Historique

UN Women is the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide. UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to implement these standards. It stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life, focusing on five priority areas: (1) increasing women’s leadership and participation; (2) ending violence against women; (3) engaging women in all aspects of peace and security processes; (4) enhancing women’s economic empowerment; and (5) making gender equality central to national development planning and budgeting. UN Women coordinates and promotes the UN system’s work in advancing gender equality.

UN Women’s Europe and Central Asia Regional Office needs the temporary assistance of an experienced web management consultant. The consultant will set up the regional office’s website on UN Women’s corporate web content management system (WCMS) in collaboration with regional office and headquarters staff.

Devoirs et responsabilités

Under the direct supervision of the Communications and Advocacy Specialist and in close collaboration with the UN Women HQ Website Specialist, the web management consultant will do the following over this 6-month assignment:

• Consult with the regional office’s Communications Officer, other relevant regional office staff and the Website Specialist in UN Women headquarters to create a website development plan and structure.
• Set up the website on Sitecore, UN Women’s corporate web content management system (WCMS), with the guidance of the Website Specialist, including the site structure, information architecture, sections, pages, publications, articles and other features.
• Work with the Communications Officer to prepare content according to web content writing best practices and upload it to the website.
• Assign relevant metadata to uploaded content.
• Install and configure modules on relevant pages.
• Work with the Website Specialist and web developers in headquarters to identify, troubleshoot and resolve technical issues on the WCMS.
• Train the Communications Officer and other relevant regional office staff on how to use the WCMS to add and edit content

  Deliverables	Timescale
  1. Website development plan and structure (sitemap): draft version submitted	Week 4
  2. Website development plan and structure (sitemap): signed off by both the UN Women Regional Office and the global technical team	Week 6
  3. Website set up on Sitecore, including the site structure, information architecture, sections, pages, publications section, news section and other features as agreed in the sitemap	Week 8
  4. Initial training on the WCMS held for the Regional Communications Specialist	Week 9
  5. Initial basic regional content (drafted by the Communications Specialist) uploaded to the website and assigned with relevant metadata	Week 12
  6. Initial content from countries (drafted by the Communications Specialist) uploaded to the website and assigned with relevant metadata	Week 15
  7. Modules installed and configured on relevant pages	Week 17
  8. Homepage configured	Week 19
  9. Website tested, technical issues identified and resolved; testing report submitted	Week 23
  10. Final training on the WCMS held for the Regional Communications Specialist, including detailed handover notes on WCMS management and content editing	Week 26

Compétences

Core Competencies

• Demonstrates and safeguards ethics and integrity.
• Demonstrates ability to work in a multicultural, multi ethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.
• Facilitates and encourages open communication and strives for effective communication.
• Stays composed and positive even in difficult moments, handles tense situations with diplomacy and tact, and has a consistent behaviour towards others.
• Surfaces conflicts and addresses them proactively, acknowledging different feelings and views and directing energy towards a mutually acceptable solution.
• Treats all people fairly without favouritism.

Functional Competencies

• Shares knowledge and experience and contributes to relevant discussions.
• Ability to work in a team and respects diversity.
• Excellent training skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Pro-active, self-directed, enthusiastic.

Qualifications et expériences requises

Education

• An undergraduate or Master’s degree in a relevant field (for example, web management, development or web communications).

Experience

• At least 3 years’ experience with managing websites using web-based content management systems, preferably Sitecore.
• Proven experience with web taxonomies to categorize and tag web content, preferably with an understanding of gender-related issues.
• Proven experience in coding HTML and CSS according to the latest web standards.
• Proven experience providing training and technical support to WCMS users.

Languages

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of Turkish and/or Russian would be an asset.

  Application and selection process

International Applicants are highly encouraged to apply.

Application Procedure

Interested candidates are invited to submit their online applications by 3 September 2014 with the following documents as a single document. 

• Cover letter, including your motivation and brief information about which of your previous experiences makes you the most suitable candidate for the advertised position;
• Financial Proposal, including:
  1.) estimated total amount, broken down into your daily rate for the tasks outlined in this TOR and estimated number of days needed to fulfill the deliverables;
  2.) travel costs (if applicable);
  3.) per diems (if applicable);
  4.) any other possible costs.
• Resume;
• Portfolio with links to previously developed websites.

Evaluation of Applicants

Candidates will be evaluated using a cumulative analysis method taking into consideration the combination of the applicants’ qualifications and financial proposals. The contract will be awarded to the individual consultant whose offer receives the highest score out of below defined technical and financial criteria.

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points in the technical evaluation will be considered for financial evaluation.

The maximum number of points assigned to the financial proposal is allocated to the lowest price proposal. All other price proposals receive points in inverse proportion. The formula is as follows:

p = 30 (µ/z)

Where:

p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated

µ = price of the lowest priced proposal

z = price of the proposal being evaluated