National Consultant-To edit English version of Gender Responsive Budget Allocation and Implementation in GTP-II assessment report and Gender Equality Strategy of Ministry of Finance

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Overview

Edit documents ensuring quality and adherence to guidelines

You have:

• Degree in Communication, literature, Gender, or other relevant Social Science field
• At least 10 years of professional experience in the stated qualifications
• Extensive experience in editing, proofreading and writing on development issues with strong knowledge on gender equality
• Experience on editing of UN documents is an advantage
• High level written and oral communications skills in Amharic and English
• Evidence of having undertaken similar assignments

Contract

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Background

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (UN Women), Ethiopia Country Office (ECO) is working towards ensuring a gender responsive financing system within the public finance management system in Ethiopia. It ensures that new and existing internationally and nationally agreed commitments on GEWE are effectively financed in Ethiopia by enabling the government to establish Gender Responsive National Planning and Budgeting system.

In 2017, UN Women ECO developed a programme entitled Transformative Financing for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, which is to be implemented with the leadership of Ministry of Finance and partnership of relevant sectoral Ministries and agencies. The programme aims at establishing a gender responsive planning and budgeting system to ensure resources are allocated to fulfill GEWE commitments.

In response to this, UN Women Ethiopia is supporting MoF Gender Directorate to develop an assessment report on the budget allocated for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment within the last five years of GTP II at federal, regional and city administration level. The assessment will be used as evidence of how much budget has been planned, utilised or not and identify the challenges and propose way forward.

In addition, UN Women is supporting MoF in developing its Gender Equality Strategy for the public finance, external resource mobilization and fiscal sector at large to lay-down a framework that helps to ensure gender equality through transformation of public finance and its managements, fiscal policy and its implementation, Public Private Partnership (PPP), external resources mobilization, economic cooperation in creating prudent macro-economy. The strategy aims to ensure that women and men benefit equally from the designed and enacted fiscal policies, reforms and government spending’s. The strategy will guide the overall approach used to mainstream gender in the policy making as well as day to day execution of the ministry’s activities.

Accordingly, the recruited consultants finalized and submit the GTP-II assessment report and the Gender Equality Strategy. To this effect, UN Women Ethiopia would like to recruit a national consultant who will undertake the task of editing the two documents: English version of the assessment report and the strategy to ensure the quality of the undertaken work.

Duties and Responsibilities

The National consultant will accomplish the following tasks:

• Conduct quality language editing (in track changes) of the English version of GTP II assessment report and the Gender Equality strategy using United Nations Editorial guideline http://dd.dgacm.org/editorialmanual/ (do not make changes on the content)
• Correcting typographical errors, punctuation, spelling, grammar and vocabulary
• Create a list of acronyms and ensure correlation between the list and their occurrence throughout the texts.
• Check the Amharic version of the assessment report and the strategy if there is any unclear sentence written in the English version and revise accordingly.

Deliverables:

• Provision of standard and quality edited English version of the assessment report and strategy based on comments/feedbacks from UN Women Ethiopia.
• Comments/feedbacks from UN Women Ethiopia will be provided in case the editing is not done up to the expectation.
• Editing needs to be done immediately after signing of the contract.

Competencies

Core Values/Guiding Principles 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 of the pertinent substantive areas of work.

Cultural sensitivity and valuing diversity:

• Demonstrate an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrate an international outlook, appreciating difference in values and learning from cultural diversity.

Core Competencies

Ethics and Values:

• Demonstrate and safeguard ethics and integrity.

Organizational Awareness:

• Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment.

Development and Innovation:

• Take charge of self-development and take initiative.

Work in teams:

• Demonstrate ability to work in a multicultural, multiethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.

Communicating and Information Sharing:

• Facilitate and encourage open communication and strive for effective communication.

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.

Conflict Management:

• Surface conflicts and address them proactively acknowledging different feelings and views and directing energy towards a mutually acceptable solution.

Continuous Learning and Knowledge Sharing:

• Encourage learning and sharing of knowledge.

Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making:

• Demonstrate informed and transparent decision making.

Functional Competencies

• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Evidence of having undertaken similar assignments
• Experience on professional editing and proofreading
• Knowledge on gender equality and women empowerment as well GTPII
• High level written and oral communications skills in Amharic and English
• Result-oriented, team player, exhibiting high levels of enthusiasm for gender equality, diplomacy and integrity
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and professional skills in interacting with government and development partners.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Degree in Communication, literature, Gender, or other relevant Social Science field

Experience:

• At least 10 years of professional experience in the stated qualifications
• Extensive and demonstrated experience in editing, proofreading and writing on development issues with strong knowledge on gender equality and women empowerment
• Experience on editing of UN documents is an advantage.
• Please note that applications without a completed and signed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment
• UN Women Personal History form (P-11) can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment

Language Requirements: Amharic and English

UNWOMEN is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

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