Overview
Provide senior technical, coordination, and results-management support for UN Women's assigned components of the governance project portfolio. The role aims to strengthen national ownership and institutional capacity, ensure complementarity between interventions, and support timely planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and learning.
Key Responsibilities
- Translate project documents into implementation plans.
- Support preparation and technical review of concept notes, activity plans, terms of reference, and partner workplans.
- Maintain integrated action trackers, risk logs, and programme calendars.
- Support UN Women participation in joint programme teams and meetings.
- Coordinate with partners to avoid parallel mechanisms.
- Plan and support workshops, trainings, dialogues, and missions.
- Provide technical and coordination support to the assigned project portfolio.
- Support strengthening of national women's machinery and accountability mechanisms.
- Provide technical inputs for legal and policy reform and advocacy activities.
- Support public information, community dialogue, and advocacy activities.
- Strengthen connections among women leaders and relevant institutions.
- Provide technical and coordination support for the Triennial Conference of Pacific Women and Meeting of Pacific Ministers for Women.
- Support establishment and operationalization of the gender-responsive Elections Situation Room.
- Facilitate agreement on governance, roles, and decision-making for the PESR.
- Develop or quality assure operational protocols for the PESR.
- Ensure VAWIE/P is captured as a distinct incident category in PESR tools.
- Support simulations and readiness reviews for the PESR.
- Produce de-identified gender and inclusion analyses for the PESR.
- Develop and maintain monitoring tools aligned with programme indicators.
- Collect, quality assure, analyse, and store programme evidence.
- Prepare timely field mission reports, progress updates, and donor report contributions.
- Support joint monitoring visits, partner performance reviews, and after-action reviews.
- Develop high-quality technical briefs, presentations, case studies, and knowledge products.
- Organize and hand over all approved tools, evidence, contacts, and outstanding actions.
- Plan and coordinate logistics for trainings, workshops, seminars, and dialogue meetings.
- Support development of training materials.
- Facilitate coordination and communication with stakeholders.
- Assist in documenting workshop and meeting outcomes.
- Support the country office in developing and implementing partnerships and resource mobilization strategies.
- Assist in finalization of relevant documentation on donors and potential opportunities for resource mobilization.
- Provide technical inputs to donor briefs, concept notes, and resource-mobilization materials.
- Perform other duties as deemed necessary.
Required Experience
At least seven years of progressively responsible professional experience in gender-responsive governance, women's political participation, electoral assistance, or a closely related field is required. Demonstrated experience managing or coordinating programme implementation, partner performance, results-based monitoring, budgets, and donor reporting with government and civil society partners is required. Demonstrated technical experience in electoral conflict prevention or inclusive electoral operations; women's political leadership or candidate development. Experience developing operational guidance, standard operating procedures, training packages, monitoring tools, or knowledge products for complex multi-stakeholder programmes is required. Experience facilitating inclusive consultations, training, simulations, or policy dialogues with government institutions, electoral bodies, security actors, women's organizations, and diverse community stakeholders is required. Experience with electoral situation rooms, election monitoring, rapid-response mechanisms, or incident-management systems is a strong asset. Experience working with UN joint programmes and familiarity with UN Women programming, Results-Based Management, and partner management procedures is an asset. Experience in Papua New Guinea, the Pacific, or another complex and conflict-sensitive electoral context is an asset. Excellent analytical, drafting, and oral communication skills are required.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in political science, public policy, gender studies, peace and conflict studies, international development, law, human rights, social sciences, 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. A recognized project or programme management certification is an asset.
