National Consultant-Conduct trainings on Gender, Gender Concepts and Entrepreneurial Skills for Women in SMEs

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Background

As a global champion on gender equality and the empowerment of women UN Women is implementing a United Nations Country Team Joint Project on Sustaining Business and Protecting Jobs in the Informal Economy with UN agencies, namely, United Nations Development Programme, International Labor Organization, and United Nations Industrial Development Organization under the coordination role of the Resident Coordinator Office. The Joint Project is funded by UN COVID 19 Response and Recovery Fund, MPTF. The Project has the objective to implement evidence-based and gender responsive interventions and emergency response to lessen the adverse impact of COVID-19 on the private sector to protect jobs and ensure protection of social services. The project focuses on reducing vulnerability and building improved resilience of the urban informal sector workers and enterprises, especially women, female youth, and persons with disabilities. It runs between June 30, 2021, to March 30, 2022. As participating agency, UN Women is responsible for ensuring the mainstreaming of gender in project implementation. For which purpose, it has started various initiatives including the establishment of a Gender Review Team and the conduct of an assessment on the Situation of Women in SMES. Based on the findings of the Assessment, UN Women is implementing capacity building initiatives for women in SMEs on gender and entrepreneurial skill. UN Women intends to broaden the reach of the training more women in SMEs and plans to conduct three rounds of training.

The main objective of the trainings will be to enhance the capacity of women in the informal sector and SMEs to say no to violence and discrimination, be competitive in the labor market and to equally participate and benefit from different economic initiatives. The trainings will also have the following specific objectives: ---Enhance the understanding of women in SMEs and informal sector on gender and gender concepts; enhance women’s skills on entrepreneurial skill, business idea generation and start-ups and the seals of art to respond to the COVID 19 challenge; and create a platform to foster new partnership and strengthen existing networks amongst women in SMEs.

Accordingly, UN Women is seeking to obtain the services of a qualified national consultants with good track record in undertaking similar assignments. The consultants should be able to design and implement a 5-day training on “Gender, Gender Concepts and Entrepreneurial Skills with particular focus on business plan development for Women in SMEs”.

Duties and Responsibilities

The national consultants will be mainly responsible to conduct the training simultaneously. Each trainer will be responsible to develop the schedule and the facilitation of the training. The consultants, under this assignment, will undertake the following tasks:

Design a five-days training programme with training material covering at the minimum the following key issues:

• Basics gender concepts, gender equality, gender analysis, gender mainstreaming and leadership and decision making.
• Gender and women’s empowerment.
• Entrepreneurship, business plan development, conceptual framework, model, gender gaps and women in entrepreneurship.
• Becoming an entrepreneurship: pre-startup, startup, and implementation.
• Gender and entrepreneurship: strengthening women entrepreneurs and be competitive in SMEs.
• Facilitate major points of discussion e.g., using Power Point that could be easily referred to in the organization of the training.
• Facilitating the theoretical and methodological part of the training by focusing on issues related to gender and entrepreneurship.
• Create list of necessary readings on the topic and where possible provide soft copy for distribution to trainees.
• Facilitating a practice-oriented training, where participants are encouraged to draft business plans, practice selection of relevant topics.
• Conduct pre and post training assessment to evaluate the outcome of the training. and
• Prepare a training report summarizing feedback on each of the trainees and recommendations for similar engagements in the future.

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism
• Team spirit

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
• Accountability
• Creative Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Leading by Example

Functional Competencies

• Ability to communicate sensitively, effectively and creatively across different constituencies
• Good knowledge of web-based knowledge management systems
• Good understanding of production, graphic design and photography standards
• Good knowledge of social media platforms and experience in social media outreach
• Good knowledge of local country media landscape
• Good communication, presentation, networking and advocacy skills
• Ability to be strategic and analytical
• Knowledge of gender and human rights issues desirable

Required Skills and Experience

Education

• Master’s degree or equivalent in gender/women's studies, business and social studies or related field is required.
• A Bachelor’s degree may be considered with additional four years’ experience.

Experience and skills

• At least 5 years of demonstrable experience in development work at the national, regional and/or international level around gender and business.
• Technical expertise and strong understanding of gender and its concept, women empowerment, and entrepreneurship etc.…
• Demonstrated ability and experience to facilitate trainings for adults.
• Experience in developing lessons plan with relevant learning topics and exercises.
• The ability to engage and motivate interactive dialogue and peer learnings amongst trainees.
• Experience in working in a diversity team is an asset.
• The ability to understand and present complex issues clearly and concisely.

Languages:

• Fluency in English and Amharic is required.

Application:

• All applications must include (as an attachment) a 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 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.

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.)