UN WOMEN Jobs - 94889- Technical Consultant – Gender Trainer

Technical Consultant – Gender Trainer - We Empower Asia (Open to Indian Nationals Only)

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UN WOMEN

Lieu :

Home Based, INDE

Type de contrat :

Individual Contract

Date de commencement :

02-Nov-2020

Date limite de candidature :

31-Oct-20 (Minuit New York, États-Unis)

Niveau du poste :

National Consultant

Durée du contrat initial

2 November 2020 to 28 February 2021 (15 working days per month)

Langues requises :

Anglais

Durée prévue de la mission :

2 November 2020 to 28 February 2021 (15 working days per month)

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Historique

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 centre of all its efforts, the 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.

A key area of concern for UN Women is women’s economic empowerment as expressed in UN Women’s Strategic Plan 2018-2021 as well as in the targets and indicators of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 for gender equality and women’s empowerment and of several other SDGs relating to inclusive growth, decent work, ending poverty, and reducing inequality, and revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development.

The WeEmpowerAsia programme

The WeEmpowerAsia (WEA) programme is a collaborative effort between the Regional Office of UN Women for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) and the European Union (EU), which is funding the action under its Partnership Instrument. With this programme the two entities will leverage their joint commitment to enhance women’s economic empowerment globally. They each have longstanding experience and partnerships in the Asian region. UN Women will apply its triple mandate of normative, operational and coordination actions and use its convening power to bring multiple stakeholders together for effective collaboration. EU brings valuable private and public sector partnerships across sectors as well as its solid expertise in trade and economic development.

The overall objective of the WEA programme is that more women lead, participate and have access to enhanced business opportunities and leadership within the private sector to advance sustainable and inclusive growth. The programme will achieve this through three complementary outcome areas to be implemented in seven selected middle-income countries (China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam) in Asia:

ADVOCACY: Women’s networks, public institutions, and the private sector will collaborate and share expertise and knowledge to build an enabling business environment for women’s economic empowerment in the workplace and in the marketplace,
ENTREPRENEURSHIP: The capacity of women-owned businesses and women entrepreneurs will be developed to enable them to engage with government and private sector corporations in policy development and dialogues for advancing women’s economic empowerment, and
BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT: The private sector will be supported to implement gender-sensitive practices and culture within their businesses through the take-up of the Women Empowerment Principles (the WEPs – a set of guiding principles to achieve gender equality within companies).

Ultimately, the programme will contribute to the achievement of gender equality through enabling women’s increased participation in the labour force and in the market place, improved opportunities for women entrepreneurship and business start-ups, and through strengthening of corporate sector’s commitment and action to ensure gender equality in business culture and practices.

The guiding platform for the programme is the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), a set of seven principles for businesses offering guidance on how to strengthen gender equality in the workplace, in the marketplace and in the community. The WEPs are jointly developed by UN Women and UN Global Compact and seeking the commitments and concrete implementation by private corporations around the globe.

The objective of the assignment is to create a cadre of women entrepreneurs trained on key gender issues who in turn create awareness around the gender issues among communities that are a part of their supply chains.

Devoirs et responsabilités

Under the direct supervision of Programme Manager-WeEmpowerAsia Programme and in close consultation with the Programme team, the technical consultant will be responsible for the following:

Develop a criterion for selection of women entrepreneur master trainers;
Conduct 8 online trainings of 5 days each for building capacities of 200 women entrepreneurs ( a batch of 25 entrepreneurs) as master trainers through a ToT model on addressing social norms and gender inequality, discrimination and violence against women, gender rights and entitlements by using UN Women’s existing training content;
Receive regular feedback from the master trainers and modify/improve training content accordingly;
Review the work done at the village level by master trainers on creating awareness around gender issues, identify gaps and provide accompaniment to master trainers through organizing 8 follow up trainings of 3 days each;
Develop a training guide for master trainers;
Develop clear messages on behaviour change including around addressing violence against women and girls that can be developed into a communications campaign;
Input into a Gender-related M&E framework for the intervention around data collection and hypothesis development with research experts to develop a RCT and integrate these in the M&E Framework.

Deliverables:

Key communications messages developed on behavior change including around addressing violence against women and girls - By 20 December 2020;
Training guide/content document developed and finalized including for online use - By 25 December 2020;
Technical inputs to the M&E Framework from gender perspective - By 10 January 2021;
8 online trainings organized for a batch of 25 entrepreneurs - By 20 January 2021;
8 follow up trainings organized to provide accompaniment support - By 20th February 2021.

Compétences

Corporate Competencies:

Demonstrates commitment to UN Women’s mission, vision and values;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

Functional Competencies:

Knowledge Management and Learning:

Shares knowledge and experience;
Actively works towards continuing personal learning, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills.

Development and Operational Effectiveness:

Ability to perform a variety of specialized tasks related to design, planning and implementation of programme, managing data, reporting;
Ability to provide input to and use new IT based systems.

Leadership and Self-Management:

Focuses on result for the client and responds positively to feedback;
Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
Remains calm, in control even under pressure;
Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities;
Good understanding of gender and development in South Asia;
Demonstrable ability to work in a team;
Ability to work under pressure;
Good writing and communication skills;
Excellent computer literacy and skills.

Qualifications et expériences requises

Education:

Masters’ degree in Gender and Development Studies, or any Social Sciences.

Experience:

Minimum 8 years’ experience of working on projects related to women’s empowerment with a focus on rural women;
Demonstrated experience in projects around digital empowerment of women;
At least five years of experience in developing training content, guidelines, modules and imparting trainings on gender issues;
Good communication skills and the ability to explain technical terms in a non-technical language;
Experience of working in the similar assignments is preferable;
Experience of working with UN agencies, international organization is desirable.

Language:

Strong written skills in English and good command over Hindi as medium of communication.

Application:

Interested applicants should apply to this announcement through UNDP jobs site: jobs.undp.org

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications in one single PDF document:

All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/about-us/jobs;
Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment, please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment;
Applications received after the close date will not be accepted;
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Evaluation and Selection Criteria

Criteria for shortlisting of CVs will be based on the following assessment:

Required Degree and Qualification (5 points);
Expertise and Experience relevant to the assignment (10 points);
Demonstrable experience on policy advocacy with the government and other stakeholders (5 points);

The evaluation process for selection of the candidate will be based on the following assessment:

Writing Samples – Training Modules Developed (20 points)
Interview (80 points)

Please Note:

For an assignment requiring travel, consultants of 65 years or more require full medical examination and statement of fitness to work to engage in the consultancy.
Due to large number of potential applicants, only competitively selected candidates will be contacted for remaining steps of the service procurement process.

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.