the UN’s General Assembly decided that UN Women will “lead, coordinate and promote the accountability of the United Nations system in its work on gender equality and the empowerment of women” at the global, regional and country levels.
The Coordination Adviser reports to the Director of the UN System Coordination Division of the Strategic Partnerships, Coordination and Intergovernmental Bureau of UN Women who provides overall strategic direction, guidance and oversight. The Adviser is responsible for implementing UN Women’s Coordination Strategy as it pertains to the UN System’s operational activities for development. S\he will work to enhance the coherence of the UN System’s work, to facilitate the mobilization of joint action, and to promote accountability, for the UN System’s work on gender equality and the empowerment of women, including supporting the use and development of accountability frameworks.
Competencies
Core Values/Guiding Principles:
Integrity: Demonstrating consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.
Cultural Sensitivity/Valuing diversity: Demonstrating an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrating an international outlook, appreciating differences in values and learning from cultural diversity.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
Ethics and Values: Promoting ethics and integrity/creating organizational precedents
Organizational Awareness: Building support and political acumen
Developing and Empowering People / Coaching and Mentoring: Building staff competence, creating an environment of creativity and innovation.
Working in Teams: Building and promoting effective teams.
Communicating Information and Ideas: Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication
Self-management and Emotional Intelligence: Creating an emotionally intelligent organization
Conflict Management / Negotiating and Resolving Disagreements: Leveraging conflict in the interests of the organization and setting standards
Knowledge Sharing / Continuous Learning: Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning
Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making: Fair and transparent decision making; calculated risk-taking
FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:
- Ability to conceptualize and convey strategic vision from the spectrum of development experience.
- Demonstrated negotiating, cultural sensitivity and diplomatic skills.
- Well-developed people management skills.
- Provides information, tools, resources to support work achievement.
- Effectiveness orientation and pro-activity
- Ability to leverage information technology,executive information systems,management techniques and tools for optimal office
performance
- Team building skills.
- Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
Master’s degree or equivalent in one or more of the following disciplines: gender issues, social sciences, economics, or other related fields.
Experience:
- Over 10 years of experience that combines strategic and managerial leadership in administration, business management, planning and
operations in a large international and/or corporate organization.
- Experience in the UN Common System required.
Language Requirements:
Written and oral proficiency in English is required. Knowledge of the other UN working knowledge is desirable.
Deadline: 20 May 2012
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