UN WOMEN Jobs - 56047- Individual Consultant for Assessment on the Availa

Individual Consultant for Assessment on the Availability, Accessibility, Quality and Demand of Rehabilitative and Reintegration Services to Women and Girls Survivors of Violence

Advertised on behalf of

UN WOMEN

Location :

Addis Ababa with travels to all regional states and city administrations, ETHIOPIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

12-May-15 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

Two Months

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

Two Months

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (UN Women), Ethiopia Country office is implementing its country programme supporting thedevelopment objectives of the Ethiopia Growth and Transformation Plan (2010/11-2014/15) focusing on equity and empowerment, and aligned to United Nations Development Assistance Framework (2012-2015), in particular Outcomes 12and Outcome 13.

One of UN Women’s Result Areas in Ethiopia is that “Women and girls live a life free from violence”, with one of the key outputs being strengthened response, including services to women and girls’ survivors of violence, using multi-sectoral and human rights approaches, and ultimately contributing to a strengthened national response mechanism that includes health care professionals, the justice system and other relevant stakeholders.

For detailed information, please refer to Annex I- Terms of Reference (ToR)

Duties and Responsibilities

The assessment will be carried out in all regional states and in the two city administrations of the country. This assessment will seek to identify the availability, accessibility and quality of these type services provided to women and girl’s survivors of violence, and in particular, identify the gaps, challenges and opportunities to strengthen the capacities of service providers.

For detailed information, please refer to Annex I- Terms of REference (TOR)

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

Substantive knowledge and understanding of gender and development, ending violence against women and girls and human rights issues of the country;
A proven track record in designing and conducting analyses that use participatory methods;
Knowledge about/ familiarity with the scope of work and standard operating procedures of rehabilitative and reintegration services
Ability to carry out gender focused research and analysis that are able to contribute to the formulation of policies, procedures and guidelines on gender equality and the empowerment of women;
Ability to conceptualize and analyze problems and to identify key issues and underlying action oriented recommendation;
Ability to establish and maintain productive relationships with partners and other stakeholder’s and responds positively to critical feedback and differing points of view;
Strong background in participatory approaches and facilitation;
Excellent reporting writing, public speaking and presentation skills.

Core Competencies:

Compliance of the UN Core Values;
Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
Promotes the vision, mission and strategic goals of UNWOMAN;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
Treats all people fairly without favouritism;
Fulfils all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Gender/Women’s Studies, Economics, Political Science.

Experience:

A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in development work and particularly on issues of women’s empowerment and gender equality, human rights and/or sexual and gender-based violence;
Experience in conducting quantitative and qualitative data analysis and synthesizing information into concise, analytical written documents;

Language:

Excellent knowledge of written and oral communication in English and Amharic, including the ability to set out a coherent argument in presentations and group interactions;
Capacity to communicate fluently with different stakeholders (civil society, government authorities, local communities, project staff).

Computer skills:

Full command of Microsoft applications (word, excel, PowerPoint) and data encoding software’s.

For your further detail on the application, please refer to the below link:

http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=21998