With a profound honor, I, Amelia López Huix (Spain,1974), have decided to apply to his Excellency Secretary General’s seek of the right expertise and leadership for the open position as Executive Director of UN Women. With this application proposal, I aim to receive the UN Secretary General’s acceptance of my candidacy and the opportunity to present a strategic vision and proposal to fulfill this role. The motivation to apply for this candidacy is supported by the ambition to deliver a strategic approach to successfully lead the execution of the UN Women strategic priorities for the successive mandates.

The Mission

1. Provide a high-level executive leadership approach to SDG5 on gender equality and its cross-cutting impact in the Global Goals, and deliver excellence and influence at all UN Women organizational levels.

2. implement the UN Women strategic plans, driving UN Women to be a service-oriented organization that supports the implementation of the global norms, policies, and standards on gender equality.

3. Make a leap of improvement of UN Women’s development results and increase effectiveness and efficiency to enhance coordination, coherence, and accountability of the UN system commitments to gender equality and women’s empowerment.

The Executive Director of UN Women is a member of the Secretary-General’s Senior Management Group, and as such, serves as a role model for the Organization’s core values (Integrity, Professionalism and Respect for Diversity) and the desired behaviours of the United Nations System Leadership Framework.

The Executive Director is also a member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group, which guides, supports, tracks and oversees the coordination of United Nations development operations in 162 countries and territories.

Background
A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide. UN Women supports the Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality and works for governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programs, and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide. It works globally to make the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals a reality for women and girls and stands behind women’s rights and equal participation in all aspects of life, focusing on four strategic priorities: women lead, participate in and benefit equally from governance systems; women have income security, decent work, and economic autonomy; all women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence, and women and girls contribute to and have greater influence in building sustainable peace and resilience, and benefit equally from the prevention of natural disasters and conflicts and humanitarian action.