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. UN Women in Georgia supports state and non-state partners towards the achievement of substantive gender equality in Georgia. In line with national and international commitments, UN Women works on the levels of policy and legislation, institutions, and grassroots, in order to achieve transformative results for increased gender equality and greater protection of the rights of women and girls. UN Women is providing technical and financial support to partners worldwide, working in several thematic areas: Women, Peace and Security (WPS) is one of them.
UN Women has provided continues support to partners in Georgia to increase meaningful participation of women in conflict prevention, transformation, resolution, and sustainable peacebuilding processes. Under the current country programme and in line with the 2016-2020 UN Partnership for Sustainable Development, UN Women supports the Government of Georgia to develop and implement the National Action Plan for Implementation of the UN Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security (UN SCR 1325 (2000) et al.) and to achieve the targets of nationalized Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 16.
Within this framework, UN Women works with defence and security sector actors to mainstream gender into the Security Sector Reform process and its outcomes. UN Women also continues to support the capacity development of women mediators and peacebuilders to ensure the direct and meaningful participation of women in peace processes, as well as creates spaces for effective engagement of women peace activists with the participants of formal peace and incident prevention processes (namely the Geneva International Discussions and the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms). One of UN Women’s top priorities is to provide support for the localization of the National Action Plan on UN SCR 1325 by fostering the active participation of grass-roots organizations, internally displaced and conflict-affected women and local governments. The overall goal of UN Women’s WPS programme is to support the full implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda in Georgia.
UN Women partners with the UK Government to contribute to the enhancement of women’s full, equal and meaningful participation in peace and security processes and to increase Government of Georgia’s accountability to implement the Women, Peace and Security agenda in Georgia and meet its obligations undertaken on the international, regional and local levels.
To render administrative support to the implementation of the project(s), UN Women is planning to hire Project Associate. Reporting primarily to the WPS Programme Analyst, the Project Associate will work in close collaboration with the programme and operations team of UN Women Georgia CO, responsible parties, and partners to ensure successful implementation of the project and achievement of planned results.
The Project Associate will carry out the following functions under the direct supervision of WPS Programme Analyst:
Corporate:
Technical/Functional:
Behavioral:
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Academic Background:
Relevant work experience:
Languages:
Fluency in written and spoken Georgian and English.Management arrangements:
The contractor will report to and work under direct supervision of the WPS Programme Analyst and UN Women Operations Manager and overall guidance of UN Women Georgia Country Representative.
Application package for the position of Project Associate for on SB3-MID level should consist of:
Duly filled in Personal History Form PHF11 that can be downloaded from https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment/application-process;CV.Motivation letter.How to Submit the Application:
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