Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations (UN), 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, UN Women leads and coordinates the efforts of the UN system to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. UN Women 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 has a universal mandate that encompasses a normative, an operational/programmatic as well as a coordination role, all of which are closely linked with its unique structure. At the core of its mandate, UN Women plays a leading role in supporting governments in delivering on their gender equality and empowerment of women (GEEW) commitments in the SDGs. UN Women is mandated to stimulate and coordinate improved action on gender equality across the whole UN system. 

The PROTECT project will promote decent work, while reducing the vulnerabilities of women and children in the context of labour migration, through preventing and responding to violence against women and children, human trafficking and migrant smuggling. It will do this through addressing legal, policy and institutional gaps and barriers faced by women migrant workers and children in the context of labour migration, including in the protection of fundamental principles and rights at work, as well as enhance their access to safe, orderly, and regular migration by addressing violence, exploitation, forced labour and trafficking. To ensure that laws and policies can be effectively implemented, the project will enhance national and regional capacities and mechanisms for policy implementation, service provision and prevention efforts, while empowering women migrant workers and children to strengthen their voice, knowledge, skills and access services.  

The Overall objective of the PROTECT project is to protect the rights of women migrant workers and migrant children in Southeast Asia.  Within this project, UN Women is leading approaches regarding ending violence against women and girls. This consultancy is focused on ending violence against women and girls, with a focus on migrant women.

The Specific Objectives of the project are:  

• To strengthen national legislation, policies and regional frameworks for the protection of women migrant workers, children and other vulnerable groups in line with international standards. 
• To improve national and regional prevention and protection mechanisms to reduce rights’ violations against migrant women, children, and other vulnerable groups, including victims of trafficking and smuggled migrants.  
• To increase the access of at-risk groups, women migrant workers and children to information, social and legal services, counselling, and association to prevent abuse, exploitation, harassment, violence, and trafficking in human beings. 

The consultant will be reporting to Programme Specialist– Ending Violence against Women, UN Women, ROAP, and will be supported by Programme Assistant, who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Consultant will be responsible for:

• Co-facilitating and moderating meetings/ workshops/ round tables for representatives of Government, Embassies, CSOs on VAWG for Thailand as per requests.
• Updating the essential services directory in the area of service delivery in Thailand for both national and foreign survivors of VAWG, including women migrant workers.
• Mapping and update the list of relevant stakeholders, both Government institutions and CSOs, including service providers etc. in EVAW area in Thailand.
• Liaise with key stakeholders in EVAW area, including networks of CSOs and practitioners addressing VAWG, convening a community of practice on ending VAWG in Thailand.
• Liaise with UN Women partners under PROTECT for smooth coordination of planned activities.
• Prepare a final report concerning the assignment with recommendations.

This consultancy will contribute to the PROTECT project Output 1.2: Transferred international good practices to competent institutions for the formulation, implementation and monitoring of laws, policies and regional and national frameworks on prevention and response to violence against women, including migrants and Output 2.2: Improved capacities and procedures of key institutions and service providers to deliver coordinated multi-sectoral support to address violence against women at local, national and cross-border levels under overall Objective to protect the rights of women migrant workers and migrant children in Southeast Asia.  

Tasks:

Please note: this is a part-time consultancy, and the candidate will be paid on the actual days worked, with a daily rate for the completion of the tasks mentioned below. The candidate is expected to work up to 56 working days, from May - 31 December 2024 and may raise invoice per month.

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

This is a home-based consultancy. The assignment requires partial on UN Women premises. The consultant may be required to travel on official mission, and in such case, the travel will be arranged by UN Women and the costs will be covered based on UN Women travel policy.

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

Functional Competencies:

• Good analytical skills
• Good knowledge of violence against women
• Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies:

https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment/application-process#_Values 

Required Skills and Experience

Education and Certification:

• Master’s degree or higher in the field of Gender Studies, Social Science, Law, Political Science, international relations, or related development fields; 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:

• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience, with demonstrable expertise in VAW response services and systems.
• Experience working on violence against women related to migrant workers is an asset.
• Experience of working with government, NGOs and civil society organizations related to ending violence against women is required.
• Experience in producing knowledge products such as reports and/or policy recommendations is an asset.
• Skills and experience facilitating learning sessions such as workshops and seminars is an asset.
• Previous experience of working with UN Agencies is an asset
• Experience of working with government, NGOs and CSOs, on violence against women in Thailand is an asset.

Languages:

• Excellent writing in English and Thai required.
• How to Apply 
• Interested candidates are encouraged to submit an electronic application to somjai.noohuang@unwomen.org no later than 19 May 2024, Midnight New York Time
• Personal CV or P11 (P11 can be downloaded from: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form.doc )
• A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page)
• Writing sample or portfolio
• Managers may ask (ad hoc) for any other materials relevant to pre-assessing the relevance of their experience, such as reports, presentations, publications, campaigns, or other materials.

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