Gender and Results Officer

Job Description

Background
 
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
 
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

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Under the direct supervision of the Head of QARE unit and in close collaboration with colleagues in the Programme and Operation Sections of UNDP Indonesia, the Gender and Results Officer is responsible for the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment, facilitation of implementation of the gender strategy in UNDP Country Office (CO) level, supporting gender mainstreaming into programmes and projects and provision of substantive and technical input toward achieving full compliance with gender seal programme.
In addition, s/he will be in charge for producing gender-sensitive Result Reporting which will provide transparent information on impact and results achieved by the CO’s programme. S/he will also apply the practical tools and guidelines to make an assessment, measure and monitor improvements of results on gender equality and women’s empowerment of the Country Programme.
 
Duties and Responsibilities

The Gender and Results Officer will serve as an advisor and resource person for the Country Office for the issues related to gender equality, women empowerment, and gender sensitive results management.

Technical support, advice and inputs to the country programme development, implementation of CO Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) strategy:

 As Country Office (CO) gender focal point guide the development and/or ensure implementation of UNDP’s Strategic Plan and the Country Office’s Gender Equality and Social Inclusion strategy, its plan of action, and gender mainstreaming tools and ensure regular review of the Country Office’s programme and projects from a gender perspective.
In coordination with the Head of Quality Assurance and Results Unit, ensure design and implementation of gender sensitive results and resource framework (outputs, indicators, baseline and targets) and monitoring and evaluation plan, including regular monitoring of gender marker and provide advice to programme colleagues to maximise budget allocation directly contributing to gender equality results.
To provide advisory support to programme and project colleagues in ensuring the integration of gender and social inclusion perspective into annual work plan and programme/project implementation (including support for gender analysis, gender screening in the Local Project Appraisal Committee/LPAC processes),
To work with Operations unit to ensure gender sensitive operations business processes are implemented and CO gender parity is promoted at all levels.

Capacity-building and production and dissemination of lesson learnt from gender mainstreaming exercise for the whole office and ensuring effective cross-project and cross-unit knowledge fertilization: 

To provide guidance and coordination for systematic and regular orientation and learning of all UNDP staff, gender focal point and implementing partners on gender mainstreaming to enhance their capacity to fully integrate gender dimension in policies, programs and projects.
Lead the capacity assessment of gender mainstreaming capacity and propose and execute gender equality related capacity-building activities for CO , project staff and national stakeholders of UNDP projects/programmes. At minimum, It includes capacity building on gender analysis, gender mainstreaming in programming, and other substantive gender topics relevant to key development practices that UNDP is working.
Orient CO and project staff on the use of Gender Marker, in assessing the extent of gender sensitivity in development approaches and the level of investment of UNDP, monitor and analyze the results for Gender Marker reporting and produce recommendation of action plan.
Orient CO and project staff on workplace-related gender issues in collaboration with the Learning Manager.
Leading capacity building for prevention sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse for internal and external parties in line with guidance from corporate/ global task force.
Together with CO-colleagues, especially with Communication Specialist, actively engage in identifying and developing news articles, media products and advocacy materials to advance policy messages for gender equality and social inclusion.
To provide support in improving the CO’s capacity to produce programmatic monitoring tools and results reports that are gender-sensitive, such as through the Internal Project Assurance Report (PAR) and other required UNDP’s monitoring and reporting mechanism .
Conducts internal capacity building training for project staff to facilitate appropriate management and timely delivery of gender-transformative project outputs.Support knowledge generation and knowledge sharing based on programme/project experiences, and, when appropriate, make contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.

Partnership development

To ensure partnerships to promote gender equality as defined in the country office Gender Equality Strategy are implemented with government, gender machinery, key line ministries and civil society organizations (in particular women’s organizations).
Strengthen the gender dimension of inter-­‐agency activities and promote gender networking between government, development partners, UN agencies, civil society organizations and private sector partners.
Promote collaborative work across the practice areas, and support them towards the promotion of gender equality, women’s empowerment and enhancing their effectiveness to achieve the other development goals.

Gender sensitive results management, Evaluation and Reporting

Coordinate and supervise the programme level reporting (Results Oriented Annual Report/ROAR) and assist in coordinating CO input to the corporate system including updating the CPD Outcome Indicators and the Strategic Plan’s Integrated Results and Resources Framework (IRRF).
To ensure the CO’s reports provide adequate and concise information on progress on the country office work on gender and reflect all gender transformative results as part of ROAR.
Provision of advice and support to the corporate mid-term and annual programme level reporting (Country Programme Development Monitoring Dashboard and Integrated Working Plan/IWP).
In coordination with Quality Result and Assurance Unit, monitor and coordinate project evaluation, reviewing past evaluation and ROAR’s in order to identify lessons learned and advising Programme accordingly.
In coordination with Quality Result and Assurance Unit, supports the gender inclusive of the programme and/or project documents development, and to conduct corporate GESI annual progress report.

The incumbent of the position should avoid any kind of discriminatory behavior including gender discrimination and ensure that 

Human rights and gender equality is prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions.
Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with “Social and Environmental Standards of UNDP”.
Any kind of diversities based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, gender is respected within all implementations including data production;
Differentiated needs of women and men are considered.
Inclusive approach is reflected within all actions and implementations, in that sense an enabling and accessible setup in various senses such as disability gender language barrier is created.
Necessary arrangements to provide gender parity within all committees, meetings, trainings etc.

Competencies

Core competencies: 

Achieve Results: LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work.
Think Innovatively: LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking.
Learn Continuously: LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning.
Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process.
Act with Determination: LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously.
Engage and Partner: LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships.
Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making.

People Management competencies:

UNDP People Management Competencies can be found in the dedicated site.

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Governance

Migration and Displacement: Knowledge of migration and displacement and the ability to apply to strategic and/or practical situations.

Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsive Institutions

Social Cohesion: Knowledge of methods and experience of supporting communities to achieve greater inclusiveness, more civic participation and creating opportunities for upward mobility.

Gender

Gender Issues and Analysis: Knowledge of gender issues and the ability to apply to strategic and/or practical situations, including analysis of projects from a gender perspective.

Business Management

Results Based Management: Ability to manage programmes and projects with a strategy aimed at improved performance and demonstrable results.
Project management: Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals.
Monitoring: Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme performance and results 
Partnership management: Ability to build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and private sector partners, experts and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies. Sets overall direction for the formation and management of strategic relationships contributing to the overall positioning of UNDP.

Required Skills and Experience
 
Education:

Masters’ Degree or Bachelor’s in gender studies, social science, law, business administration, economics, population studies or related discipline. Academic knowledge in relation to gender and social inclusion will be an added advantage but it is not a requirement. Bachelor's degree with 2 years of relevant experience will be given due consideration in lieu of Master's degree.

Experience:

Minimum 2 years of relevant experiences with the programmes which had gender equality, women’s empowerment results or had integrated gender equality and women’s empowerment in the programme/project design and other results-based management (RBM) frameworks would be preferrable. No experience is required with Master's degree. 
Good organizational skills, with strong experience in organizing and facilitating meetings and workshops.
Ability to produce a good quality report.
Ability to work under the pressure, with minimum supervision and on-distance.
Strong teamwork skills.
Strong computer literacy and proficiency in MS Office (MS Word, Excel, etc.);
Experience in research on gender equality issues
Excellent analytical skill and advance computer skills required, knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages.
Good inter-personal and team building skills.
Experience in the design, management, monitoring and evaluation of development projects, establishing relationships among international organizations and national governments would be highly desirable.
Familiar with Government and UN/UNDP procedures would be desirable.
Ability to liaise, coordinate and work with NGOs, companies and government agencies in Indonesia would be highly desirable.

Language Requirement:

Fluency (both oral and written) in English.