Regional Portfolio Specialist, Africa – UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
Category | Grade:Professional | P-3Deadline:18 Aug 2026Job ID:35782Posted on:28 Jul 2026
Overview
Manage the UN Trust Fund’s Africa portfolio of grants to end violence against women and girls. The specialist advises civil-society partners, oversees grants and risks, leads capacity development and quality assurance, generates portfolio learning and strengthens regional coordination and partnerships.
Department: UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
Languages
Required: English
Desired: French
Minimum Experience
5 years
Estimated Salary
Not available
Responsibilities
- Advise grantees on survivor-centred programme design and delivery
- Strengthen partner systems, safeguarding, governance and compliance
- Manage Africa grants across selection, implementation, revision and closure
- Review proposals, budgets, risk controls and monitoring frameworks
- Monitor portfolio performance, reports, missions and fiduciary risks
- Lead partner capacity development and institutional strengthening
- Generate portfolio analysis, learning and donor-reporting inputs
- Coordinate UN Women offices, civil society and regional stakeholders
Requirements
- Relevant master's degree, or first degree with two additional years of experience
- At least five years of programme-management experience addressing violence against women
- Direct experience with civil-society and women’s organizations in Africa
- Programme design, monitoring, reporting and results-based management experience
- Fluency in English
Skills
Gender equality programmingFeminist grant-makingGrant portfolio managementResults-based managementMonitoring and evaluationRisk managementCapacity developmentPartnership building
Tools
Microsoft OfficeQuantumEnterprise resource planning systems
Additional info
- Fixed-term appointment
- Supervises one Programme and Finance Associate