Job Description
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The Gender Officer will support the knowledge management, promote cross-learning, identify opportunities, develop Programme tools, and ensure quality oversight for Programme implementation around digital innovations for girls and STEM initiatives.
Reporting to the Regional Gender Advisor and working closely with the ICT4D and adolescent skills and Employability Sections, the Officer will be responsible for the following:
Implementation of gender digital divide activities
- Support country offices to identify and assess new initiatives or phases of ongoing initiatives, with immediate potential to improve UNICEF programming on innovations and adolescent girls.
- Manage CSO partnership (an oversight on the implementation of the partnership agreement, spot checks, and reporting).
- Support country offices in development of concept notes and resource mobilization products on bridging the gender digital divide.
- Documentation of good practices, including Human interesting stories (HIS) on girls and digital girls in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM),
- Showcasing gender and innovation interventions around adolescent girls’ community of practice in the region and Global platforms, including visibility of the initiatives in collaboration with the Communication Team.
- Built a network with regional and grassroots organizations to scale up girls in STEM.
Support Green Skills for Girls Programming
- Collaborate with the adolescent skills and Employability section in ROSA and external partners to provide operational and technical support to the green skills programming for girls in South Asia.
- Collaborate with other UNICEF regions to organize green skills boot camps for adolescent girls.
- Documentation of good practices on Green Skills for girls.
Annual planning, reporting, and capacity building
- Support the organization, administration, and implementation of capacity-building initiatives to enhance the competencies of gender focal points in gender monitoring and evaluations, especially on Gender marker (GEM) coding during planning and reporting processes.
- Conduct Gender focal points Orientation on CO-specific annual planning processes and mandatory CSIs
- Support with the development and production of the regional gender annual report
Events and Knowledge Management
- Support ROSA to organize all gender-related event regional consultations for the region
- Support the gender team in developing gender-related advocacy briefs in consultation with the communication team
Job Specification
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- A university degree in one of the following fields is required: gender studies, international development, development studies, international relations, or another relevant technical field.
- A minimum of one year of professional experience in one or more of the following areas is required: gender, social development program planning, communication for development, public advocacy, or another related area.
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, or Spanish) is an asset.
- Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered an asset.
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