Un Women: Policy Advisor, Women’s Economic Empowerment, Panama City, Panama, P5, Fta
hace 2 semanas
**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.
The UN Women Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean in Panama, guided by the LAC regional strategy and aligned with UN Women’s Strategic Plan on economic empowerment, focuses on key priorities within this thematic area. These priorities include integrating a gender perspective into the adoption and localization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), fostering macroeconomic environments that promote gender equality, and advancing women’s economic rights. The office also prioritizes the eradication of female poverty through gender-responsive policy making and budgeting, ensuring equal employment opportunities and decent work for all genders, and enhancing women’s access to resources. Additional priorities involve gender mainstreaming in national planning and budgeting processes, promoting women’s entrepreneurship, and strengthening the relationship between women and the private sector.
Reporting to the Regional Director, the Policy Advisor for Women’s Economic Empowerment will oversee the development of programs and resource mobilization strategies in these thematic areas. The role includes providing capacity building to country offices and multi-country offices in the region, establishing and strengthening partnerships, and leading the creation of relevant knowledge products on economic empowerment with a special emphasis on care, livelihood strategies and decent work, gender budgeting and macroeconomics and financial inclusion of women facing structural discriminations in LAC. This position is integral in ensuring that the organizational priorities are effectively translated into actionable outcomes and impactful results.
**Key Functions and Accountability**:
**1.Manage the development of programmes on gender equality and women’s economic rights to support Programme Presence Office (PPO)/Country Office (CO)/Multi Country Office (MCO) teams**
- Manage the development and implementation of an integrated strategy for the delivery of technical assistance, policy advocacy and programme support in the region;
- Manage the development of regional programme documents on women´s economic empowerment;
- Oversee the contextualization/ localization of programme documents, country strategies, and knowledge products, and ensure proper monitoring and reporting in women´s economic empowerment.
**2.Lead the provision of capacity building support to Programme Presence Office (PPO)/Country Office (CO)/Multi Country Office (MCO) teams and partners**
- Lead COs and MCO programme teams in developing and strengthening policies, projects/ programmes and modalities to support the implementation of global norms and standards; and ensuring proper monitoring;
- Manage the identification of knowledge and implementation gaps and possible solutions;
- Develop, implement and monitor capacity building initiatives.
- Lead the provision of technical policy advice to programme/ project managers/specialists in the region, with special emphasis in care systems.
**3.Establish and strengthen strategic partnerships with stakeholders, regional/ international actors and development partners**
- Build and strengthen strategic partnerships for the advancement of women´s economic empowerment;
- Build and strengthen close liaisons with relevant donors and other actors supporting efforts towards women´s economic empowerment;
- Produce periodic updates and briefs on regional/country development situation to be used by stakeholders, CO and HQ;
- Maintain close contact with relevant staff in UN Women HQ and with other relevant UN agencies and IFIS.
**4.Manage the resource mobilization strategy for women´s economic empowerment in the region**
- Participate in the implementation, monitoring and periodic updating of the resource mobilization strategy on women´s economic empowerment in the region;
- Provide technical support to field-based presences in the region in mobilizing resources for the implementation women´s economic empowerment;
- Research and analyze information on donors; prepare substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation.
**5.Lead the design of women´s economic empowerment in the region and the development of relevant knowledge products**
- Lead the provision of policy recommendations and guidance to strategic planning and positioning on women´s economic empowerment;
- Lead and provide advice to regional/ national bodies; represent UN Women in interagency groups that influence national policies related to women´s economic empowerment;
- Contribute substantively and lead existing thematic and gender equality networks to better connect UN Women and partners;
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