National Consultant on Gender and Humanitarian

Background:

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.

Description of Responsibilities/ Scope of Work

The objective of the consultancy is to support implementation UN Women’s recovery activities under the UN Joint programme and Empower II programme in Viet Nam.

Working under the direct supervision of the UN Women’s Programme Analyst on DRR/CC and overall guidance of the UN Women Representative, and support by the Programme Management Specialist. The Consultant will collaborate with the DRR/CC team, and other staff to undertake the following scope of work:

1. Support the implementation of project activities

• Liaise and work closely with responsible partners to support the preparation of the partner project documents, including the proposed budget, design of the activities, and review partner’s narrative report in line with the overall Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) requirement of the project.
• Develop the concept note and terms of reference for the self-implementing activities of the project.
• Support to conduct the beneficiary’s selection, provide technical support on the design and execution of project activities. These include multi-purpose safe spaces, technical livelihood training for partners to build their capacity on livelihoods, monitor the cash distribution, post-distribution assessment data collection activities.
• Provide comments/inputs for technical products of the programme such as briefs, training documents, publications, animations scripts and other communication products
• Facilitate the administrative procedures for project activities, such as develop official letter for obtaining approval from local government agencies for mission and arranging for UN Women trips to fields.
• Perform other relevant tasks as assigned.

2. Support the monitoring, learning and reporting

• Support to conduct post distribution assessment for cash transfer activities that include development of template
• Provide guidance to partners on data collection and consolidation of the data collected and contribution to analyze for the project completion report.
• Conduct regular technical meetings with the responsible partners of UN Women to track the timely implementation of programme activities to ensure delivery of programme results.
• Support the responsible partners in preparing quarterly narrative reports that effectively capture the results as required by UN Women. Consolidate information/results from partners reports to update the the programme M&E and final completion report of UN Women.
• Support to document stories, lesson learns and best practices from the programme activities.
• Prepare the donor report following the templates of the programme
• Other related technical support as per request of the Programme Analyst on DRR/CC

Competencies :

Core Values:

• Integrity;
• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Values and Competencies Framework:

Functional Competencies:

• Quality and timely reporting
• Excellent relations with partners and stakeholders and generation of shared-value partnerships
• Enhanced best practices and lessons learned documented and circulated.
• Increase in resources mobilized to co-finance programme activities
• Increase awareness of UN Women and funding partners at country level

For the applicant to be considered, applicants must meet the following qualifications and requirements:

Education and Certification:

• Master’s degree in social science, administration business management, gender issues, Public Relations, Development Studies, or other relevant fields.

Experience:

• At least 5 years of progressively responsible work experience in the field of programme management
• At least 7 years working in disaster risk reduction, humanitarian response.
• Knowledge and understanding of gender and protection issues are needed
• Experience in emergency implementation is needed.
• Experience of working with the NGO or UN would be an asset
• Experience of working with the government is an asset
• Excellent English writing skills will be an asset

Languages:

• Fluency in English is required.

Statements :

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.

Diversity and inclusion:

At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.

If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.

UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.)