Overview
Provide strategic advisory support on EU Gender Equality Acquis to key national institutions in Ukraine, assisting with policy alignment and capacity building for EU integration.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide expert advice on gender mainstreaming in EU integration.
- Offer expert, legal, and policy advice in focus areas such as public administration reform, local governance, data, and statistics in line with EU acquis.
- Provide strategic advice on gender mainstreaming and practical support in gender screening within relevant chapters of the acquis.
- Provide comments and substantive inputs to key outputs like analytical reports and policy briefs.
- Represent UN Women in relevant meetings and consultations.
- Support capacity development of governmental partners and CSOs on gender mainstreaming for EU accession.
- Develop training and guidance materials for capacity-building activities.
- Design and lead coaching and capacity-building sessions on gender mainstreaming in the EU accession process.
- Mentor and coach national consultants.
- Conduct field visits as required.
Required Experience
- At least 15 years of relevant work experience (after Master’s degree) in human rights and/or gender equality, governance and public administration, civil service or other related fields.
- Proven experience in providing strategic advice to government institutions on alignment of the legal framework within the EU accession process.
- Previous experience with the EU institutions and accession process will be considered an asset.
- Experience with UN Women and other UN agencies will be considered an asset.
- Proven understanding of human rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment, and national and international GEWE commitments in Ukraine.
- Proven knowledge of EU acquis, human rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment frameworks.
- Experience with coordination and technical support of meetings and consultations with government authorities.
- Experience in developing training materials and delivering capacity strengthening activities, related to women’s empowerment, gender mainstreaming and gender equality.
- Proven capacity to support adaptive and innovative programming.
Qualifications
Advanced (Masters) degree in Law, Public Policy and Administration, Economics, International Relations, Gender Studies, Social and Humanitarian Sciences, or related fields are required. PhD is an asset.
