Mission and objectives

UN Women is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide. UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide.

Context

As the humanitarian situation in Mozambique further deteriorates due to conflict and climate-induced hazards, the impact on affected communities has intensified. Humanitarian crises disproportionately affect women and girls with diverse intersectional characteristics, as pre-existing gender inequalities and protection risks are exacerbated and both formal and informal protection mechanisms are weakened or disrupted. The crisis has generated acute humanitarian needs, compelling affected communities to adopt negative coping strategies and significantly increasing protection risks, including gender-based violence (GBV) and sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), particularly among women, children, and persons with disabilities. It is within this framework, that UN Women Mozambique is expanding its coordination mandate to Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) to enhance gender equality programming throughout the humanitarian programme cycle and ensure the different needs and priorities of women, men, girls, and boys are considered in humanitarian planning and response As co-chair of the Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group since January 2025, UN Women Mozambique works to strengthen the integration of gender across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. This includes advancing the focus on women and girls across humanitarian efforts and initiatives in Mozambique UN Women Mozambique and coordinating the production of gender analyses and knowledge products on GiHA to inform a more gender-responsive humanitarian response. Another priority for UN Women includes building GiHA capacities of humanitarian partners, with a specific focus on local women-led organizations (WLOs) and women-rights organizations (WROs) to enhance their active participation in humanitarian planning, decision-making and response.

Task Description

Reporting to the Country Representative, with overall technical and programming guidance from the Country Representative, the Humanitarian Expert will: a) Strategic Humanitarian Leadership & Advisory Support - Lead the Humanitarian/GiHA portfolio in Mozambique. - Provide policy guidance and technical advice to UN Women and humanitarian stakeholders. - Contribute to country strategies, workplans, and budgets. - Advise senior management to ensure alignment with GiHA, WPS, PSEA, AAP, GBViE, and gender equality priorities. - Focus on strategic leadership of humanitarian interventions in Northern Mozambique. b) Programme Design, Implementation & Management - Lead the design, implementation, and management of humanitarian programmes. - Develop high quality proposals and ensure effective, accountable, gender responsive interventions. - Provide oversight of programme delivery and technical support to implementing partners, UN agencies, and WROs/WLOs. - Provide gender advisory support throughout the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC), including inputs to HNRPs, Flash Appeals, pooled funds, and emergency response plans. - Support the development of a Gender Accountability Framework with humanitarian stakeholders. c) Monitoring, Reporting & Results-Based Management - Track humanitarian programme and financial performance. - Review partner reports and ensure accountability. - Prepare quarterly, annual, and donor reports demonstrating outputs and outcomes. - Support information management and advocacy efforts for gender integration in humanitarian action. d) Technical Assistance & Capacity Development - Provide technical support on gender mainstreaming to humanitarian coordination structures (clusters, working groups). - Strengthen the capacity of humanitarian stakeholders, including gender focal points, on GiHA. - Lead capacity building initiatives on GiHA, GBV, SEA, PSEA, AAP, and gender mainstreaming. - Provide technical assistance, training, and capacity development to WROs/WLOs to increase meaningful participation in humanitarian action. - Support gender responsive localization and community engagement initiatives. - Identify opportunities for WROs/WLOs to engage in humanitarian coordination mechanisms at country and regional levels. e) Partnerships, Coordination & Resource Mobilization - Represent UN Women in humanitarian coordination mechanisms in Mozambique. - Co chair the GiHA Working Group and participate in ICCG, Protection Cluster, GBV AoR, PSEA Network, and AAP meetings. - Support inter agency assessments and gender integration across clusters. - Contribute to resource mobilization strategies and donor engagement. - Re-establish and nurture partnership with INGD whilst working closely with them f) Advocacy, Knowledge Generation & Community Engagement - Develop advocacy briefs, gender alerts, Rapid Gender Analyses (RGAs), and analytical products on humanitarian crises. - Ensure gender is mainstreamed in sector assessments, MSNA, and rapid inter agency assessments. - Provide technical advice on inclusion of SAAD and gender content in sectoral and inter sectoral analyses and advocacy messages. - Promote evidence based, community engaged humanitarian responses

Competencies and values

Core Values: - Respect for Diversity - Integrity - Professionalism Core Competencies: - Gender awareness and sensitivity - Accountability - Creative Problem Solving - Effective Communication - Inclusive Collaboration - Stakeholder Engagement - Leading by Example Functional Competencies: - Background knowledge of Gender Equality and Human Rights. - Proven ability to analyse and consolidate high volume of information - Ability to handle confidential and politically sensitive issues in a responsible and mature manner - High level logical and methodical organizational skills - Excellent oral and written skills in English

Living conditions and remarks

As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials. This position is based in Pemba. National UN Volunteers are part of the malicious insurance plan. National UN Volunteers are expected to be culturally sensitive and adjust to the prevailing culture and traditions.