Policy Advisor, Peacebuilding and Accountability, P-5

UN Women

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, known as UN Women works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

Job Description

The Policy Division develops and implements the UN Women program of work on analysis, research and knowledge management that provides the evidence base for the advice and guidance UN Women provides to the intergovernmental process, the UN system, and to UN Women staff working at country and regional level on issues of gender equality and women’s empowerment. It identifies emerging issues and trends, and develops and proposes new strategies for achieving the agreed goals through innovative approaches and lessons learned about what works in practice. It also designs and oversees the training and capacity development programs of UN Women, working closely with the UN Women training facility in Santo Domingo.

The Policy Division staff is organized in Thematic Clusters.  Technical experts perform the functions below:

• Undertake issues-based research
• Analyze data on country, regional or global trends
• Build a knowledge base on policy commitments and their implementation
• Propose evidence-based options for global policy, norms and standards and for UN Women global programme strategies
• Contribute substantive inputs to policy advocacy and technical cooperation programmes.

Under the supervision of the Section Chief, the Policy Advisor is responsible for developing and implementing the organization policies in his/her thematic area of expertise to achieve gender equality and advancement of women. He/she provides technical and policy advice at country and regional levels, through strategy development, thematic reviews, tools for capabilities building and channels for knowledge sharing and prepare documentation for UN normative intergovernmental processes; prepare studies, reports and content for policy advocacy.

Summary of Key Functions:

• Practice management functions;
• Substantive intergovernmental support and policy development;
• Advisory services, technical guidance and programme support;
• Representation and advocacy;
• Knowledge generation and capacity building.

Application Information

• For further details and in order to apply please visit UN Women’s website at: 

http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment/ 

Closing date for applications 13 April 2014