UN Women – United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women Senior Advisor – Policy and Strategic Planning, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

ination 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. Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its
efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure
that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into
action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in
support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective
partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

• Substantive input and coordination of support to
  national policy development and financing for GEWE, including to
  intergovernmental processes and global/regional initiatives and campaigns;
• Support UN system and DP partnerships and
  alliances at country level and lead the Country Office Coordination and
  Programme Support Unit;
• Strategic planning, knowledge generation and
  capacity building.

• Provide strategic guidance regarding UN Women
  support to national policy development on GEWE and gender responsive
  budgeting;
• Conduct and lead the analysis of data and provide
  evidence to build the case for policies and interventions on gender
  equality and the empowerment of women;
• Support and or commission research and country
  profiles and develop policy papers, practice notes/concepts and other
  knowledge based-tools for discussion in global, regional or national fora
  to influence/advance policy dialogue;
• Prepare briefing materials for the CR on issues
  to be discussed in the UN and broader DP group and other related events
  and meetings. Alert CR on critical issues for action to be addressed;
• Substantive support to Country Office, Government
  and NGO involvement in intergovernmental processes and global/regional
  initiatives on GEWE.

• Contribute substantively to the development of
  strategic approaches to policy dialogue, resource mobilization,
  partnerships, advocacy and outreach;
• Provide technical and policy leadership when UN
  Women participates in, convenes, or leads UN interagency groups and DP
  groups on policy related areas, including technical support on gender
  responsive budgeting to the DPG Gender and the Budget Support
  Group/Development Partners;
• Strategic advisory support to the IAGG and the
  Development Partner Group on Gender as well as UN engagement in the Gender
  Mainstreaming Working Group on Macro Policy;
• Team leader of the UN Women Country Office Unit
  on UN Coordination and Programme Support and ensure substantive and
  technical quality according to standards and goals for each thematic area
  of the UN Women Country Programme;
• Provide guidance to UN Women Tanzania Country
  Office on UNDAP programming modalities and strategies in support of GEWE
  to devise improved strategies for ensuring that UN Women‘s investment in
  coordination processes is yielding results in support of gender equality
  and women’s human rights;
• Oversee, develop proposals and manage
  projects/studies with respect to thematic gender equality policies and programmes
  or other relevant interventions at national or regional/international
  level.

• Establish and nurture relationship with academia,
  research institutes, civil society and experts to expand and share
  knowledge, exchange views on latest findings, incorporate cutting-edge
  thinking in UN work;
• Collect and share lessons learned on coordination
  and UN system programming and contribute to development of knowledge
  management products and tools in UN Women and IAGG;
• Provide strategic guidance and technical support
  to the development, monitoring and reporting on the UN Women Stratgic
  Note/UNDAP and Annual Work Plans;
• Contribute substantive content to the preparation
  of UN Women country office/joint UN reports and advocacy material;
• Participate in global practice network on
  coordination, sharing and learning best practices to keep abreast of
  and/or to contribute to ongoing debates and strategic thinking and to
  exchange experience and/or seek support on coordination issues affecting
  UN Women and UN system programmes and operations;
• Ensure the use of evaluation findings to feed
  into knowledge management and decision making at the country level;
• Design and implement capacity development
  activities to enhance skills and knowledge on request;
• Any other tasks within the mandate of UN Women,
  as requested by the Country Representative.

• Demonstrate consistency in upholding and
  promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with
  the UN Code of Conduct.

• Demonstrate professional competence and expert
  knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.

• Demonstrate an appreciation of the multicultural
  nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrate an
  international outlook, appreciating difference in values and learning from
  cultural diversity.

• Demonstrate and safeguard ethics and integrity.

• Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound
  judgment.

• Take charge of self-development and take
  initiative.

• Demonstrate ability to work in a multicultural,
  multi ethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with
  people of different national and cultural backgrounds.

• Facilitate and encourage open communication and
  strive for effective communication.

• Stay composed and positive even in difficult
  moments, handle tense situations with diplomacy and tact, and have a
  consistent behavior towards others.

• Surface conflicts and address them proactively
  acknowledging different feelings and views and directing energy towards a
  mutually acceptable solution.

• Encourage learning and sharing of knowledge.

• Demonstrate informed and transparent decision
  making.

• Substantive knowledge and experience related to
  current policies and practices on GEWE including regional and global
  frameworks and processes;
• Ability to conceptualize and convey strategic
  vision from the spectrum of development to experience;
• Strong communications and presentation skills,
  with proven expertise in writing cogent and convincing policy and
  programme documents for development practitioners;
• Effectiveness in establishing and fostering good
  relations with government counterparts, UN agencies, donors, and NGO
  partners;
• Knowledge of the Tanzanian Development
  Cooperation Framework and Dialogue mechanisms and national coordination
  processes;
• Effectiveness and pro-activity;
• Ability to lead in formulating, implementing,
  monitoring and evaluation of development programmes and projects and
  research and familiarity with results-based programme planning and
  management;
• Well-developed coordination and people management
  skills.

• Master degree (or equivalent) in development
  related disciplines, gender issues, economics, public policy, law or other
  social science fields.

• At least 5 years of extensive development
  experience that combines intellectual, strategic and managerial leadership
  in development, policy analysis, gender equality in national or
  international contexts, of which at least seven years are in the area of
  Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment;
• Familiarity with and experience of National,
  Regional and International Policy processes on GEWE;
• Coordination and networking experience in the
  area of GEWE;
• Proven leadership and management experience.

• High level of proficiency in written and spoken
  English;
• Knowledge of another UN language is an added
  advantage