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UNIFEM is the United Nations Development Fund for Women with the objective of providing financial and technical assistance to innovative programs and strategies that promote women's
human rights, political participation and economic security. Within the UN system, UNIFEM promotes gender equality and links women's issues and concerns to national, regional and global agendas by fostering collaboration and providing technical expertise on gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment strategies.


UNIFEM is consolidating and expanding its work and presence in Rwanda, a country of strategic significance, among 7 other countries in Central Africa, under the purview of the UNIFEM Central Africa Regional Office (SRO), in Kigali . UNIFEM's work in Rwanda is moving forward in the areas of Peace and Security, HIV and AIDS, Economic Security and rights.

Rwanda is also one of the eight pilot countries for the "One UN" initiative, whose objective is UN system wide coherence for greater development impact. Under the "One UN Pilot" UN organizations will work together as a coordinated UN Country Team (UNCT) under the leadership of the UN Resident Coordinator and with a view to having common programmes, a common budget and a common administrative system. UNIFEM is one of the UN agencies currently part of the one UN Pilot, and is committed to strengthening its support to Rwanda through its programme activities and resources that have been integrated into the One UN Plan; through the development of new programmes; through technical and other support to the RC and UNCT to establish and implement programme focused on gender equality and women's empowerment and to mainstream gender into the work of the UN system as a whole.



To this end, UNIFEM's Regional Office in Central Africa seeks to recruit an International Programme Manager specialized in programme development and implementation, project analysis and resource mobilization.
Duties and Responsibilities

The UNIFEM Programme Manager, in Rwanda will work under the supervision of UNIFEM Regional Programme Director (RPD) in Central Africa based in Kigali and in close collaboration with the UN Resident Coordinator (RC) with the objective to support the ONE UN initiative.
Programme Development and Management in the framework of the UN joint programmes :

* Strengthen UNIFEM's role in the ongoing multisectoral programmes for addressing gender- based violence by participating as an active member of the UN joint programme;

* Identify strategic programme opportunities and develop further programmes, which include lobbying for a joint UN gender programme through consultation and collaboration with members of the UN gender working group and the development partners, including emerging issues for programming such as peacemaking and peacebuilding, HIV & AIDS, aid effectiveness and human security;

* Support and monitor the development and implementation of activities under the UN Theme Group on Gender, including UN Joint Programming on specific Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Issues. Such activities should respond to priorities identified in the Rwanda national gender policy, UNDAF and joint programmes ; drawing on the comparative advantage of each UN agency and ensuring throughout the full engagement of relevant national partners in government and civil society;

* Take a lead on knowledge management and ensure documentation and dissemination of lessons learned; support resource mobilization efforts for programming under the Gender Task Force and the regional GBV task force;

* Carry out ongoing advocacy to maximize UN support towards the realization of national plans and priorities;

* Monitor ongoing projects both substantively and financially to ensure efficient and timely delivery and results;

* Study and synthesize proposals from partners and advise on the relevance to UNIFEM programming;

* Enhance UNIFEM's participation in inter-agency and inter-governmental processes, with particular emphasis on UNDAF, Povery Reduction Strategies, International Conference on the Great Lakes, Peacebuilding Commission among others;

* Design and manage effective guidelines for donor reporting in other to ensure efficient implementation and compliance with donor requirements;

* Develop effective and innovative strategies for resource mobilization.
Advisory Functions
Provide specialized advice to the Resident Coordinator's office to enhance gender mainstreaming, internal UN coordination as well as country-coordination on gender within the One UN Initiative: Work closely with the Cluster Advisors to the RC/UNCT to promote and sustain inter-agency cooperation and harmonization of gender-related activities in the one UN Initiative. This includes:
* ensuring that gender perspectives are well mainstreamed and resourced under the one UN Plan; that agencies that are part of the one plan harmonize activities and results on gender; that the results framework for the One Plan has gender perspectives at its core;

* that gender equality and women's empowerment perspectives are mainstreamed into and well resourced under the Joint Programmes of different UN Theme Groups; that there are synergies on gender equality interventions under the one plan and theme groups;

* lead knowledge management on gender issues for UN organizations participating in the One UN Pilot, ensuring documentation and dissemination of lessons learned for UN coordination; draw on UN/UNIFEM good practices and experiences on gender equality, including from other One UN pilots;

* support UNCT in monitoring and reporting of UN work focused on gender; ensure that existing UN policies and any new guidance on gender equality work are widely disseminated and supported at country levels;

* support the Chair/co-Chair in identifying and negotiating agreements with donors/funding mechanisms (e.g. UNDEF, Spanish Development Fund, bilateral donors).
Managerial Functions :

The Rwanda Programme Manager is accountable for integrity, transparency, and equity in the management of UN resources including:
* People Management through recruitment, performance and career management of 1 or 2 Professional staff;

* Learning Management, establishing Learning Plans and ensuring staff supervised meet their development needs while meeting the needs of UN ;

* Providing strategic and data inputs into UNIFEM programme activities, and the gender component of the One UN programme, including budget preparation exercises and management of sub-allotment to the gender programme. In addition the programme manager will ensure that relevant thematic areas are integrated into the programs/projects in the framework of the One UN joint programmes.;

* Content Management by ensuring (1) prescriptive content on gender equality is continuously updated and available through the UN web site; (2) good practices are continuously identified, documented and made available to clients and peers through the web site; and (3) appropriate and up-to-date information and learning tools are available;

* Matrix Management by ensuring products and results, handovers and consultations are prepared; effective and efficient management of partnerships.
Perform any other duties that support and strengthen UNIFEM's work as assisgned by the Regional Director
Competencies

Corporate:
* Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN's values and ethical standards;

* Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNIFEM;

* Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;

* Treats all people fairly without favouritism;

* Demonstrates high tolerance for change and complexity
Functional:
* Has substantive and demonstrated knowledge and professional experience and record of accomplishment in the area of gender equality and women's human rights, piece making, peace building, HIV/Aids, aid effectiveness and human security;

* Has knowledge of UNIFEM and the UN system;

* Has proven ability to advocate and provide policy advice;

* Has a successful track record in developing strong partnerships with donors and mobilizing significant resources for development assistance programmes;

* Has ability to lead strategic planning, change processes, results-based management and reporting;

* Has ability to lead formulation, oversight of implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development programmes.

* Has substantive and demonstrated knowledge and professional experience and record of accomplishment in the area of gender equality and women's human rights, piece making, peace building, HIV/Aids, aid effectiveness and human security;
Behavioural
Leadership and Management Skills:
* Has strong management skills with a proven record of building and managing teams and creating an enabling work environment, including the ability to effectively lead, develop, mentor, coach and evaluate staff

Communication Skills;

* Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills, including ability to convey complex concepts to different stakeholders in a clear and concise style. Proven networking and teambuilding skills.

Required Skills and Experience


Academic background:
* Advanced university degree in social sciences, political or international affairs.

* Technical expertise: Gender analysis and mainstreaming in programming and implementation;

* knowledge of legal and policy frameworks on women's rights/roles and analytical skills particular in poverty reduction and economic empowerment, leadership and peace building.
Experience:
* At least seven years work experience in any of the following fields: human rights, confict prevention, humanitarian issues, gender and development; programme and policy analysis;

* Other necessary skills: Maturity, ability to take decisions under pressure and ability to deal with matters that are politically or culturally sensitive. Innovative.

* Flexible and result oriented.

* Strong analytical, writing and communication skills, capacity for experience in training.
Languages:
* Fluency in English and French.

PROGRAMME MANAGER ONE UN


Location : Kigali, RWANDA

Application Deadline : 18-Mar-10

Type of Contract : FTA International

Languages Required :
English French


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.
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