The United Nations Entity on Gender equality and the empowerment of women (UN Women) has identified the following five global priority focus areas for the coming two years (2012-2013): Women's economic empowerment; women's political participation and leadership; ending violence against women and girls, women in peace and post-conflict processes and engendered national development planning and budgeting.
Operationalizing each of these priorities at country level entails careful situation analysis, looking beyond national and global averages to see what is happening to women in different sub-national settings in order to identify effective response models and approaches. In all of these areas, UN Women will prioritize the provision of high-quality strategic and normative support to government-led coordination, support to inter-governmental, multi-stakeholder and UN inter-agency processes, that aim to ensure that norms, standards and policies on gender equality, the empowerment of women and gender mainstreaming are put into practice through scaled-up and sustainable mechanisms for their enforcement.
UN Women Ethiopia country office has embarked on a process to translate the global corporate priorities into a dynamic country programmes for Ethiopia. This country programmes will encompass UN Women's strategic contribution during 2012-2013 to the UNDAF 2012-2015 and the national development plan, the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). To this effect, a short term consultant is required to provide technical assistance towards the overall country programme design and operationalization of already agreed implementation modalities, and specifically to help shape the women's economic empowerment and engendered planning, budgeting and financing components and implementation modalities.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the guidance and supervision of the UN Women Ethiopia Country Programme Manager , the Technical Adviser for Programme Development provides support to the process of UN Women country programme development, culminating in signing of a country programme document with the Government of Ethiopia, represented by Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED).
The Technical Adviser works in close collaboration with Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED) and Ministry of Women, Children and Youth Affairs (MoWCYA), and in consultation with the broader range of stakeholders in eth Ethiopia Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women response.
KEY TASKS/DELIVERABLES
1. Facilitating consultations and partnership negotiations for the parallel processes for UN Women country programme and development of UNDAF 2012-1015 outputs on gender equality and women's empowerment (comprehensive list of partnerships with agreed concrete joint deliverables).
2. Provision of key technical inputs to the overall design of UN Women Ethiopia programme, and in more detail to component on Women's Economic Empowerment with focus on a) rural women's livelihoods, b) economic strengthening of low-income urban women and c) support services to bring women closer to markets and opportunities, introduction to new time-saving and environmentally friendly technologies (draft concept note, situation analysis, result matrix, budget).
3. Facilitating institutionalization of implementation/operational modalities agreed for Joint Gender Programme partnerships with MoFED, MoWCYA/BoWCYAs and other existing partners for joint delivery of expected results on a) gender mainstreaming and capacity development, b) gender-responsive planning and budgeting and c) women's economic empowerment (technical inputs to institutional capacity development on GRB, programmatic framework for fund release and activity monitoring in consultation with MoFED)
Competencies
Corporate Competencies
- Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN's values and ethical standards.
- Demonstrates commitment to UN Women's mission, vision and values.
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
- Treats all people fairly without favoritism.
Functional Competencies
Knowledge Management and Learning:
- Shares knowledge and experience
- Provides helpful feedback and advice to others in the office
Leadership and Self-Management
- Focuses on result for the client
- Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
- Remains calm, in control and good humored even under pressure
- Responds positively to critical feedback and differing points of views
Interpersonal skills
:
- Must be able to organize, set priorities, multi-task, take initiative and exercise sound independent judgment within areas of responsibility
Nature of Interaction:
- Daily, or near-daily, interactions with the staff in the UN Women Country Office, MoFED and MoWCYA
- Face-to-face and telephone and written interactions with national partners and stakeholders (UN partners, public sector and local administrations, private sector, CSO/FBOs, academia and development partners) on gender equality and women's empowerment
Required Skills and Experience
Education
- Language requirements: Fluency in Amharic, good working knowledge of oral and written English. Advanced university degree in relevant social sciences, i.e. gender issues, international development studies, gender / women's studies, economics, or sociology.
Experience
:
- Minimum 7 years experience in development work with specific emphasis on gender equality and women's empowerment. Familiarity with UN Women areas of priority and knowledge regarding women's economic empowerment and gender responsive budgeting initiatives in Ethiopia is an advantage.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience in development, knowledge of women's organizations and coordination/consultation fora, marketing and business idea generation for disadvantaged women and women in the informal business sector/entrepreneurs.
- Recognized experience in the field of gender and development in Ethiopia
- Experience working in an international organization in the field of gender and development
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages
Language
- Fluency in English.
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:
- Proposal: (not more than 450 words) - Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work. Provide a brief methodology on how they will approach and conduct the work (if applicable)
- Financial proposal: indicate monthly fee
- Personal CV including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references
Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodologies:
Cumulative analysis
The award of the contract shall be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:
a) responsive/compliant/acceptable, and
b) Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.
* Technical Criteria weight; 70%
* Financial Criteria weight; 30%
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 point and above would be considered for the Financial Evaluation
Criteria
Weight
Max. Point
Technical
(based on CV, Proposal or Interview)
Minimum educational background and work experience (CV)
10%
10
Understanding of scope of work and methodology (From Proposal)
20%
20
Individual Competencies (Desk review or Interview)
40%
40
Financial
30%
30
Interested and capable individual consultants should only send their Technical and Financial proposal along with CV to
procurement.et@undp.org
;
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest
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