UN WOMEN Jobs - 65817- National Consultant – Translator (Georgian into En

National Consultant – Translator (Georgian into English and English into Georgian).

Advertised on behalf of

UN WOMEN

Location :

Tbilisi, GEORGIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

12-May-2016

Application Deadline :

04-May-16 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

60 working days

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

May 12 – November 12, 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

Millions of women and girls worldwide suffer some form of gender-based violence, be it domestic violence, rape, female genital mutilation/cutting, dowry-related killing, trafficking, sexual violence in conflict-related situations, or other manifestations of abuse. In fact, for women and girls 16-44 years old, gender based violence is a major cause of death and disability (About UNiTE: Fact Sheet, p. 1 http://endviolence.un.org/pdf/factsheets/about_unite.pdf;). Up to 70 per cent of women experience violence in their lifetime (Violence Against Women: The Situation; http://endviolence.un.org/pdf/factsheets/unite_the_situation.pdf).

Violence against women persists in every country in the world as a pervasive violation of human rights and a major impediment to achieving gender equality. Such violence is unacceptable, whether perpetrated by the State and its agents or by family members or strangers, in the public or private sphere, in peacetime or in times of conflict. The UN Secretary-General has stated that as long as violence against women continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development, and peace ( “In-depth study on all forms of violence against women”, Report of the UN Secretary-General, 6 July 2006, p. 9;).

States have an obligation to protect women from violence, to hold perpetrators accountable and to provide justice and remedies to victims. Eliminating violence against women remains one of the most serious challenges of our time. The knowledge base and tools to prevent and eliminate violence against women developed over the past decade must be utilized more systematically and effectively to eliminate all forms of violence against women. This requires clear political will, outspoken, visible and unwavering commitment at the highest levels of leadership of the State and the resolve, advocacy and practical action of individuals and communities (ibid;).

In order to support the Government of Georgia to meet its obligations undertaken on the international, regional and local levels inter alia in terms of eliminating violence against women and in particular domestic violence, with the generous support by the Swedish Government, the second phase of the UN Joint Programme for Gender Equality (hereinafter UNJP) has been launched in January 2016. The UNJP is implemented by UNDP, UN Women, and UNFPA.

The second phase of the Joint Programme continues to respond directly to the women’s rights and gender equality commitments undertaken by the Government of Georgia (GoG) on international and national levels, and will upscale the results achieved by the UNJP in previous phase and UN agencies in general, as well as other stakeholders in the area of gender equality and women’s empowerment in Georgia.

The Joint Programme addresses gender inequality in a coherent and comprehensive manner, covering a wide range of issues, such as political and economic empowerment of women, reducing violence against women and girls and promotion of women’s sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights.

The overall goal of the UNJP is to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment by means of strengthening capacities of government at both central and local levels and across the executive, legislative and judicial branches, engaging civil society and raising public awareness about gender equality. This ambitious goal will be achieved by realization of the following outcomes:

Enhanced women’s political and economic empowerment;
Enabling environment to eliminate violence against women and girls, especially sexual and domestic violence, created in Georgia;
Advanced gender equality and reproductive rights, including for the most vulnerable women, adolescents and youth.

UN Women leads work under the second outcome of the UNJP being responsible for creation of enabling environment to eliminate violence against women and girls, especially domestic and sexual violence in Georgia.

In the framework of the UNJP, UN Women supports its partners in the government and civil society to develop policy papers, pieces of legislation, concept notes, reports and other documents as necessary. Due to the significance of some of these documents, it is important to make them available in English for reporting and experience sharing purposes. These documents are often based on international standards and best practices that need to be made available in Georgian. Therefore, UN Women will recruit a national consultant - translator to translate necessary document into English or Georgian as relevant.

Duties and Responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities of the Translator are:

To translate documents into English;
To translate documents into Georgian.

Deliverables:

Essential Services Package for Women and Girls Subject to Violence (20 - working days) – by June 3, 2016);
A Framework to Underpin Action to Prevent Violence against Women (20 - working days) – by July 3, 2016);
Other documents as necessary translated.

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

Past experience of work in an international environment;
Excellent writing 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 in Human Rights, Law or English Language

Experience:

At least five years of professional experience in translating legal documents;
Proved experience of working on texts regarding women’s rights issues, gender-based violence/ domestic violence.

Language:

Excellent Georgian and English written skills.

Evaluation procedure:

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

University degree in Human Rights, Law or English Language (max 50 points)
At least five years of professional experience in translating legal documents (max 100 points)
Proved experience of translating/editing texts regarding women’s rights issues, gender-based violence and domestic violence issues (max 90 points)
Fluency in Georgian and English (max 30 points)
Advanced knowledge and skills of MS Office (max 80 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 the UNJP Component Project Manager and overall guidance of UN Women National Programme Officer.

Financial arrangements:

Payment will be disbursed upon submission and approval of deliverables and certification by UN JP / UN Women Programme Component Manager that the services have been satisfactorily performed as specified below.

In total each of the three consultants/facilitators will work for 39 working days during the period of 21 September, 2015 – 15 December, 2015.

Application procedure:

Dully filled in Personal History Form P11 that can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment
Samples of edited published texts;
Financial Proposal in USD. The cost per page should be indicated (One page = 2000 symbols without spaces). For candidates holding bank account in Georgia, the reimbursement will be made in the local currency (GEL) using the UN official exchange rate existing for the date of payment.

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

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