UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.

VACANCY NOTICE
UNFPA

Programme Analyst – Gender, Janakpur, Nepal, NOB
- Job Identification: 22971
- Apply Before: 01/10/2025, 05:30 PM
- Job Schedule: Full time
- Locations: Janakpur, Nepal
- Grade: NOB
- Vacancy Type: Fixed Term
- Rotational/Non Rotational: Non-Rotational
- Contract Duration: 1 Year
- Required Languages: English, Nepali
- Vacancy Timeline: 3 Weeks
- Job Category: Gender Equality & Human Rights

Job Description
The Position:
The Programme Analyst – Gender leads UNFPA’s work in the assigned Province on gender equality and human rights, with a special focus on gender-based violence (GBV) and harmful practices, towards accelerating the achievement of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action (PoA), the Beijing Platform for Action, the 2030 Agenda and other global, regional and national frameworks.

S/he provides technical leadership, policy advice and management support to the UNFPA programmes in the assigned province on gender equality, women’s rights, gender-based violence, and harmful practices. S/he promotes inter-linkages within the gender portfolio of projects and among other programmes in the areas of reproductive health, adolescents and youth and population dynamics, and builds capacities of staff and concerned partners at the provincial level to mainstream gender and incorporate an intersectionality lens across all programme areas in the province.

How you can make a difference:
UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

Job Purpose:
The UNFPA Strategic Plan embraces the vision of the 2030 Agenda and places the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls as a priority, and as an essential precondition to reaching those furthest behind. This together with UNFPA’s commitments to support the realization of international conventions and resolutions, including the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), ICPD Beyond 2014 Review, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action plus 20 Review, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, UN Security Council Resolution 1325 among others, confirm that gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is at the heart of UNFPA’s work, both as a stand-alone dedicated area of work and from a mainstreaming approach.

In Nepal, women have long experienced high levels of poverty, violence, social exclusion and marginalization because of their gender. One in four ever married women have experienced spousal physical, sexual, or emotional violence. Social norms that value men and boys over women and girls deny equal opportunities to women and girls and result in a range of harmful practices, including child marriage and gender-biased sex selection. Evidence shows that vulnerabilities of women and adolescents are exacerbated during crisis situations, heightening their risk to gender-based violence. For women from ethnic minorities and groups considered low caste and those living with disabilities, these disadvantages are greatly compounded, making them the most left behind.

To advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, UNFPA contributes to strengthening policy, legal and accountability frameworks. This includes support for policies and programmes and human rights mechanisms that protect the rights of women and girls, promote equal opportunities, and end all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls and other marginalized groups.

UNFPA implements comprehensive programmes to change underlying social norms that impede eliminating gender discriminatory practices, including gender-based violence and harmful practices. In Nepal, UNFPA manages a portfolio of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Harmful Practices programmes, including the GBV Prevention and Response (GBVPR) programme, Empowered Women Prosperous Nepal (EWPN), Safe Girls Project and other projects that focus on ending child marriage, and comprehensive sexuality education.

As the lead agency for gender-based violence area of responsibility under the Global Protection Cluster, UNFPA plays a prominent inter-agency role and supports multi-sectoral capacity building and the use of a continuum approach in development and humanitarian settings to address GBV. All these programmes are closely linked to UNFPA-supported interventions to advance reproductive rights in the country, supported by efforts to improve population data systems to map and address inequalities and improve the availability of sex- disaggregated data across the country.

The Programme Analyst – Gender is entrusted with the responsibility of engaging in advocacy and policy dialogue for concerted actions by the provincial and local government counterparts, UN system and other development partners, and civil society organizations and networks on issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, with a special focus on GBV and harmful practices. S/he will provide technical assistance and build partnerships to leverage financial and technical resources for the accelerated achievement of UNFPA’s transformative programme goals. S/he will support the development, implementation, and oversight of UNFPA’s work on gender and women’s rights including social inclusion dimensions at provincial and local level and will coordinate with relevant UNFPA staff across thematic and other teams at all operational levels. S/he will establish, nurture and participate in sub-national networks in this field and promote harmonisation of gender and GBV interventions in the province and local level among the relevant actors.

Application Deadline: 10 January 2025

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