Job Description
UNOCT was established by the General Assembly in June 2017. The Office has five main functions: (a) provide leadership on the General Assembly counter-terrorism mandate across the United Nations System; (b) enhance coordination and coherence across the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact to ensure the balanced implementation of the four pillars of the Strategy; (c) strengthen the delivery of United Nations counter-terrorism capacity-building assistance to Member States; (d) improve visibility, advocacy and resource mobilization for United Nations counter-terrorism efforts; and ensure that due priority is given to counter-terrorism across the United Nations System and that the important work on preventing violent extremism is firmly rooted in the Strategy.
In April 2022, UNOCT and the European Union launched the EU-UN Global Terrorism Threats Facility (the Facility), with the overall objective to provide rapid and flexible support to Member States in building their capacities to detect, prevent, counter, investigate and respond to evolving terrorist threat, while ensuring respect for international law, including international human rights law, international humanitarian law and refugee law as well as the rule of law. The Facility delivers three types of activities: a) advisory and mentoring support through the deployment of experts, in a number of thematic areas determined by Member States’ requests; b) training activities or workshops; and c) limited provision of light, non-lethal equipment. It operates according to the following principles: 1) it is demand-driven, based on official requests from a Member State; and 2) it is complementary to other UN and EU support. Support delivered by the Facility takes in consideration the recommendations from the assessment visits conducted by the Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee, through its Executive Directorate (CTED).
Since 1 January 2022, UNOCT has a functioning Human Rights and Gender Section (HRGS), with the purpose of providing technical assistance, oversight and quality assurance across the Office’s policy, coordination and programmatic functions. UNOCT work on gender is guided by the Gender Mainstreaming Policy and Action Plan (approved in January 2022).
To support the Facility, UNOPS has established a roster of specialists (the Roster), members of which deliver assistance across the four pillars of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, depending on the specific need and context of the requesting Member States or regional organizations. Duration of the assignment depends on the tasks and deliverables assigned.
This position at UNOPS is designed to support the activities of the Facility. The candidate selected for this role will become UNOPS personnel under its full responsibility. The incumbent will work closely with other experts from the Roster for the duration of his contract and will undertake short-term assignments, with possible field deployments, depending on the needs of the Facility or of the requesting Member States.
Support the EU-UN Global Terrorism Threats Facility by providing strategic and technical guidance to requesting Member States on strengthening the full, equal, safe, and meaningful participation and representation of women in operational and policy roles in preventing and countering terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism (CT/PCVE).
Under the supervision of the Director of GPO, and working closely with the Senior Programme Management Officer of the EU-UN Global Terrorism Threats Facility in UNOCT and the Gender Unit in the Human Rights and Gender Section of UNOCT, the Women in Counter-terrorism Expert will be expected to perform various activities including:
- Provide strategic and technical guidance to requesting Member States on strengthening the full, equal, safe, and meaningful participation and representation of women in operational and policy roles in preventing and countering terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism (CT/PCVE) within government, including, intelligence, law enforcement, corrections, the judiciary, and CT/PCVE policy and coordination bodies;
- Provide expert advice to requesting Member States on the development and conduct of context-specific analysis of the barriers preventing the full, equal, safe, and meaningful participation and representation of women in operational and policy CT/PCVE roles withing government, and in formulating context-relevant measures to remove or mitigate these barriers;
- Deliver capacity-building activities to strengthen the full, equal, safe, and meaningful participation and representation of women in operational and policy CT/PCVE roles withing government, such as revisions of human resource management policies and procedures, to address identified barriers and enable equitable access for women;
- Provide high level advisory and mentoring services to governmental officials from requesting Member States to strengthen advance the full, equal, safe, and meaningful participation and representation of women in operational and policy CT/PCVE roles within government;
- Prepare a variety of high-quality, written substantive outputs, including analyses, presentations, training materials, summary reports, related to their assignments.
