Organization: UN Development Programme
Country: United States of America
Closing date: 02 Aug 2015
Technology can be a game changer for girls and women’s empowerment and achieving gender equality. ICTs – in all their forms, including radio, the internet, social media, applications, devices – can enable significant advances in improving livelihoods, learning, active citizenship, expression of culture and community building. There is a clear imperative for women to co-develop and harness these advances to positively impact their rights and lives, innovate and build their own futures, while preventing further entrenchment of inequality, discrimination, exploitation and addressing new threats and risks. Yet, despite the recognized potential and areas of progress, impact is not happening fast enough, to a transformative degree and investments are lacking. Women are not sufficiently engaged in and influencing the direction and content of the knowledge society. Successes in leveraging technology for women’s empowerment are too often the exceptions rather than the rules. Our challenge is how to move beyond recycling recommendations on what needs to be done, how to implement commitments, and move from pilots and anecdotes to increased understanding and evidence, holistic efforts, greater investments, scaled action, and ultimately transformation and impact for women on the ground.
UN Women has established itself as an important leader in gender and ICTD at a time when there is growing interest in and momentum around this agenda but also a tremendous need to do more, address gaps, and connect the dots between various initiatives. The organization has a unique role to play as it straddles the UN system, inter-governmental processes, development programming and has a universal mandate. Moreover, it is a valued and trusted partner within the gender community which is where improved linkages need to be made with the ICTD community. UN Women brings these important perspectives and partners.
The duty station, New York, is the headquarters of UN Women and will enable the officer to interact with many staff working across themes and functions, as well as with other parts of the UN system. The team in which the Officer will work is part of the planning and guidance unit and it is expected that the Technology and Innovation team will grow in the upcoming year to total of three people.
How to apply:
All the details of the reuirements and how to apply can be found on our web-site
http://www.jposc.undp.org/content/jposc/en/home/how-to-join/current-vacancies/
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