Gender Project Officer

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
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The promotion of gender equality and tenure security is both central to UNCCD’s mandate and is a priority within the organization’s activities. Under the overall supervision of the LDN and Land Restoration Programme Coordinator of the Global Mechanism and working in coordination with the Global Mechanism Team Leads and Global Policy, Advocacy and Regional Coordination (GPARC) unit of the UNCCD, the incumbent will be responsible for the following tasks: • Contributing to the development of transformative projects and programmes that consider gender and tenure security developed by the Global Mechanism in line with the UNCCD Gender Action Plan, other relevant UNCCD policies and international best practice. • Contributing to the development of the land tenure Toolbox and roll out of the usage of the Toolbox. • Provide support in the development of gender responsive LDN transformative projects and programmes in close collaboration with the project managers by delivering support for improvements and/or providing gender related technical assistance on the implementation of ongoing project.