Programme Specialist, Gender, GBV and Harmful Practices

The UN Volunteer will be part of the Gender and Social Norms Unit within UNFPA Ethiopia, which leads and coordinates a portfolio of GBV and harmful practices programmes, including initiatives on FGM, child marriage, GBV prevention and response, social norm transformation, community engagement, policy and institutional strengthening, and partnerships with government and civil society.
The assignment will support UNFPA-supported interventions implemented with national and regional government institutions, civil society organizations and other partners, with a focus on effective planning, implementation, monitoring, documentation, coordination, evidence generation, advocacy and sustainability.
Key stakeholders include relevant federal ministries and regional Women and Social Affairs institutions, UN agencies, development partners, CSOs, implementing partners and other stakeholders working on gender equality, GBV and harmful practices.

Under the overall supervision of the Gender Equality and Social Norms Programme Specialist/Unit Lead, the UN Volunteer will:

• Support planning, implementation and follow-up of GBV and harmful practices programmes and implementing partner annual workplans.

• Provide technical and programme support to interventions addressing FGM, child marriage, GBV prevention and response, social and gender norm transformation, and community engagement.

• Support national and regional initiatives, including harmful practices-free communities/kebeles and approaches promoting sustained social norm change.

• Support integration of GBV and harmful practices programming across relevant UNFPA interventions, including linkages with SRHR, livelihoods and community engagement.

• Review and provide inputs to concept notes, workplans, Terms of Reference, partner agreements, budgets and programme implementation documents.

• Support coordination with government, UN agencies, development partners, CSOs, implementing partners and other stakeholders.

• Participate in technical working groups, coordination platforms, programme review meetings and consultations, and follow up on agreed actions and deliverables.

• Support monitoring of programme implementation, results, indicators and expenditure; compile and analyse programme data and evidence.

• Contribute to periodic programme, donor and corporate reports, results frameworks, presentations and briefing materials.

• Document results, lessons learned, good practices, case studies and human-interest stories.

• Support assessments, reviews, evaluations, research and relevant data systems related to GBV, FGM, child marriage and gender/social norm transformation.

• Develop and organize technical materials, presentations, briefs and other knowledge products, and support strategic communication and advocacy initiatives.

• Support learning and experience-sharing events and dissemination of successful approaches.

• Support analysis of sustainability, institutionalization and scale-up opportunities.

• Contribute to funding proposals, donor briefs, investment cases and other resource mobilization materials, including mapping emerging funding opportunities and partnerships.