UN Women: Communication Specialist P3; Temporary Appointment UN Women Job Geneva area,Switzerland,Non-Profit & Social Impact

Position: UN Women: Communication Specialist P3 (Temporary Appointment) UN Women

Job Description
Please note this is a re-advertised position. Those who previously applied are still under consideration and do not need to re-apply.
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. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations System efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world.

The Policy, Programme, and Intergovernmental Division (PPID) is responsible for providing the vision and strategic direction on UN Women’s programmes and policy initiatives globally and integrated support to regional and country offices. UN Women’s engagement with International Geneva reflects the deep partnership between the UN System and Switzerland, and an evolving ecology of international assistance and development. UN Women, as the recognized leader within the UN System for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, partners with Geneva-based UN Agencies and Organizations to leverage UN-System wide resources and capabilities.

UN Women Geneva presence is focused on invigorating its role in this vibrant network and contributing essential knowledge and influence to catalyze progress in line with international commitments and agreed-upon standards for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls across the fields of humanitarian action, human rights, disaster risk reduction, economic empowerment, as well as peace and security.

Some of the main goals of the office are:

Lead the United Nations System commitment to gender equality, women’s empowerment, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a new way that leverages the powerful complementarity of normative, coordination and operational elements of the organization’s mandate; and ensure linkages across the humanitarian-development and peace/resilience agenda.

Influence normative, inter-governmental decision-making processes to incorporate a gender perspective in the resolutions of the Human Rights Council and other relevant mechanisms and platforms, increasing collaboration among UN Women’s partners and stakeholders including member states, UN agencies and civil society organizations.

Catalyze results for advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment commitments in sudden onset humanitarian emergencies and protracted crises through UN Women’s membership in the Inter-Agency Standing Committee for Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance.

In 2023, a record 339 million people need humanitarian assistance – a significant increase from 274 million people at the beginning of 2022. Across humanitarian contexts, the gendered impacts of crises are starkly evident, and too often ignored. In recognition of this, there is a sustained call for UN Women to strengthen its role in the humanitarian system, particularly in light of its ascension to the IASC in October 2022.

UN Women’s Humanitarian Strategy guides its response to the world’s most complex humanitarian crises, seeking to leverage its triple mandate to support humanitarian actors deliver for women and girls. Through this strategy, UN Women seeks to:

Facilitate the integration of gender equality, and the leadership of crisis affected women, into the coordination and implementation of UN-led humanitarian and refugee responses, to strengthen accountability to gender in humanitarian action commitments (Gender in Humanitarian Action coordination); and

Strengthen protection and livelihood support to crisis-affected women and girls.

Strengthening strategic communications on gender impacts of humanitarian crises and UN Women’s approaches and partnerships is included as a top priority in the operational plan guiding the implementation of UN Women’s humanitarian strategy during the last two years of the Global Strategic Plan.

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