Programme Specialist, Gender Statistics, Ramallah, occupied Palestinian territory

## Programme Specialist, Gender Statistics, Ramallah, occupied Palestinian territory - Organization:UN Women - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women - Country:occupied Palestinian territory - Office:UN Women Ramallah, occupied Palestinian territory UN Women (UNW), 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. Placing women's rights at the centre of all its efforts, the UN Women leads and coordinates the United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States' priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors. UN Women's triple mandate, along with its global network and deep policy and programming expertise, continues to endow the Entity with a unique capacity to: (i) support Member States to strengthen global norms and standards for gender equality and women's empowerment, and mainstream gender perspectives in other thematic areas; (ii) promote coordination and coherence across the UN system to enhance accountability and results for gender equality and women's empowerment; and (iii) undertake operational activities to support Member States, upon their request, in translating global norms and standards into legislation, policies and strategies at country level. UN Women plays an innovative and catalytic role in the State of Palestine since its inception in 1997 (as UNIFEM). In line with the national priorities, the work of UN Women for the period 2023-2025 is aligned with three of the Palestine United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework's (UNSDCF) outcomes: - Palestinians have greater access to economic opportunities that are inclusive, resilient, and sustainable, including decent employment and livelihoods opportunities in an empowered private sector. - Palestinians, including the most vulnerable, have equal access to sustainable, inclusive, gender responsive and quality social services, social protection, and affordable utilities. - Palestinian governance institutions, processes, and mechanisms at all levels are more democratic, rights-based, inclusive, and accountable. Its three-year Strategic Note supports the efforts to achieve measurable results in country in terms of four UN Women global Strategic Plan impacts (2022-2025): (SP Impact 1). Governance and participation in public life; (SP Impact 2). Women's Economic Empowerment; (SP Impact 3). Ending Violence Against Women and Girls; SP Impact 4. Women peace and security, Humanitarian & Disaster Risk Reduction. In Palestine, the Women Count Project, will support interventions aligned with national priorities to improve the government's capacity to generate and use gender statistics to inform policies and programmes aimed at gender equality and women's empowerment, as well as for SDGs programming and monitoring. To this end, the key objective is to ensure that gender statistics are available, accessible and analyzed to inform timely policy formulation, advocacy and accountability for gender equality and women's empowerment, with three proposed outcomes: enabling environment, data production and data accessibility and use. In the Women Count Project, UN Women Palestine will work together with the PCBS as the governing entity of the national statistical system, with the Ministry of Women's Affairs as the national mechanism for the advancement of women, the Ministry of Finance and Planning as the governing entity of national planning, and other relevant national stakeholders. The project will also work closely with the humanitarian architecture, including the cluster system, to ensure the collection and use of sex, age and disability disaggregated data, in the humanitarian response and early recovery. Under the supervision of the Deputy Special Representative as the primary supervisor and of the Regional Gender Statistics Specialist at ROAS as the matrix supervisor and in liaison with normative and humanitarian teams including the Gender in Humanitarian Action Specialist, the Programme Specialist, Gender Statistics, is responsible for providing technical advice to the Head of Office and Deputy and strategic programmatic and operational management of the project, contributing to ensure the effective implementation of the Women Count Project in Palestine. She/he will also provide technical assistance and capacity development to partners (including government partners and humanitarian actors) as well as lead resource mobilization, knowledge management and communication efforts. The Programme Specialist, Gender Statistics works in close collaboration with the programme and operations team, UN Women RO and HQ staff, Government officials, multi and bilateral donors and civil society ensuring successful UN Women programme implementation under portfolio. 1.Design and develop programme strategies in the area of Gender Statistics - Design and formulate programme/project proposals, partner agreements, MoUs among others; - Draft inputs to country strategy documents, briefs, policy dialogue and other documents related to Gender Statistics; - Ensure alignment with international statistical standards and the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics; - Integrate gender statistics and sex, age and disability-disaggregated data into humanitarian and development frameworks. 2. Manage the implementation and management of the Women Count Project - Develop the annual workplan and budget and manage their implementation; - Manage the technical implementation of the project; ensure synergies with other teams; - Manage the submission of implementing partner financial and narrative reports; - Provide guidance to personnel and partners on Results Based Management tools and performance indicators; and - Organize Project Steering Committee, project review and/or evaluation meetings, as needed; - Develop procurement plans and oversee procurement processes in accordance with corporate rules and regulations; - Oversee implementation of project activities to ensure consistency with project objectives, agreed timelines and expected results; - Coordinate statistical and project activities with the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and other members of national statistical system, humanitarian actors and relevant stakeholders. 3. Manage technical assistance and capacity development to Women Count partners - Manage the implementation of technical advice and guidance; - Facilitate coordination mechanisms of the project by providing technical assistance; - Draft inputs to country strategic documents, briefs, policy dialogues and other documents related to gender statistics; - Build and manage relationships with national partners to support implementation and expansion of the Women Count programme; respond to any potential problems; - Identify capacity building needs of partners and lead the coordination of technical assistance, mentoring, training and capacity development initiatives to partners on Gender Statistics, including strategic direction, training and positioning of gender statistics in national policies, plans and strategies; - Provide technical guidance and advisory support on gender statistics methodologies and gender data analysis; - Support the data collection, analysis and use of sex, age and disability-disaggregated data in humanitarian (needs assessments, etc..) and development programming (surveys, censuses and administrative data); - Develop and disseminate guidance notes, tools, methodologies and other technical resources related to gender statistics; - Ens