UN WOMEN Jobs - 62635- UN Women: National Consultant- Peace and Security

UN Women: National Consultant- Peace and Security (Open to Nepalese Nationals Only)

Advertised on behalf of

UN WOMEN

Location :

Kathmandu, NEPAL

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

25-Jan-2016

Application Deadline :

08-Jan-16 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

4 months

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

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

Grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, UN Women works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations System efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of National priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with government, civil society and other relevant actors.

In Nepal, UN Women is currently implementing its 2014-17 Strategic Note and Annual Workplan (country programme) which incorporates several thematic areas, including economic empowerment, governance and leadership, ending violence against women and girls, and peace and security. Across all of its work, UN Women applies its normative and coordination mandates, and works through strategic partnerships and on generating knowledge and evidence. UN Women is also engaged in the humanitarian response following the tragic earthquakes of 2015.

The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Unit of UN Women Nepal is responsible for providing technical support to government, development partners and civil society organizations in the areas of women, peace and security including implementation of Nation Action Plan (NAP) on United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) 1325 and 1820 in line with the Nepal Country Office Strategic Note and Annual Work Plan (AWP) 2014-17. In order to reinforce the ongoing efforts especially with respect to the implementation of the NAP on UNSCRs 1325 and 1820, Women, Peace and Security unit, UN Women Nepal has been implementing “Strengthening Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Nepal: Towards Implementation of National Action Plan on UNSCRs 1325 and 1820 (SIWPSAIN)” project funded by the Government of Finland. The project is executed by UN Women and being implemented through a number of partners such as Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare (MoWCSW), Training Centre Nepal (TCN), Saathi, Krishna Consultancy (KC), Search for Common Ground (SFCG), Local Development Training Academy (LDTA), three local partners (Backward Society Education (BASE), Community Development Society, Dalit Help Society, each one from Kailali, Doti and Bajhang districts. In addition to this, the WPS Unit is also responsible for activities under gender responsive humanitarian response. The Unit operates within the frameworks of UNSCRs 1325 and 1820, Convention of Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), SG’s Seven Point Action Plan on Gender Responsive Peace Building, UN Peace and Development Strategy for Nepal, and the Nepal United Nations Development Assistance Framework 2013-2017 (UNDAF).

The WPS Unit is planning to organize various events with district level conflict affected women especially to strengthen their network and networking with various agencies. Unit is also planning to organize a sharing meeting to share the findings of its currently phased out project. The main aim of this is to highlight on the findings and recommendations, and discuss how the upcoming peacebuilding projects could learn from the past projects specially relating to the peacebuilding priorities, economic recovery initiatives for conflict affected women and girls. Similarly, UN Women Nepal is aiming to hold a consultative workshop to share the findings of the Global Study on good practices, implementation gaps and challenges, and priorities actions of the implementation of the UNSCR 1325 on women, peace and security with specific highlights on Nepal case by organizing a Global Open Day.

With the purpose of providing technical and logistic support and also to support the coordination effort of the WPS unit on the above women, peace and security initiatives specially in organizing different events, reporting of the upcoming events, UN Women is recruiting a local consultant to be based in the Kathmandu. She/he works in close collaboration with the programme and operations team of Women, Peace and Security Unit of UN Women Nepal and its UN, CSO, Development partners.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under overall supervision of Unit Manager of WPS Programme, the consultant will be responsible for providing logistic and coordination support to the WPS Unit in the upcoming events. He/she will work in close collaboration with the operations and programme/projects’ staff to exchange information and ensure consistent service delivery and work in a proactive manner to enhance women’s empowerment and gender equality. The consultant will perform the following tasks.

Support to SIWPSAN Project:

Support the unit in documentation, reporting, exit strategy processes and WPS event related in connection with sharing of evaluation findings;
Provide logistic and coordination support to the unit to organize various events planned under SIWPSAN Project specially in the far west region and at the national level.

Key Deliverables

The consultant will be responsible for the following deliverables:

Monthly work plans;
Event/workshop completion reports;
Press release of the event;
In-house meeting minutes;
Reports of district level and national level events;
Mission reports.

Duration and Duty Station

The duration of this assignment will be of four months. The main duty station for the assignment is UN Women County Office Nepal. The consultant may need to travel the project districts as and when required.

Schedule of Payments

Payment will be made on monthly basis upon satisfactory performance of the consultant. The monthly payment will be based on UN National Consultant Fee structure.

Competencies

Core Values and Guiding Principles:

Integrity:

Demonstrating consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.

Cultural Sensitivity/Valuing diversity:

Demonstrating an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff;
Demonstrating an international outlook, appreciating differences in values and learning from cultural diversity.

Core Competencies:

Ethics and Values:

Promoting Ethics and Integrity / Creating Organizational Precedents.

Organizational Awareness:

Building support and political acumen;
Developing and Empowering People / Coaching and Mentoring;
Building staff competence, creating an environment of creativity and innovation.

Working in Teams:

Building and promoting effective teams.

Communicating Information and Ideas:

Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication.

Self-management and Emotional intelligence:

Creating an emotionally intelligent organization;
Conflict Management / Negotiating and Resolving Disagreements;
Leveraging conflict in the interests of the organization & setting standards;

Knowledge Sharing / Continuous Learning:

Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning.

Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making:

Fair and transparent decision making; calculated risk-taking.

Functional Competencies:

Builds strong relationships;
Focuses on impact and results and responds positively to feedback;
Approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity;
Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment;
Self-development, initiative-taking;
Acting as a team player and facilitating team work;
Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively;
Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Advanced university degree (Master’s) in social sciences, communication, political, media or international affairs (i.e. international development studies, gender/women's studies, and human rights).

Experience:

At least 3 years working experience in the field of event management, logistic management, communication and information management;
Expertise and experience in women, peace and security, gender responsive peace buidling in the post conflict setting;
Sound knowledge of international standards on gender equality and women’s empowerment and related instruments;
A proven ability to liaise with a myriad of stakeholders and partners, including government, civil society, international organizations and grassroots organizations;
Prior experience of working with UN agencies will be an asset.

Language:

Excellent command of written and oral English and Nepali.

Evaluation of applicants:

The technical component is evaluated on the basis of its responsiveness to the Terms of Reference (ToR). Technically qualified consultants may be contacted for an interview.

The award of the contract will be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

Responsive/ complaint/ acceptable, and
Having received the highest score in technical evaluation.

Technical evaluation criteria (including minimum qualifications):

Qualification (Max 10 points);
Expertise and experience in event management, communication and information management (Max 25 points);
Familiarity with women, peace and security agenda, gender responsive peacebuilding issues (Max 25 points);
Knowledge of international standards on gender equality and women’s empowerment and related instruments(Max 25 points),
Work experience in similar assignments with development agencies (Max 15 points)

Maximum total technical score amounts to 100 points. Only candidates who have passed over the mandatory criteria and have accumulated at least 70 points under the technical evaluation will qualify to the next round of the evaluation.

Application Process:

Interested applicants must submit the following document/information to demonstrate their qualifications:

Cover letter confirming availability for work on mentioned dates;
Expression of Interest with explanation on why applicant is the most suitable for the work;
CV and dully filled P11 form that can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment.

Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Note:

In July 2010, the United nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.