Inter-Agency Support and Coordination Specialist

Key Functions and Accountabilities:

• Provide technical contributions and substantive support to the implementation of the UN System-Wide Action Plan and Accountability Framework on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-SWAP) and the synergies and complementarities with the UNCT-SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard and other related system-wide frameworks, such as the Secretary-General System-wide Gender Equality Acceleration Plan:
• Provide coordination and technical support and guidance to the implementation of the UN-SWAP, collaborating closely with other UN entities, funds and programmes, and UN coordinating bodies;
• Coordinate and provide technical support to the UN-SWAP and UNCT-SWAP Help Desk Support services, including providing guidance, training and expert advice;
• Identify and deploy expert advisors, as necessary;
• Develop relevant guidance, plans and other initiatives to support gender equality policies, strategies and mechanisms for managerial accountability;
• Provide substantive and organizational support to the UN-SWAP and UNCT-SWAP inter-agency workshops and meetings, including drafting work plans, developing meeting agendas, overseeing logistical arrangements for meetings, and issuing regular communications to the UN-SWAP and UNCT SWAP Focal Point Network through a variety of channels, including in-person meetings;
• Review and contribute to the update of the design, technical notes and overall adequacy and implementation of the UN system-wide accountability frameworks for gender mainstreaming in light of feedback from entities, and recommendations from other coordination bodies and input from Member States and provide suggestions for improvement;
• Provide technical assistance to UN-SWAP and UNCT-SWAP focal points to promote the use of data generated through the process of implementation of the accountability frameworks, the use of the gender equality marker and financial targets for gender equality, gender focused evaluations, gender audits, gender responsive evaluations and similar tools;
• Provide technical contributions to UN system-wide initiatives to strengthen financing for gender equality, including gender equality markers, financial resource tracking, financial targets, and related inter-agency approaches
• Implement UN 2.0 approaches in the context of the UN-SWAP, UNCT SWAP and GEM and UNCT-GEM, including foresight, innovation, data, digitalisation (including harnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI), and behavioural science, and support the uptake at system-wide level, via UN-SWAP and UNCT-SWAP Focal Points network and UN-SWAP and UNCT-SWAP reporting entities , of integrated analyses to identify potential pathways for systems transformations in the area of gender mainstreaming and gender-related thematic areas prioritized by the national government.
• Provide substantive support to monitoring and reporting individual and aggregate results on the implementation of the gender mainstreaming strategy in the UN system to intergovernmental processes and high-level UN global coordination mechanisms:
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative monitoring of policy, practice and progress made by the organizations of the UN System for enhanced gender mainstreaming and analysis of annual UN-SWAP, GEM, UNCT-SWAP and UNCT-GEM reporting results;
• Provide substantive support to the production of entity level reports and personalized letters on annual UN-SWAP reporting results and provide technical contributions to the quality assurance of self-reporting by UN entities and UNCT;
• Support the drafting of the annual report of the Secretary-General on “Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system” and provide support to the subsequent ECOSOC annual Resolution;
• Provide inputs for other high-level briefs and reports of the Secretary-General on accountability for gender mainstreaming in the UN system, including financial accountability, and overall gender mainstreaming and gender equality, women’s rights and the empowerment of women and girls;
• Provide substantive input in the preparation of position papers and reports for policy-making organs and responses to member states’ requests, as necessary.
• Provide substantive support to the preparation of communication materials, capacity building initiatives, knowledge management and outreach efforts related to gender mainstreaming and system-wide accountability frameworks:
• Provide technical contributions to the conceptualization and development of knowledge products to increase accountability for gender mainstreaming;
• Lead the management of the UN and UNCT-SWAP reporting platform and Knowledge Hub, an online repository of resources for each of the performance areas of the UN and UNCT-SWAP, including policies, practices, training materials and lessons learned;
• Contribute to the organization of in-person and online meetings, workshops and webinars, including the Annual Conference of UN-SWAP Focal Points;
• Manage the UN SWAP online reporting site, including liaising with site developers and overseeing necessary updates and improvement of the reporting mechanisms and user experience;
• Manage and update webpages related to promoting accountability on the UN Women global website;
• Provide technical contributions to the development communication and information products such as newsletters, website updates, social media and other dissemination materials;
• Collaborate with the UN Women Training Centre and other UN training and research institutes for UN system-wide capacity building initiatives on gender mainstreaming and accountability on gender mainstreaming and strengthening the focal point system, and coordinate and/or contribute substantively to seminars, expert group meetings, panel discussions, etc. on emerging topics related to the UN -SWAP and system-wide accountability frameworks;
• Develop and strengthen partnerships with a broad range of actors in the UN Syst