Partnership Specialist for Peace - Humanitarian Nexus

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Mission and objectives

In Indonesia, UN Women works with government, civil society organizations, academia, the media, the public and private sectors to address national priorities of gender equality and women’s empowerment. Placing the advancement of women’s rights at the centre of our work, UN Women Indonesia focuses on: Ending Violence Against Women UN Women Indonesia works with a range of stakeholders to increase awareness of the causes and consequences of violence against women, while also building the capacity of partners for policy reform to prevent and respond to this violence. We advocate for changing norms and behaviour as a prevention strategy to tackle violence against women. Women, Peace and Security UN Women Indonesia aims to empower women to contribute to better, safer, and more peaceful communities. We promote localized model based on women’s leadership to promote peace and tolerance, strengthening key actors and youth. Women’s Economic Empowerment UN Women Indonesia works with a range of stakeholders, including private sectors, to support women economic empowerment by providing access to skill development, resources and enabling environment to increase women’s participation in the economy.

Context

As the specialized UN Agency on gender equality and the empowerment of women, UN Women in Indonesia is also working alongside other UN Agencies to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming are translated into UN works and pro-grammes to achieve Sustainable Development Goals across the country. UN Women programmes in Indonesia are guided by the Strategy Note 2021-2024, that is aligned with UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) signed between the Minister of National Planning and UN system in the country. In addition to programmatic interventions, UN Women has a triple mandate of normative sup-port, UN coordination, and operational activities. Under the guidance of the Project Coordinator Analyst for Peace and Humanitarian Nexus, the UN Volunteer for Humanitarian Development Peace Partnership Specialist is expected to provide technical support for stakeholder’s engagement with the Government and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) including to sup-port advocacy process of UN Women in the area of Peace and Humanitarian Nexus.

Task description

Under the overall guidance of the Programme Manager for Governance, Peace, and Resilience (GPR) and direct supervision of the Project Coordination Analyst for Peace – Humanitarian Nexus, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: 1. Support inter-ministerial coordination process among involved governmental par-ties, particularly the Project Steering Committee (PSC) members, in support of Humanitarian Development Peace (HDP) initiative; 2. Provide technical and operational support for multi-stakeholder coordination to maintain open, productive and value-driven partnerships with CSOs partners in support of HDP initiative and GPR programme when needed; 3. Support GPR programme Team to expand new networks and liaise with diverse stakeholders to strengthen and expand HDP networks and partnerships; 4. Document coordination processes, action items, and collective decisions by the forum. 5. Liaise with UN Women Partnership and Coordination Specialist to ensure coordinated partnership effort that aligns with UN Women partnership policy and strategy; 6. Prepare partners convening and partnership meetings including in co-designing (setting up agenda, format, facilitation plan), preparing the event (final agenda, substantive materials/presentation and handouts, invitation, participants attendance monitoring), delivery (co-facilitation, in-situ documentation, feedback generation) and reporting (minutes of meeting, audio/visual records); 7. Provide institutional support by identifying and conducting research to strengthen stakeholder mapping and analysis. 8. Prepare briefing notes in support of engagement activities; 9. Undertake any tasks assigned by the Project Coordination Analyst for Peace – Humanitarian Nexus. Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to: • Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for in-stance in events that mark International Volunteer Day); • Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country; • Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking, including participation in ongoing reflection activities; • Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.; • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers; • Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering, or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.