Coordinator- Gender Equality Seal for Development

Background
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Job Purpose and Organizational Context

UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP's policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan.

 Within the GPN, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP's Strategic Plan. BPPS's staff provides technical advice to Country Offices, advocates for UNDP corporate messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government, and civil society dialogues, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. BPPS works closely with UNDP's Crisis Bureau (CB) to support emergency and crisis response. BPPS ensures that issues of risk are fully integrated into UNDP's development programmes.  BPPS assists UNDP and partners to achieve higher quality development results through an integrated approach that links results-based management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of working.  BPPS supports UNDP and partners to be more innovative, knowledge and data-driven including in its programme support efforts.

UNDP has achieved significant progress in making gender equality and women’s empowerment integral to its work on human development. UNDP’s Gender Equality Strategy 2022-2025, which built on the lessons of the previous strategies, established as the main goal to help governments to shift systems and power structures that generate gender inequalities and women’s disempowerment. UNDP works through its six signature solutions on poverty and inequality, governance, resilience, environment, energy, and gender equality; it promotes integrated approaches in each thematic area, stronger investments in data and analysis, and the implementation of innovative solutions to transform social norms, as well as stronger partnerships with UN agencies and with civil society. It also puts continued emphasis on institutional transformation for gender equality, including through continued implementation of its flagship initiative, the Gender Equality Seal for Development.

The Gender Team (BPPS) has the leading role in the implementation of the Gender Equality Strategy 2022-2025, including through the implementation of Gender Equality Global Program 2023-2025. 

 

Duties and Responsibilities

The Coordinator of the Gender Equality Seal for Development, under the supervision of the Director of the Gender Team (New York), will: 

 

1. Lead the implementation of the Gender Equality Seal for Development.

• Lead the implementation of the Gender Equality Seal for Development, launching the Fifth Round of the Seal for Country Offices and expanding it to Regional Hubs and Headquarters Teams, including coordinating the review and update of its methodology.
• Ensure effective management of the Seal initiative, including by budgeting and managing financial resources; and by recruiting/training personnel as needed.
• Liaise with key internal actors for the effective implementation of the Seal, including Central (e.g., BPPS, CB, BMS, BERA, etc.) and Regional Bureaus, Regional Hubs (RH) and Country Offices (CO).
• Provide strategic advice and oversight/quality assurance to the overall Seal offer, including to the technical support for participant Country Offices