UN Women Programme Officer - Accountability & Gender - Jobs in Uganda

UN Women Programme Officer - Accountability & Gender - Jobs in Uganda

The 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.

UN Women operationalizes this through Flagship Programming Initiatives (FPIs) developed to achieve transformative results for gender equality and women's empowerment.

The FPIs respond to the expanded agenda for Beijing+20 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The main objective

To Government under international GEWE normative frameworks (CEDAW, Beijing +20 Plan of Action, SDGs, UNSCR 1325) and Gender Responsive Budgeting is to institutionalize gender equality by ensuring that National and local plans and budgets are gender responsive through strengthening the capacity of the MGLSD and other selected MDAs and local governments to, plan, coordinate, monitor and track allocations for GEWE.

Under the overall guidance and leadership of the Country Representative, and under the direct supervision of the Ministry Gender, Labour and Social Development and the Deputy Country Representative UN Women, the Officer for Accountability

and Gender Mainstreaming will support the effective and efficient management and implementation of the UN Women's GEWE Programme.

It is against this background that UN Women Uganda Country office seeks to hire a qualified and committed professional for a position of Programme Officer, Accountability and Gender Mainstreaming.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should apply online by 26th April 2019

Interested applicants can visit our careers page below and submit applications based on the detail instructions provided online:

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

UN Women is an equal opportunity employer.

Qualified women and men are highly encouraged to apply.

For more information and job application details, see; UN Women Programme Officer - Accountability & Gender - Jobs in Uganda

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