Background:

UN Women, 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. 

Sudan continues to face a severe and protracted humanitarian crisis driven by ongoing armed conflict since April 2023, which has displaced millions and eroded basic services and protections across the country. Women and girls are disproportionately affected: they represent more than half of the displaced population and face heightened risks of gender-based violence (GBV), including widespread conflict-related sexual violence, exploitation, and abuse. An estimated 12 million women and girls are at risk of GBV, with demand for support services increasing sharply, while nearly 11 million face acute food insecurity, and a majority of female-headed households report insufficient access to food. Essential health and protection services have collapsed in many areas, with up to 80 % of health facilities non-functional, severely limiting access to sexual and reproductive health care and GBV support. School attendance for girls has declined dramatically, with millions out of education, raising the risk of harmful practices such as child marriage. The crisis has created an urgent need for gender-responsive humanitarian action that protects, empowers and promotes the rights, safety, and leadership of women and girls across Sudan.

In Sudan, UN Women’s humanitarian mandate is grounded in its global responsibility to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, ensuring that humanitarian action fully integrates gender perspectives and responds to the specific needs of women and girls in crisis. At the coordination level, UN Women provides technical expertise and leadership within the UN humanitarian architecture — including the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT), inter-cluster mechanisms— to mainstream gender into humanitarian planning, policy, monitoring and accountability frameworks, and to strengthen system-wide adherence to gender commitments. It supports the establishment and functioning of gender coordination platforms such as the inter-agency Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group and promotes the meaningful participation of women’s rights and women-led organizations in humanitarian coordination and decision-making through the HCT Women’s Advisory Group. At the programming level, UN Women implements and supports targeted interventions that address critical protection, empowerment and resilience needs of women and girls, including gender-based violence prevention and response, women’s leadership in crisis response, and capacity strengthening of local women’s organizations. Specifically through Japan funding, UN Women aims to achieve improved access of women and girls to protection services (through safe spaces), start‑up livelihood opportunities, and strengthened leadership capacities and strengthened women’s leadership and advocacy capacity, enabling effective coordination and amplified representation

Reporting to the Gender in Humanitarian Action Programme Analyst, the Programme Analyst contributes to delivering the before-mentioned objectives. The Programme Analyst works in close collaboration with the programme and operations team, multi and bi-lateral donors and civil society ensuring successful UN Women humanitarian coordination and programme implementation.     

Duties and responsibilities: 

Provide technical and administrative support to the implementation and management of the Humanitarian programme 

• Support and monitor the implementation of humanitarian programme activities;
• Review and evaluate partner proposals;
• Support the coordination of the call/request for proposals, including the organization of technical review committees, and capacity assessment of partners;
• Provide administrative support in monitoring budget preparation and the finances of programmes/projects, including the finalization of partners’ FACE forms;
• Review, coordinate and monitor the timely and quality submission of implementing partner financial and narrative reports;
• Support partners’ partner agreement creation, amendment and closure processes;
• Identify capacity building needs of partners and support the capacity building implementation plan accordingly.

Provide technical inputs to the monitoring and reporting of the Humanitarian programme

• Monitor progress of implementation of activities and finances by maintaining results-based management tools and project and budget management platforms up-to-date;
• Support in the planning of and participate in field visits to monitor the performance of commitments by implementing partners and ensure programme objectives are being met;
• Draft reports on monitoring missions, programme results, outputs and outcomes; 
• Provide substantive inputs to the preparation of donor and UN Women reports.

Provide administrative and financial support to the Programme Unit

• Undertake all logistical, administrative and financial arrangements for the unit’s meetings, workshops, events, and missions;
• Make travel arrangements for the Programme Team, including travel requisitions and claims;
• Assemble briefing materials and prepare PowerPoint and other presentations; 
• Create projects in Quantum system, prepare budget revisions, revise project awards and status; and determine unutilized funds and the operational and financial close of a project; 
• Process recruitment and payment for consultants and other service providers as required;
• Create requisitions in Quantum system; register good receipts in Quantum system; 
• Monitor budget implementation and make budget re-alignments/ revisions, as necessary.

Provide support to humanitarian inter-agency coordination through the GiHA Working Group and other platforms 

• Provide substantive technical support on inter-agency coordination-related activities by convening meetings, maintaining members lists, drafting meeting minutes, etc.;
• Support the engagement and participation of local organizations and civil society networks in humanitarian coordination mechanisms.

Provide substantive inputs to advocacy, knowledge building and communication efforts

• Develop background documents, briefs, and presentations related to gender in humanitarian action;
• Coordinate and support the organization of advocacy campaigns, events, trainings, workshops, and knowledge products;
• Support the development of knowledge management methodologies and products on gender in humanitarian action;
• Support UN Women’s participation in policy dialogues on issues related to humanitarian action as necessary;
• Support to develop advocacy strategies and oversee their implementation;
• Identify best practices and lessons learned to guide programme improvement and strategy planning;
• Contribute to developing knowledge management strategies, products, and methodologies on the humanitarian action programme.

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

Competencies :

Core Values:

• Integrity;
• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Values and Competencies Framework: 

Functional Competencies 

• Good programme formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation skills
• Good knowledge of Results Based Management
• Ability to gather and interpret data, reach logical conclusions and present findings and recommendations
• Good analytical skills
• Good knowledge of gender in humanitarian action, GBV, women’s empowerment and the humanitarian architecture among others
• Ability to identify and analyze trends, opportunities and threats to fundraising.

Education and certification:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in social sciences, human rights, gender/women's studies, humanitarian action, international development, or a related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A project/programme management certification would be an added advantage.

Experience:

• At least 2 years of progressively responsible work experience in humanitarian or development programme/project implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting and capacity building is required.
• Experience in gender in humanitarian action is desirable.
• Experience coordinating and liaising with government agencies, local and international CSOs, and/or donors is desirable.
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.
• Experience in the use of a modern web-based ERP System, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable.
• Experience working in the UN System is an asset.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and Arabic is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable.

Statements :

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.

Diversity and inclusion:

At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.

If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.

UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.)

Note: Applicants must ensure that all sections of the application form, including the sections on education and employment history, are completed. If all sections are not completed the application may be disqualified from the recruitment and selection process.