Deputy Director, PPID, Nairobi

Key Functions and Accountabilities: Provide Strategic Leadership for Divisional Planning and Delivery of UN Women Strategic Plan Results Provide strategic leadership for the formulation, implementation and periodic review of the Division’s Strategic Note, ensuring clear strategic direction, prioritization and alignment with UN Women’s Strategic Plan and corporate commitments. Oversee the coherence, integration, quality and strategic relevance of PPID’s policy, programme and intergovernmental work, ensuring that divisional priorities effectively position UN Women as a global leader on gender equality and women’s empowerment. Ensure that global programming frameworks, corporate policy inputs and strategic guidance developed under PPID translate intergovernmental mandates and emerging policy priorities into actionable, high-impact results at global, regional and country levels. Ensure strategic interconnection between PPID Directorate and Regional Office leadership and timely support of PPID to country and regional offices, especially for crisis response. Exercise delegated authority to ensure quality assurance, strategic oversight and risk management of PPID-led global and cross-thematic initiatives, including those involving multiple divisions and country and regional offices, and support strategic resources mobilization for divisional priorities. Provide senior strategic guidance to the Political Analysis and Programme Development Unit to ensure forward-looking political analysis informs corporate decision-making, risk mitigation and organizational positioning. Represent the Director, as delegated, in high-level intergovernmental, inter-agency and external forums, including with Member State delegations, and senior officials of multilateral institutions, advancing UN Women’s strategic policy and programmatic priorities. Ensure Strategic Plan Development Results Coordination, Monitoring and Accountability at the Global Level Provide strategic leadership for the coordination, monitoring and consolidation of Strategic Plan development results, ensuring organizational accountability, learning and evidence-informed management action including in collaboration with SPRED. Oversee the establishment and institutionalization of global mechanisms that enable systematic tracking, analysis and synthesis of Strategic Plan results across outcomes, impact areas and thematic priorities. Provide strategic oversight to global Outcome and Impact Leads and Indicator Managers to ensure coherence, analytical rigor and alignment across results frameworks, including the identification of risks, bottlenecks and corrective actions. Lead, in partnership with relevant Divisions such as SPRED and DCA, the strengthening of corporate systems and capacities for results reporting, performance analysis and strategic communications to governing and oversight bodies and external audiences. Ensure the provision of high-quality strategic briefs and analytical inputs to inform senior