Consultant – Building Youth Leadership (Generation Equality) (Open to Indian Nationals Only)

Consultant Human Rights

Overview

Support youth leadership and gender equality initiatives

You have:

• University degree in communication, public relations, Gender studies, social sciences, or International Development.
• Five years of progressively responsible professional work experience in the UN or other international development organizations.
• Proven skills in communication, networking, and conference/workshop planning and management.
• Fluency in English and working knowledge of the language of the duty station.
• Strong analytical and report writing skills.
• Good knowledge and skills in workshop facilitation and report writing.
• Understanding of the intergovernmental processes.

Contract

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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.

To mark the occasion and build momentum for gender equality and women’s rights, UN Women took forward the Global Gender Equality Forum – Generation Equality, in March and July 2021. The events galvanized all stakeholders to implement actions that remove the most egregious barriers to gender equality. The Forum brought together civil society and the women and young people of the world, gender equality advocates from all walks of life, in a global public conversation on the urgent actions that need to be taken for the realisation of gender equality.

The key outcomes of the Generation Equality Forum, from Mexico to Paris set out the feminist agenda-setting for the next five years. The six ‘Action Coalitions’ were launched for scaled-up and urgent action focused on critical issues to accelerate gender equality achievements. UN Women will maintain a critical role driving the Forum’s 5-year action journey, ensuring robust monitoring and accountability for implementation of the commitments made, including through dedicated internal capacity. In India, Generation Equality Forum presented an opportunity for civil society together with feminist youth to launch a feminist pathway and vision 2026, presenting key recommendations on how to accelerate the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) with an intersectoral and intergenerational lens. UN Women convened national and regional conversations to localise Action Coalitions blueprints. The Action coalition themes were built through a series of dialogues and online campaigns. UN Women helped youth activists and youth-led organisations, movements, partners, and allies to organise and participate in advocacy before, during, and after the GEF in Paris. UN Women supported commitment makers to develop the commitment pitch and continues to support for implementation of commitments. This includes commitments from youth led organisations across six thematic areas and youth feminist leadership building in India. The programme will focus on building young feminist leadership in the policy and public advocacy spaces by:

• Developing a comprehensive feminist leadership manual and toolkit on a policy-advocacy, with a focus on select areas of work such as Access to Justice, Ending Violence Against Women and Girls, Women’s Economic Justice and Rights, and Bodily autonomy and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
• Developing individual and institutional capacities on feminist leadership principles (This will be done through the literature review of the existing curricula on feminist leadership; and mapping exercise to understand the needs of youth leaders; in the current scenario)
• Training Youth feminist facilitators on normative frameworks and global norms and standards that exist to accelerate the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of women, such as CEDAW, and CSW.

UN Women and National Alliance of Women's Organisation (NAWO) have committed to: 1) invest in building youth leadership and increasing their meaningful participation in intergovernmental processes and global agenda-setting platforms; 2) build ownership and action by youth leaders for policy shifts; and 3) set up monitoring processes on progress against global and national commitments by the Government on the shared mandate of Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women and Girls

National Alliance of Women (NAWO) and UN Women will mobilise young gender activists who will drive local youth mobilization in the spirit of Generation Equality and beyond. Feminist movement and leadership building; increased and meaningful youth & women’s leadership; youth participation in intergovernmental processes and global agenda-setting platforms are identified as an overarching priority in the global Generation Equality framework. To advance this agenda, UN Women will work closely with the National Alliance of Women (NAWO), a national network of women to take leap into the next generation of leaders by creating a youth led NAWO chapter. The programme will be a step forward by building on the centrality of youth led and grassroots organizations and solidarity networks in intergovernmental processes. The programme will invest in youth leadership and participation of young leaders’ youth led organizations, especially those from marginalized communities that are disproportionately affected by structural barriers and gendered discrimination; ?and by forging solidarity-based multi stakeholder partnerships.

In this context, the Consultant for Generation Equality will work closely with UN Women’s implementing partner organisation, National Alliance of Women’s Organisation to support the implementation of this programme. The consultant will work closely with UN Women and NAWO team to design and support the implementation of various activities identified as part of this programme. The candidate will work on developing training modules, managing the logistics support for the Training of Trainers and regional consultations. The candidate will work in close collaboration with the UN Women India CO and NAWO team for effective implementation of commitments made as part of Generation Equality Campaign.

The Candidate will directly work with IGP unit and team NAWO for planning, organizing, knowledge management, logistical and coordination support for the related events.

Duties and Responsibilities

Task 1: Preparatory phase: Support preparatory works including logistical arrangement

Task 2: Programme planning and implementation support

• Organising regular virtual and in-person meetings between NAWO and UN Women, as well as workshops and convenings around intergovernmental processes and youth led feminist leadership programming with NAWO.
• Documentation of internal meetings, convenings as well as follow up on decisions made/ Action taken Reports.
• Ensuring steady follow up on interactions (internal and external), time-sensitive tasks, to support advocacy related outcome document(s).
• Support the roll out of the planned programmes and tracking progress on its implementation.
• Review/finalize the consultation documents/presentation documents
• Prepare monthly reports, minutes, finance reports, et al.
• Provide a point of ongoing connection between UN Women and NAWO to maximise collaboration and impact.
• Support with developing concept notes, policy briefs, reports, presentations etc. related for programme implementation and stakeholder advocacy.
• Maintaining liaison with key stakeholders
• Assist NAWO team in collating relevant research material and developing modules on feminist leadership tools and methodologies and disseminating information on relevant knowledge resources to various stakeholders
• Design module and prepare session PPTs
• Support UN Women for the design and planning of trainings of trainers and regional consultations, including background research for collating the material for module design.
• Knowledge management and documentation of key workshop proceedings.
• Facilitate preparation, printing, and distribution of materials
• Prepare estimate of conference kits with specifications (to include a reasonably priced, good quality bag, pen, USB-drives, plastic folders, writing pad, name tag, brochures, programme, reading materials, etc.).
• Update the comms team with short notes and event pictures for media updates.

Task 3: Support preparation and organization of travel, accommodation, and other logistics support for the programme.

Task 4: Any other task assigned by the unit

Expected Deliverables:

• Design and support the implementation of various activities identified as part of this programme.
• Develop training modules, managing the logistics support for the Training of Trainers and regional consultations.
• Ensure effective implementation of commitments made as part of Generation Equality Campaign.

Competencies

Core Values / Guiding Principles:

Corporate Competencies

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UN Women.

Development and Operational Effectiveness

• Demonstrated research and analytical capacity;
• Excellent organizational, inter-personal, communication and administrative skills;
• Excellent drafting and presentation skills;
• Strong IT skills;
• Proven ability to manage diverse and complex tasks, with tight deadlines;
• Able to take initiative and work independently, with minimum supervision;
• Able to work effectively in a team and in an international environment.

Management and Leadership

• Focuses on impact and results and responds positively to critical feedback;
• Creativity and innovation;
• Conflict resolution skills;
• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
• Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills;
• Willing to work as a team, and promote a learning environment and a focus on results-based management.

Integrity:

• Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.

Professionalism:

• Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.

Cultural sensitivity and valuing diversity:

• Demonstrate an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff;
• Demonstrate an international outlook, appreciating difference in values and learning from cultural diversity.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• University degree in one of the disciplines relevant to the following areas: communication, public relations, Gender studies, social sciences, International Development.

Experience:

• Five years of progressively responsible professional work experience in the UN or other international development organization, national government or the private sector.
• Proven skills in communication, networking and conference/workshop planning and management.
• Strong analytical and report writing skills.
• Good knowledge and skills in workshop facilitation and report writing.
• Understanding of the intergovernmental processes.

Language:

• Fluency in English and working knowledge of the language of the duty station;
• Oral and written fluency in English.

Application:

Interested applicants should apply to this announcement through UNDP jobs site: jobs.undp.org

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications in one single PDF document:

• All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment;
• Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment, please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment;
• Applications received after the close date will not be accepted;
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Evaluation and Selection Criteria

Criteria for shortlisting of CVs will be based on the following assessment:

• Required Degree and Qualification (5 points);
• Minimum Experience relevant to the assignment (10 points);
• Working knowledge and experience of working on Gender Issues, Organising Events and Workshops (5 points).

The evaluation process for selection of the candidate will be based on the following assessment:

• Interview (80 points)
• Work Samples (20 points)

Please Note:

• For an assignment requiring travel, consultants of 65 years or more require full medical examination and statement of fitness to work to engage in the consultancy.
• Due to large number of potential applicants, only competitively selected candidates will be contacted for remaining steps of the service procurement process.

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.

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