Gender Specialist Accountability & Reporting

The Gender Specialist Accountability and Reporting will ensure UNDP's accountability for gender equality commitments in line with the Strategic Plan 2026-2029 and Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2029. The role leads implementation of UN-SWAP and GEAP, tracks financial investments for gender equality, and provides reliable gender-related data for decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Ensure UNDP is accountable for its commitments to gender equality in line with the Strategic Plan 2026-2929 and the Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2029.
• Coordinate and deliver UNDP’s reporting on gender equality including the Annual Report on the Implementation of the UNDP Gender Equality Strategy, the GEAP Annual Report, the UN-SWAP Annual Report, and the ECOSOC reports.
• Provide technical and coordination support for the preparation, convening and follow-up of the Gender Steering and Implementation Committee (GSIC).
• Provide advice and technical support to ensure performance assessment criteria for senior and middle managers include implementation of the GES 2026-2029.
• Act as evaluation and audit focal point for the Gender Team, liaising with the UNDP Independent Evaluation Office and the Audit Office; prepare management responses; track implementation of evaluation recommendations; deliver reports and evaluation of the Gender Equality Global Programme 2023-2025.
• Ensure the gender equality data powerhouse is updated.
• Lead the implementation of the UN-SWAP and the GEAP to advance UN-System wide commitments on gender equality and interagency coordination.
• Develop and lead UNDP’s Action Plan for effective implementation of commitments in the framework of the UN-SWAP and GEAP.
• Liaise with key teams and units to ensure UNDP meets UN SWAP/GEAP standards.
• Engage closely with the UNDP Gender Equality Seal for country offices.
• Represent UNDP and the Gender Team in key global UN interagency coordination spaces such as IANGWE, UN-SWAP and GEAP.
• Support UNDP’s participation in intergovernmental conferences and high-level inter-agency events related to system-wide commitments for gender equality.
• Lead UNDP’s efforts to track financial investments for gender equality.
• Lead implementation of UNDP’s gender marker as the main tool to track budgets and expenditures for gender equality at all levels.
• Ensure UNDP’s gender marker meets UN system wide quality standards; coordinate quality assurance and periodic reviews.
• Provide technical support to HQ’s Teams, RH and COs to help meet gender marker targets; foster learning and knowledge sharing.
• Coordinate development of financial and narrative annual reports/snapshots for leadership decision-making.
• Represent UNDP in inter-agency fora on implementation of gender markers and other mechanisms to track financial investments for gender equality.
• Lead and provide reliable gender-related data for decision-making.
• Collect and analyze relevant corporate data from different sources for evidence-based decision-making and programming.
• Develop dashboards and visualizations to communicate complex findings clearly.
• Prepare policy briefs, reports, and presentations translating data into actionable recommendations.
• Liaise with Regional Hubs’ Gender Teams and Country Offices to identify data needs and strengthen capacities in data collection and analysis.
• Provide content for the Global Gender Equality Community of Practice and Gender Equality Seal Learning Plan.
• Perform other duties within functional profile as necessary.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in statistics, feminist economics, data science and analytics, gender studies and/or relevant related fields is required; OR A first-level university degree (Bachelor´s degree) in the above-mentioned fields of study, in combination with two additional years of relevant work experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Minimum of five (5) years (with Master’s degree) or seven (7) years (with Bachelor’s degree) of progressively responsible professional experience in accountability, reporting and/or data analysis is required.
• Technical expertise in gender equality is desired, with feminist economics as an added plus.
• Proven knowledge and experience in data science and analytics, including preprocessing, exploration, use and visualization of data for decision-making is desired, with AI driven data analytics as an added plus.
• Proven experience in producing quality reports in English is desired.
• Proven experience in coordination with diverse partners and stakeholders is desired, with experience in coordination with UN-System entities as an added plus.
• Proven knowledge and experience working with UN accountability tools is desired, with experience with UNDP accountability tools as an added plus.
• Proficiency in statistical software and data visualization tools is required.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of another UN language is an advantage.

Skills

• Gender Equality Expertise
• Feminist Economics
• Data Science
• Data Analytics
• Data Pre-Processing
• Data Visualization
• Statistical Software Stata
• Report Writing
• Accountability Reporting
• Stakeholder Coordination
• UN Accountability Tools
• UNDP Accountability Tools
• AI Driven Data Analytics

Languages

English