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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.
- Under the guidance and direct supervision of the Deputy Regional Director, the Regional Strategic Planning Specialist is responsible for leading the strategic planning work in the region. The Regional Strategic Planning Specialist provides strategic guidance and technical support to the RO and the field offices to ensure high quality strategic planning documents at regional and country levels, ensuring the alignment with UN Women Strategic Plan and the corporate standard on RBM. They lead the preparation of the Strategic Note and workplan of the RO in close collaboration with RO colleagues and the field office in the region. The Regional Strategic Planning Specialist also provides guidance, technical support and quality assurance to the field offices associated with the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks (UNSDCFs), Strategic Notes and workplans from the strategic planning and RBM perspectives. They also contribute to HQ-led corporate level initiatives in the areas of Strategic Planning and RBM.
- In addition, she/he oversees the results monitoring and reporting work in the RO, including the mid-term review of SNs, and annual reporting work in the region. The Regional Strategic Planning Specialist also oversees and coordinates the overall regional Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives as part of strategic planning and development and will advise ECARO management and Heads of Offices on KM in line with the thematic programming areas and UN Women Gender Equality Accelerators. She/he will support the development of the KM strategy and oversee its effective implementation.
- The Regional Strategic Planning Specialist works closely with the regional programme and policy team, the Regional Coordination Specialist as well as field office colleagues in the ECA region. She/he supervises the Regional Monitoring and Reporting Specialist (NOC) and coordinates with other Regional Strategic Planning Specialists in other ROs to facilitate cross-regional knowledge exchange and peer-to-peer support mechanisms. In carrying out the functions, she/he coordinates and collaborates closely with relevant HQ Divisions and units, including the Strategy, Planning, Resources and Effectiveness Division (SPRED) and the Policy, Programme and Inter-Governmental Division (PPID), in order to ensure the implementation of corporate policy, procedures, guidance and systems associated with strategic planning, results monitoring and reporting, RBM Iin the region.
Duties and Responsibilities
Provide effective planning, reporting and RBM-related guidance and technical support to the UN Country Teams (UNCTs) and UN Women field offices in the region for the development of UNSDCFs through the inter-agency regional mechanism, such as Peer Support Group (PSG), in close collaboration with Regional Coordination Specialist
Substantively support and contribute to the inter-agency strategic planning and reporting processes at the regional and country levels, by coordinating with PSG co-chairs and participating in PSG meetings and
- related to the results-based strategic planning, monitoring and reporting.
- Review draft Roadmaps, Common Country Assessment (CCA) and UNSDCFs from the perspective of results-based strategic planning, and monitoring/reporting, in line with the guidance/standard from DCO, in close collaboration with the Regional Coordination Specialist.
- Provide additional technical support to UNCTs and Results Groups, upon request, in relation to UNSDCFs, joint work plans, RBM capacity development, monitoring and reporting.
- Provide guidance and technical support to UN Women field offices in the areas of strategic planning, RBM, monitoring and reporting related to UNSDCFs, Joint Workplans and the UN INFO platform, clarifying the alignment and linkage with UN Women Strategic Plan, Strategic Notes, workplans and UN Women Results Management System (RMS).
Provide strategic guidance, technical support and quality assurance to UN Women field offices in the areas of strategic planning, reporting and RBM
- Provide guidance, technical support and quality assurance to UN Women field offices in the region to e