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Consultant Human Rights

Overview

Facilitate team building and enhance leadership skills through coaching sessions.

You have:

• Master’s degree in development, international relations, gender studies, Arts, Communication, Sociology, Psychology or related field
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in facilitation, training, coaching and mentoring within the relevant topic areas
• Accredited coach with a good track record
• Fluency in the English language required
• Excellent analytical and writing skills

Contract

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Background

UN Women Ethiopia Country Office (CO) is planning to hold its office retreat from March 14 – 19,2022 in Bishoftu to review the implementation of the 2021 AWP and strengthening the team spirit and leadership skills. The convening of team retreat is viewed as essential to the organization’s growth and advancement. Currently, UN Women Ethiopia team grew from staff members 3 to 63. The shift in UN Women Ethiopia structure and several new appointments to the team provide a strategic opportunity to comprehensively build the team, their leadership skills, and to develop their capacity to deliver on UN Women mandate. The intensity and the scope of the work undertaken by UN Women Ethiopia team, requires a high-functioning and resilient team, clear on the mandate, effective and professional in communicating, focusing on achieving the one country office vision, and delivering on the programme and projects targeted results. Bringing the team together to review the 2021 AWP, discussing professional development needs, build capacity with regards to enhancing interpersonal collaboration; respecting different working practices; bringing the best out of each other as a team, and leading on their respective TORs and roles will create an optimal working environment, giving the UN Women team the best chance of successfully delivering their mandate.

The CO retreat also emanates from the need to assess the challenges and opportunities determining or hampering efficiency, professionalism and effectiveness in addressing gender equality and women’s empowerment issues within the CO and the country alike.

In acknowledging the challenges, the CO recognizes the need of 1) team building; 2) leadership skills and peer learning to strengthen capacity within the CO in order to advance the gender equality agenda in the country. As the main aim of the retreat is to increase team cohesiveness and integration to pre-empt and prepare staff to become more efficient and respond positively to challenges. Also, the exercise is crucial for the CO in order to consolidate its position and leadership on GEWE in Ethiopia.

Objectives

1. To enhance team building and promote team work culture and practice in the midst of natural and human induced disaster /emergency.
2. To identify the development and capacity building needs of staff for more effective delivery of the UN Women programme within a collegial and participatory enabling environment
3. To enhance the understanding of gender issues and mainstreaming of gender in the respect work of UN Women ECO
4. To introduce staff in UN Women Ethiopia Country Office to the concept of humanitarian Development and peace nexus and building resilience among the staff

Duties and Responsibilities

The detailed duties and responsibilities include;

• conduct pre retreat intake coaching and assessment sessions with staff members to identify critical intervention areas, team building and personal development needs
• plan and facilitate 3 days team retreat sessions for UN Women Ethiopia considering the objectives above and including programmatic and operational aspects, team building and healthy living sessions
• Assess the team’s understanding of gender issues and mainstreaming of gender in the respect work of UN Women Ethiopia and lead the design and develop the agenda and delivery methodology of the teambuilding retreat, in consultation with staff members;
• Facilitate the retreat, including developing activities and exercises aimed at strengthening and encouraging efficient and effective communication, team building, knowledge and information sharing, selfcare, stress and burnout management
• Build a more effective team spirit, engender creativity and synergy around problems or future directions, create a degree of shared ownership in key planning issues
• Provide a consultancy summary, comprising a report on the retreat and pre and post-retreat engagement, including recommendations for continued professional development support including write up of the results of the assessment of working dynamics, strengths and weaknesses in communication and collaboration within the team, stress management issues and recommend how to build on strengths, address weaknesses and mechanisms of improving selfcare within the team

Competencies

Integrity:

• Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.

Professionalism:

• Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge or the pertinent substantive areas of work.

Core Values and Ethics:

• Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and ability to work in a multi-national environment
• Support the Organization’s corporate goals
• Comply with UN WOMEN rules, regulations, and code of conduct
• Integrity.

Teamwork:

• Demonstrate ability to work in a multicultural, multiethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.
• Build effective client relationships and partnerships.
• Interact with all levels of staff in the organization.
• Excellent interpersonal skills;
• Build and share knowledge;
• Make valuable practice contributions.

Communicating and Information Sharing:

• Facilitate and encourage open communication and strive for effective communication.
• Excellent oral and written skills;
• Listen actively and respond effectively.

Self-management and Emotional Intelligence:

• Stay composed and positive even in difficult moments, handle tense situations with diplomacy and tact, and have a consistent behavior towards others.

Functional Competencies:

• Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principles of a professional discipline or technical specialist relating to the position;

Possess basic knowledge or organizational policies and procedures relating to the position and applies them consistently in work tasks.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Master’s degree in development, international relations, gender studies, Arts, Communication, Sociology, Psychology or related field;

Experience:

• Accredited coach with the good track record
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in facilitation, training, coaching and mentoring within the relevant topic areas;
• Excellent analytical and writing skills;
• Experience as lead facilitator in similar assignments;
• high standard reporting writing skill

Language:

Fluency in the English language 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.

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