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National Consultant / Trainer and CSR Expert to Develop and Implement Trainings on Implementation of the Women’s Empowerment Principles – Equality Means Business

Advertised on behalf of

UN WOMEN

Location :

Tbilisi, GEORGIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

23-Oct-15 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

42 working days

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

42 working days in the period of October 2015 – May 2016

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 Women’s Empowerment Principles: Equality Means Business (http://weprinciples.org) (WEPs) is a joint initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact, launched on International Women’s Day 2010 following a year-long international, multi-stakeholder consultation process. The WEPs elaborate the gender dimension of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and businesses role in sustainable development.

While there have been significant efforts to promote global gender equality and women’s empowerment, progress has been much slower than anticipated. Advancing and empowering women is too big an assignment for any single sector, be it government, international organizations or civil society. Providing a partnership platform to engage the private sector – the engine for jobs, innovation, capital creation and investment – is essential. To fill this need, the WEPs provide a road map for businesses on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. Further, the Principles help companies explore the gender dimension of other areas of corporate sustainability, for example environmental sustainability and supply-chain sustainability.

To date (September 2015), more than 1000 business leaders globally have committed to implement the seven WEPs:

Establish high-level corporate leadership for gender equality;
Treat all women and men fairly at work – respect and support human rights and nondiscrimination;
Ensure the health, safety and well-being of all women and men workers;
Promote education, training and professional development for women;
Implement enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices that empower women;
Promote equality through community initiatives and advocacy;
Measure and publicly report on progress to achieve gender equality.

The CEO Statement of Support encourages business leaders to use the WEPs as guide posts for actions that advance and empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community, and communicate progress through the use of sex-disaggregated data and other benchmarks. Signers underscore that equal treatment of women and men is not just the right thing to do — it is also good for business and needs to be a priority.

The Law on Gender Equality of Georgia stipulates that “free choice of occupation or profession, career promotion, vocational training” is guaranteed without discrimination (Gender Equality Law of Georgia, Article, Art. 4/2/”f”). Despite this, economic empowerment of women including acces to paid work, remuneration, access to credits and loans remain challenges, especially for IDP women, women living in mountaineous, rural, and conflict-affected areas (GeoStat:http://www.geostat.ge/?action=page&p_id=1172&lang=eng). According to the latest official data, the economic activity rate for women is 57.4% (as compared to 78.2% for men), employment rate among women is 49.5% (compared to 65.6% among men), Please refer to GeoStat, Women and Men in Georgia, 2013 (available on-line at: http://geostat.ge/cms/site_images/_files/english/health/women%20and%20men%202013-Analytical.pdf), while the registered unemployment rate for men is higher than for women (14% compared to 10.4% - GeoStat: http://www.geostat.ge/?action=page&p_id=146&lang=eng). Women comprise 55% of all students enrolled in the higher education institutions but they end up earning only half of what men earn. In 2012, the average nominal monthly salary of women in all fields of the economy and all sectors was 527 GEL for women while it was 914 GEL for men (GeoStat, Women and Men in Georgia, 2013). The country’s Gender Wage Gap (GWG) was estimated at 34.8% by a 2014 study and there is continued horizontal and vertical gender segregation in the labour market, where women are concentrated in low-paid jobs and sectors (UN Women (2014) Technical Assistance to GEOSTAT in Measuring the Gender Wage Gap in Georgia. There also exist differences by region and education level. The gender wag gap is about 33.5% in urban areas versus 34.5% in rural areas. Tbilisi is estimated to have the smallest gender wage gap of 28.3% compared to 37.2% for the rest of the country. For the highly educated the gender wage gap is 29.5%, whereas for the lower educated it is 2.3% favoring women).

IPM Research survey of 150 employers conducted for Millennium Challenge Account, Georgia, showed that employers believe that their working conditions for females are either excellent or good (75.3%), yet 74.7% of them have no special benefits for pregnant women, no maternity benefits (80%) and according to the absolute majority they have no child care day facilities. 92% saw no benefit in increasing their female representation in the work forces (Millennium Challenge Account, Georgia Studies of Labor Demand, Barriers to Participation in STEM Education Programs and Occupations in Georgia, Georgia 2014, 11).

In order to mobilize the Georgian private sector to promote gender equality and women’s roles and positions in the economy, UN Women in 2014 launched the Women’s Empowerment Principles in the country. To accelerate and support implementation of the WEPs and women’s participation in the economic development of the country, UN Women is piloting partnership initiatives with private sector actors, based on the WEPs. As part of these partnerships, UN Women will develop and implement trainings and consultations for private sector actors on implementation and reporting on the WEPs. A national consultant will be contracted through the whole training cycle; to conduct analysis of the training needs and target groups; to design and develop the training; to pilot the training as well as to implement, follow up and evaluate the trainings, in close collaboration with UN Women.

The objectives of the assignment are:

To conduct an analysis of private sector establishing target groups and their training need;
To develop and design a training manual (for a two-day training) for implementation of the WEPs, which corresponds to target group’s needs, with clear guidance and examples;
To implement 1 pilot training for private sector representatives (15-20 participants), increasing their understanding of the gender dimensions of corporate social responsibility and skills to implement the WEPs;
To deliver 4 trainings for private sector representatives (15-20 participants in each training (using finalized manual);
To give consultations to private sector actors implementing the WEPs, for example in relation to development on internal implementation plans and to enable implementation results;
To evaluate trainings and consultations and to follow-up on results;
To promote endorsement as well as implementation of the WEPs in Georgia.

Duties and Responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities of the National Consultant are:

To conduct an analysis of the private sector to establish target groups and their training needs;
To develop training manual (two-days training), targeting private businesses, on the Women’s Empowerment Principles and their implementation in consultation with UN Women. The training manual should allow for adaptation in terms of time according to company needs and availability and cover up to one full day training. The training manual should include but not be limited to:
Basic information about the socio-economic situation for/status of women in Georgia;
The business case for GEWE;
Overview of the WEPs;
Company guidance on how to implement the WEPs;
Inspirational company examples of implementation of the WEPs/ empowerment of women targeting private sector actors/businesses;
To develop one evaluation form to be used to evaluate trainings (evaluating reactions and learning) and one to follow-up on the training (evaluating on-the-job behaviour change and results);
To pilot training manual and revise according to evaluation results and other inputs (1 pilot training, reaching out to 15-20 participants);
To deliver 4 trainings to businesses and business representatives up-on assignment from UN Women (15-20 participants in each training);
To give follow-up consultations to businesses up-on assignment from UN Women;
To draft and submit a final report summarizing the work carried out, consultations and participants, evaluation results from trainings and follow-up evaluation forms, as well as any key lessons learned, observations and recommendations for UN Women’s further engagement with the private sector

Deliverables:

Inception Report containing: Analysis establishing target groups in the private sector and their training needs; brief outline of the Training Manual (5 days) - by November 6, 2015;
Training Manual and Evaluation Forms developed and presented to UN Women (10 working days) – by November 25, 2015;
Pilot of Training and Evaluation Forms (3 working days) - by December 5, 2015;
Finalized Training Manual and Evaluation Forms (5 working days) - by January 31, 2016;
Delivery of 4 further trainings and consultations upon assignment (17 working days) – by May 20, 2016;
Final report (2 working days) – by 31 May, 2016.

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

Excellent writing, presentation/public speaking skills;
IT literacy.

Core Competencies:

Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
Treats all people fairly without favoritism.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

University degree (Masters) in Economy, Business Administration or similar fields.

Experience:

One year of proven experience of designing, implementing/delivering and evaluating trainings, applying different training methodologies;
At least three years of experience working with corporate social responsibility (CSR), out of which at least one year in or with the private sector;
Proven knowledge of women’s rights and gender equality issues.

Language:

Fluency in Georgian and English (speaking and writing).

Evaluation procedure:

The candidates will be evaluated against the following technical and financial criteria:

University degree (Masters) in Economy, Business Administration or similar fields (max 30 points);
One year of proven experience of designing, implementing/delivering and evaluating trainings, applying different training methodologies (max 100 points);
Three or more years of experience working with corporate social responsibility (CSR), out of which at least one year in or with the private sector (max 100 points);
Proven knowledge of women’s rights and gender equality issues (max 90 points);
Fluency in Georgian and English (speaking and writing) (max 30 points).

Maximum total technical score amounts to 350 points. Only candidates who have passed over the minimum qualification criteria and have accumulated at least 245 points out of maximum 350 under technical evaluation will qualify for the next stage i.e. evaluation of their financial proposals.

Evaluation of submitted financial offers will be done based on the following formula: S = Fmin / F * 150

S – score received on financial evaluation.

Fmin – the lowest financial offer out of all the submitted offers qualified over the technical evaluation round;

F – financial offer under consideration.

The winning candidate will be the candidate, who has accumulated the highest aggregated score (technical scoring + financial scoring).

Management arrangements:

The contractor will report to and work under direct supervision of UN Women Programme Analyst on Women’s Economic Empowerment, under overall guidance of UN Women National Programme Specialist.

Financial arrangements:

Payment will be disbursed upon submission and approval of deliverables and certification by UN Women National Programme Officer that the services have been satisfactorily performed as specified below:

Deliverable 1, 2, 3 (18 working days) – 40%;
Deliverables 4, 5, 6 (24 working days) – 60%;

Application procedure:

CV and dully filled P11 form that can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment;
Financial Proposal - lump sum proposal/offer* in Georgian Lari (including breakdown of this lump sum amount indicating all necessary costs to complete this mission: total remuneration, travel expenses (per diems, tickets, lodging and terminal expenses, if applicable).

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

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