Consultant - Web Designer (Open to Indian Nationals Only)

Consultant Human Rights

Overview

Develop an e-governance tool focusing on gender responsive governance.

You have:

• Master’s and/or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Graphic designing, or web designing.
• At least 5 years of experience in web designing is required.
• Relevant experience in using different web development technologies, tools, and software is required.
• Familiar with content management systems and applications like Site Core, Word Press, My SQL Database, Apache Web Server etc.
• Knowledge of web programming languages including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, Macromedia Flash, Java etc.
• Knowledge of recent trends in graphic design and online video publishing.
• Ability to create innovative and visually appealing designs.
• Experience of working in women-related projects is desirable.
• Experience of government functioning is desirable.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.

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 and the third gender as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

All human development and human rights issues involve gender dimensions. UN Women globally focuses on key priority areas that are fundamental to women’s equality, and that can unlock progress across the board. UN Women’s priority areas include increasing women’s leadership and participation in political spaces, ending violence against women, enhancing women’s economic empowerment, engaging in all aspects of women peace and security processes, making gender equality central to national planning and budgeting through Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) and advancing gender in intergovernmental processes.

UN Women’s work on GRB involves ensuring that national planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation processes incorporate a gender perspective. UN Women’s GRB programs at the regional and country level have made significant contribution towards this by building political support, developing technical resources and capacities, generating good practices for improving women's access to services and increasing accountability for Gender Equality and Women’s empowerment (GEWE). At the forefront of global, regional and local advocacy for application of GRB, UN Women has built partnerships with diverse government, inter-governmental and non-governmental partners to further efforts and demonstrate GRB’s relevance to sustainable development, aid effectiveness, public sector reform and financing for development.

In 2004-05, the report of the expert group of classification of government expenditure became instrumental in laying out the road map for GRB in India. This was followed by the adoption of “Budgeting for Gender Equity” as mission statement by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Government of India (GoI). In 2005-06, the Ministry of Finance, GoI introduced Gender Budget Statement (GBS) which aimed to reflect the quantum of budgetary allocations for programs/schemes that substantially benefit women. Another important mechanism institutionalized by the Ministry of Finance was setting up of Gender Budget Cells (GBCs) which serve as focal points for mainstreaming gender through GRB. The rigour has been replicated in at least 19 states, some of which have produced GBS and set up GBCs.

UN Women’s Country Office, based in New Delhi, India, is currently implementing a project with the objective of identifying strategies and operational approaches to strengthen on-going efforts in the area of GRB. Insights generated from this project will enable key stakeholders at the national and regional level to accelerate their efforts to ensure that women’s priorities are adequately reflected in national budgeting processes, and to make concrete changes for adequate resource allocation towards women’s priorities.

This project focuses on the following dimensions:

• Create and strengthen institutional structures for GRB and institute methodological changes in Planning-Budgeting and Auditing (PBA) systems for enabling gender responsive actions
  • GRB mechanisms are refined and embedded within the government in the four states
• Enhance capacities of government officials and other stakeholders to implement the gender responsive PBA measures
  • Knowledge products on GRB are developed, including evidence based sectoral studies and customized training modules
  • Gender budgeting capacities of government stakeholders are strengthened, and training capacities institutionalized in the four states
  • E-governance tool developed and piloted

Within this context, UN Women seeks the services of a Web Designer Consultant to develop an e-governance tool.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of Project Coordinator and Team Lead, the Web Designer Consultant will work closely with the Gender Budgeting and Governance Specialist to develop an e-governance tool on gender responsive governance and budgeting. The e-governance tool will act as a key mechanism and repository to facilitate cross learning within and across various tiers of governance on gender budgeting. The tool will bring together initiatives and resources on gender budgeting which will be a key step towards harnessing ICT for GEWE. It will also include a dedicated government to government segment to facilitate monitoring of state action plans on gender budgeting, provide a platform to provide updated status of gender budgeting indicators at the national and sub-national level, and present data analytics to inform government officials on specific areas of gender equality and women’s empowerment.

In light of the above, the Consultant will perform the following tasks:

• Develop a plan for the e-governance tool life cycle including software methodology, definitions, user management, IT requirements, sourcing, and sustenance.
• Design the layout of e-governance tool based on the content provided by UN Women.
• Build a pilot web tool with templates in line with industry standards appropriate for e-governance and in alignment with National E-Governance Plan of the Government of India.
• Support piloting of the tool in four program states of UN Women and aggregation of pilot dashboard.
• Ensure compatibility of the tool with National e-government portals, popular web browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox, Windows, Safari) and mobile platforms (Android and IOS)
• Ensure legal and other compliances of UN Women and Government of India.
• Develop a user manual for the e-governance tool and support training of staff/system administrators to perform content upload and maintenance.
• Any other task assigned in relation to the above.

Principles:

• E-governance tool designed in such a way that it can be updated and adjusted for future use;
• Ensuring the design of the materials is consistent with UN Women’s communications;
• UN Women has non-exclusive world rights in perpetuity of all designed submissions and products.

Expected Deliverables:

• Pilot Tool developed with framework of information as highlighted in the list of tasks.
• Plan for the E-Governance Tool;
• Design of the Tool;
• Pilot Testing of the Tool;
• Handover of the Tool.

Competencies

Core Competencies:

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards
• Demonstrates professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.

Functional Competencies:

• 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;
• Ability to take initiative and work independently, with minimum supervision;
• Ability to work effectively in a team and in an international environment;
• Ability to manage data, documents, correspondence and reports information and workflow.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Masters and/or Diplomas in Computer Science, Information Technology, Graphic designing, web designing.

Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience in web designing is required.
• Relevant experience in using different web development technologies, tools and softwares is required.
• Familiar with content management systems and applications like Site Core, Word Press, My SQL Database, Apache Web Server etc.
• Have knowledge of web programming languages and programs including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, Macromedia Flash, Java etc.
• Have knowledge of recent trends in graphic design, web sites, including online video publishing etc.
• Demonstrate the ability to create innovative and visually appealing design;
• Experience of working in women related projects is desirable;
• Experience of government functioning is desirable;
• Female web designers are encouraged to apply.

Language:

• Excellent verbal and written English communications skills;

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://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/about-us/jobs;
• 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 should be submitted along with latest CV and statement of purpose/cover letter stating your interest in this role;
• 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 (5 points);

• Experience of working in women related projects would be desirable (5 points);

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

• Interview (70 points);

• Sample of artwork/design projects (30 points).

Please Note:

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