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## Gender Programme Specialist, P-3, Pacific Multi-Country Office, Suva, Fiji, Post # 134376 (Temporary Appointment)

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Job no:** 589040**
Contract type:** Temporary Appointment**
Duty Station:** Suva**
Level:** P-3**
Location:** Fiji/Pacific Island Countries**
Categories:** Gender Development**

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

**For every child, *the right to an Opportunity***

In the Pacific we work in Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu: These 14 Pacific island countries are home to 2.3 million people, including 1.2 million children and youth, living on more than 660 islands and atolls stretching across 17.2 million square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean, an area comparable to the combined size of the United States of America and Canada. Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu are classified as Fragile States according to World Bank/OECD criteria.

All 14 Pacific Island countries and territories have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, but only a third are on track with reporting obligations. Explore the different areas of our work here: UNICEF Pacific Islands.

**How can you make a difference****?** 

Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative – Programme, the Gender Programme Specialist will coordinate the implementation of the Pacific Gender and ADAP Strategy and provide technical support to programme teams on key gender priorities. This role is critical to ensure that gender equality is systematically mainstreamed across UNICEF’s work in the Pacific.

The successful candidate will lead the integration of gender priorities across one or more of UNICEF’s five programme outcome areas, ensuring strong alignment with the Gender Action Plan (GAP). They will support cross-sectoral collaboration to promote coherence, synergy, and efficient use of resources in delivering gender results. The role involves providing technical guidance to ensure that gender outcomes are clearly defined, effectively measured, and accurately reported, while also supporting high-quality assessments, research, and evaluations that inform programming. The Specialist will contribute to emergency preparedness and response by identifying and addressing gender-specific needs and will work closely with ADAP focal points to operationalize the Gender and ADAP Strategy, with a particular focus on empowering adolescent girls and promoting their meaningful participation in the Pacific.

**Key functions/accountabilities: **

• **Technical and/or advisory support to Deputy Representative, Senior Gender Programme Specialist, or Representative**

• Actively participate in or support Country Management Team (CMT); Programme Coordination Team and other key country-specific leadership teams to ensure strategic inclusion of gender in all country-specific programming. 

• Coordinate with the Regional Gender Advisors and the Headquarters Gender Section to plan, utilize, monitor and report on the Gender Thematic Fund, or other programmatic funds with large gender components that are allocated to the country-specific interventions for the Country Programme, under the Country Office senior management.

• In collaboration with sectoral colleagues and under the guidance of Deputy Representative, participate in the planning and monitoring of the utilization of the budget allocated to sectoral and cross-sectoral gender interventions with sectoral colleagues.

• Lead the gender component of the reporting of the routine country-level programme expenditures, including the annual reporting and the RAM.

• Provide technical input and review on the gender components in key funding proposal appeals and submissions and in the design of funded projects/programs so that gender technical components are clearly defined and technical capacities are included.

• **Support to programme/project development and planning (including emergency contexts)**

• Participate and support in evidence-based programme/project planning on gender, incorporating robust measurement and evaluation of results - especially in the event of the Country Programme development and Mid-Term Review.

• Provide technical leadership on integration of gender into country programming phases, including strategic planning, SitAns, strategic moments of reflection, CPDs, CPMPs, mid-term reviews, extended annual reviews, programme component strategy notes and in the programmatic assessment and institutional strengthening components of gender reviews.

• In collaboration with sectoral colleagues and senior management, identify the areas of focus for gender programming/projects with the greatest potential for impact and scale, in alignment with the GAP and the country/regional priorities.

• Work with sectoral counterparts and senior management to incorporate sound gender indicators and measures in programme/project and policy initiatives, proposals, and advocacy efforts and assist in developing gender-sensitive theories of change models for sector and cross-sectoral programming (in particular with reference to the ADAP priorities which are aligned with the office’s focus on climate, girls’ empowerment and skill building).

• **Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results (including emergency contexts)**

• Support indicator identification, measurement and performance tracking as it relates to gender mainstreaming and the Targeted Gender Priorities, in collaboration with Planning, M&E and planning section and sectoral teams.

• Participate in cross-sectoral collaboration and coordination on key programmatic results on gender and adolescents’ participation (specifically focusing on UNICEF’s Programme Strategy on Adolescent Girls), ensuring coherence, maximization of synergies and efficiency in utilization of resources and delivery of results

• Support the strengthening of data systems and collection, as well as accountability mechanisms to monitor and evaluate progress on gender results.

• Support high quality reporting on gender results, and a biannual performance review of GAP specified results.

• Work closely with evaluation colleagues to effectively integrate data collection, tracking, analysis and reporting on the indicators for the GAP into programme results and gender performance benchmarks into M&E systems.

• Participate in the strengthening of the quality of research and evidence building on gender related programming, by supporting the bringing in of the latest learning and insights from the field of gender and development, and supporting the input of a coherent, well-prioritized research agenda in alignment with the GAP.

• Support the planning and implementation of the gender reviews and make sure that the recommendatio...

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• Fiji/Pacific Island Countries

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• Gender Development

## Position level

• P-3

## Gender Programme Specialist, P-3, Pacific Multi-Country Office, Suva, Fiji, Post # 134376 (Temporary Appointment)

Apply now
Job no:** 589040**
Contract type:** Temporary Appointment**
Duty Station:** Suva**
Level:** P-3**
Location:** Fiji/Pacific Island Countries**
Categories:** Gender Development**

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

**For every child, *the right to an Opportunity***

In the Pacific we work in Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu: These 14 Pacific island countries are home to 2.3 million people, including 1.2 million children and youth, living on more than 660 islands and atolls stretching across 17.2 million square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean, an area comparable to the combined size of the United States of America and Canada. Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu are classified as Fragile States according to World Bank/OECD criteria.

All 14 Pacific Island countries and territories have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, but only a third are on track with reporting obligations. Explore the different areas of our work here: UNICEF Pacific Islands.

**How can you make a difference****?** 

Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative – Programme, the Gender Programme Specialist will coordinate the implementation of the Pacific Gender and ADAP Strategy and provide technical support to programme teams on key gender priorities. This role is critical to ensure that gender equality is systematically mainstreamed across UNICEF’s work in the Pacific.

The successful candidate will lead the integration of gender priorities across one or more of UNICEF’s five programme outcome areas, ensuring strong alignment with the Gender Action Plan (GAP). They will support cross-sectoral collaboration to promote coherence, synergy, and efficient use of resources in delivering gender results. The role involves providing technical guidance to ensure that gender outcomes are clearly defined, effectively measured, and accurately reported, while also supporting high-quality assessments, research, and evaluations that inform programming. The Specialist will contribute to emergency preparedness and response by identifying and addressing gender-specific needs and will work closely with ADAP focal points to operationalize the Gender and ADAP Strategy, with a particular focus on empowering adolescent girls and promoting their meaningful participation in the Pacific.

**Key functions/accountabilities: **

• **Technical and/or advisory support to Deputy Representative, Senior Gender Programme Specialist, or Representative**

• Actively participate in or support Country Management Team (CMT); Programme Coordination Team and other key country-specific leadership teams to ensure strategic inclusion of gender in all country-specific programming. 

• Coordinate with the Regional Gender Advisors and the Headquarters Gender Section to plan, utilize, monitor and report on the Gender Thematic Fund, or other programmatic funds with large gender components that are allocated to the country-specific interventions for the Country Programme, under the Country Office senior management.

• In collaboration with sectoral colleagues and under the guidance of Deputy Representative, participate in the planning and monitoring of the utilization of the budget allocated to sectoral and cross-sectoral gender interventions with sectoral colleagues.

• Lead the gender component of the reporting of the routine country-level programme expenditures, including the annual reporting and the RAM.

• Provide technical input and review on the gender components in key funding proposal appeals and submissions and in the design of funded projects/programs so that gender technical components are clearly defined and technical capacities are included.

• **Support to programme/project development and planning (including emergency contexts)**

• Participate and support in evidence-based programme/project planning on gender, incorporating robust measurement and evaluation of results - especially in the event of the Country Programme development and Mid-Term Review.

• Provide technical leadership on integration of gender into country programming phases, including strategic planning, SitAns, strategic moments of reflection, CPDs, CPMPs, mid-term reviews, extended annual reviews, programme component strategy notes and in the programmatic assessment and institutional strengthening components of gender reviews.

• In collaboration with sectoral colleagues and senior management, identify the areas of focus for gender programming/projects with the greatest potential for impact and scale, in alignment with the GAP and the country/regional priorities.

• Work with sectoral counterparts and senior management to incorporate sound gender indicators and measures in programme/project and policy initiatives, proposals, and advocacy efforts and assist in developing gender-sensitive theories of change models for sector and cross-sectoral programming (in particular with reference to the ADAP priorities which are aligned with the office’s focus on climate, girls’ empowerment and skill building).

• **Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results (including emergency contexts)**

• Support indicator identification, measurement and performance tracking as it relates to gender mainstreaming and the Targeted Gender Priorities, in collaboration with Planning, M&E and planning section and sectoral teams.

• Participate in cross-sectoral collaboration and coordination on key programmatic results on gender and adolescents’ participation (specifically focusing on UNICEF’s Programme Strategy on Adolescent Girls), ensuring coherence, maximization of synergies and efficiency in utilization of resources and delivery of results

• Support the strengthening of data systems and collection, as well as accountability mechanisms to monitor and evaluate progress on gender results.

• Support high quality reporting on gender results, and a biannual performance review of GAP specified results.

• Work closely with evaluation colleagues to effectively integrate data collection, tracking, analysis and reporting on the indicators for the GAP into programme results and gender performance benchmarks into M&E systems.

• Participate in the strengthening of the quality of research and evidence building on gender related programming, by supporting the bringing in of the latest learning and insights from the field of gender and development, and supporting the input of a coherent, well-prioritized research agenda in alignment with the GAP.

• Support the planning and implementation of the gender reviews and make sure that the recommendatio...