Director, Office of Youth and Women, Oyw

2 settimane fa


Roma, Italia FAO A tempo pieno

Job Posting: 05/Apr/2024

Closure Date: 03/May/2024, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: Office of Youth and Women, OYW

**Job Type**: Staff position

Type of Requisition: Senior-level

Grade Level: D-1

Primary Location: Italy-Rome

Duration: Fixed term: two years with possibility of extension

Post Number: 2010143

CCOG Code: 1A11
- **FAO is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, background and culture**:

- **Qualified female applicants, qualified nationals of non-and under-represented Members and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply**:

- **Everyone who works for FAO is required to adhere to the highest standards of integrity and professional conduct, and to uphold FAO's values**:

- **FAO, as a Specialized Agency of the United Nations, has a zero-tolerance policy for conduct that is incompatible with its status, objectives and mandate, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination**:
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through the FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems, for _better production_, _better nutrition_, _a_ _better environment,_ and _a better life_, leaving no one behind.

**Organizational Setting**

The Office of Youth and Women (OYW) ensures that youth and women act as conduits both (i) internally in FAO, supporting women and youth career enrichment and mainstreaming important topics of youth and women across the Organization, and (ii) externally, by gathering and realizing innovative ideas and approaches related to youth and women within the FAO mandate. The Office takes forward and further institutionalizes the work of the FAO Youth Committee and the FAO Women’s Committee, as well as the World Food Forum (WFF) Global Youth Action, designed by FAO as a global network of partners to build an effective platform to share transformative initiatives and encourage actions for agrifood systems transformation. It promotes transformational leadership for gender equality and women and youth empowerment in the workplace and in FAO’s initiatives, strengthening accountability of managers for gender equality and youth and women’s empowerment. OYW further engages with relevant global initiatives, the United Nations (UN) system and other partners as well as relevant stakeholders, enhancing the advocacy for, and engagement of, youth and women in agrifood systems. The Office works closely with the FAO technical units that coordinate the implementation of the FAO Policy on Gender Equality, the Rural Youth Action Plan and related programmes and initiatives.

The position is located in the Office of Youth and Women (OYW) at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.

**Reporting Lines**

The Director, OYW reports to the Director-General.

**Summary of Duties and Functions**

Under the guidance of the Director of Cabinet, Office of the Director-General (ODG), the Director will exercise overall management responsibility for the Office, including strategic vision, advice, planning and implementation of the Office’s programme of work, as well as the efficient management of its human and financial resources. In particular:

- Exercises overall management responsibility, including planning, for the Office’s programme of work, ensuring quality control, progress monitoring and reporting as well as cost-effective use of financial and human resources, in the context of the FAO Strategic Framework and the Medium-Term Plan, as per results-based management principles.
- Oversees and provides guidance to the Office teams, including on promoting the role of youth and women in food, agriculture and rural development, advancing career development opportunities for young and female employees within FAO, and putting in place appropriate enablers and mechanisms for youth and women in the work of the Organization at large, including in thematically related contexts in inter-governmental or interagency settings.
- Provides strategic leadership in positioning FAO in key international, regional and national fora, debates and processes of strategic relevance to the Organization’s work related to youth and women, in close collaboration and coordination with all relevant teams at headquarters and Decentralized Offices, in particular the Office of Communications (OCC), the Partnership and UN Collaboration Division (PSU), the Office of Innovation (OIN), the FAO Youth and Women’s Committees and relevant technical divisions.
- Coordinates and develops networks and working relationships on issues related to youth and women with the United Nations (UN) system and other multilateral organizations, academia, civil society and private sector.
- Supports targeted, innovative engagements at the regional and country levels to promote outreach to, and empowerment of, youth and w



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