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, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

UN Women Jordan Country Office leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action. As the Syrian conflict continues and its impact on neighboring countries and host communities deepens, there is an increasing recognition among all partners that the development and humanitarian challenges arising from the crisis must be met with accelerated action and enhanced capacity. In this respect, UN Women is contributing to the United Nations processes to support the Government of Jordan's efforts and the UN humanitarian response to the Syrian refugee crisis and its impact on Jordanian host communities.  

Jordan continues to demonstrate leadership currently hosting more than 664,330 registered Syrian refugees, a significant number for a country with a relatively small population and limited natural resources and economic growth. In Jordan, 89 percent of Syrian refugees living outside of the camps live below the poverty line and are classified as extremely vulnerable. Less than 20 percent live in the two main refugee camps, Za’atari and Azraq. The rest have settled in host communities, particularly in the urban areas of Amman and the northern governorates. In many cases women have become income generators and heads of household in addition to their traditional family roles. As a result, family members have had to take on new responsibilities and challenge previous norms, including gender roles. These shifting gender roles and related tensions are intensified by limited economic opportunities, and an increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).

Against this background, UN Women Jordan’s approach will focus on leveraging UN Women’s coordination mandate to promote the mainstreaming of gender in humanitarian action by international and national partners in Jordan. Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the Head of Programmes, the gender advisor will be providing strategic technical support to facilitate and strengthen capacity and leadership of humanitarian partners to undertake and promote gender-sensitive humanitarian programming to ensure the distinct needs of women, girls, boys and men of all ages, are taken into account in humanitarian action at the country level, including in camp and non-camp settings. The GIHA advisor will also support efforts to build strong partnership with key stakeholders while enhancing knowledge management and capacity development.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Information and Analysis

• Enable the HPF, clusters/sectors, and other humanitarian actors to use gender analysis in order to ensure that all aspects of humanitarian action take into account the different needs of women, girls, boys and men of all ages and backgrounds.
• Supporting the collection and analysis of sex- and age-disaggregated data (quantitative, qualitative and anecdotal) by facilitating the inclusion of gender and diversity dimensions into needs assessment frameworks, including rapid assessments.
• Assisting relevant the different clusters/sectors and inter-agency coordination for a in analysing the gender-age and diversity-diversity responsiveness sensitivity of their current programmes/activities, vulnerability assessments and surveys; to identify gaps and challenges; and use this information in collaboration with partners to develop strategies for addressing sectorial gaps. in each cluster/sector.
• Conducting consultations with women organizations and women refugees to ensure their meaningful participation in all phases of the planning, coordination and response cycles.

2. Program and monitoring support

• Based on research and evidence, support the design and formulation of programmes to enable humanitarian actors to make strategic planning, programme development and project implementation gender-sensitive.
• Assist clusters/sectors in strengthening the gender-sensitivity of their monitoring mechanisms, including indicator development and mentoring, monitoring of staff.
• Conduct and/or participate in field monitoring missions to assess if projects implementation takes into account the needs and capacities of women, girls, boys and men of all ages. Findings and lessons learned from such monitoring missions should be shared with project designers, clusters/sectors and organizations concerned, in an effort to strengthen projects designers’ capacity on gender and age.
• Provide technical advice during major planning and funding processes, e.g. support to ensuring that all humanitarian actors properly implement the IASC gender with age marker (GAM).
• Provide technical support to the Protection officer, Field Office, Senior Camp Assistants and Field Assistants on gender mainstreaming, GBV, Disability Inclusion and PSEA, ensuring protection standards and accountability mechanisms are adequately incorporated.
• Promote the use of tools including ADAPT and ACT-C, the GAM, checklists and guidelines from the IASC Gender Handbook and other resources in the planning, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects.

3. Capacity Strengthening and Institutional Consolidation

• Support Gender Focal Points by providing mentoring and guidance on gender-sensitive humanitarian and resilience programming, advocacy, and leadership.
• Facilitate and/or conduct training on gender in humanitarian action, Gender with Age marker and the use of gender-analysis tools through mentoring, training-of-trainers, webinars, training and one-on-one support.

4. Coordination and Policy Guidance

• Provide advice on gender concerns in strategic discussions of the HPF and national government coordination fora.
• Provide technical support and advice to UN Women and coordination mechanisms on gender in humanitarian preparedness and response (incl. GBV prevention and PSEA, as necessary).
• Support the effective implementation of IASC Gender Policy and Accountability Framework developing tools and promoting its compliance at country level.
• Support the establishment/strengthening and sustainability of gender coordination mechanisms at the national, regional and local levels.
• Build strategic alliances with other key actors internally and externally to advocate for gender-sensitive programming and ensure continuity of advocacy efforts.

5. Advocacy and Strategic Partnerships Building

• Provide technical support and advice to UN Women and coordination mechanisms on gender in humanitarian preparedness and response (incl. GBV prevention and PSEA, as necessary).
• Build strategic alliances with other key actors internally and externally to advocate for gender programming and ensure continuity of advocacy efforts.
• Facilitate the gender-sensitivity of communication and advocacy efforts of UN Women and key clusters/sectors and agencies.
• Promote the need for and benefits of gender-sensitive programming to donors and decision makers.
• Identify opportunities to promote the issues, concerns, and ideas raised by affected women, girls, boys and men of all ages and background for both preparedness and response.
• Provide technical and organizational support to mayor campaigns and advocacy events such as 16 days of Activism against Gender Based Violence and Women’s Day.

6. Knowledge management

• Undertake research and studies on gender and humanitarian action and contribute to the development and maintenance of knowledge networks and practices on mainstreaming gender into humanitarian response and recovery contexts.
• Collect and promote good practices and lessons learned, contributing to a collection of replicable good practices for gender-sensitive humanitarian and resilience programming.
• Elaborate and contribute to briefing notes, talking points and presentations.

Competencies

Core values;

• Integrity: Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.
• Professionalism: Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.
• Respect for Diversity: Demonstrate an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrate an international outlook, appreciating difference in values and learning from cultural diversity.

?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 in social science, international development, gender studies, law or other related fields.

Experience and skills

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience related to gender in humanitarian and development.
• 2 years of experience working on gender equality, women’s rights and human rights within a humanitarian setting.
• Proven experience in partnership building, knowledge management and in engaging in policy advocacy and development.

Language and other skills

• Fluency in English is required. Working knowledge of Arabic is an asset.

Submission package

Interested applicants for this position must submit the following or the application will not be considered:

• UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from: http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment;

• Brief description of why the individual considers him/herself as the most suitable for the assignment;

• The applicant should indicate in the application his/her proposed all-inclusive monthly lump-sum.

The selected applicant will be requested to submit a “Statement of Good Health” from a recognized physician prior to commencement of work, certifying that the individual is in good physical and mental health and is capable of undertaking the related consultancy and if required to travel is fit to travel and has had the required inoculations for the country or countries to which the individual is to travel. The individual shall take full responsibility for the accuracy of that statement.

All applications must include (as an attachment) the P-11 and the financial proposal. Applications without financial proposal will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

Please note that only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Evaluation

Applications will be evaluated based on the Cumulative analysis.

• Technical Qualification (100 points) weight; [70%]
• Financial Proposal (100 points) weight; [30%]

A two-stage procedure is utilised in evaluating the proposals, with evaluation of the technical proposal being completed prior to any price proposal being compared. Only the price proposal of the candidates who passed the minimum technical score of 70% of the obtainable score of 100 points in the technical qualification evaluation will be evaluated.

Technical qualification evaluation criteria:

The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 100. The technical qualification of the individual is evaluated based on following technical qualification evaluation criteria:     

Only the candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% of total points will be considered as technically-qualified candidate.

Financial/Price Proposal evaluation:

• Only the financial proposal of candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation will be considered and evaluated.
• The total number of points allocated for the price component is 100.
• The maximum number of points will be allotted to the lowest price proposal that is opened/ evaluated and compared among those technical qualified candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation. All other price proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.