Overview
Supports the systematic integration of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) across programme design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting, ensuring measurable results and compliance with UNDP corporate standards. The role provides technical advice and quality assurance to programme and operations teams, contributes to donor proposals and reporting on gender results.
Key Responsibilities
- Drives gender inclusion across all UNDP programmes and projects, from design through implementation, ensuring accountability for results and compliance with corporate standards.
- Oversees and coordinates implementation and monitoring of the Gender Equality Seal across programme and operations units.
- Leads UNDP Myanmar’s strategic partnerships and mobilizing resources for gender equality results.
- Supports strategic leadership to UNDP Myanmar in designing and advancing strategic gender equality initiatives.
- Supports and guides strategic oversight implementation and monitoring of PSEA commitments across UNDP Myanmar programmes.
- Strengthens gender-responsive capacities and ensures knowledge management across UNDP Myanmar and its partners.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years (with master´s degree) 7 years (with bachelor´s degree) of experience integrating gender into project design and implementation (logframes, indicators, budgets), demonstrated across more than one programme or project.
- Experience in gender strategies, action plans, gender markers, Seal processes, or similar internal work.
- Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and web-based management systems, and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages.
- Experience of engagement with CSOs and women-led organizations, hands-on coordination, implementation, or capacity support.
- Experience in monitoring gender-related outputs, identifying gaps, and following up with teams to improve delivery.
- Experience in areas such as social protection, livelihoods, community recovery, GBV, safeguarding, or inclusion of vulnerable groups within development or humanitarian programming.
- Experience in coordination, implementation, or capacity support in development projects.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree) in Gender Studies, Social Sciences, Development Studies or a related field is required, or
- A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree) in the fields mentioned above in combination with additional 2 years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of a Master’s degree.
