UN Women - 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.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Programme Manager, Humanitarian and Disaster Risk Reduction
Location: Contract
Employment Type: Full-time
Starting Date: 01-Jan-2024
Expected Duration of Assignment: 2 Years
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.
In Nigeria, UN Women supports the strengthening of women’s voice, agency, and leadership across sectors to advance their rights, provide space for their meaningful participation, and contribute to tangible differences in their lives. Under the overarching SN 2022-2027, UN Women’s work in Nigeria focuses on four programmatic areas, including, governance and leadership, women’s economic empowerment, ending violence against women, and women, peace and security and humanitarian action, and disaster risk reduction.
The violent conflict in Northeast Nigeria has led to massive displacements and destruction of livelihood, with the worst affected states of Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe experiencing high displacement, enormous human, social, and economic losses, and severe levels of food insecurity and malnutrition. This effect of the North-East crisis has been worsened by the amplifying deeply entrenched gender inequalities that are putting women at higher risk of its health and socio-economic impact.
UN Women Nigeria Country Office capitalizes on its Sub-Offices located in Maiduguri to work with design and deliver intervention to address the economic, protection needs of vulnerable women in Internally displaced settings and host communities in Northeast, Nigeria in close collaboration with the Government of Nigeria. To this end, UN Women seek to recruit a Programme Manager, Humanitarian and Disaster Risk Reduction to support implementing its humanitarian and disaster risk reduction programmes.
Reporting to the Deputy Representative, the Programme Manager, Humanitarian, and Disaster Risk Reduction will oversee the development of Humanitarian programmes, provide capacity building to Nigeria Country Offices, establish and strengthen partnerships, and develop relevant knowledge products on Humanitarian and Disaster Risk Reduction.
Duties and Responsibilities
Manage the development of programmes on Humanitarian to Nigeria Country Office Programme Presence teams:
Provide capacity-building support to Nigeria Country Office Programme Presence and partners:
Establish and strengthen strategic partnerships with stakeholders, regional/ international actors and development partners:
Manage the resource mobilization strategy for humanitarian action in the Nigeria Country Office:
Manage the design of humanitarian action in the region and the development of relevant knowledge products:
Manage the advocacy of humanitarian action through inter-agency coordination:
Manage advocacy and communication efforts of humanitarian action:
Manage knowledge building and sharing for humanitarian action:
Competencies
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Required Skills and Experience
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How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Application Deadline 30th November, 2023 (Midnight New York, USA).
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