UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, 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 leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. UN Women provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
UN Women in Bangladesh supports the government to implement commitments to international normative standards on gender equality and women’s human rights. The new UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) for 2022-2026 was launched in 2021 and the corresponding UN Women Bangladesh Strategy Note (2022-2026), defining UN Women’s strategic engagement in Bangladesh, has also been finalized. The country strategy focuses on strengthening the national structures and mechanisms for gender mainstreaming in policies, plans and budgets; supporting efforts to prevent and eliminate violence against women; promoting women’s access to decent and safe work; promoting policies and government investment in women’s empowerment and resilience building in the context of climate change, humanitarian crisis as well as other threats to peace and security. UN Women works with a range of stakeholders in Bangladesh including the government, civil society and women’s organisations, youth, UN agencies and donors, to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment.

The consultant will work under direct supervision of Communications Analyst -UNW Bangladesh Country Office to ensure following tasks and deliverables will be submitted:

A professional, accurate and fast translation/ interpretation service from Bangla to English and vice versa such that the meaning and understanding of key principles and analysis presented reflects their true sense.

• Simultaneous and consecutive translation/interpretation at UN Women events and workshops
• Translation/interpretation ensures accuracy in language, structure, and rhetoric expressions.

The job will require attending online calls, webinars, workshop/seminars or visiting UN Women programme sites in Bangladesh.

DURATION OF ASSIGNMENT AND DUTY STATION
The time required for the consultancy is estimated at 40 working days within the period Indicated. The consultant will be engaged under a retainer contract, which facilitates direct engagement of the consultant depending on need and availability within the contract period for a pre-agreed fee.

DELIVERIES and SCHEDULE OF PAYMENTS
UN Women will contact the SSA before a specific assignment. Payment in full upon final submission and satisfactory outputs/products in accordance with specified requirements.

Travel and DSA and other logistics:
No DSA will be paid for Dhaka city. The SSA will require travelling outside Dhaka. For such travels the SSA will be paid air ticket (on actual) and Daily Subsistence Allowance (DSA) as quoted but not exceeding UN allowable DSA rate. If the job requires sitting in the office, UN Women will provide sitting space accordingly.

Corporate Competencies:
• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• 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;
• Fulfills all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Functional Competencies:
• Ability to pragmatically apply in-depth knowledge and experience of issues and practices in the fields of gender equality in Bangladesh;
• Strong communications skills, and experience in presenting evidence and ideas for policy and programme;
• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
• Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities.

Educational Qualification: 

Master’s degree or equivalent from reputable institution in Social Science, Literature, Linguistics, Law or any related field.

Experience: 

• Professional experience in translation and transcription including interpretation Service.
• Experience on issues relevant to UN Women’s work preferred.
• Excellent command of written and oral English and Bangla.
• Proven computer skills (MS Office) and internet tools.
• Respect for confidentiality.