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 maintains a large presence throughout Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region, covering 12 countries, with programme presence in Kosovo*[1], Serbia, Tajikistan and North Macedonia; and country offices in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkey and Ukraine.
Over the past years, through the technical and financial support UN Women have been carried out different initiatives in Western Balkans’ countries with the goal of strengthening democratic governance and advance women’s rights aiming at mainstreaming gender in policy planning and budgeting. As result, gender responsive budgeting has increasingly been recognized as important tool for advancing de facto gender equality, support the SDGs, the 2030 Agenda and other global goals as well as contribute to the achievements of the commitments of the Western Balkans under the Gender Action Plan in the EU External Relations 2016-2020.
In order to deepen the work previously done, initiate new initiatives and ensure sustainability of the interventions on GRB, UN Women initiated a regional programme with participation of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Serbia and North Macedonia “Transformative Financing for Gender Equality towards more Transparent, Inclusive and Accountable Governance in the Western Balkans” (2020-2024). The main programme approach will be transformative financing as an enabler factor for policy and financing actions to accelerate implementation of existing national and international commitments on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the in Western Balkans.
The programme is structured around two outcomes:
In Serbia, the programme will support the Ministry of Finance, line ministries and National GEM to have knowledge and evidences to make informed budgetary allocation towards gender equality in line with national, international commitments and post recovery of COVID19. Furthermore, the focus will be on developing capacities of local governments to apply GRB tools in their plans and budget including post recovery of COVID19.
At central level, the programme will apply strategies focused on mainstreaming gender in specific sectors and will support the public finance management systems and/or reforms to promote more inclusive and transparent governance, accountable to the needs and interests of women and men, including the most excluded and most left behind.
At local level, the programme interventions will focus on policies that directly influence the improvement of the life of women and men from the most excluded groups, particularly by upscaling proven approaches and good practices identified in previous GRB interventions.
Work on the increased oversight and accountability on budget allocation and expenditure of the government including support to both oversight bodies including parliament is another area of intervention spelled out in the programme.
The Programme Coordinator will work under the direct supervision of the Head of Serbia UN Women Programme Presence and GRB Regional Programme Specialist. She/he is responsible for coordinating the relationships with national partners and stakeholders, programme monitoring and reporting, finances and personnel of the portfolio.
[1] References to Kosovo* shall be understood to be in the context of Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999).
[2] Parliament, Ombudsperson, Court of Audit, Commissioner for Protection Against Discrimination
1. Coordinate the Gender Responsive Budgeting Programme/Portfolios
2. Guide coordination with national partners and other stakeholders
3. Coordinate the monitoring and reporting on the Gender Responsive Budgeting Programme
4. Manage people and finances of the Gender Responsive Budgeting programme
5. Build partnerships and support in developing resource mobilization strategies
6. Advocate and facilitate knowledge building and management and communication
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Special consideration
As this position is under Service Contract modality, only applications of applicants with Serbian nationality or valid working permit in Serbia will be considered for the vacancy.
Evaluation of qualified candidates may include an assessment exercise and a competency based interview.
Special consideration
As this position is under Service Contract modality, only applications of applicants with Serbian nationality or valid working permit in Serbia will be considered for the vacancy.
Evaluation of qualified candidates may include an assessment exercise and a competency based interview.
This vacancy is archived.