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Background:
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
To support member states in implementing the 2030 Agenda, UN Women’s Global Flagship Programme Initiative (FPI) “Making Every Woman and Girl Count” (Women Count) aims to affect a radical shift in the availability, accessibility and use of data and statistics on key aspects of gender equality and women’s empowerment. The Programme envisions a multi-year and multi-country programme of work, supported by global and regional activities linking normative and technical work on gender statistics at the global level to the regional and national levels through three interlinked areas of work:
- Building a supportive policy and institutional environment for the localization and effective monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
- Increasing the quality, comparability and regularity of gender statistics to address national data gaps and meet reporting commitments under the SDGs; and
- Ensuring that gender statistics are accessible to users in governments, civil society, academia and the private sector, to strengthen adequate demand for their production.
In line with this global FPI developed by UN Women HQ, UN Women LAC Regional Office developed a regional project that is specific to the context of the region in order to support efforts to strengthen the production, analysis, and use of gender statistics to inform public policies, support decision-making, and monitor progress towards gender equality, as well as strengthen regional-level collaboration with key partners to help promote and support country-led plans to localize and monitor the SDGs.
Under the supervision of the Deputy Regional Director of UN Women LACRO, the Regional Statistics Specialist will oversee the regional implementation of Women Count; provide knowledge and capacity development services to UN Women offices and project/programme teams to strengthen their capacities in the area of gender statistics. Support UN Women’s strategic engagement at the regional level, including building partnerships and advocating for better gender data; and contributing to knowledge generation on gender statistics and SDGs monitoring and implementation.
Key Functions and Accountabilities:
- Manage and oversee the implementation of Making Every Woman and Girl Count at the regional level:
- Lead the planning of the regional project and activities to ensure timely and comprehensive implementation of Women Count and ensure that the implementation of Women Count follows strict quality standards, as established under the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics and the Principles Governing International Statistical Activities; XXX
- Identify and undertake the programmatic and administrative tasks necessary for the implementation of Women Count, including preparation of budgets, reporting on budget/programme performance, and preparation of inputs for results-based budgeting;
- As necessary, support periodic regional monitoring reports to take stock of regional progress towards SDG targets related to gender equality and women’s empowerment;
- Frequently liaise with the team at Headquarters to report on activities, contribute the regional perspective and ensure that the implementation of regional activities is in line with the overall objectives of Women Count.
- Provide substantive technical support to establish UN Women’s statistical work in the region, including strategic direction and positioning of UN Women’s work on gender and statistics at regional and country levels.
2. Provide knowledge and capacity development services to UN Women offices and project/programme teams to strengthen their capacities in the area of gender statistics and SDGs monitoring:
- Produce and disseminate templates, guidance notes and methodologies, including for conducting country level assessments, national and sectoral plans to monitor gender-related commitments in the SDGs and data use plans;
- Provide adequate technical and policy support to UN Women offices and ROAS Member States on demand, including providing direct technical support to countries on all matters related to gender statistics and SDGs monitoring;
- Provide referral services to countries, including as necessary, through the establishment of a roster of thematic consultants and experts on gender statistics;
- Organize and provide regular training to UN Women country and programme office to progressively build their capacity in the area of gender statistics;
- Establish and actively lead a regional community of practice to facilitate knowledge sharing, improve coordination and support knowledge sharing on gender statistics.
3. Lead and participate in UN Women’s strategic engagement at the regional level, including building partnerships and advocating for better gender data:
- Develop and manage the partnerships needed to implement regional FPI, including with governments, donors, international agencies, civil society and organizations and the private sector; XXX
- Strengthen UN Women’s relationship with key regional players such as ECLAC, CARICOM and others international agencies and civil society organizations, particularly to strengthen gender data use in the region;
- Facilitate South-South and triangular cooperation to support sub-regional and national processes on gender statistics;
- Support discussions around the regional adaptation of SDGs indicators, including by promoting a strong link between globally agreed indicators and their regional adaptations and ensuring that these are fed into national plans to localize SDGs;
- Make substantive contributions to global/ regional/sub-regional/national workshops, seminars, colloquia, other training events related to statistics including proposals concerning agenda topics, possible participants, preparation of documents and presentations, etc.;
- Promote and publicize the work of UN Women in gender statistics;
- Initiate resource mobilization by liaising with the partnership division in UN Women, engaging with partners and potential donors to raise funding;
- Undertake training activities including delivering lectures on selected topics to support capacity development.
4. Knowledge management and contribute to monitoring and evaluation of results
- Working with the team at HQ and contribute to the production of monitoring plans that are in line with and consistent with the overall objectives of the project;
- Effectively manage the targets established and oversee the monitoring of results, including ensuring adequate inputs and performance indicators are incorporated to allow for effective progress monitoring and successful achievement of Women Count;
- Contribute to all activities related to the monitoring and evaluation of the Women Count project and support regional monitoring and reporting on gender statistics results aligned with the UN Women Strategic Plan and the Regional Strategic Note 2026-2029.
- Codify best practices and lessons learned, and knowledge-sharing, covering all aspects of the regional programme;
- Contribute to and support inter-regional dialogue on best practices in data collection, and use on gender statistics;
- Lead the monitoring and collection of use cases of gender statistics at regional level;
- Produce regional guidance notes on best practices and lessons learned in gender statistics.
5. The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation.
Competencies :
Core Values:
- Integrity;
- Professionalism;
- Respect for Diversity.
Core Competencies:
- Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
- Accountability;
- Creative Problem Solving;
- Effective Communication;
- Inclusive Collaboration;
- Stakeholder Engagement;
- Leading by Example.
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Functional Competencies:
- Excellent knowledge related to current policies and practices in the area of gender statistics;
- Strong knowledge of modalities of UN technical support at global, regional and country levels, with a focus on gender statistics;
- Strong knowledge of UN intergovernmental processes, including the monitoring framework established for SDGs;
- Proven expertise in writing cogent and convincing policy and programme documents for development practitioners;
- Proven analytical and problem solving skills;
- Ability to leverage information technology, information systems, management techniques and tools for optimal office performance;
- Ability to establish and foster good relations with government counterparts, UN agencies, donors, and NGO partners;
- Proven ability to promote individual and organizational learning and knowledge sharing using formal and informal methodologies;
- Proven ability to organize and manage knowledge management processes and tools;
- Excellent presentational and public speaking skills.
Recruitment Qualifications:
Education and Certification:
- An Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in statistics, economics or a related field 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.
Experience:
- At least 7 years of progressively responsible experience in statistics.
- Experience in gender equality and women's empowerment is required;
- Experience working in the UN system is an asset.
- 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.
Languages:
- Fluency in English and Spanish is required.
- Knowledge of French or Portuguese is an asset.
- Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable (French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish).
Statements :
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.
Diversity and inclusion:
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