UN Women stands for United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. It is grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and 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.
Additionally, UN Women Sudan’s Strategic Note (SN) 2018-2024 aims to consolidate efforts that contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment in Sudan. Key strategies for the implementation of the country program include capacity building, advocacy, gender mainstreaming, evidence, information and data collection, as well as the use of media to highlight and inform the general population of Sudan.
What are the advantages that come with being employed at UN Women:
- Allowing employees to contribute to a global movement and make a tangible impact on gender equality issues.
- Allowing employees to collaborate with diverse stakeholders, build partnerships, and leverage collective efforts to drive transformative change for gender equality.
- Expand employees’ professional network and open doors for future opportunities.
Job Details: Job Title: Senior Blueprint Targets Consultant Unit: UN Women Job Place: Home-based Deadline: 19-Mar-24
Education & Qualifications Requirements:
- Master’s (or equivalent) in a relevant social science discipline.
- PhD is an asset.
Work Experiences:
- A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible work experience conducting evaluative research using tools for systematizing and analyzing large amounts of qualitative and quantitative data.
- Significant record of research, peer reviewed publications and writing on gender and development issues;
- Experience in coordinating and designing cross-country comparative research projects;
- Experience in coordinating global or regional research reports.
Languages:
- Fluency in written and oral English is required.
- Working knowledge of another official UN language is an asset.
Career Key Responsibilities:
- Review and revise the existing 2024 workplan (2024 Blueprint Targets Analysis Proposal)
- Lead the organization of the Blueprint Targets Working Group prepare for and lead four larger and 15 smaller meetings with Action Coalition members and representatives from custodian agencies)
- Manage Blueprint Target Indicator review, including work planning, coordination with partners, development of presentations, and documentation of results.
- Source data and bridge methodological gaps for indicators. This includes quality control of potential new data sources, ensuring alignment between indicators and targets, and general decision-making on statistical methods.
- Liaise with Action Coalition and custodian agency representatives to ensure new work done on indicators is collaborative, documented, and universally verified
- Create and provide quality assurance for large, complex relational databases and statistical techniques for each indicator
- Develop presentations, narratives, tables, and graphs in a variety of formats that are appropriate and understandable to a range of audiences, as needed
- Provide substantive support to the supervisor and R&D section Chief as requested.
