Overview
The Programme Specialist, Adolescent Development and Gender (ADAP) provides technical guidance and operational support for the management and delivery of results related to gender equality and adolescent development and participation.
Key Responsibilities
- Supports senior programme colleagues and management to mainstream gender and adolescent participation.
- Leads cross-sectional collaboration and coordination on programmatic results on gender and adolescence.
- Works with programme colleagues and management to ensure gender and adolescence results are defined, measured, and reported.
- Supports effective review, assessment, planning, capacity building, and knowledge management on gender and adolescent development and participation.
- Supports the assessment and identification of gender and adolescence needs for emergency preparedness and response.
Required Experience
- Minimum five years of progressively responsible professional experience and demonstrated track record of having undertaken and led substantive programming and research on gender and adolescence and development.
- Experience in designing, implementing, managing, and delivering results-based programmes on gender, adolescent development and participation is required.
- One year of deployment in a developing country is required.
Qualifications
• Advanced university degree (Masters or higher) in the social sciences (i.e. sociology, demography, psychology, political science, gender studies, social policy or economics), public health, public policy, public administration, international development, or in an area relevant to UNICEF’s sectoral work (e.g. Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, Child Protection, Social Inclusion, HIV/AIDs, Climate Change, etc.).
