Republic of Moldova

UN Women: Programme Analyst on Women’s Human Rights (WHR Programme Analyst)

Vacancy Number: Of17/01507

Location:	Chisinau, Moldova
Application Deadline:	11 Apr 2017, 23:59 (GMT+2:00)
Type of Contract:	N/A
Starting date:	01 May 2017
Reference to the project:	UN Women
Expected Duration of Assignment:	One year
Submission Instructions: This is a local position, therefore only citizens of the Republic of Moldova are eligible to apply. Applications should be submitted on line (following this link) and include fully completed UN Women Personal History Form as attachment instead of CV/resume, with the mark “WHR Programme Analyst” by 11 of April, 2017, COB. Failure to disclose prior employment or making false representations on this form will be grounds for withdrawal of further consideration of his/her application or termination, where the appointment or contract has been issued. Note: The system will only allow one attachment, hence all supporting document e.g. P11, CV and Cover letter must be scanned as one attachment. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment. Only qualified, shortlisted candidates will be contacted for test and interview. In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.
Supporting Documents: ToR WHR Programme Analyst 23 Mar17.docx Personal History Form (P11) UN Women UN Women Conditions of Service Consultants

Background

UN Women is operational in Moldova since 2010. Currently, it is implementing its Strategic Note for 2014-2017. UN-Women closely cooperates with the government, civil society, and private sector to advance social, economic and political rights and opportunities for women and girls, placing special focus on those from marginalized groups. These include, but not limited to rural women, Romani women, women with disabilities, young women, women living with or affected by HIV, women survivors of violence and trafficking, women migrants, elderly women and women in Transnistria and Gagauzia. We work with them to challenge the stereotypical image of women. We apply new tools to ensure women’s proactive engagement in designing, prototyping and implementing the state policies and plans. Thus, UN-Women’s operation in Moldova focuses on bringing about concrete change in the lives of women and the society as a whole through the following three key areas.

Eliminating Violence Against Women. UN-Women employs adaptive solutions by empowering survivors of violence from various backgrounds to speak up and advocate for concrete actions with their peers as well as with authorities and the media. This approach so far has led to changing perceptions of survivors by the authorities, media and other women, so they are acknowledged and involved as the key experts in eliminating VAW in legislative, policy, institutional and community level initiatives. Lately, UN-Women has started to mobilize other actors of society including youth, religious leaders, former perpetrators, judicial staff, police, members of the artistic community, so that under the leadership of the survivors of violence, the ‘whole of society’ can produce long-overdue results for women. Apart from these, UN-Women has continued the conventional technical interventions/solutions, such as support to government authorities and civil society partners to implement provisions of the Domestic Violence Law (2008) and strengthening the legislative framework by further aligning it to international norms and standards. UN-Women’s next Strategic Note for 2018-2022 in Moldova will build on these results and further inform support to the country in this area of work at all levels.

Women in Politics and Leadership. Women’s opportunities to hold elected office in Moldova are still low, with women from marginalized groups virtually absent from decision-making positions. In response to these challenges, UN-Women is leading a comprehensive UN joint programme on promoting women in politics, implemented together with UNDP and two civil society organizations. Partnerships are forged with legislators, institutions and community leaders to empower them to increasingly work with women, especially those who are marginalized from the decision-making, thus enabling the women to lead the required changes. This is being done through community level mentoring and role modeling, exchange of good practices and establishment of self-support networks, especially among women elected for the first time in Parliament and local councils or appointed as mayors. UN-Women will work further to strengthen the networks between women from all levels and continue legislative and policy work in order to ensure women’s fair access to politics and real influence in a sustainable manner.

Women’s Economic Empowerment. UN-Women has initiated a number of strategic actions in this area. The first state strategy for women’s entrepreneurship was jointly created with women in business and currently being considered by the Government. Additionally, the government launched a process of re-engineering public services (as part of the Public Services Modernization Reform agenda) by taking over a successful public services provision model through one-stop shop piloted by UN-Women. For over two years, more than 100 girls, including Romani girls, girls with disabilities, girls who experienced violence and girls who are left behind by their migrant parents, benefited from an initiative on information and communication technologies (ICTs) as one of the promising employment and self-employment opportunities. UN Women also works closely with policy makers to adopt state programmes that empower women in technology and entrepreneurship.

Together with Government and national counterparts, the organization has fully embraced the call for exploring innovative ideas to find sustainable and transformative solutions as envisaged by Agenda 2030. The operational support is designed in a way that it allows to proactively embark on new opportunities and assist our partners to deal with the emerging challenges within the scope of the set priorities in an innovative manner.

UN-Women’s presence has evolved from being a project-based office in 2010 to a Country Office with full delegated authority as of 2015. During these years, UN-Women’s role has also evolved gradually, both from the technical and strategic standpoints. At the start, our mind was set around ‘working for women’, which later evolved into ‘working with women’. In the immediate future, we are seeing our path towards increasingly acting as a ‘facilitator’ for the creation of an environment, whereby ‘women-to-women’ serve as a vehicle for sustainable change towards greater equality in partnership with men and boys. UN-Women’s successful engagement in Moldova today is owed in large part to the openness and cooperation of the Parliament, government and judicial authorities, as well as to the civil society organizations at the grassroots as well as central level. The proactive support and partnership of the Swedish Government enables UN-Women in Moldova to operate with confidence and to experiment and share ‘what works’ in challenging development areas. The cooperation of other development partners has helped to open new avenues of collaboration for greater equality in the country. UN-Women as part of the 12 resident agencies in Moldova is actively promoting the Delivering as One modality.

Currently, Moldova Country Office is in its final stage of implementation of its strategic plan covering the period 2014-2017. This entails number of key momentums, including the completion of current and starting of new programs, raising funds for the new areas of engagement and focus, and implementing new programs, including innovative programs on eliminating violence against women and girls and engaging men and boys for this purpose.

UN Women is therefore looking for a Programme Analyst on Women’s Human Rights (WHR Programme Analyst), who will also act as a WHR Lawyer in the team to focus on the recommendations from the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), UPR and other treaty body and charter based bodies’ at the country level. WHR analyst will contribute to the fulfillment of UN Women’s normative mandate in the Republic of Moldova.

Scope of work

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the National Programme Officer/Programme Specialist and in close collaboration with UN Women Moldova programme and operations staff, WHR Programme Analyst will be responsible to support timely and synergetic implementation of the UN Women Strategic Note and its action plans in the area of Eliminating Violence Against Women (EVAW) as well as ensuring coordination of implementation of UN Women Normative mandate in line with the corporate guidelines, rules and regulations.

Requirements for experience

Education:

• Master degree in Law, International Development, Human Rights or related sciences.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience related to protecting and promoting women’s human rights, or related experience with development partners or projects;
• Solid academic and practical experience on human rights;
• Related experience and/or knowledge of UN Charter based and Treaty Bodies and their recommendations to member states;
• Strong concept development, presentation and reporting skills;
• Experience in data analysis is a strong asset;
• Experience in the UN system, agencies and international organizations is an asset;
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and advance knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web based management systems.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in Romanian, Russian and English (written and spoken) is required;

 

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