Overview
Support UN Women Egypt Country Office in strategic partnership efforts, provide technical guidance in strategic planning, and advance UN system-wide accountability tools on gender equality and inter-agency coordination.
Key Responsibilities
- Utilize and maintain UN Women’s strategic partnerships for ECO
- Manage and facilitate the implementation of resource mobilization strategies and initiatives
- Build trust and maintain effective relationships with donors
- Support Teams in Carrying out Due Diligence Processes
- Provide technical guidance and support in strategic planning for the Country Office ensuring conformity with corporate policies, procedures, guidance and systems.
- Provide technical guidance and coordination to the overall processes and coordinate within ECO to develop and finalize Strategic Note, ensuring the timely submission and quality as well as the full alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) and with UN Women Strategic Plan.
- Technically guide and coordinate the overall processes in ECO to develop and finalize the annual/biannual workplans under Egypt’s Strategic Note, ensuring the timely submission and quality.
- Ensure amendments of Strategic Notes and its annual/biannual workplans are completed in a timely manner, as needed, in line with relevant corporate procedure.
- Support the overall Egypt CO’s corporate monitoring and reporting requirements under the Strategic Note and UN Women Strategic Plan, including annual reports.
- Follow up on required action/outstanding issues and report on outcome/ result.
- Alert the Country Representative/ CO on critical issues to be addressed.
- Provide technical support to the Country Representative and Country Office on advancing UN System-wide accountability tools on gender equality and overall UN inter-agency coordination on gender equality.
- Work closely with the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office to implement system wide requirements on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
- Participate in and provide support to joint inter-agency UN planning processes and similar exercises;
- Contribute to the inter-agency strategic planning processes at the country level, including Common Country Assessment, the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) and Joint Workplans as well as use of UN INFO.
- Provide logistical support to UN Women Representative to lead the UN Gender Theme Group and Women and Girls’ Results Group of the UNSDCF to implement the new Standards and Procedures for GTG, in close cooperation with the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office.;
- Utilize inputs at every step of the UNSCDF and CCA in accordance with UNSDG guidance and companion pieces.
- Provide technical support to UNCT in monitoring and reporting and prepare analytical and regular progress reports on UN Women’s programme experiences;
- Provide inputs on gender equality and women’s empowerment and participate within regional and global internal and inter-agency dialogues on UN coordination on gender equality, where required.
Required Experience
At least 2 years of progressively responsible work experience of relevant professional experience in research, donor relations, resource mobilization, and/or business development, are required. Experience of working with the UN System or other international organizations in similar assignments is required. Experience in gender equality and women’s empowerment issues is required. Experience working in the Arab States region and/or Egypt is desirable.
Qualifications
Master’s degree or equivalent in economics, business management, social sciences, public administration, international relations, communications, women's studies, or a related field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
