Advocacy and EVAW Programme Support Consultant (Chinese National Only)
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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.
UN Women’s China Office in Beijing supports and carries out work on (i) enhancing women's economic empowerment; (ii) ending violence against women; and (iii) innovative work to address gender issues in China. In addition to the above, UN Women also actively participates and contributes to various UN inter-agency processes and collaborates with UN organizations around specific programme areas.
Domestic violence (DV), which refers to violence occurring within families and among co-habitants, is one of the most prevalent forms of gender-based violence (GBV) worldwide. Globally, women and girls make up the most of DV victims and survivors. In China, DV law was passed in 2015. UN Women continues to raise awareness and promote social norm change in prevention and response to GBV in China.
UN Women China office will hire a Consultant who will be responsible for programme support and on EVAW programme, CSO engagement and coordination, in line with UN Women’s work plan and priorities for 2021. The Consultant will work in close collaboration with the rest of the office, as well as the Asia Pacific Regional Office and other UN agencies as required.
Duties and Responsibilities
Roles and Responsibilities
Under the direct supervision of the EVAW Programme Analyst, the Consultant will be responsible for the achievement of the following tasks and deliverables:
1. Programme and coordination support on EVAW Programme
- Provide support through development of project documents and other relevant documents for the implementation of EVAW programme.
- Coordinate social norm change and communication related activities and campaigns on EVAW with relevant team members to ensure successful implementation of the programmes.
- Provide support to the EVAW programme manager in monitoring and reporting of programme.
- Provide inputs to UN Women reporting requirements on outputs, results outputs and outcomes.
- Support mobilizing partners and stakeholder analysis, mapping for implementation of social norm change and communications related activities of the EVAW programme
- Support the implementation of the above activities through development of implementation plan including preparations of procurement and partnership agreements (PA) as required.
- Support the preparation of UN Women knowledge products as required, ensuring relevancy, quality and appropriateness of content and presentation.
2. CSO Engagement and Coordination
- Coordinate and support the planned National CSO Consultation Workshop to identify common challenges faced by CSO duty-bearers and DV survivors in continuing service provision and sustaining operation during CoVID-19.
- Coordinate and support the National Training of Trainers on Essential Services Roll-Out for CSO service providers to familiarize with the framework and provisions of the Essential Services SOP, develop knowledge and skills on supporting governmental delivery of essential services, strengthen capacity to monitor service delivery and advocate for better protection of women, girls, and other marginalized communities.
- Under direct supervision of the Country representative, support coordination among women’s organization on priority advocacy areas including on ending violence against women, promoting women’s leadership, other normative engagement.
- Support development of Concept Note (CN) and roadmap for young women’s mentoring and coaching programme and organization relevant consultation with the partners.
Key Expected Outputs and Timelines
Areas of Work
Deliverables
Timelines
- CN and timelines for organizing a CSO consultation on EVAW.
- CN on communication and campaigns of EVAW programme including an implementation roadmap.
- Support organized CSO-EVAW consultation including agenda and sessions for the event.
- Support at least one procurement of service for EVAW programme implementation.
- Stakeholder analysis of key influencers/champions for prevention of violence including media.
Revised programme document including indicators, programme activities, etc.
CN for the consultation, agenda, session outlines.
- Preparations including speakers’ invitation, and logistical note
- Mapping/analytic summary report of key influencers/champions for prevention of violence including media and a roadmap for engagement
30 April 2021
- scoping visit for roll out of social-norm change campaign.
- Preparations of the partners agreement for EVAW programme
- Support at least one procurement of service for EVAW programme implementation.
Organized CSO and women’s organization consultation including draft agenda, speakers, coordination of partners/presentation for normative engagement and advocacy.
ToR for the procurement, PO or contract.
- Activity agendas, speakers’ invitation.
30 May 2021
- Coordinated and draft concept note for roll-out EVAW/essential services guidelines including agenda, event preparations, speakers.
- Organized a CSO consultation including draft agenda, speakers, coordination of partners/presentation.
- Draft of young women’s mentoring and coaching programme-concept note.
Monitoring report on progress on prevention component of the programme
Concept Note
- Activity agenda, speakers’ invitation
- Monitoring report
30 June 2021
- Draft communication messages on prevention
- Monitor the progress on mobilization of influencers and media – a summary report.
Media procurement support report
Communication message
- Summary report
- Media procurement support report
30 July 2021
- Coordinated and finalized workshop for roll-out EVAW/essential services guidelines including agenda, event preparations, speakers.
- Coordinated the adaptation and revision of the essential services guidelines.
Finalize the young women mentoring and coaching programme including timelines and roadmap for implementation
Activity agenda, speakers’ invitation
- Programme timelines and roadmap
30 August 2021
- Draft of the agenda, resource persons and CN for the rollout of the National Training of Trainers on Essential Services Roll-Out for CSO service providers
- Background document for the launch of the 16 Days campaign
Organized young women’s programme launch consultation and event
Activity agendas
- Background documents
30 Sep 2021
Duration of Assignment and Duty Station
The Consultant is expected to be based in Beijing in UN Women office, from 25 March to 10 October 2021.
Competencies
Core Values:
- Respect for Diversity
- Integrity
- Professionalism
Core Competencies:
- Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
- Accountability
- Effective Communication
- Inclusive Collaboration
Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies:
Functional Competencies:
- Good verbal and writing skills in English and Chinese
Required Skills and Experience
Required Qualifications
- Master’s degree in law, women’s human rights, international studies, social science or any other related discipline 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.
- At least 3 year of relevant work experience in any following areas: development programme/project implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, donor reporting and capacity building is required.
- Experience in the gender equality and women’s empowerment in China, preferably in the area of gender-based violence, access to justice and protection of women is required.
- Experience in coordinating and liaising with government agencies and/or donors is an asset.
Experience working with CSO and women’s organization in China will be highly advantageous.
Work experience in the UN system is an advantage.
Evaluation Criteria
Applications will be evaluated based on the cumulative analysis.
- Technical Qualification (100 points) weight; [70%]
- Financial Proposal (100 points) weight; [30%]
A two-stage procedure is utilized in evaluating the applications, with evaluation of the technical application being completed prior to any price proposal being compared. The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 100. Only the candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% of total points will be considered as technically qualified candidates who may be contacted for validation interview.
Financial/Price Proposal evaluation:
Only the financial proposal of candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation will be considered and evaluated.
The total number of points allocated for the price component is 100.
The maximum number of points will be allotted to the lowest price proposal that is opened/ evaluated and compared among those technical qualified candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation. All other price proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.
How to apply
Interested candidates are encouraged to submit electronic application (consolidated as ONE attachment) online, no later than 18 March 2021. Kindly note the system will only allow one attachment, please combine below listed submission package into one.
Submission package includes:
- CV
- Education certificate
- Personal History Form (P11 which can be downloaded from
- https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/-/media/field%20office%20eseasia/docs/misc/2012/p_11_form_unwomen.doc?la=en&vs=4602Motivation letter
- Financial proposal: the financial proposal shall identify your daily fee, and specify a lump sum amount breaking down the professional fee for each deliverable, and all related costs (if any) Please see the financial proposal template as below:
Items
Amount CNY
Daily Fee
Deliverable 1
Deliverable 2
Deliverable 3
Deliverable 4
Deliverable 5
Deliverable 6
Total Financial Proposal
The domestic travel(s) (if any) will be arranged and financially covered by UN Women.
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