Antecedentes
The WILS project seeks to build and reinforce progress already made on gender equality and women’s leadership in Samoa. It is Phase II of the Increasing Political Participation of Women in Samoa (IPPWS) Project and builds on work completed since the project began in 2015.
WILS targets the ‘leadership’ development of women as individuals and as a group, to work together to address women’s leadership and gender equality issues, and to enhance their exercise of leadership. The Women in Leadership in Samoa (WILS) is a three-year project implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UN Women with funding from the Australian Government in partnership with the Government of Samoa, under the overall leadership of the WILS Steering Committee. The Steering Committee comprises of representatives of the Samoa government’s (Ministry of Women, Community and Social Development (MWCSD), Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), community (SUNGO), DFAT), and UN agencies (UNDP and UN Women).
Under WILS Output 1.1: Strengthened opportunities for women’s participation in leadership pathways to ‘enhance leadership capacity of women in their communities’. The aim is to provide leadership development for women and girls, bring the women together to discuss the challenges and how to address them; to contribute to building women’s confidence to exercise leadership and to make a contribution to a range of activities in their communities; and how to support each other. In addition, developing and implementing Break Through Initiatives (BTIs) to sustain the learning and further support leadership initiatives to achieve gender equality in Samoa.
The focus will be to assist women with developing their leadership skills and confidence to take up those challenges. This includes fostering networks amongst women who are already undertaking development activities for their communities. Other outputs and activities seek to support women who are interested to run in the upcoming elections, as well as emerging leaders, those who are willing to advance to leadership roles (including political life) in the near future.
A Village Leadership Development Initiative for Women in the Community has been developed and endorsed by the Steering Committee. Through its design and implementation targets the ‘leadership’ development of community women including young women as emerging leaders as individuals and as a group – to try and work together to address women’s leadership and gender equality issues and to enhance their exercise of leadership for the common good of their villages, constituencies and the country.
The Village Leadership Development Initiative (VLDI) for Women in the community should be integrated with ongoing complementary initiatives and programmes in Samoa and the region for congruence and best value. As a result, participants should be able to lead community programmes and development initiatives to promote women in leadership.
In this regard UNDP Samoa Multi-Country Office (MCO) seeks to hire a national consultant to;
• Conduct a Training Programme using the approved VLDI for women in the Community, who will then deliver the VLDI targeting women and girls in their own communities.
Deberes y responsabilidades
The main objective of this consultancy is to conduct a Training on the Village Leadership Development Initiative for women and girls in the community.
Under the direct supervision of the Joint WILS Project Manager, the consultant will perform the following tasks:
The specific activities are as follows:
1) Conduct the VLDI training programme in collaboration with the WILS counterparts targeting women and young girls in the communities using the approved VLDI. Incorporate as part of the training programme, a proposal and project management theoretical and practical training on day 5. This is to provide assistance with proposal and project management skills so they are better equipped in sourcing financial support for the implementation of their proposed BTIs and effectively manage their initiatives.
2) As part of the Trainings for the VLDI, assist the development of Break Through Initiatives by participants, assist with designing activities aimed at strengthening coalitions of women including national and sector conversations/dialogues on gender equality and women issues, as well as the delivery of civic education activities emphasizing the importance of gender equality and having more capable women in decision making leadership roles at all levels.
3) As part of the Post-Training support for the Break-Through Initiatives by the participants, the national consultant is to provide ongoing support on a bi-monthly basis inclusive of two follow up visits in 2021.
Competencias
- Demonstrates commitment to UNDP’s mission, vision and values
- Highly effective in working with multi-sector teams
- Ability to function effectively under pressure and tight timelines
- Self-motivated and able to work independently
- Excellent oral and written communication
- Creative thinking and emotional intelligence
Habilidades y experiencia requeridas
Education
- Master’s degree in Gender Studies, Governance, Political Science, Community Development or other related fields 10%
Experience and skills
- At least 10 years of experience of relevant work in the field of gender equality, leadership development, community/women’s leadership and other related capacity development programmes. 10%
- Proven expertise in gender equality and working on women’s rights and leadership. 5%
- Past experience developing and conducting training programmes on leadership. 5%
- Past experience in conducting monitoring and evaluation of programmes an advantage. 5%
- Completion of the Village Leadership Development Initiative (VLDI) Training of Trainers Programme an advantage. 10%
- Knowledge of developmental context in terms of capacity development, social and community change and community development. 10%
Language and other skills
- Good command of English both written and oral. 5%
- Ability to write and communicate in Samoan would be an added advantage. 5%
- Computer literacy and ability to effectively use office technology equipment, IT tools. 5%