United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) strives to promote gender equality and women’s human rights, strengthen implementation of gender sensitive policy and legislation, and eliminate all forms of violence against women as well as to protect women’s human rights. Attention is given to issues of excluded groups and their capacity to lobby so that these become part of mainstream decision making and planning. It provides technical advisory and services on women’s economic empowerment, ending violence against women and girls, women’s leadership and participation, including in disaster risk reduction and management and gender integration in planning and budgeting. UN Women works towards ensuring an effective UN response by strengthening the effectiveness, coordination, and quality of outputs on gender equality amongst the various stakeholders.
UN Women launched its programme in Pakistan in 2007 following a request by the Government and the UN and is now strategically positioned in this regard at both the national and provincial level, post devolution. In moving towards realization of gender equality and women’s empowerment, UN Women provides support to innovative initiatives that promote women’s human rights, with a special focus on their economic security, governance/political participation, freedom from violence, as well as preparedness and responding to humanitarian crises.
UN Women Pakistan is looking for 2 Rule of Law Coordination Officers, one each for Balochistan and KP sub-offices, to support the Sub Office team in coordination, implementation and reporting for the Rule of Law Programme being implemented by the Ending Violence Against Women, Governance and Human Rights Unit. The Officers will provide support to the provincial sub-offices in programme planning, coordination, implementation and reporting.
Task descriptions:
Under the direct supervision of the Head of Sub Office (Balochistan/ KP), the UN Volunteer will perform the following functions:
Programme management/ coordination:
Knowledge management/ reporting:
Administrative/ logistical support:
Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to:
Results/ Expected Outputs:
Qualifications/ Requirements:
Language Skills:
Disclaimer:
The United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) is an equal opportunity programme which welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture.
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