China Gender Fund knowledge Management and Programme Support Consultant (for 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 and violence 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.

The China Gender Fund (CGF) the programme designed in UN Women China Office to address all those emerging trends affecting the promotion of gender equality in China, gather data about these trends, and communicate them to duty bearers, so that the duty bearers can take actions to reduce gender-based discrimination. In the past few years, the CGF has addressed a wide variety of newly emerged gender issues in China: Gender and Climate Change, LGBTI rights, Gender and Migration, Gender Equality and Philanthropy, and Gender Equality and AI, etc. The CGF will continue to identify and address these types of gender issues as they emerge. The CGF supports innovative projects that: encourage gender advocates to promote and disseminate information and materials across a broad range of media; increase gender awareness and capacity of policy makers; support and raise awareness of successful local pilots; promote dialogue between women’s movements, policy makers, and UN and donors; and support targeted research, data collection, and analysis on the newly emerging gender issues to influence policy and strengthen advocacy efforts.

The CGF new strategy takes highlighted the need to enhance the measurement of the impacts of the CGF grantees’ projects beyond the grant term, and even helping grantees to scale up and have further impact. In line with this and recognising that the CGF is able to capture knowledge from across multiple projects, the new CGF strategic plan emphasises the need to systematize the knowledge management process and to better share the valuable insights arising from the work of grantees. In addition to promoting greater awareness of GEWE within China and globally, such efforts will increase CGF’s reputation and profile.

In order to ensure the availability of robust and relevant evidence-based data and information, UN Women will undertake research studies related to the areas identified in grant making, develop knowledge products highlighting best practices implemented by grantees that can be used as a model for scale up and develop policy briefs on key relevant themes related to CGF grant research per batch. These knowledge products will be shared across advocacy policy dialogues held during each batch of grant cycle which will further support duty bearers including policy makers to increase their knowledge on and make tangible connections between the identified emerging issues and how they impact on women and girls. In order to have this information accessible and available to the wider public, UN Women will establish an online knowledge management system including, linking with the UN Women regional and China’s web page.

UN Women will do this by creating a knowledge management system to capture the knowledge and lessons learnt from grantees and develop a diverse array of knowledge products which can be published and/or shared within China and throughout UN Women. In addition, some key financial support is needed for the overall implementation of the programme. Herewith, UN Women China office is seeking to recruit a short-term consultant to take the role of the knowledge management and programme support until 30 June 2023. The duties of the knowledge management and programme support are as articulated below.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work

Under the overall guidance of CGF Programme Officer of UN Women China, the consultant is responsible for the following:

  • Support the establishment of the knowledge management system including coding, access, linking with UN Women regional and China’s web page
  • Support the development of advocacy tools for policy advocacy and impact.
  • Summarize two best practices and develop knowledge products on CGF per batch
  • Support the development of Policy briefs on key relevant themes related to CGF
  • Support the organization of the advocacy policy dialogues on key relevant themes related to CGF
  • Establish a CGF Partnership platform for CGF partners to share the most updated gender development (such as systematic online salons on 3 thematic areas)
  • Support the establishment a think-tank on gender equality, especially on external outreach and communication of think-tank, and
  • Provide administrative support to the financial management of the Programme, such as creating projects in Quantum, preparing budget revisions, and determining unutilized funds and the operational and financial close of a project, preparing contracts/cost-sharing agreements, and processing payment to partners.

Deliverables and Timeline

D No.

Tasks

Key deliverables

Timeline/Percentage for deliverables

1

Programme financial management of the Programme, such as creating projects in Quantum, preparing budget revisions, and determining unutilized funds and the operational and financial close of a project, preparing contracts/cost-sharing agreements, and processing payment to partners.

Confirmation emails from programme manager on the completeness of the financial tasks in the Quantum system; and confirmation emails from partners on the receipt of the payment.

10 March 2023, 20%

2

Organize 2 thematic salons through CGF partnership platform to share the most updated gender development.

TORs for the consultant to be invited as speakers for saloon, and report/summary of the saloon.

30 March 2023, 10%

3

Finalize the development of the CGF two best practices

Two best practices in word document and video

5 April 2023, 10%

4

Support the organization of the policy dialogues and CEDAW training workshop for CSOs.

Media brief of the policy dialogues, media coverage report.

30 April 2023, 10%

5

Support the establishment of the knowledge management system including coding, access etc.

Word document of the coding, access, and linking with UN Women regional and China’s web page

10 May 2023, 10%

6

Support the development of advocacy tools for policy advocacy and impact

TOR for the advocacy tools development consultant. PPT and Word document of the advocacy tool

25 May 2023, 20%

7

Support the establishment of a think-tank on gender equality.

List of experts identified by Programme Manager for the think-tank, and their contact list

Concept note for the Think-Tank

10 June 2023, 20%

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.
  • Leading by Example

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

https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf

Functional Competencies:

  • Strong relationship and network with media outlets and Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) ;
  • Strong knowledge products management skills; and
  • Accountability to meet deadlines.

Required Skills and Experience

Skills and Qualifications

  • Minimum educational requirement: Master’s degree in one of the following disciplines: Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, social science, or other relevant subjects. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
  • Minimum one year of experience in leading organization communications and PR portfolio.
  • Proven experience in managing public social media account and planning campaigns
  • Knowledge and/or previous working experience in gender is highly desirable
  • Previous experience and track record working for multi-national organizations, inter-governmental organizations, or United Nations agencies is an advantage.
  • Fluency in English and Chinese are required

Selection 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 an evaluation of the technical application being completed prior to any price proposal being compared. Only the price proposal of the candidates who passed the minimum technical score of 70% of the obtainable score of 100 points in the technical qualification evaluation will be evaluated.

Technical Evaluation

No.

Criteria

Point

1

Minimum educational requirement: Master’s degree in one of the following disciplines: Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, social science, or other relevant subjects. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

20

2

Minimum one year of experience in leading organization communications and PR portfolio.

20

3

Proven experience in managing public social media account and planning campaigns

20

4

Knowledge and/or previous working experience in gender is highly desirable

20

5

Previous experience and track record working for multi-national organizations, inter-governmental organizations, or United Nations agencies is an advantage.

10

6

Fluency in English and Chinese are required.

10

Total

100

Only the candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% of total points will be considered 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.

VII. How to apply

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit electronic application (consolidated as ONE attachment) online before the deadline. Kindly note the system will only allow one attachment. Please combine below-listed submission package into one.

The domestic travel(s) (if any) will be arranged and financially covered by UN Women.

The Submission package includes:

Items

Amount

CNY

Deliverable 1 (20%)

Deliverable 2 (10%)

Deliverable 3 (10%)

Deliverable 4 (10%)

Deliverable 5 (10%)

Deliverable 6 (20%)

Deliverable 7 (20%)

Total Financial Proposal

Payments

Payments for this consultancy will be based on the achievement of each deliverable and certification that each has been satisfactorily completed. Payments will not be based on the number of days worked but on the completion of each stated deliverable within the indicated timeframes on satisfactory completion of task.

Note

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.

Inclusion Statement

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.)

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