Management and content creation of the LWAZI Platform and its social media platforms consultancy

Contract

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Background

To deliver on its triple mandate, UN Women's work on gender equality and women's empowerment in Zimbabwe is conducted through partnerships with several actors, including Government, civil society, UN Agencies, development partners and the private sector.

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. Within its flagship programme on ending violence against women, the Spotlight Initiative (Sl); UN Women is collaborating with women's rights groups, autonomous social movements, and civil society organisations at community level.

Pillar 1 of the Sl focuses on ensuring that national and regional partners have strengthened evidence-based knowledge and capacities to assess gaps and draft new and/or strengthen existing legislations on ending VAWG, including SGBV/HP, and/or on gender equality and non-discrimination that respond to the rights of the groups facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and are in line with international HR standards and treaty bodies' recommendations. UN Women's participation in the Spotlight Initiative programme in Zimbabwe includes a focus on the capacitation of key activists and actors in 'Women's Movement Building' leveraged with autonomous multisectoral social movements to demand accountability for national commitment to transform the status quo on Sexual and Gender -based Violence (SGBV), Harmful Practices (HP) and Sexual and Reproductive health and rights (SRHR).

UN Women, through financial investment and technical backstopping, has enhanced organisational development, programme implementation and the activist orientation of the traditionally underfunded women's movement and community-based civil society groups. The aim is to improve their capacity and implement interventions to strengthen movement building to end violence against women and girls. In this respect, UN Women has developed the LWAZI Platform which is a web-based knowledge and movement building platform. It is an interactive online platform for women's rights advocates to meaningfully participate in law and policy making processes and information and knowledge sharing.

UN Women intends to engage a consultant to manage the LWAZI platform including its social media bots for an initial period of six months. The consultant shall be responsible for managing the content on the platform, as well as ensuring that there is meaningful and respectful engagement between various stakeholders. The consultant will be required work with the company hosting the platform.

Objectives of the assignment:

The aim of this consultancy is to build women's movement online.

Disseminating important policy information on legal and policy review.

Publishing content that strengthens women's rights and gender equality movement.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work:

Maintaining a functional and highly engaging platform with a strong network of women activists engaging on the platform on policy and legal matters that positively impact on women.

Upload up to date content on law and policy issues shaping gender equality and women empowerment discourse and practice.

Convene periodic roundtable discussions around topics raised on the platform. Generate monthly performance and reach reports of the platform.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Programme Specialist, the consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:

1. Create content which includes analysis of upcoming gender equality and GBV legislation with the feedback from women's rights activists across the country on the content of the proposed pieces of legislation.
2. The ideal consultant must have the capacity to run and maintain a movement building platform.
3. Strengthen collective organizing and advocacy through timely:

• provision and accessing appropriate mechanisms to disseminate information to women's rights activists widely across the nation.
• appropriate mechanisms and processes to gather their voices and perspectives to build an inclusive and representative 'women's 'voice' on national political, economic, humanitarian and development issues'.

Inputs

UN Women will provide the Consultant with the background materials, UN Women project documents, as well as other relevant materials with regard to implementation of the tasks under this TOR.

Deliverables

• Timely and quality content inputs to the LWAZI platform and social media platforms.
• Timely and accurate support to advocacy and women movement interventions.
• Timely and quality delivery of activities in line with budget and workplans, and in line with all UN Women operational rules and regulations, including information security.
• Timely and accurate tracking of data for knowledge building and management on the platforms. Timely and quality monitoring and evaluation of planned results related to online movement building.
• Creating and maintaining robust relationships with partners and stakeholders.

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/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf?la=en&vs=637

Functional Competencies

• Excellent Communication skills.
• Good writing and editorial skills.
• Excellent research skills.
• Understanding of the Zimbabwean gender context and women's movement building.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

An advanced degree in journalism, communications, international development, public policy, social sciences, law, international relations, political science, or any other related advanced degree.

Experience:

• Minimum three (3) years of relevant practical experience in women's movement building.
• Experience in public policy, sexual and gender -based Violence (SGBV), harmful practices (HP) and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
• Expertise in writing, editing and presenting information in clear and presentable formats.
• Track record in content creation and management.
• Experience in conducting qualitative and quantitative social research will be considered an asset.
• Ability to synthesize programme performance data and produce analytical reports. Knowledge of gender, gender-based violence, intersectionalities, and women's movement building.
• Experience in applying co-creation, design thinking and other innovation tools and techniques in the development area is an asset. Track record of undertaking gender analytical work.
• Experience in working with international organizations (successful experience in working with UN agencies is an asset).

Language Requirements: Fluency in written and oral English are required.

Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment and candidates are required to include in the P-11 form links for their previously published reports and articles completed within the last two years. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment. https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form.doc

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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.)