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.
Composed of representatives from donors, United Nations entities, and civil society organizations, the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) is a global pooled funding mechanism which aims to re-energize action and stimulate a significant increase in financing for women’s participation, leadership, and empowerment in peace and security processes and humanitarian response. The WPHF is a flexible and rapid financing mechanism. It supports quality interventions designed to enhance the capacity of local women to prevent conflict, respond to crises and emergencies, and seize key peacebuilding opportunities. The overall goal of the WPHF is to achieve peaceful and gender equal societies. Achievement of this goal will require that women are empowered to participate in, contribute to, and benefit from conflict prevention, crisis response, peacebuilding, and recovery.
Since its launch in 2016, WPHF has been supporting over 55 civil society organizations and is present in seven countries or group of countries. The WPHF is governed by a Funding Board at the global level, which is comprised of four UN entities (currently UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA and PBSO), four donor Member States (currently Austria, Canada, the Netherlands and Norway), as well as four Civil Society Organizations (currently Cordaid, GNWP, APWAPS and WANEP). In the Philippines, WPHF was launched in 2021. Nine Civil Society Organizations have been selected as Implementing Partners for the WPHF Programme. UN Women acts as the WPHF’s Technical Secretariat at the global level. UN Women also acts as Management Entity for civil society organizations.
Reporting to the Programme Specialist Women Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action (SB5), the Project Coordination Analyst is responsible for coordinating the WPHF which includes coordinating relationships with national partners and stakeholders, and the monitoring and reporting, and the finances and beneficiaries of the WPHF.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Coordinate the implementation of WPHF in the Philippines:
Coordinate the overall Programme/Portfolio work plan development and ensure timely implementation of grants under the WPHF with a focus on coalition building and responding to Women’s Peace and Security and Humanitarian Actions in the Philippines
Gather inputs and coordinate the preparation of work-plans, periodic narrative progress reports and expenditures status reports to the National Steering Committee and WPHF Secretariat;
Establish systems for project planning, implementation and monitoring, in collaboration with partners;
Record and maintain documents on relevant Programme activities, issues, and risks.
Guide coordination with national partners and other stakeholders:
Coordinate relationships with national partners to support implementation and expansion of the WPS-HA Programme/Portfolio, raise potential problems and suggest solutions;
Identify capacity building needs and support partners through technical assistance, mentoring, training and capacity development initiatives, as needed.
Support the coordination with the Office of President Advisor on Peace Process (OPAPP), the UN resident Coordinator’s Office, UN Women as well as other national stakeholders
Responsible for coordination among stakeholders and support the day-to-day management and implementation of the WPHF grants.
Monitoring and reporting on WPHF and coordinate with WPS portfolio in the Philippines:
Gather and compile all information necessary to ensure effective monitoring and reporting of WPHF grants from the planning to the evaluation stages;
Provide inputs from WPHF activities and results to Philippines office reporting
Coordinate the monitoring and reporting of WPS-HA portfolio, including implementation of activities and the expenditure of funds; conduct regular monitoring visits, as required;
Draft and provide inputs to annual and quarterly reports; coordinate the submission of implementing partner financial and narrative reports;
Manage people and finances of the WPHF:
Coordinate development and preparation of financial resources of the programme including budgeting and budget revisions, and expenditure tracking and reporting;
Monitor the allocation and disbursement of funds to participating partners;
Supervise Programme Associates and Assistants.
Build partnerships and support in developing resource mobilization strategies:
Provide inputs to the development of partnerships and resource mobilization strategies.
Advocate and facilitate knowledge building and management and communication:
Document the programme implementation process and products;
Contribute to the exchange of information and provide inputs to the development of knowledge products internally and externally of the programme;
Coordinate the organization of major advocacy campaigns, events, trainings, workshops and knowledge products.
Key Performance Indicators:
Timely and quality implementation of Programme/Portfolio/ activities against set workplans, timelines, and budgets, in line with the Strategic Note
Quality and timely reporting
Strong relations with partners and stakeholders
Regular and timely monitoring of activities
Enhanced best practices and lessons learned documented and circulated
Required Skills and Experience:
Education:
Master’s degree or equivalent in public administration, law, human rights, gender equality, management, social sciences or other related areas 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 (such as PMP®, PRINCE2®, or MSP®) would be an added advantage.
Experience:
At least 3 years of progressively responsible experience at the national or international level in managing complex and multi-component programme interventions with national partners, preferably related to women peace and security and/or humanitarian action;
Experience in coordinating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating development programmes and projects
Experience in supervising and coordinating the implementation of multiple projects of civil society and NGOs in the Philippines
Understanding of gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation is desirable.
Experience in UN/UN Women results-based management is an asset
Language Requirement:
Fluency in English and Filipino is required;
Working knowledge of another official UN language is an asset
