Project Manager - Brasilia - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

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Brasilia

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Postado por:

Ana Silva

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Descrição

LOCATION:

Brasilia, BRAZIL

TYPE OF CONTRACT:

Service Contract

STARTING DATE:

06-May-2024

APPLICATION DEADLINE:

31-Mar-24 (Midnight New York, USA)

POST LEVEL:

SB-5

DURATION OF INITIAL CONTRACT:

12 months (one year)

TIME LEFT:

9d 1h 54m

LANGUAGES REQUIRED:

English Portuguese

EXPECTED DURATION OF ASSIGNMENT:

Background:

I.Position Information

Job Title:
Project Manager, Leadership and Governance Unit

Office:
Brazil CO

Duty Station:
Brasilia, Brazil

Reports to (Title/Level): Portfolio Manager/Head of Gender-responsive Governance, Women's Leadership and Participation/NO-B, with matrix supervision of Deputy Representative/Head of Programme Unit

Contract Modality:
Service Contract (SC)

Grade Level:
SB5-1

II.Organizational Context

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 UN Women Country Programme in Brazil is implemented in line with the national development priorities, as well as in the framework of the international commitments to gender equality and empowerment of women, as well as the UN frameworks and instruments on Human Rights, of which Brazil is signatory, such as the CEDAW, CERD, Beijing Platform for Action, Durban Action Plan, Agenda 2030, as well as the UN Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security.

It is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Partnerships Framework.

The UN Women Country Office in Brazil focuses on three key areas:1)Women lead, participate in, and benefit equally from governance systems.
2)Women have income security, decent work, and economic autonomy.
3)All women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence.

Over twenty years after its adoption, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action remains a transformative framework for achieving gender equality, the empowerment of all women and girls, and the full enjoyment of their human rights.

While there have been important advances in some areas, persistent structural barriers prevent the full achievement of gender equality.

Women and girls who experience multiple forms of discrimination, including based on age, class, disability, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation gender identity or migration status have made the least progress.

In far too many areas, progress has been slow. From the local to the global level, women's leadership and political participation are restricted.

Women are underrepresented as voters, as well as in leading positions, whether in elected office, the civil service, the private sector or academia.

This occurs despite their proven abilities as leaders and agents of change, and their right to participate equally in democratic governance.

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the world into the worst economic crisis since the Second World War and further reinforced the urgency of stronger action.

Meanwhile, the majority of policy responses to COVID-19 have not taken gender equality perspectives into account.

Putting gender equality at the heart of the response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will be essential to accelerate progress on gender equality and women's empowerment and achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

In Brazil, women and girls, especially those facing multiple forms of discrimination, remain largely excluded from decision-making, public and political life and do not fully benefit from gender-transformative governance due to structural inequalities and compounded gender, race, ethnicity, age, and ableism discrimination and harmful social norms.

These patterns materialize as (i) discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, coupled with ineffective and insufficient policy responses often based on stereotypes; (ii) inconsistent law enforcement and insufficient funding allocated to the realization of women's and girls' rights.

The UN Women Brazil Country Office works with the government and with civil society organizations to provide high-quality integrated policy, normative and capacity-building support, promote democratic spaces for the engagement of diverse women's groups and foster civil society participation in decision-making.

Key interventions include (i) capacity building of civil society and state actors on gender, race and ethnicity-responsive governance; (ii) convening spaces in new areas of incidence - such as environmental policies, renewed strategies and decision-making processes; (iii) social mobilization and evidence-based advocacy and decision-making to address historical and structural inequalities (iv) facilitation of inter-parliamentary platforms on women's human rights, leadership, elimination of political violence aga