Consultant: Coordinator For THE Global Gender And Climate Alliance
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Closing date: October 27, 2008.
Description:
Location: New York, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Application Deadline: 27-Oct-08
Additional Category: Women’s Empowerment
Type of Contract: SSA
Post Level: SSA
Languages Required: English
Starting Date (date when the selected candidate is expected to start): 01-Jan-2009
Duration of Initial Contract: one year
Expected Duration of Assignment: one year
Background:
The Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA) was formed in November 2007 to ensure that climate change policies, decision-making, and initiatives at the global, regional and national levels are gender responsive. The GGCA enables the UN and other global institutions to implement the wide range of agreements and forums that recognize the importance of integrating a gender perspective into environmental and poverty eradication policies and initiatives; the sum of which provides a global policy framework on gender and climate change. The strategies of the GGCA are the following: The strategies of the GGCA are the following:
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0.25em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 14px; background-image: url(http://awid.org/extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/images/bullet_list.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; line-height: 1.25em; list-style-type: none; background-position: 0px 0.4em;">Integrate a gender perspective into global policy and decision making in order to ensure that the UN mandates on gender equality are fully implemented. <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0.25em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 14px; background-image: url(http://awid.org/extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/images/bullet_list.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; line-height: 1.25em; list-style-type: none; background-position: 0px 0.4em;">Ensure that UN financing mechanisms on mitigation and adaptation address the needs of poor women and men equitably. <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0.25em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 14px; background-image: url(http://awid.org/extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/images/bullet_list.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; line-height: 1.25em; list-style-type: none; background-position: 0px 0.4em;">Set standards and criteria for climate change mitigation and adaptation that incorporate gender equality and equity principles. <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0.25em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 14px; background-image: url(http://awid.org/extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/images/bullet_list.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; line-height: 1.25em; list-style-type: none; background-position: 0px 0.4em;">Build capacity at global, regional and local level to design and implement gender-responsive climate change policies, strategies and programmes. <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0.25em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 14px; background-image: url(http://awid.org/extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/images/bullet_list.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; line-height: 1.25em; list-style-type: none; background-position: 0px 0.4em;">Establish a network for learning, knowledge exchange and advocacy on gender and climate change.The core partners of the GGCA are UNDP, IUCN, and UNEP. Additional agencies, institutions, governments, and civil society organizations participate through collaborative partnerships. This allows for multiple global institutions to form a critical mass and speak with one voice, in order to bring about change at the highest level of the climate change debates towards gender equality.
Through the appointment of a dedicated staff person, the GGCA’s core partners (UNDP, IUCN, and UNEP) seek to accelerate their role as leaders on gender equality issues in the area of climate change.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The Coordinator of the GGCA is responsible for the following:
- Support the implementation of the GGCA work plan by its core partners
- Provide effective liaison between the core partners of the GGCA
- Build and maintain GGCA partnerships
- Advance the GGCA’s planning process
- Develop and implement the GGCA communications strategy
- Monitor emerging opportunities in the area of climate change, in order to inform GGCA strategy
- Conduct research and develop analysis on existing and emerging issues related to gender and climate change, in order to provide substantive guidance and direction to the core partners
- Represent the GGCA in international and national climate change meetings, and secure speaking opportunities for GGCA representatives in high-level sessions
- Document and share lessons and good practices
- Network within the international donor community to explore possibilities for mobilizing funding for the GGCA
- Assist in the monitoring and evaluation of gender-related activities in climate change policymaking and initiatives
- Monitor the GGCA’s spending in accordance with the interests of the core partners and in consultation with UNDP
- Assist in the supervision of the GGCA team at UNDP
- Perform other functions as needed.
Competencies:
- Recognized expert in the field of gender and climate change.
- Knowledge of and experience collaborating with key actors in the area of gender and climate change at the global and national levels.
- Strong analytical and strategic planning skills.
- Excellent communications skills.
- Strong interpersonal and networking skills.
- Practical experience with coordination and facilitation of multiple partners.
- Demonstrated experience in securing funding for initiatives related to gender and sustainable development.
- Ability to conduct discussions and planning in a productive manner with UN staff, representatives of international organizations, governments, civil society groups and experts in related fields.
- Ability to prepare succinct, analytical publications and reports.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective partnerships and working relations, both within the UN system and externally.
- Demonstrated capacity to be innovative and flexible.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Advanced post-graduate university degree in Sustainable Development, Natural Resource Management, Social Sciences, including Gender studies or related fields.
- A minimum of 10 years relevant working experience in the area of sustainable development and gender, including advocacy, planning, and communications experience in gender and climate change.
- Experience collaborating with the GGCA would be desirable.
- Prior experience with United Nations agencies would be desirable.
- Prior professional experience in developing countries.
- Demonstrated experience working in a coordination role across multiple international UN agencies and institutions would be desirable.
- Excellent knowledge of institutional mandates, polices and guidelines to inform gender and climate change.
- Fluency in spoken and written English. Second official UN language an asset.
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