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. Placing women’s rights at the center 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. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
The UN Women Regional Office for Arab States (ROAS) located in Cairo, is leading and supporting the roll out of several programmes on ending violence against women in the region. These programmes fall under the triple mandate of UN Women and provide support at the normative, coordination and operational level to ensure women and girls in the region live a life free from violence.
Reporting to Programme Specialist managing the Regional EVAW portfolio, the EVAW Programme Analyst - Consultant will support the effective management of UN Women programmes in the ROAS by contributing in the programme design, formulation and implementation. S/he supports the delivery of UN Women programmes by analyzing results achieved during implementation and supporting appropriate application of systems and procedures. She/he works in close collaboration with the programme and operations team, UN Women HQ staff, Government officials, multi and bi-lateral donors and civil society ensuring successful UN Women programme implementation under portfolio.

Duties and Responsibilities

Provide Substantive Support to EVAW regional programmes:

  • Contribute to the implementation of ongoing EVAW programmes in the regional office;
  • Contribute to the development draft proposals, concept notes, briefing notes on different areas of EVAW programming in the Arab States region;
  • Ensure timely preparation and quality control of substantive technical reports, briefs and required documents, including donor reports; and,
  • Conduct regular thematic analysis of EVAW activities in field offices to inform programming;
  • Contribute to effective resource mobilization and donor relations by analyzing and researching information on donors and preparing substantive briefs on possible areas for financial cooperation;
  • Prepare briefing notes, talking points, background papers, and presentations as requested;
  • Coordinate and document coordination meetings on EVAW as needed;
  • Maintain records of all EVAW files and related documents in the share drive;
  • Participate in Strategic Note and Annual Work planning processes, including Monitoring and reporting.

Contribute to Regional EVAW knowledge management and communication:

  • Identify sources of information on evidence-based programming on EVAW and prepare synthesis of best practices and lessons learnt to feed into programming;
  • Identify innovative ways to share knowledge on EVAW with partners and field offices;
  • Review and edit the EVAW knowledge library and update it regularly;
  • Contribute to strengthening the knowledge management system to support effective and efficient collection and dissemination of information;
  • Contribute to regional communication activities related to EVAW (16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence as part of the UNiTE to End Violence against Women Campaign);
  • Work closely with ROAS communication team on EVAW related communication materials.

Establish and support partnerships within and beyond the UN system:

  • Contribute to the development of strategic partnerships and alliances with other UN organizations, multilateral organizations, regional organizations, academic and technical organizations; contribute to the negotiations in establishing such partnerships, drafting of agreements and monitoring their implementation; and,
  • Maintain close cooperation with other UN Women teams; develop alliances and working partnerships (thematic, advocacy, regional resource facilities, etc.).

Contribute and provide support to other tasks that may be assigned.

Deliverables:

  • The consultant shall submit a monthly workplan and a progress report.

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.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies:https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf?la=en&vs=637

Functional Competencies:

  • Good programme formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation skills;
  • Good knowledge of Results Based Management;
  • Ability to gather and interpret data, reach logical conclusions and present findings and recommendations ·
  • Good analytical skills;
  • Good knowledge of technical area;
  • Ability to identify and analyze trends, opportunities and threats to fundraising.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

  • Master’s degree or equivalent in social sciences, human rights, gender/ women’s studies, international development, or a related field is required.

Experience:

  • At least 3 years of progressively responsible work experience in development programme/project implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting and capacity building;
  • Previous experience in the field of ending violence against women;
  • Experience coordinating and liaising with UN agencies, partners;
  • Experience in using ATLAS is an asset.

Language Requirements:

  • Fluency in Arabic and English is required;
  • Knowledge of French is an asset.

Evaluation Criteria:

  • Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology: Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points in the technical evaluation would be considered for the financial evaluation.

Criteria Weight Technical: 70% (70 points):

  • Criteria 1: Education -20 points;
  • Criteria 2: Relevant work experience- 30 Points;
  • Criteria 3: Thematic knowledge- 20 Points.

Financial: Lowest Financial Proposal: 30% (30 points)

  • Contract will be awarded to the technically qualified consultant who obtains the highest combined score (financial and technical);
  • The points for the Financial Proposal will be allocated as per the following formula: (Lowest Bid Offered*)/ (Bid of the Consultant) x 30;
  • 'Lowest Bid Offered' refers to the lowest price offered by Offerors scoring at least 49 points in the technical evaluation.

Application:

  • All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment;
  • Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment. Make sure that you provide a valid email address for future communications.

Note:

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW, and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.