Hardship Level (not applicable for home-based)H (no hardship)
Family Type (not applicable for home-based)
Family
Staff Member / Affiliate TypeUNOPS IICA2
Target Start Date2024-02-01
Job Posting End DateJanuary 19, 2024
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Consultancy to Follow-up on Gender Equality and Protection from Gender-Based Violence Global Refugee Forum Commitments
Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Unit
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is offering a home- based consultancy position within the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Unit to lead on the follow-up of the multiple commitments and pledges undertaken as part of the Global Refugee Forum (GRF) 2023.
UNHCR is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. Responding to the prevention, response and risk mitigation of GBV is a core component of UNHCR's protection mandate.
Forcibly displaced women living in humanitarian crisis and armed conflict are at an even more heightened risk of GBV: it is estimated that 1 in 5 have been subjected to sexual violence. In research conducted by the World Bank as part of the Gender Dimensions of Forced Displacement Research Program, it was noted that displacement increases the risk of intimate partner violence. Intersecting forms of discrimination increase risks of violence for forcibly displaced women and girls, including those with disabilities, living in poverty, or with diverse sexual orientation.
Title: Gender-Based Violence Global Refugee Forum Commitments Coordination
Duty Station: Home-based
Duration: 8.5 months
Contract Type: Full time consultancy
Organizational context
Gender equality and protection from GBV underline all the Global Compact on Refugee’s (GCR) objectives. The Global Refugee Forum (GRF) 2023, and took place from 13 to 15 December 2023, and was an opportunity to build on the progress made by States and stakeholders towards the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees. At the GRF, pledges and contributions were announced in support of the objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR). As such, multistakeholder pledges were developed to bring together diverse stakeholders to pledge concrete commitments on GBV. These comprised the Multistakeholder Pledge: Gender Equality and Protection from Gender-Based Violence, led by the Call to Action on Protection from GBV in Emergencies and the Multistakeholder Pledge: Avec Elles - Strengthening protection and inclusion of refugee women and girls through all phases of displacement, led by the government of France.
The GBV Multistakeholder pledges were an opportunity to bring together states, women led organizations, NGOs, civil society, academic institutions and other stakeholders to submit pledges focusing on improved access to inclusive and quality GBV prevention and response services for displaced and stateless women and girls, innovative partnerships with Women Refugee-led Organizations (WRLOs), and providing refugee women and girls and host communities with better tools to address protection and inclusion challenges through all phases of displacement. A high number of pledges were submitted to support the implementation of these aims. Furthermore, a Core Pledge was developed and supported by key stakeholders with the aim of building the foundations for successful inclusion in national GBV prevention and response systems. Equally, efforts were made to mainstream gender equality and GBV risk mitigation across other sectors’ pledges including education, health, economic inclusion, climate resilience, resettlement and complementary pathways, and solutions.
The UNHCR GBV Unit sits within the Field Protection Service, DIP at headquarters and has provided technical leadership and coordination to the above efforts to enhance GBV prevention, response and risk mitigation commitments at the GRF. The need has been identified to continue to provide guidance and coordination, and to ensure that commitments pledged as part of the GRF are fully implemented, and good practices shared.
The position
This consultancy will build on the existing efforts to guide and coordinate gender equality and protection from GBV pledges through following up with different stakeholders on the commitments, providing ongoing guidance, coordination, planning, monitoring and sharing good practices. The key areas of the consultancy include:
- Analysis of gender equality and protection from GBV related pledges in order to develop clear planning for follow-up and ongoing engagement.
- Lead the ongoing coordination and development of the conceptualization phase of the GBV Core Pledge.
- Follow up with different UNHCR sector focal points on linked pledges to enhance the impact and evidence of GBV risk mitigation mainstreaming.
- Ensure that GBV pledge stakeholders are familiar with the process of reporting on pledge progress, documenting good practices and sharing learning.
The consultancy will also work with the wider GBV Unit in the Division of International Protection to share and follow up on opportunities identified through the GRF pledges for closer collaboration with UNHCR GBV coordination and programming in different contexts.
Duties and responsibilities
This consultancy will be supervised by the Senior Interagency Coordination Officer, and will implement the following deliverables:
1. Analysis of gender equality and protection from GBV related pledges in order to develop clear planning for follow-up and ongoing engagement.
- In coordination with the GBV Unit, conduct an in-depth analysis of the GRF 2023 pledges received to identify trends, good example pledges and key entry points for follow up.
- As a result of the analysis produce a mapping and report containing analysis of the pledges, with a particular focus on pledges that respond directly to the aims of the GE and GBV Multistakeholder pledges.
- Ensure that the mapping provides analysis and good example pledges in relation to the participation, funding, and support for women-led organizations, and women refugee led organizations in particular.
- Engage with different sector focal points in UNHCR to identify pledges linked to gender-equality and protection from GBV across all sector pledge areas.
- Present the results of the analysis and mapping to relevant stakeholders such as the GRF GE and GBV facilitation cell, UNHCR units and sectors, as well as coordination fora as required.
- Using the analysis and mapping, develop a joint plan for the monitoring and follow up of gender equality and protection from GBV multistakeholder pledges. The plan should consider regular updates, sharing learning, funding monitoring, and a framework for sustainable follow up led beyond the end of the consultancy in support of the facilitation cell. Ensure that planning and approaches to follow up of the gender equality and protection from GBV pledge consider the approaches of other areas of Protection and other sectors’ GRF follow up.
- Work with relevant coordination fora, such as the Call to Action on Protection from Gender-Based Violence Emergencies, to integrate GRF follow up and the prioritisation of refugee inclusion in their own strategies and roadmaps based on the objectives of the gender equality and GBV multistakeholder pledges.
2. Lead the ongoing coordination and development of the conceptualization phase of the GBV Core Pledge.
- Establish and support a technical group of stakeholders supporting the GBV Core Pledge on forcibly displaced and stateless people’s inclusion into national GBV prevention and response systems. Convene the group on a monthly basis, document meetings and actions, engage participants and report on the groups progress at other relevant fora.
- Continue to engage new stakeholders into the Core Pledge as relevant, including governments and women-led organizations in countries selected for piloting the initiative.
- Facilitate donor engagement and funding of the Core Pledge, in particular in relation to existing opportunities and GRF funding commitments.
- In collaboration with the Core Pledge technical group, develop a detailed plan and monitoring framework for the initiative, including a conceptualization and implementation phase, and addressing activities and approaches outlined in the existing concept note.
- Initiate the conceptualization phase of the Core Pledge initiative, documenting the design of the detailed project framework and guiding the mobilization of resources and expertise to eventually the desk research step of the conceptualization phase.
3. Follow up with different UNHCR sector focal points on linked pledges to enhance the impact and evidencing of GBV risk mitigation mainstreaming.
- Collaborate with the different UNHCR sector focal points of the GRF, including education, health, economic inclusion, climate resilience, resettlement and complementary pathways, and solutions, to engage them in analysis of cross-cutting pledges, sharing the analysis and mapping with them.
- With the sector focal points, develop a plan for follow up, monitoring and sharing learning and good practices related to gender equality and protection from GBV mainstreaming. This includes through guidance and building the gender equality and protection from GBV mainstreaming capacity of the sectors’ stakeholders networks as relevant.
- Work with the leadership of the Avec Elles multi-stakeholder pledge to support follow up, planning and ongoing stakeholder engagement, ensuring linkages and learning from wider gender equality and protection from GBV mainstreaming efforts.
4. Ensure that GBV pledge stakeholders are familiar with process of reporting on pledge progress, documenting good practices and sharing learning.
- Through existing coordination forum and networks develop capacity to report on pledge progress, share good practices and learning to show implementation of the objectives of gender equality and protection from GBV pledges.
- Ensure that GRF follow up planning considers support and actions for ongoing progress and good practise sharing. In collaboration with the UNHCR GBV Unit, develop processes to provide ongoing support to good practise dissemination, integrating GRF good practice sharing with existing agency-level initiatives where possible.
- Work with UNHCR focal points involved in the GRF to create a lesson learnt document on gender-equality and protection from GBV at the 2023 GRF. The document should include clear recommendations with the aim of leveraging even further gender equality and GBV at the next GRF.
Essential minimum qualifications and professional experience required
The ideal candidate will have:
a. Education (Level and area of required and/or preferred education)
Higher university degree in International Law, Human Rights, International Development, International Relations, Gender Studies, Political or Social Science.
b. Work Experience
- A minimum 6 years of work experience (5 years for master’s degree holders) in gender-based violence prevention, response and risk mitigation in refugee, forced displacement and humanitarian settings.
- Knowledge of GBV coordination between diverse stakeholder and demonstrated experience with leading coordination, and developing coordinated planning, engaging different stakeholder and partners, and leading joint results-based initiatives.
- Experience in drafting project proposals, design, planning and monitoring and experience directly managing GBV projects in refugee/humanitarian settings.
- Experience in working with other sectors to effectively mainstream gender equality and GBV risk mitigation.
- Experience working with or in partnership with UNHCR.
- Experience working in working on inclusion in national systems and with women refugee-led organizations is highly desirable.
c. Key Competencies
Required competencies:
- Strong knowledge of international human rights and humanitarian law, particularly concerning protection of refugees and IDPs.
- Knowledge of and experience of systems strengthening and capacity building on GBV in forced displacement and stateless settings.
- Knowledge of inter-agency GBV coordination mechanisms.
- Demonstrated instructional design experience targeting adult learners.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
Desirable competencies:
• Knowledge of another UN language, especially French or Spanish.
Location
The successful candidate will be home-based with possible travels to locations that will be determined later.
The UNHCR workforce consists of many diverse nationalities, cultures, languages and opinions. UNHCR seeks to sustain and strengthen this diversity to ensure equal opportunities as well as an inclusive working environment for its entire workforce. Applications are encouraged from all qualified candidates without distinction on grounds of race, colour, sex, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.
GBV Officer
Organizational Setting and Work Relationships
The GBV Officer is a member of the Protection Team in a Regional Bureau or a Country Office and normally reports to the Senior GBV Officer or the Senior Community-Based Protection Officer or the Senior Protection Officer or the Head of Sub-Office or the Assistant Representative for protection. In smaller offices, the post may report directly to the Representative.
The GBV Officer supports the operations' efforts to fulfil UNHCR¿s mandate and associated obligations on GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response based on policy and guidance.
S/he collaborates closely with the UNHCR management and the Protection team in the country and strengthens working relations with other agencies involved in GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response.
The incumbent will maintain a close working relationship with the Bureau and the Division of International Protection for system-wide coherence.
All UNHCR staff members are accountable to perform their duties as reflected in their job description. They do so within their delegated authorities, in line with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which includes the UN Charter, UN Staff Regulations and Rules, UNHCR Policies and Administrative Instructions as well as relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, staff members are required to discharge their responsibilities in a manner consistent with the core, functional, cross-functional and managerial competencies and UNHCR's core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for diversity.
Duties
Implementation of UNHCR's Global Policies and Standards
- Support and facilitate the effective and timely development, implementation and monitoring of a clear and coherent multi-year and multi-sectoral GBV strategy as part of the operation's broader Protection and Solutions Strategy, coordinate timely reporting on progress including the documentation of promising practices.
- Participate in the promotion of compliance with UNHCR's GBV policy, priorities and commitments (aligned with polices on age, gender, diversity (AGD) and accountability to affected populations (AAP), Child protection, gender equality, disability and youth empowerment.
- For functions at regional level, support the harmonization of GBV strategies in the region and alignment with global policies and commitments, support exchange of expertise and practices in the region and provide a regional level analysis of trends as well as aggregated reporting on GBV.
- Provide technical guidance on integration of the survivor-centred approach into PSEA complaints mechanisms and enhance access of SEA survivors to existing GBV services
Planning / Programming
- Support the development and implementation of programming for specialized GBV prevention and response based on needs, risks and capacity assessments at the onset of an emergency and throughout all phases of displacement.
- Participate in conducting, consolidating and reporting on GBV assessments including gender equality components at least once per year, linked to annual planning processes and participatory assessments and sharing strategic trends analyses.
- Contribute to planning processes and advocate for adequate resource (re)allocation and mobilization.
- Support cross-cutting programs and technical sectors to mainstream gender and to program for mitigation of GBV risks in their specific technical areas, and report on progress.
Capacity Development, Technical Support and Coordination
- Provide technical guidance and support field colleagues to operationalise and comply with UNHCR's corporate GBV policy, priorities and commitments (aligned with policies on AGD and AAP, Child protection, disability, youth empowerment and gender equality).
- Support operational capacity development efforts and provide technical support on gender and GBV mainstreaming
- Under the guidance of the Senior Protection Officer, support and facilitate the establishment of and ensure the functioning of GBV coordination mechanisms with all relevant stakeholders.
- Facilitate and strengthen the development and implementation of GBV Standard Operating Procedures for all sites that enable all survivors to access, at a minimum, appropriate health, psychosocial, security and safety, and legal support.
- Support and build capacity and systems for individual GBV case management for survivors and persons at-risk of GBV.
- Ensure safe and ethical GBV data collection and reporting is functioning and regular reporting is done on GBV, including through PRIMES and protection monitoring processes. Promote the use of the GBV module of PRIMES or another GBV information management system that provides for safe and ethical data collection and analysis. Where applicable, support reporting under the Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Arrangements on conflict-related sexual violence (MARA).
Partnerships
- Strengthen UNHCR's collaboration with host governments to develop national services in order to expand safe access for Persons of concern to services that prevent, mitigate, and respond to GBV.
- Support the capacity development of staff, partners and other stakeholders to address GBV and to promote gender equality and the empowerment of displaced women and girls.
- Strengthen partnerships including with UN agencies, governments, civil society and with displaced and host communities, to prevent, mitigate, and respond to GBV, to promote gender equality and to ensure age and gender-informed protection and solution programs.
- Support that community-based approaches are applied in GBV programming and communities considered as key stakeholders.
- Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility. Ensure decision making in risk based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).
- Perform other related duties as required.
Minimum Qualifications
Years of Experience / Degree Level
For P3/NOC - 6 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 5 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 4 years relevant experience with Doctorate degree
Field(s) of Education
Human rights, Social Anthropology, Social work,
Law, International Development, Social Sciences, or other relevant field.
Certificates and/or Licenses
Not specified.
(Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk* are essential)
Relevant Job Experience
Essential
6 years of previous work experience relevant to the function of GBV in an international context, of which two years in the field and having experience in the field of GBV prevention, mitigation and response, broader protection or social work involving empowerment of women and girls, gender, child protection, mental health, counselling and working with survivors, humanitarian and development issues. Applied experience in survivor-centred approach, GBV guiding and Case management principles related to GBV programs. Demonstrated knowledge in gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and apply, promote and integrate gender analysis into humanitarian programming. Demonstrated knowledge of and implementation of multi-sectorial responses to GBV and support to other sectors to mainstream GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response. Demonstrated knowledge and application of GBV prevention theory and appropriate GBV prevention and behaviour change strategies at different stages of the humanitarian response. Knowledge and demonstrated use of GBV tools and Guidance.
Desirable
Demonstrated understanding of critical issues around GBV data and knowledge of safe and ethical data collection and analysis, and conducting assessments. Demonstrated knowledge of engagement with GBV Interagency humanitarian architecture. Knowledge and experience of participatory approaches to engaging with and mobilizing communities Good understanding of displacement and protection issues including, child protection, education and the application of the Age, Gender and Diversity Policy. Completion of UNHCR learning programmes or specific training relevant to functions of position such as: Protection Learning Programme, Operations Management Learning Programme, Middle Management Learning Programme, GBV and Gender Equality. Experience in a humanitarian context.
Functional Skills
PR-Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD)
TR-Training - Virtual and face to face
PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) Coordination
PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) Capacity development and training
PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) prevention programming
PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) risk mitigation
PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) response programming
(Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential)
Language Requirements
For International Professional and Field Service jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English.
For National Professional jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English and local language.
For General Service jobs: Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English.
All UNHCR workforce members must individually and collectively, contribute towards a working environment where each person feels safe, and empowered to perform their duties. This includes by demonstrating no tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse, harassment including sexual harassment, sexism, gender inequality, discrimination, and abuse of power.
As individuals and as managers, all must be proactive in preventing and responding to inappropriate conduct, support ongoing dialogue on these matters and speaking up and seeking guidance and support from relevant UNHCR resources when these issues arise.
This is a Standard Job Description for all UNHCR jobs with this job title and grade level. The Operational Context may contain additional essential and/or desirable qualifications relating to the specific operation and/or position. Any such requirements are incorporated by reference in this Job Description and will be considered for the screening, shortlisting and selection of candidates.
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SkillsPR-Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD), PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) Capacity development and training, PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) Coordination, PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) prevention programming, PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) response programming, PR-Gender Based Violence (GBV) risk mitigation, TR-Training - Virtual and face to face
EducationBachelor of Arts (BA): Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts (BA): Gender Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA): Human Rights, Bachelor of Arts (BA): International Development, Bachelor of Arts (BA): International Relations, Bachelor of Arts (BA): Law, Bachelor of Arts (BA): Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA): Social Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA): Social Work
Certifications
Work Experience
Other informationThis position doesn't require a functional clearance