International Consultant – Advocacy, Outreach and Knowledge Management (Access to Justice)

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Background

UN Women is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide. UN Women supports the UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls globally. UN Women works to make the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) a reality for women and girls and stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life, focusing on four strategic priorities: (i) Women lead, participate in and benefit equally from governance systems; (ii) Women have income security, decent work and economic autonomy; (iii) All women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence; and (iv) Women and girls contribute to and have greater influence in building sustainable peace and resilience, and benefit equally from the prevention of natural disasters and conflicts and humanitarian action.

The Project “Enhancing Access to Justice for Women in Asia and the Pacific: Bridging the gap between formal and informal systems through women’s empowerment and reduction of gender biases” is a five-year programme in the Asia Pacific region that began implementation in 2018, with the generous support of the Government of Sweden. The goal of the project is to enhance access to justice for women in Asia and the Pacific, bridging the gap between formal and informal systems through women’s empowerment and reduction of gender biases. In realising this goal, the programme partners – UN Women, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) focus on the following outputs: (1) Domestic laws adopted and court decisions are consistent with international human rights law and standards, including CEDAW; (2) Gender discriminatory attitudes and stereotyped behaviours towards women by formal and informal justice providers are addressed; and (3) Grassroots women’s organizations and community-based women’s organisations are empowered and well-positioned to document, monitor, liaise and facilitate interactions with formal and informal justice providers.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Programme Specialist, the Consultant will be responsible for supporting the design, planning and implementation of advocacy strategies and outreach initiatives associated the Access to Justice programme priorities, as well as building a stronger knowledge base for scaling up regional efforts to enhance women’s access to justice. The Consultant will work closely with the Regional Office’s Access to Justice team, relevant UN Women country offices across Asia and the Pacific, and internal and external stakeholders, as necessary.

Roles and responsibility

The Consultant will have the following roles and responsibilities:

Advocacy and outreach:

• Provide technical advice to the Programme Specialist and team members on advocacy and outreach using innovative methods designed to facilitate multi-stakeholder engagement, and multi-disciplinary collaboration to drive change;
• Collect web performance statistics for UN Women and donor reporting
• Analyze social media and web performance statistics and provide concrete recommendation on how to increase outreach.
• Propose methodologies for advocacy and outreach, identifying appropriate medium, target audience, and effective dissemination.
• Develop and maintain distribution and outreach list and regularly analyses engagement.
• Support campaign initiatives, spotlighting existing and innovative approaches to enhancing justice;

Knowledge management:

• Support the development, production and dissemination of knowledge products, including research, reports, briefs, and other materials.
• Translate technical information and analysis into plain language guidelines and factsheets for a non-specialized reader.

• Support collaboration and exchange of information with justice knowledge holders, including academics, non-governmental organizations, and data specialists.

• Develop and implement dissemination plans relating to knowledge products.

Event management:

• Assist in the planning, design and delivery of events (in-person and virtual), from technical meetings to high-level roundtables and events.
• Create a master plan for all events, and create event plans for each individual event, identifying timelines and deadlines, budgets, logistics, and roles and responsibilities;
• Manage the development of information assets associated with events, such as invitations, agendas, presentation materials, audio-visual materials, and materials for participants; as well as coordinate with other team members on press releases, feature articles, speeches, backgrounders and others;

• Execute on-site logistics and virtual technical aspects of events, including but not limited to digital platform management (e.g. Zoom) and presentation of materials (driving presentations, videos, etc);

• Coordinate with service providers, such as interpreters and translators to ensure inclusivity;

• Act as the primary point of contact for event-planning purposes;
• Provide recommendations to strengthen engagement and success of events.

Contract period and work location

The contract will be for 120 working days (between 18 April 2022 – 30 September 2022).

The consultant will be based in Bangkok, Thailand, having regard to COVID19 protocols and restrictions.

Deliverables

Tasks and deliverables

Targeted Date

1st

• Collect web performance statistics for UN Women and donor reporting
• Analyze social media and web performance statistics and provide concrete recommendation on how to increase outreach.
• Propose methodologies for advocacy and outreach, identifying appropriate medium, target audience, and effective dissemination.
• Create a one-year master plan for to introduce the regional Access to Justice strategy including all events, and create event plans for each individual event, identifying timelines and deadlines, budgets, logistics, and roles and responsibilities
• Execute on-site logistics and virtual technical aspects of events, including but not limited to digital platform management (e.g. Zoom) and presentation of materials (driving presentations, videos, etc.);

Deliverables:

• Progress report including the analyses of web statistics, outreach methodology and event reports for at least 2 meetings/ workshops.

• One year communication and event master plan for the A2J project.

  15 May 2022

2nd

• Coordinate and support the implement communication and event masterplan
• Support the development, production and dissemination of knowledge products, including research, reports, briefs, and other materials.
• Translate technical information and analysis into plain language guidelines and factsheets for a non-specialized reader.

• Support collaboration and exchange of information with justice knowledge holders, including academics, non-governmental organizations, and data specialists.

• Develop and implement dissemination plans relating to knowledge products.

• Develop and maintain distribution and outreach list and regularly analyses engagement:
• Support campaign initiatives, spotlighting existing and innovative approaches to enhancing justice.

Deliverables:

• Progress report on the implementation of communication and event master plan
• Distribution and outreach list including tracking apps (such as MailChimp).

• Updated A2J knowledge portal and analysis of related web data.

  30 June 2022

3rd

• Coordinate and support the implement communication and event masterplan

• Collect web performance statistics for UN Women and donor reporting

• Analyze social media and web performance statistics and provide concrete recommendation on how to increase outreach.
• Support campaign initiatives, spotlighting existing and innovative approaches to enhancing justice;
• Execute on-site logistics and virtual technical aspects of events, including but not limited to digital platform management (e.g. Zoom) and presentation of materials (driving presentations, videos, etc);
• Coordinate with service providers, such as interpreters and translators to ensure inclusivity.
• Act as the primary point of contact for event-planning purposes;
• Provide recommendations to strengthen engagement and success of events.
• Support collaboration and exchange of information with justice knowledge holders, including academics, non-governmental organizations, and data specialists.

Deliverable:

• Progress report on the implementation communication and event master plan
• Analyses of web statistics performance of A2J content, and success in outreach with A2J content
• Event reports for at least 2 meetings/ workshops.

• Analysis of existing collaboration including recommendation to enhance partner outreach.

  20 August 2022

Final

• Coordinate and support the implement communication and event masterplan

• Collect web performance statistics for UN Women and donor reporting

• Analyze social media and web performance statistics and provide concrete recommendation on how to increase outreach.
• Support campaign initiatives, spotlighting existing and innovative approaches to enhancing justice;
• Execute on-site logistics and virtual technical aspects of events, including but not limited to digital platform management (e.g. Zoom) and presentation of materials (driving presentations, videos, etc);
• Coordinate with service providers, such as interpreters and translators to ensure inclusivity.
• Act as the primary point of contact for event-planning purposes;
• Provide recommendations to strengthen engagement and success of events.
• Support collaboration and exchange of information with justice knowledge holders, including academics, non-governmental organizations, and data specialists.

Deliverable:

• Final report on the implementation of communication and event master plan including recommendation on the way forward
• Event reports for at least 2 meetings/ workshops.
• Data and outreach analysis of A2J content including UN Women regional office, country offices and partners.

• Concrete recommendation on how to enhance outreach and strategic partnerships.

  15 September 2022

Competencies

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

Functional Competencies

• Strong skills and experience in developing strategies and presenting ideas related to advocacy, outreach and knowledge management
• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
• Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities
• Strong communications skills in English (written and oral)
• Leadership and skills to work with autonomy and initiative
• Knowledge of gender equality and women’s human rights in the Asia-Pacific region
• Knowledge of the UN system

Required Skills and Experience

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Master’s degree (or equivalent work experience) in communications, public relations, media or a related field or bachelor’s degree with 2 additional years’ work experience.
• Minimum of 7 years relevant experience in designing and implementing advocacy, outreach strategies and/or communications initiatives. Proven experience supporting knowledge creation and management
• Proven experience in managing events
• Knowledge of women’s access to justice an asset
• Work experience in Asia or the Pacific is an advantage
• Work experience with the UN is an advantage
• Proficiency in English

Payments

Each payment will be issued upon acceptance and approval of a delivery report showing progress on deliverables stipulated in the table below by the Programme Specialist - Access to Justice - Governance, Peace and Security, UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. The expected deliverables will be done in close collaboration/supervision of UN Women personnel.

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 utilised 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

A) Education

• Master’s degree (or equivalent work experience) in communications, public relations, media or a related field or bachelor’s degree with 2 additional years’ work experience.

  10%

  B) Experience and knowledge

• Minimum of 7 years relevant experience in designing and implementing advocacy, outreach strategies and/or communications initiatives

• Proven experience supporting knowledge creation and management
• Proven experience in managing events
• Knowledge of women’s access to justice an asset
• Work experience in Asia or the Pacific is an advantage

• Work experience with the UN is an advantage

  80%

C) Language and report writing skills

• Proficiency in English and report writing skills

  10 %

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.

Submission of application

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their electronic application to hr.bangkok@unwomen.org with cc to nichapa.athipan@unwomen.org not later than 22 March 2022, Midnight, New York time. Submission package includes:

• Updated Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Cover letter explaining your suitability for the work
• P11 Form, downloaded from https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/about-us/jobs
• Financial proposal which shall specify a total lump sum amount based on deliverables (including allowance and travel costs).
• Work portfolio, including example of advocacy and/or outreach strategy

Items

Amount (USD)

Lump sum fee (equivalent to daily fee x no. of days)

1st Deliverable:

• Progress report including the analyses of web statistics, outreach methodology and event reports for at least 2 meetings/ workshops.
• One year communication and event master plan for the A2J project.

2nd Deliverable:

• Progress report on the implementation of communication and event master plan
• Distribution and outreach list including tracking apps (such as MailChimp).
• Updated A2J knowledge portal and analysis of related web data.

3rd Deliverable:

• Progress report on the implementation communication and event master plan
• Analyses of web statistics performance of A2J content, and success in outreach with A2J content
• Event reports for at least 2 meetings/ workshops.
• Analysis of existing collaboration including recommendation to enhance partner outreach.

Final Deliverable:

• Final report on the implementation of communication and event master plan including recommendation on the way forward
• Event reports for at least 2 meetings/ workshops.
• Data and outreach analysis of A2J content including UN Women regional office, country offices and partners.
• Concrete recommendation on how to enhance outreach and strategic partnerships.

Total Financial Proposal

The system only allows one attachment per application; please consolidate all documents into one file. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Diversity and Inclusion

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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