Antecedentes

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.

UN Women Lebanon Office acts as the Secretariat for the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF), a partnership between the United Nations, Member States, and the civil society, which supports women led and women’s rights organizations working to build peace and provide humanitarian response throughout the world. The WPHF is a global pooled funding mechanism which aims to re-energize action and stimulate a significant increase in financing for women’s participation, leadership, and empowerment in peace and security processes and humanitarian response. The WPHF is a flexible and rapid financing mechanism. It supports quality interventions designed to enhance the capacity of local women to prevent conflict, respond to crises and emergencies, and seize key peacebuilding opportunities.

The WPHF breaks silos between humanitarian, peace, security, and development finance by investing in enhancing women’s engagement, leadership, and empowerment across all phases of crisis, peace and security, and development. It addresses structural funding gaps for women’s participation in key phases of crisis, peace and security, and development by improving the timeliness, predictability and flexibility of international assistance. The overall goal of the WPHF’s theory of change is to contribute to peaceful and gender equal societies. Achievement of this goal will require that women are empowered to participate in, contribute to, and benefit from conflict prevention, crisis response, peacebuilding, and recovery. Since its launch in 2016, WPHF has been supporting over 200 civil society organizations and is present in 20 countries or group of countries.

Reporting to the Planning and Coordination Analyst, the Programme Analyst provides technical support to the implementation of the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund in Lebanon by contributing to the monitoring and evaluation, capacity building of partners, and knowledge management. The Programme Analyst supports the delivery of the WPHF projects by analyzing results achieved during implementation and supporting appropriate application of systems and procedures. She/he/they work(s) in close collaboration with the programme team, implementing partners and civil society to ensure a successful UN Women programme that advances gender equality and women’s rights agenda.

Deberes y responsabilidades

Working in close coordination with the UN Women Planning and Coordination Analyst, the consultant is expected to prepare the following:

I) Provide technical support for the project implementation at the field level (in the area of: Women’s Participation in the Response and Recovery Process)

• Ensure that partners’ implementation adheres to the project’s vision to enhance women’s participation in decision-making processes
• Provide technical support to implementing partners in the field
• Identify opportunities for capacity building of partners and coordinate and facilitate technical/ programming support, mentorship, and trainings to partners as needed using a participatory and feminist approach.

II) Provide institutional capacity building support to the implementing partners

• Contribute to the development of capacity development tools, including training materials and packages
• Facilitate trainings and provide regular support to implementing partners to strengthen their institutional capacity

III) Support the programme’s monitoring, evaluation, and reporting

• Conduct regular field monitoring visits to implementing partners
• Develop qualitative and quantitative monitoring and evaluation exercises across the projects
• Promote the awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of Monitoring and Evaluation among all partners through communication, training, learning and development activities
• Draft quarterly reports as well as donor reports, focusing on results, output and outcomes

IV) Support communication efforts and knowledge sharing 

• Regularly share ideas of stories from the field that can be used for communication products with the programme and communications team
• Contribute to the production of communication products including impact stories, social media posts, videos
• Support the organization of field visits for the Steering Committee Members
• Support knowledge sharing and the creation of a network between civil society partners (implementing partners)

The selected candidate will be 80% of the time in the field supporting the implementing partners with project implementation, monitoring and evaluation and conducting institutional and programmatic capacity building.

Delivrables:

Competencias

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.

Functional Competencies

• Substantial knowledge and understanding of women’s rights, gender equality, and feminism;
• Demonstrated leadership ability and technical ability to communicate complex ideas verbally and in writing;
• Experience in technical report writing;
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation (using qualitative and quantitative methodologies);
• Experience in working with Civil Society Organizations in Lebanon;
• Ability to work flexibly and collaborative on own initiative and as part of a team;
• A positive problem-solving approach and supportive management approach;
• Ability to communicate effectively both in written and oral English and Arabic.

Habilidades y experiencia requeridas

Education:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in human rights, gender and women’s studies, international relations, sociology, international development, international law or other social science fields is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree

Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in programme/project implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting and capacity building
• Experience working issues of gender equality and women’s rights in Lebanon
• Experience in working with Civil Society Organizations in Lebanon
• Computer skills, statistics, internet communication and command of MS Office.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and Arabic (written and oral) is a must

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)

• Education: 15%
• Professional Experience & background: 45%; should detail work experience, specifically experience which is relevant to the consultancy requirements indicated above;
• Cover note: 10%; cover note should clearly state the availability and method of engagement to deliver on key outputs, while clearly explaining how the candidate meets the requirements and their ability to deliver in due time.

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

The points for the Financial Proposal will be allocated as per the following formula:

• 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

Interested Individual Consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:

• A cover letter with a brief presentation of your consultancy explaining your suitability for the work and link to portfolio of work;
• UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment;
• Personal CV; and Financial proposal; Proposed inclusive daily rate.

The above-mentioned documents should be merged in a standalone file including all them, since the online application submission does only permit to upload one file per application. Incomplete submission can be a ground for disqualification.