UN Women: Knowledge Management and Research Officer: Strengthened Gender Action in Cahul and Ungheni districts.
Vacancy Number: Pr20/01949
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 work of UN Women in Moldova is guided by its new Country Strategic Note for 2018-2022, aligned with the Republic of Moldova–United Nations Partnership Framework for Sustainable Development 2018–2022, the Global Strategic Plan of UN Women for 2018-2021, the National Strategy on Gender Equality for 2017-2021 (NSGE), the National Strategy for Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence for the Period 2018-2023, and aims to contribute to the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Strategic Note focuses on three main areas: 1/strengthening women’s participation in politics and decision making, 2/economic empowerment of women and 3/ending violence against women and girls. To achieve progress under these areas, UN Women works with variety of national and international partners and as part of different national and regional initiatives.
Starting January 2020, UN Women will implement in Moldova a EU-funded Programme Strengthened Gender Action in Cahul and Ungheni districts with the short title: “EVA”.
Under the overall leadership of the Country Representative, and guidance and supervision of the Programme Manager, the Knowledge Management and Research Officer contributes to the effective and efficient implementation of the Programme Strengthened Gender Action in Cahul and Ungheni districts. The incumbent applies and promotes the principles of results-based management (RBM), as well as a client-oriented approach consistent with UN Women rules and regulations.
The Knowledge Management and Research Officer works in close collaboration UN Women Programme Coordinators and the Team of the Programme Implementing Unit, as well as other project teams in the Country Office (CO) for effective achievement of results, anticipating and resolving complex programme-related issues and information delivery.
The incumbent is expected to exercise full compliance with UN Women programming, financial, procurement and administrative rules, regulations, policies and strategies, as well as implementation of the effective internal control systems.
Contribute to implementation of the provisions of the UN WOMEN Knowledge management strategy 2018-2021.
The programme will contribute to the consolidation and fortification of gender mainstreaming at the local level, in line with the provisions of the National Strategy to Ensure Equality between women and men in the Republic of Moldova for the years 2017-2021. The proposed intervention will tackle domestic violence against women and children, particularly on improving the capacity and assessment tools of multi-disciplinary specialist response and services, including sexual forms of violence in domestic violence, as this area has not yet been covered by any action or donor.
The programme is aimed at achieving the following results: Gender equality is promoted and mainstreamed in local policymaking and decision taking and Victims of domestic, including sexual, violence have greater access to effective survivor-focused multi-disciplinary services and violence prevention is piloted in local schools and communities.
Scope of work
Knowledge building and research
- Compile the evidence-base on gender mainstreaming (GM) and violence against women and girls from existing national and global resources and conduct a situation analysis to have a better understanding of the issues, the current context, gaps/challenges and opportunities for working on GM and VAW and share this with team members and partners.
- Identify key knowledge gaps in the program area and determine knowledge activities that might help to address them e.g. (additional data collection required, are there specific research questions, is there technical knowledge that might be required that is not present in the country, are there potentially relevant experiences from other countries or projects).
- Work proactively with CO and project teams to identify opportunities for capturing and sharing knowledge and disseminating information about major progress and results.
- Contribute to conducting community attitudes and/or perception surveys, which provide insights on social norms, discriminatory attitudes and other factors that highlight the risks and tolerance of violence.
- Produce analytical papers in order to effectively share knowledge.
- Support documentation of promising practices (good practices if formally evaluated) through case studies, video and other mediums.
- Support documentation and use of lessons learned to reflect process issues, the how-to and the why of programme work; improve performance by drawing out relevant information for better planning, improvements/adjustments and risk management around existing and future programmes; inform the development of policies, tools, practices and decision-making; identify trends, patterns, gaps and needs for expansion/scale-up; and avoid reinvention of the wheel.
Knowledge management and knowledge sharing
- Convene and faciliate duct coordination and consultation meetings with with women’s groups and relevant local government entities (or through coordinating bodies, such as task forces, committees, councils, etc.) to continually assess and discuss implementation of legislation and national action plans.
- Provide guidance to the team and beneficiaries on how to collect practical and action-oriented knowledge, grounded in quantitative and qualitative evidence.
- Promote demand driven production of knowledge management.
- Ensure that international good practices are models to be contextualized and applied.
- Ensure validation of knowledge by partners and networks that will strengthen UN Women’s knowledge products, policy guidance and programme proposals.
- Engage with policy-oriented research networks that provide data, analysis, advice and peer review support which will help UN Women to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment in research agendas.
- Conduct local and/or regional knowledge exchange workshops on particular topics/practices, including virtually through webinars, videoconferencing and other innovative methods.
- Disseminate promising practices through national, regional websites, listservs type of softs and fora.
Innovation
- Identify the most interesting innovations applicable to the development sector in Moldova, as well as respond to requests from colleagues for research in defined fields.
- Ensure in-depth research on identified areas in terms of knowledge, existing expertise and networks.
- Use the previous experience with design thinking, gaming for development and behavioral science to support scaling up these initiatives in the public sector.
- Design the mechanism for innovative projects’ management cycle, including set up the criteria for the selection of innovative ideas.
Monitoring and evaluation
- Ensure the Programme is properly monitored and evaluated and well documented especially “what works “.
- Maintain updated evidence of applied knowledge services delivered to UN Women colleagues and partners through research packages and concepts.
- Maintain updated evidence of workshops and seminars delivered in support of programme’s concepts, counterparts and UN Women colleagues.
- Support enhancing the activity of programme, and promotion of innovation among UN Women staff more broadly.
- Document the overall experience of programme work, including the support to the concepts throughout the incubation cycle; the research on knowledge, expertise and networks in identified areas; the support to resource mobilization to ensure the long-term sustainability of the programme; and provide documentation reports to the Programme Manager upon request.
- Develop Final Evaluation notes after the piloting of each approach/project (results achieved, lessons learned, recommendations for similar future projects).
Requirements for experience
Education:
- Master degree in Human Rights, Gender Equality, Law, Social Sciences, Public Administration or other development related sciences.
Experience and skills:
- At least two (2) years of experience in the design and delivery of programmes/projects across multiple policy areas;
- Direct experience supporting innovation is an advantage;
- Experience of creating or analyzing business plans is an advantage;
- Experience in programme management, including managing budgets, suppliers and grant recipients;
- Records of writing reports, researches, articles and/or blogs.
- Experience in developing partnerships across a wide range of organizations is an advantage;
- Experience in the usage of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc), as well as multimedia tools.
Language Requirements:
- Proficiency in oral and written Romanian, Russian, and English is a must;
- Working knowledge of one or more additional languages relevant for Moldova, including Bulgarian, Gagauzian, Romani, Ukrainian or sign language would be an asset.
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