Programme Management Specialist

Programme Management Specialist

**LOCATION**:
Santiago, CHILE

**TYPE OF CONTRACT**:
FTA Local

**STARTING DATE**:
**APPLICATION DEADLINE**:
16-Sep-24 (Midnight New York, USA)

**POST LEVEL**:
NO-C

**DURATION OF INITIAL CONTRACT**:
**TIME LEFT**:
20d 13h 54m

**LANGUAGES REQUIRED**:
English Spanish

**EXPECTED DURATION OF ASSIGNMENT**:
1 year

**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.







UN-Women comprehensively addresses the root causes of inequality from a perspective of transforming the systems that reproduce gender inequalities and discrimination and with a peace-building approach around:

- Voice, leadership and autonomy of women.
- Strengthening multilateral and regional regulatory frameworks, and laws, policies and institutions that promote gender equality at the national and subnational levels.
- Effective participation and protection of women in all areas of peacebuilding, security and humanitarian action.
- Equitable access of women to services, goods and resources.
- Financing gender equality and women's empowerment.
- Positive social norms, including the participation of men and boys.
- Production, analysis and use of gender statistics.
- Coordination of the United Nations system for gender equality and the empowerment of women.

The Strategic Plan 2022-2025 guides UN-Women in the implementation of its triple mandate, covering policy support,





United Nations system coordination and operational activities, to mobilize urgent and sustained action to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and support the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.

UN Women in Chile has its first Strategic Note 2024-2026. This, based on the global Strategic Plan, includes regulatory support activities, coordination with the United Nations system and operational actions. The Strategic Note proposes a vision of impact aimed at ensuring that women in Chile benefit from gender equality, access empowerment opportunities and fully enjoy their human rights, including those who belong to marginalized groups.

Within this framework, UN Women in Chile develops a series of initiatives regarding the rights and economic empowerment of women,





the eradication of all forms of gender violence and the promotion of non-discrimination against women in education, in the tasks of care and social protection among other policies with a gender focus, within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals.

In this context, it is necessary to hire a Program Management Specialist, who **can lead, direct and coordinate the programmatic implementation of the Strategic Note of the UN Women office in Chile**. Under the supervision of the Head of Office, the **Programme Management Specialist** will be responsible for managing and coordinating the development, implementation, monitoring and reporting of programmes for the CO,





including providing technical support to the implementation of the CO programme, managing the monitoring and reporting for the CO, overseeing and guiding people and budget management for the programme team, building partnerships and providing support in developing resource mobilization strategies, and managing knowledge building efforts.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**1. Manage the programmatic development for the Country Office, based on the Strategic Note**
- Provide overall programme advisory support to the Office Management;
- Guide the development of the CO programme, and provide technical support to the design and formulation of programme/ project initiatives;
- Review and provide feedback to project/ programme strategies and documents, workplans,





case studies and related knowledge products and publications, as needed;
- Provide technical advice on the development of systems, processes and mechanisms to support programme planning, implementation, monitoring and progress reporting;
- Review and evaluate proposals and oversee the preparation of donor proposals and reports;
- Draft policy documents, briefs and other strategic papers/ materials for the use in the development and presentation of policy and programmatic positions.

**2. Provide technical support to the implementation of the Country Office programme**
- Review programme annual work plans to assure compliance with UN Women programme goals and results-based indicators;






- Analyze and ensure alignment of project budgets with logical framework matrices and work plans;
- Draft reports on activities, outputs and outcomes; and compile information in preparations of country office donor and UN Women reports;
- Analyze and ensure alignment of project budgets with logical framework matrices and work plans;
- Manage prog

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