Background

UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, operational since January 1 2011, works towards accelerating the United Nations’ goals on gender equality and the empowerment of women.

UN Women supports innovative and catalytic programmes, advocacy, and technical assistance related to women’s human rights in countries throughout the world as part of the overall UN development cooperation system.

The purpose of these terms of reference is to recruit a digital media consultant to design an interactive gender sensitive training manual, to provide professionals and journalists working in the field of human rights, gender based violence and women political participation with a strong background on the use of digital and social media to document the political participation of women as voters in Egypt. The consultant is also expected to deliver field training workshops in specific governorates and communities to be agreed upon with UN Women Political Empowerment Program and provide technical support and overall supervision the final products, videos and reports captured focusing on the current political process.

The consultant will be working in close partnership with local civil society organizations, youth movements, volunteers, media, social media activists, political parties and other relevant partners.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct filed-based research focusing on role of women as active citizen journalists, field reporters, local media activists and active voters to be an integrated part of the training module;
• Design and produce an interactive gender sensitive training module addressing women human rights, women political participation and citizen journalism;
• A total of at least 4 training workshops conducted in selected governorates in Upper Egypt in partnership with Women Political Program – UN Women in partnership with local NGOs and youth movements;
• Establish partnership with at least 4 local and/or national civil society partners established to facilitate training workshops and provide access to local youth community;
• Provide ongoing follow-up and support to active youth trainers while documenting the political participation process on the ground and assess their individual and group video product;
• Support the production of a final visual and written report covering all forms of violations of female political participation at the upcoming Presidential elections in the selected governorates and communities;
• Support the preparation of a national launching ceremony highlighting the lessons learned of the process and the most important outcomes of the report.                                                                                                                      

• Design and produce a professional training manual targeting young professionals/journalists/activists/human rights defenders working in the field of women political participation to document, observe and analyze the political participation of women and its socio-cultural dimension in Upper Egypt;
• 4 training workshops in selected communities in Upper Egypt conducted in partnership with UN Women political empowerment program for young professionals from local civil society organizations and digital activists. Reports to be submitted to UN Women following each workshop;
• Supervise the overall video documentation process covering the upcoming presidential elections, providing trainees with guidance and support to produce evidence-based video documentation of the process;
• Provide technical support to local partners in establishing online portals to archive and promote the project material and related videos;
• Submit final report to UN Women Egypt CO.

Competencies

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Advocates and promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UN Women;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism.

• Strong skills in drafting, writing, and editing;
• In-depth knowledge of women’s rights issues;
• Communicates sensitively and effectively across different constituencies.

• Demonstrates excellent judgment, particularly with regard to being able to prioritize according to importance and urgency;
• Highly organized, with particular ability in devising systems to ensure follow up;
• Enjoys multi-tasking and managing several projects at one time;
• Focuses on impact and result;
• Ability to work as a positive and valued member of task teams and demonstrates conflict resolution skills;
• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
• Builds strong relationships with clients and external actors;
• Responds positively to critical feedback and differing points of view;
• Displays High level of discretion.

Required Skills and Experience

• A university degree in digital media, journalism, videography or mass communication. 

• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in the field of journalism, reporting, human rights  and other related fields.

• Fluency (written and verbal) in English and Arabic required.

When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

• Responsive/compliant/acceptable; and
• Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

• Criteria:   At least three years of relevant experience in process documentation (Weight: 30%. Maximum obtainable Points: 30);
• Criteria: Relevant education in social science, including gender, law, political science etc. (Weight 5%; maximum obtainable points 5);
• Criteria: Excellent written and spoken English and Arabic. (Weight 5%; maximum obtainable points 5);

Contract will be awarded to the technically qualified consultant who obtains the highest combines score (financial and technical). The points for the Financial Proposal will be allocated as per the following formula:

• A brief methodology on how you will approach and conduct the work (limit to under 1500 words)
• Personal CV.
  

• Proposed daily fee.