UN WOMEN Jobs - 112318- National Consultant-Capacity Building Training on

National Consultant-Capacity Building Training on ‘Women Peace and Security Agenda and Gender Sensitive Conflict Reporting’

Advertised on behalf of

UN WOMEN

Location :

Addis Ababa, travel to regions, ETHIOPIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

15-May-2023

Application Deadline :

09-May-23 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

12 working days from 15 May – 15 June 2023

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

12 working days from 15 May – 15 June 2023

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

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. Placing women's rights at the centre of all its efforts, the 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. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States' priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

Peace and security represent one of the key thematic areas of UN Women’s mandate. Based on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and nine subsequently adopted resolutions, the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda, recognizes the gendered nature of conflict and peacebuilding. Accordingly, one of the goals of the WPS Agenda is to promote gender equality and strengthen the participation of women in all aspects of conflict prevention, peace processes, peace operations and peacebuilding.

Media plays critical role in creating awareness and popularize UNSCR 1325. Media is also crucial in popularizing UNSCR 1325 and build a broader reach to sensitize communities and raise awareness about the role of women in both conflict situations and peaceful societies. For this the media and journalists, themselves must have an awareness on the topic of WPS Agenda and the gender in peacebuilding. With medias, building the capacity on the WPS agenda and raising their awareness will help them in contributing to the development of National Action Plan on WPS Ethiopia is on the process of development.

On the other hand, conflict reporting has its own principles. From conflict reporting Gender sensitive conflict reporting has been a particular focus especially in conflict situation. Gender Sensitive conflict

reporting has its own principles and practices. The situation in Ethiopia shows journalist do not follow these principles and report gender issues in conflict as any other issues or do not report at all. To resolve this challenge Ethiopian Media Authority in collaboration with UN Women has prepared a guideline on Gender Sensitive Conflict Reporting for Ethiopian Media. It is important to create awareness on the guideline and make use of the principles by the journalist and media houses.

To build the capacity of journalists on the UNSCR 1325 and WPS agenda as well as Gender Sensitive Conflict Reporting Guideline, UN Women is planning to conduct a two round three-day training on ‘Women Peace and Security Agenda and Gender Sensitive Conflict Reporting’. Through this training, UN Women will build the capacity of Journalists on issue related to the participation of women in peacebuilding and WPS agenda as well as familiarise them with the principles and practice of gender Sensitive Conflict Reporting.

This ToR therefore is prepared to guide the hiring of consultant to organize two rounds of three-day capacity building training workshop on the Women Peace and Security Agenda and Gender Sensitive Conflict Reporting.

Duties and Responsibilities

The national consultants will be engaged in preparing and delivering the training and is expected to carry out the following tasks:

Develop and design a three-day (two round) training Programme on Gender and peacebuilding, Women Peace and Security agenda and Gender Sensitive Conflict Reporting.
Prepare major points of discussion (e.g., using Power Point) that could be easily referred to in the organization of the training.
Contextualize the training to reality of the participants; develop exercises and simulations by collecting stories reported on how journalists report in a gender sensitive way in conflict situations and role they can play in popularizing the Women Peace and Security agenda and support the development of National Action plan on Women Peace and Security.
Develop and conduct pre- and post-assessment of the training and prepare a final workshop report (for two rounds) of the consultancy that includes assessment of participant evaluations.

Competencies

Core Values:

Respect for Diversity
Integrity
Professionalism

Core Competencies:

Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
Accountability
Creative Problem Solving
Effective Communication
Inclusive Collaboration
Stakeholder Engagement
Leading by Example

Required Skills and Experience

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent in Gender/women's studies, Peace and Security Studies, Peace and Development, Journalism, Sociology, Human Rights or related field is required.

Experience and skills

A minimum of 5 years of demonstrable experience in area of Peacebuilding, Conflict transformation, gender and Conflict at the national, regional and/or international level
The consultant should have in depth knowledge of customary dispute resolution mechanisms and their use in Ethiopian context.
Technical expertise and strong understanding of gender sensitive conflict reporting and women peace and Security agenda.
Demonstrated ability and experience to facilitate trainings for adults, senior experts and officials in the areas outlined. The consultant should especially have an experience giving creative and engaging trainings.
Prior experience in providing training on gender and peacebuilding is an advantage.
Experience in developing lessons plan with relevant learning topics and exercises.
The ability to engage and motivate interactive dialogue and peer learnings amongst trainees
Experience in working in a diversity team is an asset.
An ideal candidate should have creativity, strong organizational ability, capacity to deliver on time, excellent presentation skill and be responsive to feedback.

Languages:

Strong command of written and oral English/Amharic is mandatory

Application:

All applications must include (as an attachment) a completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment.

At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided?on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.

If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.

UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.)