International Communications Consultant

Consultant Human Rights

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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. Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, the UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

A key area of concern for UN Women is women’s economic empowerment as expressed in UN Women’s Strategic Plan 2018-2021 as well as in the targets and indicators of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 for gender equality and women’s empowerment and of several other SDGs relating to inclusive growth, decent work, ending poverty, and reducing inequality, and revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development.

The WeEmpowerAsia programme

The WeEmpowerAsia (WEA) programme is a collaborative effort between the Regional Office of UN Women for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) and the European Union (EU), which is funding the action under its Partnership Instrument. With this programme the two entities will leverage their joint commitment to enhance women’s economic empowerment globally. They each have longstanding experience and partnerships in the Asian region. UN Women will apply its triple mandate of normative, operational and coordination actions and use its convening power to bring multiple stakeholders together for effective collaboration. EU brings valuable private and public sector partnerships across sectors as well as its solid expertise in trade and economic development.

The overall objective of the WEA programme is that more women lead, participate and have access to enhanced business opportunities and leadership within the private sector to advance sustainable and inclusive growth. The programme will achieve this through three complementary outcome areas to be implemented in seven selected middle-income countries (China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam) in Asia:

• ADVOCACY: Women’s networks, public institutions, and the private sector will collaborate and share expertise and knowledge to build an enabling business environment for women’s economic empowerment in the workplace and in the marketplace,
• ENTREPRENEURSHIP: The capacity of women-owned businesses and women entrepreneurs will be developed to enable them to engage with government and private sector corporations in policy development and dialogues for advancing women’s economic empowerment, and
• BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT: The private sector will be supported to implement gender-sensitive practices and culture within their businesses through the take-up of the Women Empowerment Principles (the WEPs – a set of guiding principles to achieve gender equality within companies).

Ultimately, the programme will contribute to the achievement of gender equality through enabling women’s increased participation in the labour force and in the market place, improved opportunities for women entrepreneurship and business start-ups, and through strengthening of corporate sector’s commitment and action to ensure gender equality in business culture and practices.

The guiding platform for the programme is the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), a set of seven principles for businesses offering guidance on how to strengthen gender equality in the workplace, in the marketplace and in the community. The WEPs are jointly developed by UN Women and UN Global Compact and seeking the commitments and concrete implementation by private corporations around the globe.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision and guidance of the Regional Programme Manager, the consultant will undertake the following tasks:

• Support the development of public information material: Prepare press releases, event summaries, impact stories, newsletter articles, blogs, key messages, listicles and presentations.
• Promote social media and website presence: Prepare social media plans for weekly sign-off; explore potential online initiatives and campaigns to raise programme visibility with partners; track, compile and produce reports on social media and web statistics on monthly basis. Ensure a consistent ‘voice’ of WeEmpowerAsia, adapt content and align on substance and style.
• Update programme photo and video database: Conduct stock image and video selection exercises with programme managers (istock, shutterstock etc.) and update programme database.
• Support graphic design and video editing work: Edit basic videos; design and create various information materials, publication covers, presentation templates, flyers, infographics and social media content (infographics, videos, GIFs, social media cards etc.); help with shooting and remixing videos, sound and slideshows; review content produced by suppliers for timely delivery.
• Provide media relations support: Maintain and update a regional media database in coordination with country programme managers across the region, along with compiling news clippings.
• Support communications monitoring, evaluation and reporting: Collect and analyze data and results and contribute inputs for quarterly and annual programme reports.
• Coordinate outreach activities: Help coordinate online and offline events, webinars, roundtable discussions, Q&A live streams, trainings, mentoring sessions and other publicity events to mark international days and providing inputs to briefing materials and press releases, as necessary.

I.Expected Deliverables

No.

Tasks & Deliverables

Target dates

1.

Tasks:

• Update programme photo and video database.
• Develop public information materials such as press releases, event summaries, impact stories, newsletter articles, web blogs/stories, key messages, listicles and presentations.
• Prepare draft social media plans on weekly basis along with accompanying multimedia assets (graphics, videos, infographics, GIFs, social media cards etc.).
• Provision of efficient support to the planning, preparation and implementation of online and offline activities and events.
• Produce monthly social media and website reports with analytics and trends analysis.

Deliverables:

• 1 photo and video database created and updated
• Minimum 3 public information materials developed
• 1 weekly social media plan developed with minimum 5 accompanying posts/multimedia assets per week
• Minimum 3 events/activities supported
• 1 social media and 1 website report delivered

September 2020

2.

Tasks:

• Update media database.
• Develop public information materials such as press releases, event summaries, impact stories, newsletter articles, web blogs/stories, key messages, listicles and presentations.
• Prepare draft social media plans on weekly basis along with accompanying multimedia assets (graphics, videos, infographics, GIFs, social media cards etc.).
• Provision of efficient support to the planning, preparation and implementation of online and offline activities and events.

Deliverables:

• 1 media database created and updated
• Minimum 3 public information materials developed
• 1 weekly social media plan developed with minimum 5 accompanying posts/multimedia assets per week
• Minimum 3 events/activities supported
• 1 social media and 1 website report delivered

October 2020

3.

Tasks:

• Develop public information materials such as press releases, event summaries, impact stories, newsletter articles, web blogs/stories, key messages, listicles and presentations.
• Prepare draft social media plans on weekly basis along with accompanying multimedia assets (graphics, videos, infographics, GIFs, social media cards etc.).
• Provision of efficient support to the planning, preparation and implementation of online and offline activities and events.

Deliverables:

• Minimum 3 public information materials developed
• 1 weekly social media plan developed with minimum 5 accompanying posts/multimedia assets per week
• Minimum 3 events/activities supported
• 1 social media and 1 website report delivered

November 2020

4.

Task:

• Submission of final communications report.
• Develop public information materials such as press releases, event summaries, impact stories, newsletter articles, web blogs/stories, key messages, listicles and presentations.
• Prepare draft social media plans on weekly basis along with accompanying multimedia assets (graphics, videos, infographics, GIFs, social media cards etc.).
• Provision of efficient support to the planning, preparation and implementation of online and offline activities and events.

Deliverables:

• 1 Report on communications activities and all accompanying assets packaged and delivered
• Minimum 3 public information materials developed
• 1 weekly social media plan developed with minimum 5 accompanying posts/multimedia assets per week
• Minimum 3 events/activities supported
• 1 social media and 1 website report delivered

December 2020

****Payment will be made upon submission of deliverables with an approval of the Regional Programme Manager*

Contract period and work location

The consultant will be based in Bangkok, Thailand and working at UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific as required. Round trip airfare from consultant original country to Bangkok, Thailand will be financially covered by UN Women

Evaluation

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. 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 qualification evaluation criteria:

The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 100. The technical qualification of the individual is evaluated based on following technical qualification evaluation criteria:

Technical Evaluation Criteria

Obtainable

Score

Education

• Master’s degree in communications, public relations, journalism, or relevant fields.

20 %

Knowledge and skills

• Minimum 3 years of relevant work experiences in public relations, communications, or advocacy
• Demonstrated knowledge of women’s economic empowerment, and the Asia-Pacific region
• Experience working in the Asia Pacific region a big advantage.
• Previous experience with UN Women and other UN agencies an advantage.
• Previous experience with private sector an advantage

60 %

Language and report writing skills

• Excellent command of written English, other UN languages an asset.

20 %

Total Obtainable Score

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.

Competencies

I.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

Required Skills and Experience

I.Required qualification

• Master’s degree in communications, public relations, journalism, or relevant fields.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant work experiences in public relations, communications or advocacy
• Demonstrated knowledge of women’s economic empowerment, and the Asia-Pacific region
• Experience working in the Asia Pacific region a big advantage.
• Previous experience with UN Women and other UN agencies an advantage.
• Previous experience with private sector an advantage
• Excellent command of written English, other UN languages an asset.

Submission of application

Interest candidates are encouraged to submit electronic application to Nutnita.limpanonda@unwomen.org , not later than 18 Aug 2020, COB (Bangkok time).

Submission package includes:

• Updated CV
• Personal History Form (P11) which can be downloaded http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/about-us/jobs;
• Portfolio related to the assignment
• Financial proposal
• All applications must include (as an attachment) the CV, letter of interest, P11, Portfolio related to the assignment and the financial proposal. Applications without financial proposal will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

• Please be noted that the system only allows 1 attachment per application so please combined all files into one. In case that is not possible, you can submit the application again with different attachments.

  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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