Overview
Provides strategic leadership and technical programme support to advance gender equality and women's empowerment across UN Women's mandate areas in Syria. The role involves leading advocacy, coordination, and technical support to the Syrian government and other stakeholders, and establishing strategic partnerships.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee programmatic development for humanitarian, WEE, and coordination programming.
- Advise and guide the development of programme/project initiatives.
- Review and provide feedback to ongoing projects/programmes.
- Provide strategic and specialized technical advice on programme planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting.
- Review and evaluate proposals and oversee the preparation of donor proposals and reports.
- Finalize policy documents, briefs and other strategic papers/materials.
- Assess annual work plans and provide recommendations.
- Analyze and ensure alignment of project budgets with logical framework matrices and work plans.
- Oversee programme quality control and identification of potential challenges.
- Ensure all country offices have aligned programme plans with operations plan.
- Establish and maintain relations with government, partners, stakeholders and donors.
- Provide substantive research and inputs in the formulation and implementation of the country resource mobilization strategy.
- Review programme monitoring standards, criteria, and indicators.
- Oversee the monitoring of progress against results frameworks and performance indicators.
- Gather information and prepare reports on programme implementation.
- Prepare technical reports.
- Provide technical support in the preparation of audits and follow up on audit recommendations.
- Develop, coordinate and provide training on results-based management.
- Monitor programme financial situation to ensure adherence to delivery rates and utilization of resources.
- Ensure effective information flow, communication and coordination between offices, programmes and projects.
- Review and develop partnerships and resource mobilization strategies.
- Finalize relevant documentation on donors and develop potential opportunities for resource mobilization.
- Analyze and research information on donors, prepare substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation.
- Determine programmatic areas of cooperation and develop relevant partnerships.
- Lead the process of identifying and synthesizing best practices and lessons learned.
- Develop Gender Analysis, policy documents, briefs and other strategic papers/materials.
- Represent UN Women in UN system coordination, with a focus on programming.
- Chair the Gender Working Group, as delegated.
- Lead a team, conduct performance reviews, and ensure capacity development of personnel.
Required Experience
At least 7 years of progressively responsible experience in programme management, including programme design, programme coordination, monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting and capacity building is required. Experience in working in a gender related area is required. Experience in UN coordination, programme, and policy analysis is required. Experience in setting priorities, budgets, work plans, participating in programme development and programme writing is required. Experience leading and coaching staff in international settings is required. Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required. Experience in the use of a modern web-based ERP System, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable. Experience working in Syria or Arab States region is desirable.
Qualifications
Master’s degree or equivalent in Social Sciences, Political Science, Development, Public Administration, Gender is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. A project/programme management certification would be an added advantage.
