Senior Adviser - Gender Equality (P-5), FT, PG Gender Equality, New York HQ # 00094900

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 For every child, … an advocate….!

In 2021, UNICEF adopted a Gender Policy and Gender Action Plan 2022-2025 (GAP), to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in key areas of UNICEF's work. The GAP specifies five targeted priorities for adolescent girls – adolescent health and nutrition; education and skills; preventing child marriage and violence; menstrual health and hygiene and social protection. It also provides a gender focus on key results in the life course sectoral areas of UNICEF's work: health and nutrition; education; child protection; water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and social protection and also describes a series of actions to establish more gender transformative workplaces in UNICEF, including rolling out family friendly policies and achieving gender parity at all levels of staffing.

At Headquarters (HQ), UNICEF has created a core cadre of gender equality experts dedicated to supporting programmatic and other teams to achieve the targets of the GAP and its successive strategies from 2026 and beyond. This technical and learning hub is in place to provide real-time technical advisory, including generating evidence and lessons learned on good practice approaches; applying tailored guidance on gender transformative programming within existing sectoral programmes; amongst others..

How can you make a difference?

Join UNICEF as a Senior Advisor for Gender Equality, where you'll play a pivotal role in advancing gender equality outcomes for women and girls under the strategic guidance of the Associate Director. Collaborating closely with sector teams in immunization, nutrition, health, WASH, and climate, you will analyze and address gender barriers, empower community frontline workers, and promote solutions to combat malnutrition and reduce maternal and child mortality. You’ll oversee gender equality initiatives in humanitarian contexts and drive resilience against climate impacts, all while mobilizing resources and ensuring rigorous evaluation of effective strategies. If you're passionate about making a meaningful difference in the lives of women and girls, we invite you to apply!

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have to…

 Technical advisory to strengthen design and implementation of priority equity-based programming with a gender lens.

• Provide organizational strategic guidance and technical advice to advance gender integration in sectoral programmes in line with GAP results and Strategic Plan priorities.
• Collaborate with different sectoral programme and other teams in UNICEF to advance girls’ and women’s nutrition and health through gender transformative approaches.
• Oversee UNICEF’s gender and climate action contributions in line with UNICEF’s Sustainable Climate Action Plan (SCAP).
• Provide coordination and guidance to UNICEF’s gender in humanitarian action portfolio.
• Mobilise and nurture partnerships for gender equality in health, nutrition and WASH programming.

• Develop and lead systematic efforts to document outcomes, lessons learned and best practices of gender equality results within key sectors.

• Facilitate learning and knowledge sharing across countries and regions, building on existing communities of practice and knowledge hubs.

Leadership of global partnership, advocacy, communications and innovations for gender equality

• Advance organizational strategic partnerships with key global stakeholders in health, Nutrition and WASH programmes and position UNICEF as a trusted and key thought leader agency in integrating gender across life course results.
• Enhance the integration of gender in sectoral programmes proposals, concept notes and programme guidance for internal and external partners.
• Contribute to UNICEF advocacy priorities relevant to life course results, support the dissemination of research results, and shape UNICEF contributions