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UN Women Ethiopia Country Office (ECO), developed a new Strategic Note (2021-2025) guided by the Sustainable Development Goals, Agenda 2030, Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the Africa Agenda 2063 and in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework: 2020-2025, in line with the government of Ethiopia’s 10 years perspective plan (2020-2030) and other partners to achieve gender equality and women empowerment through implementation of transformative programmes in Ethiopia. The new Strategic Note sets the vision, strategic results areas, and implementation plan for UN Women ECO for the next four years. It has also taken into consideration the new generation equality themes as defined by UN Women.
In the new SN, there has been some shifts in focus areas and approaches from the previous one including a stronger emphasis on providing strategic, high-impact technical, policy and normative expertise that enables transformative change, strengthening the humanitarian-peace-development nexus, expanding engagement with networks and multi-stakeholder partnerships, centering intersectionality, helping to expand the space for women’s organizations and feminist movements strengthening efforts to enhance the UN system’s performance and accountability in support of GEWE, using its convening role to facilitate the dialogue and partnership among CSAGs, civil society and other stakeholders mainstreaming strategies to shift discriminatory gender norms in all aspects of the program, and maintaining some targeted support to civil society organizations, faith-based organizations, and the media.
The intensity and the scope of the work undertaken by UN Women Ethiopia team, requires a high-functioning and resilient team, clear on the mandate, effective and professional in communicating, focusing on achieving the one country office vision, and delivering on the programme and projects targeted results. Bringing the team together to review the 2021 AWP and the SN 2021-2025, discussing professional development needs, build capacity with regards to enhancing interpersonal collaboration; respecting different working practices; bringing the best out of each other as a team, and leading on their respective TORs and roles will create an optimal working environment, giving the UN Women team the best chance of successfully delivering their mandate.
The CO retreat thus is intended to integrate the SN 2021-2025 into the core of the programmatic team’s planning and activities. The retreat thus aims at reviewing, integrating and internalizing UN Women’s new SN and providing the platform for UN Women ECO’s staff to capture, internalize and contextualize the proposed program, focus areas and approaches, the results framework and overall theory of change, the programe actions and outcomes and UN system coordination in the new SN.
Objectives
- To familiarize the New UN Women ECO’s SN 2021-2025 and to increase the team’s comprehension, motivation, and synergy to achieve its OEEF targets
- To understand where the CO is with the implementation of the 2021 AWP achievements, strengths, challenges, best practices, and lessons learned.
- To enhance understanding of UN Women corporate system, rules and regulations pertaining to programmes and operations.
- To elaborate the CO Management Structure (MS) and its relevant process/procedures.
- To identify the development and capacity building needs of staff for more effective delivery of the UN Women programme within a collegial and participatory enabling environment
Additionally, UN Women Ethiopia country office will welcome the new Country Representative and a farewell to the current during the staff retreat.
Duties And Responsibilities
The detailed duties and responsibilities include:
- Plan and facilitate 2 days team retreat sessions for UN Women Ethiopia considering the objectives above and including programmatic and operational aspects
- Designing and delivering an advanced and practical SN 2021-2025 training for UN Women ECO staff to achieve its OEEF targets, through creative activities and strategies that help to fully integrate the SN 2021-2025 into the ECO Team.
- Providing activities that would simplify challenges and amplify future priorities regarding capturing and reporting on results of the SN 2021-2025.
- Supporting the team’s understanding of the new results framework, aligned with the corporate UN Women Integrated Results and Resource Framework, and aggregating higher level results from thematic areas of work and programming.
- Provide a consultancy summary, comprising a report on the retreat and pre- and post-retreat engagement, including recommendations for continued professional development support highlighting key strategic priorities, key drivers, and tactical plan for excellent execution.
Expected Outputs
- Improved understanding of the position and role of UN Women within the larger UN system globally, in the Region and in Ethiopia
- Reviewed and updated AWP for 2021 and clarity on the role that the team plays in its implementation and delivery of its results. (This is being done by respective team)
- Improved understanding of SN 2021-2025 among the staff and management of the Country Office.
- Enhanced knowledge of UN Women Programming and Operational procedures and regulations Application of UN Women frameworks and tools enhanced to accelerate program delivery.
- Enhanced motivation and synergy among staff to implement SN 2021-2025
Competencies
Integrity
- Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.
Professionalism
- Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge or the pertinent substantive areas of work.
Core Values And Ethics
- Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and ability to work in a multi-national environment
- Support the Organization’s corporate goals
- Comply with UN WOMEN rules, regulations and code of conduct
- Integrity.
Teamwork
- Demonstrate ability to work in a multicultural, multiethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different national and cultural backgrounds;
- Build effective client relationships and partnerships;
- Interact with all levels of staff in the organization;
- Excellent interpersonal skills;
- Build and share knowledge.
- Make valuable practice contributions.
Communicating And Information Sharing
- Facilitate and encourage open communication and strive for effective communication;
- Excellent oral and written skills;
- Listen actively and respond effectively.
Self-management And Emotional Intelligence
- Stay composed and positive even in difficult moments, handle tense situations with diplomacy and tact, and have a consistent behavior towards others.
Functional Competencies
- Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principles of a professional discipline or technical specialist relating to the position.
- Possess basic knowledge or organizational policies and procedures relating to the position and applies them consistently in work tasks.
Education
Required Skills and Experience
- Master’s degree in development, international relations, gender studies, demography, economics, law, Arts, Communication, Sociology, Psychology or related field;
Experience
- Minimum 7 years’ experience in facilitation, training, coaching, and mentoring within the relevant topic areas.
- At least 7 years of planning, results-based management and/or evaluation experience, strategy planning/reviews in development programmes related to human rights, gender and results-based management;
- Experience in designing and delivering training on results-based management and reporting;
- Ability to introduce new systems and affect staff behavioral/attitudinal change;
- Ability to build strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback;
- Excellent analytical and writing skills;
- Experience as lead facilitator in similar assignments;
- Prior experience in the UN system and the region an asset.
Language: Fluency in the English language required
Application
- All applications must include (as an attachment) a completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment .
- Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment and candidates are required to include in the P-11 form links for their previously published reports and articles completed within the last two years. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.
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