Technical Associate with a Community and Gender Focus
Qualifications of Technical Associate:
- Location: Bogota, Colombia
- Vacancy No: 28618
- Salary: N/A
- Organization: UNDP – United Nations Development Programme
- Deadline: 2025-08-27
Brief details about Technical Associate:
About
Information about the organization that has offered the job:
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) works in more than 170 countries and territories, providing assistance in policy development, leadership and partnership skills, institutional capacity, and resilience building, fostering development. In Colombia, it operates in 32 departments and 360 municipalities.
UNDP is one of the 26 United Nations Agencies, Funds, and Programs in Colombia, contributing to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework. The UNDP Country Program Document 2025-2027 seeks to support the Colombian government’s efforts in the transition to peace and the consolidation of its position as an upper-middle-income country. Its priorities are four: 1) Peacebuilding, Human Security, and Social Justice; 2) Social Protection and Socioeconomic Inclusion; 3) Environment, Climate Action, and Energy Transition; and 4) Enablers of the 2030 Agenda.
At the programmatic level, UNDP Colombia is organized into two clusters and five portfolios: the Inclusive Sustainable Development Cluster, which brings together the Sustainable Development portfolio and the Productive Inclusion and Social Protection portfolio; and the Peacebuilding and Inclusive Governance Cluster, which brings together the Democratic Governance portfolio, the Peacebuilding portfolio, and the Crisis Response and Rule of Law portfolio.
The UNDP Colombia Office faces challenges of national significance related to its support for the National Government, other agencies of the United Nations system, and other counterparts on matters related to the post-conflict situation in Colombia and other important initiatives for the country. In this context, and seeking to continue the efforts made over the last decade in partnership with local and national institutions and civil society organizations to advance toward a sustainable and lasting peace, UNDP, through its Area of Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation, seeks to support the country and contribute to ending the conflict by supporting territorial initiatives to transform the structural causes that generate multiple conflicts and violence.
The Area’s initiatives, projects, and actions, in partnership with international cooperation agencies, the United Nations System, and the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, seek to foster individual, collective, and institutional capacities to achieve sustainable and lasting peace in Colombia at the national, regional, and local levels by promoting sustainable territorial development initiatives, strengthening the social rule of law, promoting a culture of peace, recognizing victims’ rights, promoting a gender perspective in peacebuilding, and supporting peace dialogue processes.
The Socioeconomic Stabilization, Non-Stigmatization, and Legal Security for Effective Appearance project aims to promote the socioeconomic stabilization, non-stigmatization, and legal security of those appearing before the JEP by public forces (CFP) to ensure non-repetition. This will allow for progress in consolidating a scalable, comprehensive intervention strategy for the implementation of the ARN’s support program in conjunction with the JEP.
In this context, it is necessary to hire a Technical Associate with a Community and Gender Focus. They will be responsible for providing technical support for the project’s second outcome, which is specifically geared toward the implementation of gender-based actions. The donor (MPTF) requires that this project have a comprehensive gender-based support approach, which is why indicators that reflect gender-based support are integrated into the results framework.
Therefore, the project includes four main components or results:
- Socioeconomic: Strengthening socioeconomic capacities for the inclusion of those appearing before law enforcement officers and their families through partnerships for the sustainability and coordination of the productive and financial ecosystem.
- Differential: Construction and implementation of a strategy for the prevention of stigmatization and co-responsibility with a gender approach for the transformation of imaginaries and guarantee of rights of the appearing population and their families
- Psychosocial: Formulation and implementation of a psychotherapeutic support strategy with a gender perspective aimed at former members of the public forces who appear before the JEP
- Legal: Strengthening the dialogical transitional legal component for the effective appearance of public forces
Scope of work
- Provides technical and improvement support through:
- Provide technical, methodological, and/or logistical advice, as well as monitoring the implementation of agreements between the counterpart and UNDP.
- Lead the implementation of technical improvement plans and strengthening of assigned processes.
- Provide technical support for the mainstreaming of the gender strategy that integrates the line of non-hegemonic and co-responsible masculinities
- Design and generate, together with the project team, methodologies, tools and materials for diagnosis, information, communication, and training of the different stakeholders.
- Provide technical support in identifying and managing the actions necessary for the proper implementation of the gender and community approach.
- Actively participate in the organization, convening, and development of community participation and training activities and other project committees and meetings.
- Work in coordination with the team and different strategic partners to achieve strategic objectives.
- Provide technical support for the implementation of the strategy to mainstream the gender and community approach into the Area’s actions, considering the empowerment of women, the prevention of GBV, the prevention of sexual violence, and the transformation of masculinities.
- Provide technical assistance to the team to promote Action Without Harm in the integration of the Gender Approach.
2. Provides methodological support to the project through:
- Organize and control the technical activities of the project.
- Develop a work plan and schedule for the established technical activities.
- Prepare management reports and technical documents in the frequency and timeliness required by the local coordinator and the program officer, providing accurate and quality information.
3. Accompany the project monitoring and follow-up process by:
- Ensure the delivery of the results specified in the project document at the required level of quality and within the specified time and budget limits.
- Prepare technical reports on the implementation periodically in accordance with the required requirements.
- Carry out follow-up and monitoring actions on the ground to ensure proper implementation of the project.
4. Provides methodological support to the project through:
- Organize and control the technical activities of the project.
- Develop a work plan and schedule for the established technical activities.
- Prepare management reports and technical documents with the frequency and timeliness required by the local coordinator and program officer, providing accurate and high-quality information.
5. The incumbent performs other functions within his/her functional profile that are considered necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Institutional agreement:
The Technical Associate with a Community and Gender Focus reports to the Project Coordinator for Reintegration.
Competencies
Achieving Results:
- LEVEL 1: Plans and supervises own work, pays attention to detail, and delivers quality work on time
Innovative Thinking:
- LEVEL 1: Is open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic in problem solving, makes improvements
Continuous Learning:
- LEVEL 1: Open and curious mind, share knowledge, learn from mistakes, ask for feedback
Adapt with agility:
- LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
Act with determination:
- LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, is able to act calmly in the face of adversity, and has self-confidence.
Commitment and partnership:
- LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, establishes positive relationships
Promotes diversity and inclusion:
- LEVEL 1: Appreciates/respects differences, is aware of unconscious biases, confronts discrimination
Multifunctional and technical skills:
Promotion and implementation strategy:
- Ability to create and implement promotional strategies that generate significant change
Association management:
- Develop and maintain partnerships with broad networks of stakeholders, governments, civil society and the private sector, experts and other actors that are aligned with UNDP strategy and policies
Risk management:
- Identify and organize actions aimed at proactively reducing, mitigating, and managing risks.
Results-based management:
- Ability to manage the implementation of strategies, programs, and projects focused on performance improvement and demonstrable results. Knowledge and understanding of relevant theories, concepts, methodologies, instruments, and tools.
Politics and participation in contexts of crisis and fragility:
- Humanitarian action-development-peace nexus
Conflict prevention, peacebuilding, and responsive institutions:
- Community engagement for prevention, response and social cohesion
Gender
- Innovation for gender equality
Minimum requirements for the NPSA:
Minimum education requirements:
Secondary Education Certificate (at Baccalaureate level) is required:
- A university degree (at the undergraduate level) in Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, Philosophy, Anthropology, or related fields will be given due consideration, but is not a requirement.
Min. years of relevant work experience:
- Minimum 6 years (for Bachelor’s degrees) or 3 years (with an Undergraduate Degree) of relevant experience in the formulation, management and execution of social projects with vulnerable populations.
Required skills:
- Experience integrating gender perspectives, intersectional perspectives (considering ethnic, territorial, disability, and life cycle approaches), and rights-based approaches, particularly in relation to conflict dynamics.
- Knowledge of peacebuilding and reconciliation processes and community strategies in rural and intercultural contexts, with peacebuilding populations (signatories of the Final Peace Agreement, victims of the armed conflict, and witnesses of law enforcement).
- Theoretical and political knowledge of the legal framework for socioeconomic reintegration, understanding of the mechanism for reintegration of ex-combatants and the Final Peace Agreement, as well as the principle of Do No Harm.
Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section:
- Experience working with the standards and procedures of the United Nations system (UNDP preferred) and/or international cooperation agencies.
- Specific experience in gender strategies, involving the work of co-responsible masculinities.
- Experience working on gender issues with the private sector.
- Specific experience in integrating the gender perspective into strategies with the private sector and in correlation with socio-business issues.
- At least two (2) years of specific experience in the implementation of the gender and community approach.
- At least two (2) years of additional experience to that required in the formulation, management and execution of social projects with vulnerable populations
Required language(s):
- Fluency in Spanish is required.
Disclaimer
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