Gender Equality Programme Analyst

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Mission and objectives

UN Women is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide. It is the global champion for gender equality, working to develop and uphold standards and create an environment in which every woman and girl can exercise her human rights and live up to her full potential. UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide. It works globally to make the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals a reality for women and girls and stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life. To create an enabling environment for the realization of gender equality and women’s empowerment, UN Women Lebanon advocates and supports social mobilization for legislative reform, works with the partners and the Government of Lebanon to build gender responsive institutions, and delivers essential services to women and girls in need – Lebanese and refugees. Working for the empowerment and rights of women and girls globally, UN Women’s main roles are: • To support inter-governmental bodies, such as the Commission on the Status of Women, in their formulation of policies, global standards and norms. • To help Member States implement these standards, standing ready to provide suitable technical and financial support to those countries that request it, and to forge effective partnerships with civil society. To lead and coordinate the UN system’s work on gender equality, as well as promote accountability, including through regular monitoring of system-wide progress

Context

The Programme Analyst supports the delivery of UN Women programmes by analysing results achieved during implementation and supporting appropriate application of systems and procedures. The UN Youth Volunteer works in close collaboration with the programme team, implementing partners and civil society to ensure a successful UN Women programme that advances gender equality and women’s rights agenda.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of the Planning, Coordination and Resource Mobilization Specialist, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: • Assist in developing knowledge products on issues of women’s rights, gender equality, gender legislation and policy, gender-based violence and access to justice, and unpaid care work; • Attend with team members relevant forums and support coordination within the UN humanitarian, development, and peace nexus; • Participate in developing project and intervention summaries with a focus on both protection and gender equality aspects; • Support the implementation of research, using qualitative and quantitative methodol-ogies, to capture learning from project implementation • Assist in conducting research on new areas of engagement and in developing con-cept notes to support resource mobilization; • Support monitoring, evaluation and reporting to donors and to UN Women at outcome and impact level; • Provide inputs to communications products to promote learning and impact from in-terventions. • Support to program implementation including operational and logistical support. • Provide regular briefings to the Swiss Embassy in Lebanon about women’s rights and gender equality.