UN Women Vacancy for Gender Responsive Inclusive Governance Associate

Assignment country: Nepal

Expected start date: 10/02/2025

Sustainable Development Goal: 5. Gender equality

Volunteer category: International UN Youth Volunteer

Host entity: UN Women

Type: Onsite

Duration: 12 months

Number of assignments: 1

Duty stations: Kathmandu

Details

Mission and objectives

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

In Nepal, UN Women focuses on strengthening women’s voice, agency and leadership across sectors to advance women’s rights, provide space for women’s meaningful participation, and contribute to tangible differences in their lives. In prioritizing inclusive governance, UN Women Nepal seeks to advance women’s political empowerment and leadership and enhance women’s access to justice in Nepal’s federal structure. Towards this goal, UN Women will work with elected officials, civil servants and citizens at all levels. The approach will extend beyond policy and law reform, to implementation and monitoring of policies, supporting the development of plans and budgets, enhancing the capacity of key government officials, and promoting gender equality and social inclusion in local governance. In addition, UN Women will work together with excluded groups to support their active participation and enable their voices to be heard. Throughout this work, UN Women seeks to contribute to transforming discriminatory social norms and eliminating harmful practices and behaviours, including violence against women. All of the above contribute to fulfilling Nepal’s obligations to international treaties and commitments, including regular reporting on progress related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Beijing Platform for Action and to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

Context

UN Women Nepal’s Strategic Note (SN) 2023-2027 lays out the agency’s unique role and comparative advantage in supporting duty bearers and right holders in advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women in line with internationally agreed normative standards.

For this purpose, UN Women Nepal is seeking a Gender Responsive Inclusice Governance Associate to provide technical support for gender responsive inclusive governance (GRIG) including Women Peace and Security (WPS) thematic area to advance GEWE in the development context.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of Programme Specialist, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Support the GRIG (including WPS) programme team in the review and finalisation of the Partner’s reports, and various programmatic related documents in close coordina-tion with respective programme managers
• Review the concept note and proposals developed by GRIG thematic area and support the programme team in finalising the draft versions of concept note and proposals
• Support the GRIG thematic area to prepare agenda of internal GRIG thematic area meetings and prepare a key bullet points for each meeting
• Contribute to the Unit by supporting knowledge management through providing assis-tance in monitoring the data collected by partners, analysis, complete and accurate re-porting
•  Support the GRIG thematic area in organising the thematic folder in official shared folder of the NCO
•  Participates in the relevant meetings with respective Programme Managers with part-ners and prepare the meeting notes accordingly
•  Contribute to review of relevant global and national policy documents related to gov-ernance, WPS, and violence against women to advance GEWE
•  Provide necessary support for organizing a range of events of the thematic area– dia-logues, interactions, workshops.
• Carry out brief research and review of reports, documents and literature, and prepare write ups as and when necessary for programmatic purposes
•  Support to prepare presentations (including power point) for international and external purposes for the thematic area.
•  Provide necessary support to the Programme Managers in writing the concept notes and proposals
•  Represent the team in various events and function as and when assigned.

Eligibility criteria

Age: 18 – 80

Additional eligibility criteria

This assignment is funded by the Government of Switzerland and therefore specific criteria apply:

•  Candidates must be Swiss nationals.
•  Candidates must be between 18 and 29 years of age at the time of application.
•  Only candidates who have been pre-selected by Switzerland (cinfo) are eligible to apply.

Nationality

Candidate must be a national of a country other than the country of assignment.

Donor priorities
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Requirements

Required experience
1 years of experience in (minimum 3 years) designing, implementing, managing, and delivering results-based programmes on gender and development or any other cross cutting programme.

Further the UN Volunteer brings:

• Programming at country/field level is an asset.
• Previous experience as a volunteer and/or experience of another culture, (i.e. studies, volunteer work, internship) would be highly regarded;

Area(s) of expertise
Development programmes, Elections and governance

Driving license
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Languages

English, Level: Fluent, Required

Required education level
Master degree or equivalent in social sciences (i.e. gender, sociology, political science, social policy, economics, or human rights,), public policy, international development, or any other relevant area.

Competencies and values

Accountability

• Adaptability and Flexibility
•  Building Trust
• Commitment and Motivation
• Commitment to Continuous Learning
• Communication
• Ethics and Values
• Integrity
• Knowledge Sharing
•  Planning and Organizing
•  Professionalism
• Respect for Diversity
•  Technological Awareness
•  Working in Teams

Other information

Living conditions and remarks

Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, lies under the Phase 1 of the UN Security classification but is subject to change depending on the development of the security situation.

Kathmandu is a comfortable place to live. Comfortable inexpensive flats (furnished and unfurnished) are available in Kathmandu. Both imported and local foods and clothing are abundantly available. There is a short supply of water while it is also not safe to drink without treatment. Public transport is easily available and generally reliable though traffic congestion is extremely high. Kathmandu has a temperate climate with coldest temperature reaching just above zero at the night during the winter and mild but humid during the monsoon period, mid-June to end September. Nepal is a unique country and provides for an interesting and enriching environment, but also requires a mature level of cultural awareness, as well as more stamina and commitment than elsewhere to make life comfortable and affordable.

Inclusivity statement

United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.

Note on Covid-19 vaccination requirements

Selected candidates for certain occupational groups may be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) in line with the applicable host entity policy

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