Overview
This role provides high-level strategic leadership and technical guidance on gender-sensitive economic and social policies, ensuring the integration of gender equality and adolescent girls' empowerment across initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide high-level technical guidance to Country and Regional Offices, ensuring gender equality is integrated into economic and social policy programming.
- Shape UNICEF's positioning by translating evidence into influential policy narratives, building strategic partnerships, and advising on integrating gender equality into government and UN systems.
- Lead analysis on the gender dimensions of economic policy to position UNICEF as a thought leader and scale up innovative, evidence-based practices.
- Facilitate technical exchanges and lead capacity initiatives to build coherence and excellence in gender equality and adolescent girls' programming.
- Ensure accountability to the UNICEF Gender Action Plan by leading technical inputs into country programmes, monitoring systems, and results frameworks.
- Serve as a dedicated focal point for a portfolio of Country Offices, anticipating needs, co-designing support plans, and ensuring effective coordination.
Required Experience
At least 10 years proven experience in technical assistance and programming in development and humanitarian contexts, with specific expertise in leading, managing, and providing advisory support for public policies and national programme implementation in an international setting is required.
Qualifications
Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, Gender Studies, Public Health, Nutrition or related field is required. A Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in a relevant area combined with 2 additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree. This is applicable to internal (FT, Continuing and Permanent) staff only.
