Programme Analyst on Humanitarian Action and Resilience

Background:

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality for women as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.  Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, the UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors. 

Based on UN legislative mandates and the UNW Strategic Plan, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) is tasked with providing strategic programme development, policy/ technical advisory services and quality assurance support to Multi-Country Offices (MCOs) and Country Offices (COs). It undertakes or coordinates regional research and data analysis; advises on norms, policies and strategies for achieving the internationally and regionally agreed goals related to gender equality and women’s empowerment issues. It acts as a knowledge hub at the regional level, collecting evidence on progress and emerging issues and sharing knowledge on innovative approaches and lessons learned in implementation. 

Context in Asia Pacific

Asia and the Pacific is one of the world’s most disaster-prone regions, with eight of the ten deadliest disasters occurring in 2018. Climate change, alongside extreme weather events such as floods and droughts, is a major driver of forced displacement and exacerbates existing vulnerabilities. The region’s dense coastal populations, high poverty rates, and dependence on natural resources increase exposure to environmental degradation and climate shocks.

Gender inequality is a key driver of vulnerability, magnifying risks related to livelihoods, economic exclusion, food insecurity, displacement, and gender-based violence (GBV). Women and marginalized groups face systemic barriers to accessing services—including health, education, protection, and social safety nets—and are disproportionately burdened with unpaid care work. Their exclusion from decision-making further limits resilience-building efforts.

Protracted conflicts, economic instability, and rising food prices are eroding coping capacities, making women and vulnerable populations more susceptible to natural and human-induced disasters. Addressing these intersecting risks requires gender-responsive humanitarian action that tackles structural inequalities and strengthens resilience at all levels.

UN Women’s Role in Humanitarian Action

UN Women’s work in humanitarian action is guided by global norms and standards. Building on findings of the inter-agency Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) review based on the Accountability Framework of the IASC’s Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls in Humanitarian Action Policy. The UN Economic and Social Council adopted resolutions E/RES/2012/3,1 E/RES/2013/62 and E/RES/2014/23 in 2012, 2013 and 2014, which recognize that humanitarian action can be strengthened by mainstreaming a gender perspective into all aspects of the humanitarian response. Similarly, the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) in 2016 emphasized the centrality of gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) to humanitarian action.  As the impact of climate and conflict continues in the region, there is an increasing recognition among UN Women country offices that the development and humanitarian challenges arising from the crisis must be met with accelerated action and enhanced capacity with the support of the regional office. In October 2022, UN Women became a member of Inter-Agency Standing Committee on Humanitarian Action, the highest-level humanitarian coordination forum of the United Nations system. This will enhance the coordination and operationalization of gender input to humanitarian response and recovery, as well as resilience building across the humanitarian peace and development nexus. In the Regional Office for Asia and Pacific, humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, climate action is under one portfolio, with matrixed coordination across other thematic areas of the office. 

Reporting to the Programme Coordinator – Humanitarian Action and Resilience, the Programme Analyst will work closely with country offices in the region and HQ teams to support programme development, contribute to implementation and ensure results-based management within the humanitarian and disaster risk reduction programming. 

The Programme Analyst will be integral in advancing UN Women’s deployable response capacity and serve as gender capacity to support UN’s coordinated responses in the region. The Analyst will contribute to the expansion of the gender-responsive peace, development and humanitarian nexus programming portfolio through substantive engagement with a wide range of stakeholders in the triple nexus space. Further, a key focus will be advancing UN Women programmatic response in relation to addressing gender-based violence in emergencies and along the peace, development and humanitarian nexus (conducted in close consultation with the Ending Violence against Women thematic team) will be another thematic focus area. 

The Programme Analyst will engage with stakeholders from the humanitarian architecture in the Asia Pacific region, including, but not limited to, Inter-Agency Standing Committee members, humanitarian agencies within UN, international NGOs and regional institutions in the humanitarian and disaster risk reduction space. The International Consultant will also be engaging with members of the Gender in Humanitarian Action Working group, particularly its co-chairs. Furthermore, they will also engage with members of the ad hoc GBV in Emergencies working group, including the Regional Emergency GBV Advisors (REGA).

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision and guidance of the Programme Coordinator – Humanitarian Action, the Analyst will undertake the following tasks: 

1. Provide secretariat support for the Asia-Pacific Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group, implementing the regional workplan, and strengthening  knowledge sharing across sub-national, national and regional networks, including with other regional working groups.
2. Support efforts to strengthen and expand WE Respond database of women, girl and LGBTQ led organizations working in humanitarian response, through regular communication, capacity building initiatives, and expansion efforts.
3. Contribute to build the capacity of UN Women’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP), Country Offices, and Non-Resident Agencies through targeted training, technical support, and knowledge products to enhance gender-responsive humanitarian action. This includes integrating gender into emergency preparedness and crisis response, supporting programme implementation, developing guidance materials, facilitating learning exchanges, and leading training sessions for UN Women staff. 
4. Support external capacity-building initiatives to strengthen gender-responsive humanitarian action, including designing and facilitating national and regional workshops, training sessions, webinars, and knowledge exchange platforms. Ensure initiatives are evidence-based, tailored to diverse audiences (governments, CSOs, humanitarian actors), and aligned with global and regional humanitarian priorities.
5. Provide technical assistance and deployable surge support for humanitarian crises in the region, augmenting capacity of country offices. This includes supporting gender-responsive humanitarian needs assessments, crisis response planning, coordination within the humanitarian architecture (including the Humanitarian Programme Cycle - HPC), and post-crisis recovery planning (including Post-Disaster Needs Assessments - PDNA).
6. Contribute to expanding gender-responsive peace, development, nexus programming by ensuring gender is effectively mainstreamed across humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding initiatives, and strengthening synergies across sectors.
7. Provide substantive inputs to strategies, concept notes, and programme/ project proposals and initiatives on humanitarian response, anticipatory action, disaster risk reduction, and other related areas of work.
8. Support monitoring, reporting, and results-based management (RBM) for humanitarian programmes, ensuring timely and high-quality reporting on programme results, outputs, and outcomes. This includes conducting field monitoring missions, developing results frameworks, tracking progress against key performance indicators, and preparing donor and UN Women reports.
9. Enhance communications and advocacy on gender-responsive humanitarian action and resilience building, developing background documents, briefs, talking points, social media content, and key messages for advocacy. Coordinate communication efforts for humanitarian response, ensuring visibility of gender considerations in humanitarian decision-making spaces. 

Expected Deliverables

In consultation with the Programme Coordinator on Humanitarian Action, the Programme Analyst will submit monthly reports on key items including, but not limited to: 

*Payment will be made upon submission of deliverables and approval of the Programme Coordinator on Humanitarian Action and Resilience.

Competencies :

Core Values:

• Integrity;
• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Values and Competencies Framework: 

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in gender studies, international affairs, social science, policy, and/or any relevant field directly related to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
• A first-level university degree in similar fields in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• At least 2 years of progressively responsible work experience in humanitarian or development programme/project implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting and capacity building.
• Technical experience in inter-agency coordination, preferably in humanitarian action.
• Demonstrated experience engaging diverse stakeholders, including civil society organizations and/or donors is an asset.
• Demonstrated technical expertise on gender equality, women’s empowerment, and social inclusion in humanitarian action.
• Experience working in the UN System is an asset.
• Excellent command of written English, other languages spoken in the Asia-Pacific region and UN languages an asset.

Contract period and work location

The Programme Analyst will be based in Bangkok. (The contract period is from 14 April 2025 – 15 January 2026.The consultant will work 20 days per month. 

Submission of application

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit electronic application through UN Women website as please complete all questions with below required documents to upload in the system.

• Letter of Motivation 
• All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from Application and recruitment process | About us: Careers at UN Women | UN Women – Headquarters

Payments

Payments for this consultancy will be based on the submission of monthly progress report with approval from the Programme Coordinator, Humanitarian Action and Resilience, along with certification that each has been satisfactorily completed. Payments will not be based on the number of days worked but on the completion of each stated deliverable within the indicated timeframes.

Statements :

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.

Diversity and inclusion:

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