Gender Equality and Women’s Rights Specialist

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Mission and objectives

UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. We help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience in order to sustain development results. UNDP works in Mexico since 1961, working along with the three State branches and with all sectors of society, contributing to overcome environmental, economic, and social crises and promote sustained growth that improves the quality of life for all, with an effective governance perspective.

Context

Mexico’s UNDP Country Office has identified that the prevalence of high rates of violence is one of the main challenges for consolidating effective governance in the country. A factor related to the high rates of violence in Mexico is the large number of weapons circulating illegally throughout the national territory. According to the government’s statistics, Mexico ranks sixth place within the countries with more armed civilians. As part of its commitment to supporting effective policies to prevent violence, UNDP Mexico is currently collaborating with the Ministry for Public Security and Citizen Protection to support the Peace Fairs and Voluntary Disarmament Programme. The selected candidate will strategically support the Country Office to revamp the current Effective Governance and Democracy Unit’s offer. Precisely, addressing peacebuilding challenges in Mexico, build capacities, exchange knowledge, and support top-quality advisory services to relevant stakeholders. Also, the UNV will contribute to position UNDP as a leading UN agency in promoting peacebuilding and conflict prevention, from an approach that considers its nexus with the 2030 Agenda.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of the Gender National Officer, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: • Support integration of gender dimensions in the UNDP programmes: effective governance and democracy; socio-economic development and environment, environment and resilience; as well as in the operations area. • Support mainstreaming of the gender approach both in the administrative-financial processes of the office and in the projects of cost sharing and UNDP financed. • Contribute to policy advice on gender mainstreaming in UNDP programmes and Government’s policies and measures. Support programme and project teams from both clusters in developing and implementing gender-responsive innovative approaches for gender equality. • Provide technical assistance in the preparation of documents, work plans, joint programming and reports on gender equality and women's rights. • Support compilation, analysis and presentation of data, briefs and fast facts on gender equality to strengthen evidence- based policies and programmes and advocacy. • Managing the knowledge storing and contribute to sharing the gender equality efforts of UNDP Mexico. • Contribute to systematic reporting and communications of the results of UNDP’s work for gender equality in Mexico, in coordination with the communications team. • Support the Gender Equality Seal strategy. • Take part in thematic spaces about gender equality. • Support the National Officer in preparing proposals, applications, and funding requests for new gender initiatives. 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. The results and expected outputs of the assignment are: • Develop capacity to integrate gender dimensions in development programming • Develop capacity to report on gender mainstreaming results • Develop capacity to produce successful awareness campaigns and communications ma-terials • The development of capacity through coaching, mentoring and formal on-the-job training, when working with (including supervising) national staff or (non-) governmental counter-parts, including Implementing Partners (IPs) • Age, Gender, and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment • A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development dur-ing the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed