National Gender & Governance Expert, (Retainer)

UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peace building, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.

UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.

Working with us

UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

Diversity

With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.

The incumbent will work under the overall guidance of National Project Director (NPD) and National Project Coordinator (NPC) and under the direct supervision of National Project Manager (NPM) from UNEP.  The Expert will team together with other national thematic experts at Project Management Unit (PMU) to develop project deliverables as per the specific terms of reference.

The National Gender & Governance Expert (NGGE) will specifically:

1. Conduct gender assessment and develop gender action plan for the project as per the Global Environment Facility (GEF) guideline and gender strategy.
2. Conduct Gender and Governance assessments i) at project intervention sites to inform on the field training and interventions and ii) within Ministry of Forests and Environment (MoFE) and Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) to inform national training and policy review activities.
3. Team together with other thematic consultants to provide inputs on the targeted interventions and training plan from a gender perspective.
4. Undertake any other responsibilities relevant for Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) as required by PMU.
5. Support PMU team to implement gender action plan.

• Master's degree in Gender Studies, Governance, Social Science, Development Science, Forestry, Rural Development or any related discipline. 

• Ten (10) years of substantive work experience in the field of gender and governance, Gender Equality Social Inclusion (GESI) and socio-economic sector or related fields is required.
  Sound working knowledge of contemporary environmental issues, Natural Resources Management, climate change, environment poverty nexus and livelihood dimension is a preferred. 
• Strong analytical and report writing skills including the ability to work in a team and field travel is essential.

Contract type: Local Individual contractor Agreement (LICA)
Contract level: LICA-10

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.

The position is based in the family duty station (Kathmandu) with regular travel to field sites.