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 centre of all its efforts, the 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. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.In Kenya, the UN Women Country Programme contributes to the development objectives of Kenya’s blue print, the Vision 2030 and is aligned to the United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAF) of2918-2022, as well as UN WOMEN Global Strategic Plan. The Kenya Country Programme – ‘Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Gains Consolidated’ – aims to achieve the following results: (i) increased women’s leadership and participation in governance; (ii) strengthened women’s economic empowerment; (iii) increased protection of women & access to justice for women; and (iv) strengthened women’s leadership in peace building and humanitarian response.Under the overall guidance and direction of the supervisor, the Team Leader for Democratic Governance (DG) exercises overall responsibility for planning, implementing, and managing UN Women interventions under his/her portfolio. She/he works in close collaboration with Senior Management, other team leaders at UN Women Kenya, Operations Team, other UN agencies, government officials, technical advisors and experts, multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors and civil society, with the aim of successfully implementing the UN Women country programme.He/she will manage the country programme, including continued monitoring of implementation of the Democratic Governance Unit in strategic planning, and identify new programme areas while ensuring consistency with UNDAF and UN Women Global and Kenya Country Strategy and creative response to emerging challenges and opportunities.
Duties and Responsibilities
Summary of Key Functions:
Ensuring the strategic direction of UN Women Democratic Governance Programme;
Management of the country office DG Programme and supervision of the DG Programme team;
Strategic partnerships and support to resource mobilization;
Provision of top quality policy advice services to the Government;
Civil society facilitation of knowledge building and management.
Ensuring the strategic direction of UN Women Democratic Governance Programme:
Thorough analysis of the political, social and economic situation in the country and collaborative preparation/revision of CCA, UNDAF, SP, AWP, UN joint programmes and other documents;
Identification of strategic and innovative programme opportunities, approaches and modalities in consultation/cooperation with national stakeholders and development partners;
Operationalization of UNDAF/SP in collaboration with the main partners and other UN Agencies;
Responsible for Country office business processes mapping and establishment of internal Standard Operating Procedures in Results Management, control of the workflows in the DG Programme Unit.
Management of the country office Democratic Governance programme and supervision of the Democratic Governance Programme team:
Effective application of Results Based Management (RBM) tools and monitoring achievement of results;
Strategic oversight of planning, budgeting, implementing and monitoring of the programme, tracking use of financial resources in accordance with UN Women rules and regulations;
Effective monitoring, measuring the impact of the country office programme and evaluation. Constant monitoring and analysis of the programme environment, timely readjustment of programme;
Effective technical leadership so that regular programme/project reviews are undertaken and all reporting requirements are met including donor reports.
Strategic partnerships and supports the resource mobilization:
Development and implementation of the country office partnerships and resources mobilization strategies to achieve the DG programme outcomes;
Creation and coordination of partnerships with the UN Agencies, government institutions, bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors, private sector, civil society etc;
Determination of programmatic areas of cooperation, based on strategic goals of UN Women’s country needs and donors’ priorities;
Analysis and research of information on donors, preparation of substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation, identification of opportunities for cost-sharing.
Provision of top quality advisory services to the Government. Civil society facilitation of knowledge building and management focusing on achievement of the following results:
Identification of key policy processes and sources of information related to policy-driven issues. Identification and synthesis of best practices and lessons learned directly linked to programme country policy goals;
Development of policies and institutions that will address the country problems and needs in collaboration with the Government and /civil society and other strategic partners, and in line with the Post 2015 Development Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals;
Round contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice;
Organization of trainings for the operations/ projects staff on programme.
Impact of Results:The key results have an impact on the overall success of the country programme within the DG unit and the UNDAF as well as the Strategic Plan goals. In particular, the key results have an impact on the design, operation and programming of activities, creation of strategic partnerships as well as reaching resource mobilization targets.
Competencies
Core competencies:
Ethics and Values: Demonstrate and safeguard ethics and integrity;
Organizational Awareness: Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment;
Development and Innovation: Take charge of self-development and take initiative;
Work in teams: Demonstrate ability to work in a multicultural, multi ethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different national and cultural backgrounds;
Communicating and Information Sharing: Facilitate and encourage open communication and strive for effective communication;
Self-management and Emotional Intelligence: Stay composed and positive even in difficult moments, handle tense situations with diplomacy and tact, and have a consistent behavior towards others;
Conflict Management: Surface conflicts and address them proactively acknowledging different feelings and views and directing energy towards a mutually acceptable solution;
Continuous Learning and Knowledge Sharing: Encourage learning and sharing of knowledge;
Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making: Demonstrate informed and transparent decision making.
Functional competencies:
Builds strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and results for the client and responds positively to feedback;
Demonstrated ability to conduct appropriate analyses, needs assessments and projects on democratic governance issues;
Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities;
Ability to lead strategic planning, results-based management and reporting;
Ability to lead formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development programmes and projects, mobilize resources;
Ability to formulate and manage budgets, manage contributions and investments, manage transactions, conduct financial analysis, reporting and cost-recovery;
Ability to implement new systems and affect staff behavioral/attitudinal change;
Promotes knowledge management in UN Women and a learning environment in the office through leadership and personal example;
Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills;
Ability to draft and edit analytical reports, strategy documents, project proposals, correspondence, briefings and speeches.0
