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UN Women Vacancy - Programme Analyst on Women’s Economic EmpowermentVacancy Number: Of17/01508
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. Since 2010, UN Women has been implementing the regional project “Promoting Gender Responsive Polices in South-East Europe and the Republic of Moldova” covering Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYR Macedonia) and the Republic of Moldova. The project is financially supported by the Austrian Development Agency and the Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development. Its overall goal is to support the advancement of implementation of national and international commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment in line with national Sustainable Development Goals priority targets. The project is structured around two outcomes: - Governments in targeted countries promote gender responsive fiscal laws, policies and national action plans to enable specific budgetary allocations for gender equality; - Gender advocates and MPs demand accountability from national and local governments on policies and budgetary allocations for GEWE. The programme’s country component implemented in the Moldova includes activities focused on enhancing the institutionalization of GRB at central and local level and an extensive component for introducing gender responsive budgeting in academia. 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 Economic Empowerment (WEE Programme Analyst), who will also be responsible for timely and synergetic implementation of the project “Promoting Gender Responsive Policies in East Europe Region” in Moldova. Scope of work
Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the National Programme Officer/Programme Specialist (and Regional Project Manager on Promoting Gender Responsive Budgeting in Eastern Europe for the implementation of the regional project in Moldova) and in close collaboration with UN Women Moldova programme and operations staff, WEE Programme Officer will be responsible to support timely and synergetic implementation of the UN Women Strategic Note and its action plans in line with the corporate guidelines, rules and regulations. Requirements for experience
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Language Requirements:
Working knowledge of one or more additional languages relevant for Moldova, including Bulgarian, Gagauzian, Romani, Ukrainian or sign language would be an asset.
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