Chief, Leadership & Decision-Making NGO Job UN Women

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Key Functions and Accountabilities:

Lead the development and implementation of UN Women’s strategy for Women’s Leadership and Decision-Making:

• Serve as a globally recognized thought leader on women’s leadership and decision-making and provide authoritative strategic advice to the UN Women leadership and the rest of the organization.
• Direct the development and implementation of a comprehensive UN Women strategy for women’s leadership and decision-making that reflects evidence-based policy approaches, taking advantage of the entity’s strengths, demonstrated niche and triple mandate to position the organization as an influential and relevant actor in ensuring women’s leadership across various sectors and contexts and the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, exercising independent judgment on strategic priorities and resource allocation.
• Establish standards for and oversee the provision of high quality and timely policy support to Member States and other partners for the advancement of normative frameworks on women’s leadership and decision-making including through directing preparation of Secretary General reports.
• Provide authoritative policy guidance and advice to UN Women regional and country offices to develop and implement initiatives that promote political participation and leadership, determining appropriate technical approaches and intervention strategies.
• Drive innovation and cutting-edge practices, drawing on feminist leadership and governance policy and practice, to enhance the development of policies and programmes, shaping organizational approaches and methodologies.
• Convene leading feminist academics, development policy specialists and practitioners on gender equality and women’s leadership to advise on and guide UN Women’s Women’s leadership and decision-making strategy.

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Oversee the development and implementation of the programmatic initiatives on women’s leadership and decision-making:

• Direct data collection, including relevant SDG indicators, and research on the linkages between global commitments on women’s equal participation in leadership and decision-making and their implementation at global, regional and national levels, establishing priorities and quality standards.
• Lead and ensure accountability for the roll-out and operationalization of UN Women’s global programming framework for women’s leadership and decision-making in country and regional Strategic Notes and projects.
• Direct the development of global projects that catalyze country and regional programming, support cross-regional collaboration and generation of global data and evidence for replication and impact at scale, exercising significant independent judgment on project design and partnership strategies.
• Spearhead the development, testing and roll out of tools and methodologies to enhance programming and results and incorporation of lessons learned.
• Lead and implement a policy research and practice agenda reflecting the linkages between global normative commitments on women’s leadership and decision-making and their implementation at global, regional and national levels.
• Direct results management efforts for the Impact Area to ensure that UN Women strategically plans, achieves and captures SP results, establishing performance metrics and accountability frameworks.
• Collaborate with other thematic sections to provide integrated policy and programmatic advice to regional and country offices across development and humanitarian contexts.

Oversee research, analysis and knowledge management in the area of Women’s Leadership and Decision-making.

• Establish the strategic direction for UN Women’s global research and knowledge agenda on women’s leadership and decision‑making, determining research priorities and resource allocation.
• Direct the production of high‑quality policy knowledge, including analytical papers, briefs and evidence products, exercising authoritative judgment on technical content and strategic positioning.
• Establish and oversee systems for data, evidence and knowledge management, ensuring accuracy, coherence and alignment with corporate standards.
• Strengthen knowledge‑sharing platforms and communities of practice to facilitate learning across HQ, regional and country offices.
• Ensure quality assurance of all knowledge products, including adherence to peer‑review and editorial requirements.
• Develop and institutionalize innovative tools and methodologies to support evidence‑based policy and programming.
• Provide authoritative technical guidance to regional and country offices on integrating evidence into policy dialogue and programming.

Education and Certification:

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in development related disciplines, gender issues, economics, public policy, law or other social science fields directly related to the thematic area of the post 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 programme or project certification in this area of work would be an added advantage.

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