Re-advertisment Joint Programme Manager,“Haya: Eliminating Violence Against Women in the West Bank and Gaza”

Background

UN Women plays an innovative and catalytic role in the State of Palestine since its inception in 1997 as then UNIFEM. UN Women focuses its activities on one overarching goal, namely to empower Palestinian women and girls and to allow them to enjoy their human rights.  In support of this goal and thoroughly taking into consideration the specificities of the context in Palestine, UN Women concentrates its efforts and interventions toward the realization of three strategic goals: Engendering humanitarian action and increasing the effective leadership and participation of women in peace and security; supporting women's income security, decent work and economic autonomy; and promoting a life free of violence for women and girls in Palestine.  For this, UN Women in collaboration with its partners aim to contribute to a legislative and policy framework that prevent violence and empower those affected by violence to recover; address structural barriers preventing women from economic participation and provide women entrepreneurs with the needed skills, financial resources and partnership to access a more equal share of the market; and ensure that policy makers have the capacity to effectively implement, monitor and track women’s peace and security commitments and place women’s rights at the center of humanitarian action in Palestine.     

UN Women contributes to empowering women in the economy and closing gender gaps at work, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (leaving no one behind) particularly goals 5 (Gender Equality) and 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discriminations Against Women (CEDAW), United Nations Security Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, the new Palestinian National Policy Agenda 2017-2022, the Cross Sectoral National Gender Strategy 2017-2022, specifically the Fourth Strategic Objective “Enhancing participation of women in the Economic Sector”, and the Palestine UNDAF priorities, specifically the Strategic Priority 3 “Supporting sustainable and inclusive economic development”.

“Haya: Eliminating Violence Against Women in the West Bank and Gaza” Joint Programme:

UN Women Palestine Country Office, together with UNFPA, UN Habitat, UNODC, have launched a new 5-years joint programme “Haya: Eliminating Violence Against Women in the West Bank and Gaza” with the generous funding of the Government of Canada. Haya programme aims to end violence against women with an ultimate outcome of reducing vulnerability of women and girls in West Bank and Gaza from all forms of violence and from the threats of such violence. This will be achieved through working on three intermediate outcomes focusing on:

1. Decreased harmful practices and attitudes that perpetuate and validate violence against women and girls within targeted households and communities;
2. Increased access by women and girls of gender-responsive ending violence against women services (economic, medical, psychosocial, security, shelter) free of discrimination; and
3. Strengthened institutional capacity to develop and implement legal and policy frameworks that promote and protect women’s and girls’ rights with regards to ending violence against women.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the overall and direct supervision of UN Women Special Representative, the Joint Programme Manager will be responsible for management, implementation, monitoring and reporting of the JP during programme initiation and mobilization phase, including providing guidance and support to the programme, ensuring effective partnership, networking and coordination between other ongoing UN Women, UNFPA, UN Habitat, and UNODC joint programmes, overseeing and guiding people and budget management for the programme team, building partnerships contribute to inter-agency coordination to achieve a coherent and aligned presence for Ending Violence Against Women (EVAW) in the country and managing knowledge building efforts.

The Joint Programme Manager will be responsible for the joint programme implementation during inception phase, working closely with the three other participating UN organizations, in addition to managing and implementing UN Women’s specific component of the joint programme. More specific tasks include:

1. Provide Guidance and support to the joint programme on the implementation of key UN frameworks and convention on women’s rights and empowerment, with specific focus on ending violence against women;
2. Provide high-level substantive and strategic leadership of the joint programmeduring the inception phase;
3. Lead technical consultations together with the participating UN organizations and partners in government, civil society and development partners for the development of the first year implementation plan of the Joint Programme;
4. Prepare a presentation and agenda for the Steering committee meetings to disucss and approve the detailed programme implementation plan for the overall joint programme for the first year;
5. Prepare overall human resources plan, procurement plan in line with the programme outputs and objectives; for the first year of implementation, based on inputs from the participating UN agencies;
6. Coordinate and implement programme activities listed in the JP’s inception plan and measure performance and report on Joint programme results and outcomes for the first quarter to the Programme Steering Committee;
7. Support in the recruitments of the joint programme staff during the inception phase, draft terms of references, coordinate HR recruitment closely with the HR focal point;
8. Prepare timely and quality substantive technical outputs, briefs and required documents, ensuring timely production and submission of outputs and reports by all members of the joint programme team;
9. Meet regularly and work closely with the donor, government and the participating UN organizations of the JP to update on progress and coordinate the joint implementation;
10. Coordinate the activities of the joint programme staff, experts and consultants working as part of the JP technical team;  
11. Draft and review ToRs for policy briefs and other knowledge products;
12. Coordinate Programme Steering Committee second meeting, donor coordination and technical review meetings, and prepare background documents for this meeting, including project briefs, issues papers, and progress;
13. Review Programme Steering Committee decisions and recommendations and follow up on their implementation of action points as needed and applicable;
14. Coordinate and manage the overall delivery of the programme in an effective and efficient manner with UN Women and participating UN agencies staff;
15. Develop, through a participatory and comprehensive consultation process with participating UN agencies a call for proposals and/or an expression of interest for civil society partners for the implementation of programme interventions;
16. Assist in setting up the technical review committee for the review and selection of civil society partners, including drafting the ToR for the technical review committee;
17. Develop tools for managing the joint programme in an effective and result-oriented manner, ensuring that objectives and targets are met; correct inputs are provided; agreed procedures are followed up; and that outputs are produced in a feasible and timely fashion;
18. Ensure full functionality of technical assistance for each programme component, closely cooperating with the pillar leads of UN organizations as required within the framework of the programme, and in support of its results;
19. Conduct thematic analysis and programme review, including strategic guidance on activity planning, implementation strategies and future programme orientation;
20. Provide support in advancing thematic coordination, including identifying programmatic entry points in the area of ending violence against women and ensure consistency and complementary implementation in relation to other UN Women, UNFPA, UN Habitat and UNODC projects and programmes;
21. Lead communication and sharing of knowledge derived from joint programme with governmental institutions and other regional Ending Violence Against Women programmes at the regional and global levels; and
22. Prepare final assignment report summarizing main achievements and challenges.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Timely and quality implementation of joint programme including advocacy activities against set work plans, timelines and budgets, in line with the UN Women Strategic Note (2018-2022);
• Quality and timely reporting;
• Strong relations with partners and stakeholders;
• Enhanced best practices and lessons learned documented and circulated;
• Successful implementation of the UN Women/UNFPA/UN Habitat/UNODC Joint Programme especially in relation to enhancing the capacities of institutions dealing with EVAWand strengthening access to justice, security and protection services, especially for women and girls;
• Successful management of the joint programme is expected to produce the following outcomes:
  • State building efforts are reinforced by legal, regulatory and policy frameworks in line with international standards;
  • Service provision is effective, accountable and inclusive;
  • Increasing access by women and girls to gender-responsive Ending Violence Against Women services; and
  • Focus on multi-pronged evidence based prevention initiatives that support targeted households and communities for decreasing harmful practices, attitudes and behaviors.

During the assignment period, and according to above background and requested duties and responsibilities, the Gender Coordination Consultant will be expected to deliver the following:

• A detailed workplan for the inception phase and the first year of implementation of the joint programme;
• A set of recommendations based on consultation with the development partners to maintain strong synergies with ongoing EVAW programme interventions;
• A draft call for proposals and/or expression of interest for civil society partners for the implementation of programme interventions ;
• Communications and Advocacy Strategy, Visibility and Branding Guidelines, Communications Work Plan (jointly by the Communications consultant); and
• A final Assignment report including observations and future recommendations.

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity.
• integrity.
• Professionalism.

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues.
• Accountability.
• Inclusive Collaboration.
• Creative Problem Solving.
• Effective Communication.
• Stakeholder Engagement.
• Leading by Example.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies:

http://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-employment-values-and-competencies-definitions-en.pdf

Functional Competencies:

• Strong programme formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation skills.
• Ability to develop detailed operational plans, budgets, and deliver them on time.
• Ability to lead strategic planning, results-based management and reporting.
• Ability to lead a team consisting of different agencies in harmonious manner.
• Ability to advocate and provide policy advice.
• Ability to synthesize program performance data and produce analytical reports to inform management and strategic decision-making.
• Ability to build strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Good knowledge of UN programme management systemsGood communication skills.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Master’s degree in International Development, Gender Studies, law, Human Rights, Applied Anthropology, Business Administration or in other related Social Sciences.

Experience:

• At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience at the national or international level in managing complex and multi-component programme interventions with national and international partners, preferably related to Ending Violence Against Women;
• Experience in coordinating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating development programmes and projects;
• Previous experience working in the UN system is an asset; and
• Previous experience managing joint programmes of the UN is an asset.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and Arabic is required. Working knowledge of another official UN language is an asset.

Application procedure:

This SSA modality is governed by UN Women General Terms and Conditions. UN Women will only be able to respond to applicants who meet the minimum requirements.

Candidates should be able to quickly submit degree certificates, medical certification (of good health), a written sample such as a gender mainstreaming work plan, a final report on a previous consultancy assignment, a gender sensitive strategic plan, should they be requested in consideration of this consultancy.

Evaluation of applicants:

Candidates will be technically evaluated using the below evaluation criteria where the passing score is set as minimum 70/100.

Selection will be based on interviews with those who pass the technical evaluation (minimum 70%)

UN Women will be offering the selected candidate a pre-determined monthly lump sum payment.

Technical Evaluation (100%) – max. 100 points:

Education:

Master’s degree in International Development, Gender Studies, law, Human Rights, Applied Anthropology, Business Administration or in other related Social Sciences. 10/100

Experience:

• At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience at the national or international level in managing complex and multi-component programme interventions with national and international partners; 50/100
• Experience in coordinating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating development programmes and projects preferably related to Ending Violence Against Women; 20/100
• Previous experience working in the UN system is an asset. 10/ 100
• Previous experience managing joint programmes of the UN is an asset. 10/100