Deputy Country Representative, Dar es Salaam

Job Description

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 programs in the United Republic of Tanzania (URT) contribute to the country's National Development Vision 2050, the 5-Year Development Plan IV, the Zanzibar Vision 2050, the Sustainable Development Goals, and is aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF), as well as UN Women's Global Strategic Plan. UN Women in Tanzania supports the fulfilment of international, regional, and national commitments on the protection of women's human rights, mainly the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination, the Maputo Protocol of Women's Rights, the Beijing Platform of Action, the Generation Equality Forum Commitments, UN Security Council Resolutions among others.

In line with national priorities and through its Strategic Note 2023-2027, the Country Office aims to achieve the following results: (i) Increased women's leadership and participation in governance and in all decision-making processes; (ii) strengthened the economic empowerment of women for income security, decent work, and economic autonomy; and (iii) Increased protection of women and girls against gender-based violence & access to services. As part of its mandate and under the leadership of the Resident Coordinator, UN Women plays a leading role in efforts to coordinate UN inter-agency gender equality work including supporting UNCT SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard and engaging in multi-stakeholder dialogues and joint initiatives through the UNSDCF Outcome Groups, and other structures and mechanisms within the UN system in Tanzania.

The UN Women Country Office in Tanzania works to address gender inequality in collaboration with women's rights organizations, government, and other relevant actors, and contributes to the following systemic outcomes: (i) strengthening national normative frameworks, and gender-responsive laws, policies, and institutions; (ii) advocating for gender-responsive financing policies, strategies and instruments that advance financing gender equality by public and private sectors; (iii) positive social norms, including by engaging men and boys; (iv) increasing women's equitable access to services, goods and resources; (v) more women and girls exercise their voice, agency and leadership, including through an enabling environment that supports women's and youth organizations; and (vi) production, analysis and use of gender statistics, sex-disaggregated data, and knowledge to inform policies and programs that deliver impactful results for women and girls.

Job Responsibilities

Reporting to the Country Representative in the United Republic of Tanzania, the Deputy Country Representative is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Country Programme. The incumbent is responsible for substantially contributing to the design, implementation, management and oversight of the country programme and to the operations supporting its implementation to ensure effective and efficient delivery of results as planned in UN Women's Strategic Plan and the CO plans.

Key Functions and Accountabilities

• Manage the programme team
• Manage the day-to-day work of the programme team, including finalizing the team's annual workplan;
• Manage the process of programme conceptualization, planning, implementing and monitoring; and the management of material and financial resources;
• Lead the process of preparing programme implementation progress reports and identifying areas for UN Women Country Representative's action and/or decision;
• Technically support the development of the Office security strategy and plan, as required.

• Provide advisory and specialized technical support on the strategic direction of the office
• Advise and guide the Country Representative on strategic areas;
• Provide specialized technical and strategic support in managing all aspects of the programme design and related activities and for ensuring compliance and accountability in programme monitoring, reporting and evaluation;
• Develop policy documents, briefs and other strategic papers/materials for use in the development and presentation of innovative and coherent policy and programmatic positions;
• Serve as a senior member of the management team.

• Represent UN Women in UN system coordination, with a focus on programming
• As delegated by the UN Women Country Representative, represent UN Women in the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) to collaborate with the Resident Coordinator and UN system on interagency coherence, collaboration, cooperation, resource mobilization, advocacy, common services, and operations;
• Ensure UN Women's participation in UN system thematic and other working groups to advance UN Women's mandate.

• Provide technical support in creation of strategic partnerships and resource mobilization strategies
• Provide substantive research and inputs in the formulation and implementation of the country resource mobilization strategy;
• Establish and maintain relations with government, partners, stakeholders and donors to achieve active collaboration, cooperation and alliances on programme development and implementation and resource mobilization.

• Represent UN Women and support advocacy strategies
• Represent and advocate for UN Women in organizational, regional, global, public information/ relations events and key meetings, as delegated;
• Develop and implement advocacy and public communication strategies.

• Facilitate knowledge management, innovation and capacity building
• Manage the process of collecting and sharing lessons learned on gender equality and women's empowerment to build knowledge and capacity of partners and stakeholders;
• Oversee the design and implementation of capacity building training activities to enhance skills and knowledge.

• Manage personnel under supervision
• Manage the performance of personnel under supervision; provide managerial direction, guidance and leadership to staff and provide performance feedback and coaching to personnel supervision, ensure performance assessment are implemented on time and ensure personnel are fully aware of UN Women workplace relations policies;
• Create an enabling work environment;
• Identify learning and development opportunities

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities:

Incumbent leads a team of 20 personnel, including 5 direct reports as well as 15 affiliate personnel, providing matrixed management and oversight support.

Competencies :

Core Values:

• Integrity;
• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

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Functional Competencies:

• Excellent programme formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation skills
• Ability to develop detailed operational plans, budgets, and deliver on them
• Ability to provide policy advice and support to partners
• Ability to synthesize program performance data and produce analytical reports to inform management and strategic decision-making
• Strong leadership skills, ability to create and enabling work environment
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent knowledge of Results Based Management
• Strong knowledge of the UN system
• Strong knowledge of local country context
• Strong negotiation skills