Historique
To address gender-based discrimination in the workplace, UN Women Georgia developed an online sexual harassment course for public servants and since early 2017 the Public Defender’s Office (PDO) has been hosting the course on its website. UN Women office in Georgia has further advocated for inclusion of a clause on non-acceptability of sexual harassment at the workplace in the Code of Ethics for Public Servants and supported the Ministry of Defence and Ministry of IDPs from the Occupied Territories, Refugees and Accommodation in the development of internal complains’ mechanisms on the cases of sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination.
In 2018, UN Women in partnership with national statistical office – GEOSTAT and generous funding from the EU completed a nation-wide survey on Violence against Women that has found that 20 per cent women has experienced sexual harassment in Georgia and 10 per cent of women have admitted experiencing it at the work-place. The reported prevalence rates are high provided also that the field work for the research was carried out in the beginning of 2017, before the global #metoo campaign and few high profile sexual harassment allegation cases brought to public attention also locally in Georgia. These events further increased public’s awareness and sensitivity to sexual harassment prompting the Gender Equality Council of the Parliament to come forward with an initiative to better regulate sexual harassment in the Georgian legislation in line also with the recently ratified Istanbul Convention.
With this increased awareness and the improved regulation of the issue in making, quite several public institutions, civil society organizations and private companies express interest in developing internal procedures and policies to receive and accommodate sexual harassment complaints. To meet this growing demand, UN Women Georgia Country Office would like to hire an International Consultant to assist organizations with the development of internal sexual harassment complaints’ mechanisms.
The objectives of the assignment are:
- To provide model sexual harassment complaints mechanisms for civil society organizations (CSOs), public sector, academic institutions and private companies based on international best practices;
- To develop local expertise and capacities around the development and institutionalization of effective intra-institutional sexual harassment complaints mechanisms.
Devoirs et responsabilités
The duties and responsibilities of the International Consultant are to:
- To engage in consultation with selected representatives of CSOs, public sector, academic institutions, and private companies to better understand their organizational set-ups for thinking through appropriate models of sexual harassment complaints’ mechanisms;
- To develop draft models of sexual harassment complaints mechanisms for CSO, public institutions, academic institutions and private companies;
- To conduct a three-day training of trainers (ToT) for the representatives of CSOs, public institutions, academia and private companies (altogether 15 participants) on the key principles for designing an effective sexual harassment complaints’ mechanism and use the ToT to finalize the draft model mechanisms together with the ToT participants;
- To provide on-line coaching and support to the ToT participants, while they will be assisting target CSOs, public institutions, academic institutions and private companies in the development of sexual harassment complaints’ mechanisms based on the model mechanisms prepared;
- To prepare final report about the work carried out, key observations and recommendations for successful institutionalization of sexual harassment complaints mechanisms.
Deliverables:
- Work plan with timelines in line with duties and responsibilities spelled above (1 working day) – home-based by May 25, 2018;
- Consultations held with the selected representatives of CSOs, public sector, academic institutions, and private companies and relevant sample materials (organigrams, charters, codes of conduct) reviewed (5 working days) – home-based by June 8, 2018;
- 3-day ToT for 15 participants conducted and draft model sexual harassment complaints mechanisms finalized (6 working days) - in Tbilisi Georgia by June 22, 2018;
- On-line coaching and support provided (4 working days) – home-based by July 20, 2018;
- Final report prepared and submitted to UN Women (2 working days) – home-based by July 26, 2018.
Compétences
Core Values:
- Respect for Diversity
- Integrity
- Professionalism
Core Competencies:
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
- Treats all people fairly without favoritism.
Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: http://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-employment-values-and-competencies-definitions-en.pdf
Qualifications et expériences requises
Education:
- University degree (Masters) in Law, Gender, Human Rights, Labor relations, Sociology or similar fields.
Experience:
- At least three years of proven experience of designing and institutionalizing sexual harassment complaints mechanisms for different sector institutions;
- At least three years of working experience in the field of labour rights and relations and/or discrimination and violence against women in the workplace;
- Sound understanding of women’s rights, gender equality, sex-based discrimination and sexual harassment.
Language:
- Fluency in English (speaking and writing).
Evaluation procedure:
The candidates will be evaluated against the following technical and financial criteria:
- University degree (Masters) in Law, Gender, Human Rights, Labor relations, Sociology or similar fields (max 30 points);
- At least three years of proven experience of designing and institutionalizing sexual harassment complaints mechanisms for different sector institutions (max 100 points);
- At least three years of working experience in the field of labour rights and relations and/or discrimination and violence against women in the workplace (max 100 points);
- Sound understanding of women’s rights, gender equality, sex-based discrimination and sexual harassment (max 90 points)
- Fluency in English (speaking and writing) (max 30 points).
Maximum total technical score amounts to 350 points. Only candidates who have passed over the minimum qualification criteria and have accumulated at least 245 points out of maximum 350 under technical evaluation will qualify for the next stage i.e. evaluation of their financial proposals.
Evaluation of submitted financial offers will be done based on the following formula: S = Fmin / F * 150
S – score received on financial evaluation;
Fmin – the lowest financial offer out of all the submitted offers qualified over the technical evaluation round;
F – financial offer under consideration.
The winning candidate will be the candidate, who has accumulated the highest aggregated score (technical scoring + financial scoring).
Management arrangements:
The contractor will report to and work under direct supervision of UN Women Programme Analyst on Women’s Economic Empowerment, under overall guidance of UN Women National Programme Specialist.
Financial arrangements:
Payment will be disbursed upon submission and approval of deliverables and certification by UN Women Programme Analyst that the services have been satisfactorily performed as specified below:
- Deliverables 1, 2 – 30%;
- Deliverables 3,4 & 5 - 70%
Application procedure:
- CV and dully filled PHF11 form that can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment;
- Financial Proposal - lump sum proposal/offer* in USD (including breakdown of this lump sum amount indicating all necessary costs to complete this mission: total remuneration and breakdown by months ( travel expenses, per diems, tickets, lodging and terminal expenses, if applicable).
*The applicants are required to submit an aggregated financial offer (“aggregated financial offer” is the total sum of all financial claims of the candidate for accomplishment of all tasks spelled out in this ToR including travel to Georgia, daily rates, etc.).
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
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