Deputy Director, Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In doing so, UN Member States took an historic step in accelerating the Organization’s goals on gender equality and the empowerment of women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bri…

Deputy Director, Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division

Key Functions and Accountabilities:

Provide Strategic Leadership for Divisional Planning and Delivery of UN Women Strategic Plan Results

• Provide strategic leadership for the formulation, implementation and periodic review of the Division’s Strategic Note, ensuring clear strategic direction, prioritization and alignment with UN Women’s Strategic Plan and corporate commitments.

• Oversee the coherence, integration, quality and strategic relevance of PPID’s policy, programme and intergovernmental work, ensuring that divisional priorities effectively position UN Women as a global leader on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

• Ensure that global programming frameworks, corporate policy inputs and strategic guidance developed under PPID translate intergovernmental mandates and emerging policy priorities into actionable, high-impact results at global, regional and country levels.

• Ensure strategic interconnection between PPID Directorate and Regional Office leadership and timely support of PPID to country and regional offices, especially for crisis response.

• Exercise delegated authority to ensure quality assurance, strategic oversight and risk management of PPID-led global and cross-thematic initiatives, including those involving multiple divisions and country and regional offices, and support strategic resources mobilization for divisional priorities.

• Provide senior strategic guidance to the Political Analysis and Programme Development Unit to ensure forward-looking political analysis informs corporate decision-making, risk mitigation and organizational positioning.

• Represent the Director, as delegated, in high-level intergovernmental, inter-agency and external forums, including with Member State delegations, and senior officials of multilateral institutions, advancing UN Women’s strategic policy and programmatic priorities.

Ensure Strategic Plan Development Results Coordination, Monitoring and Accountability at the Global Level

• Provide strategic leadership for the coordination, monitoring and consolidation of Strategic Plan development results, ensuring organizational accountability, learning and evidence-informed management action including in collaboration with SPRED.

• Oversee the establishment and institutionalization of global mechanisms that enable systematic tracking, analysis and synthesis of Strategic Plan results across outcomes, impact areas and thematic priorities.

• Provide strategic oversight to global Outcome and Impact Leads and Indicator Managers to ensure coherence, analytical rigor and alignment across results frameworks, including the identification of risks, bottlenecks and corrective actions.

• Lead, in partnership with relevant Divisions such as SPRED and DCA, the strengthening of corporate systems and capacities for results reporting, performance analysis and strategic communications to governing and oversight bodies and external audiences.

• Ensure the provision of high-quality strategic briefs and analytical inputs to inform senior management decision-making, governance deliberations and external accountability processes.

• Consult the Director on matters where results reporting has institution-wide strategic, reputational or governance implications.

Provide Corporate Stewardship of Knowledge Management for Development Results

• Establish institutional standards and determine corporate priorities for the development and implementation of UN Women’s knowledge management strategy related to development results, ensuring it supports organizational learning, innovation and impact.

• Champion a culture of evidence-based decision-making, ensuring that evaluations, research, data and lessons learned systematically inform policy positions, strategic choices and programme adjustments across the organization.

• Oversee the establishment of corporate governance arrangements, quality standards and accountability mechanisms for knowledge products and platforms, clarifying institutional roles, incentives and performance expectations across headquarters, regional and country offices.

• Ensure that knowledge generation and dissemination under PPID contributes to UN Women’s global normative leadership and supports Member States and partners with timely, credible and policy-relevant evidence.

Lead the Day-to-Day Executive Management of the Division

• Act on behalf of the Director to provide strategic oversight of PPID’s day-to-day management, ensuring operational coherence, compliance with corporate policies, and delivery of divisional priorities. The incumbent is accountable for the Division’s operational performance and delivery against agreed results.

• Oversee integrated planning, budgeting and resource management across the Division, ensuring alignment between strategic priorities, workplans, staffing and available resources, and proactively managing organizational and delivery risks.