Senior Programme Officer

Org. Setting and Reporting

This position is located in United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), based in New York, USA. UNAOC is a United Nations entity that builds bridges between societies, promotes dialogue and understanding, and seeks to forge the collective political will required to accomplish these tasks. UNAOC works as a convener and facilitator to bring all sectors of society together to strengthen intercultural and interreligious dialogue to diminish hostility and promote mutual respect and harmony among the people and cultures and civilizations of the world. UNAOC’s activities are fashioned around the five pillars of Education, Youth, Migration, Media and Women as peace makers in identity-based settings. The Senior Programme Officer will report to the Director of UNAOC Secretariat.

Responsibilities

Within limits of delegated authority, the Senior Programme Officer will be responsible for the following duties:

• Takes the lead to develop, implement and evaluate assigned awareness-raising and advocacy initiatives in alignment with UNAOC’s mandate to advance intercultural and interreligious dialogue, promote mutual respect, tolerance and global solidarity and counter all forms of racism and xenophobia based on religion or belief.
• Ensures implementation of gender mainstreaming guidelines by assessing the implications for men and women of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels.
• Takes the lead in conducting research and programme evaluation relevant to intercultural dialogue among civilization initiatives and presents information gathered from diverse sources.
• Proposes policy development directives and plans of action relevant to intercultural dialogue and dialogue among civilizations initiatives in line with the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 78/286; reviews the assessments of related issues and trends, prepares evaluations or research activities and studies, analyses implications and makes recommendations to the UNAOC senior management on possible measures.
• Undertakes survey initiatives; guides design of data collection instruments; reviews, analyzes and interprets responses, identifies problems/issues and prepares conclusions.
• Provides UNAOC senior management with various written outputs, e.g., background papers, analysis, substantial sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications, etc.
• Provides UNAOC senior management with substantive support to consultative and other meetings, conferences, including proposing and developing the event agendas, concept notes, identifying speakers, preparation of documents and presentations, coordination of all required arrangements pertinent to events.
• Manages outreach activities; designs and conducts training workshops, seminars, etc., makes presentations on assigned topics/activities.
• Leads field missions, ...