Programme Support Specialist

Consultant Human Rights

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Background

UN Women in Kyrgyzstan is a strong advocate for improving the lives of women and girls in the country. Building on the vision of equality enshrined in the UN Charter, and in the framework of the UN Women Strategic Note for Kyrgyzstan 2023-2028, the Country Office implements a comprehensive programme with a focus to enhance women's leadership; eliminate violence against women; promote women participation in women, peace and security agenda, all aspects of decision making; financing for gender equality, women economic empowerment, gender mainstreaming in humanitarian action, disaster risk management and climate change adaptation.

Duties and Responsibilities

UN Women is seeking to hire a Programme Support Specialist who will be responsible for ensuring effective and efficient delivery of UN Women Kyrgyzstan CO programme portfolio, ensuring horizontal and vertical linkages and partnership between local and national stakeholders, promoting women human rights and gender equality in the areas of women, peace and climate security nexus, women economic empowerment and women leadership. The Programme Support Specialist will ensure synergies and complementarities between activities of project partners, as well as facilitate the work of Implementing Partners. She/He should promote a client-oriented approach consistent with UN Women rules and regulations and commits to high standards of quality, productivity and timeliness in the delivery of tasks.

Under direct supervision and guidance of the UN Women Head of Programs, and indirect reporting to UN Women Country Representative, the Programme Support Specialist will provide advisory and managerial assistance to the Programme Team in fulfilling the following tasks:

Tasks:

Overall programme

• Identify and provide recommendations on synergies and complementarities between related interventions.
• Support the relevant CO specialists in the process of monitoring / generation of base and end-line data for the project measurement of change at Outcomes level of the ongoing projects. Undertake planned monitoring missions to programme sites and provide recommendations for project teams.

Women, peace and security

• Provide guidance to the work of Responsible Partners (RPs) in the process of co-creation, testing and iteration of local and national level mechanism/s and procedures of engagement of local partners on priority themes.
• Support in the process of co-creation of interventions for localisation / implementation of UNSCR 1325 NAP, GES 2030, and other relevant national commitments on GEWE.
• Provide advisory support and ensure the quality of documents produced as part of the processes of implementation and documentation of lessons learnt and practices within the interventions at community level, by application of innovative tools.
• Contribute to the work of the joint partners initiatives on peace .

Women economic empowerment

• Provide guidance to the group of experts in the process of preparation and conducting the national level WEE event , ensuring linkages with the objectives of the global campaigns focusing on investing to prevention of violence against women.
• Provide advice to the consultant on their outreach to partners, especially investors, women entrepreneurs, and ensure the quality of the actual event.
• Contribute to the process of advocacy/ technical assistance to business entities in making pledges on GEWE/ adoption of ESG / and WEP principles.

Eliminating Violence Against Women

• Provide substantive inputs to the process of development of concept notes and proposals on EVAWG for further mobilisation of resources.
• Assist in holding dialogues with business partners on the possibilities for investments in social initiatives on EVAWG, in correlation to the initiatives planned under WEE area.
• Provide advisory support in planning and implementation of actions under the EVAWG Campaign on 16 days against violence

Coordination and partnership building

• Support the CO with the ongoing GEWE Coordination within the implementation of UNSDCF.

Key deliverables and payment schedule

Payments will be made in KGS in a monthly instalment upon submission of work results in accordance with the "Work Plan" adopted and approved by UN Women Country Office. Programme Support Specialist must submit a monthly progress report with all necessary attachments describing the amount of work performed during the period of month for which the payment is made.

Deliverables

Target Date

1. Timesheet indicating days worked in table form
2. Report with summary of performed activities, with reflection on tasks as per the approved workplan and advisory support provided.

By the 1-st date of each month starting from the October 2023 and ending at the 30 January, 2024

Inputs/resources on behalf of UN Women

UN Women will provide the contractor with a computer, transportation in UN Women vehicles or hired vehicles during the missions, and necessary information and materials for the fulfilment of the tasks as per the TOR. UN Women can provide an office space within the Country Office premises as required.

Reporting requirements

Report should be provided in both in printed and electronic versions in English with detailed description of the fulfilled tasks, according to the present Term of Reference and approved Workplans. Analytical documents and other materials developed by Specialist should be attached to the report as annexes, which will serve as a justification for payment.

Duration of the assignment

Expected duration of work of the Programme Support Specialist is from October 1 2023 to January 30 2024.

Competencies

Corporate competencies

• Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission and strategic goals of UN Women;

• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality, and age sensitivity and adaptability.

  Functional competencies

Knowledge Management and Learning

• Shares knowledge and experience;
• Actively works towards continuing personal learning, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills;
• Ability to analyze complex situations from a position of impartiality;
• Ability to concisely and to the point document information and findings, targeting a specific audience.

Development and Operational Effectiveness

• Ability to perform a variety of specialized tasks related to Results Management, including support to design, planning and implementation of the projects, managing data and reporting;
• Good knowledge of Results Management Guide and Toolkit.

Leadership and Self-Management

• Focuses on result for the client and responds positively to feedback;
• Remains calm, in control and good humored even under pressure, uses skills of diplomacy;
• Ability to prioritize and manage competing priorities, grasping the situation quickly;
• Ability to conduct advocacy on sensitive issues, not avoiding but processing conflict.

Required Skills and Experience

Professional skills and experience

• Master’s degree or equivalent in social sciences, human rights, gender/women's studies, or a related field is required
• At least 5-7 years of relevant work experience of implementing projects in the area of democratic governance and development with a focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the areas of EVAWG, WEE, and Women, Peace and Security.
• Demonstrated substantive knowledge of women’s empowerment and gender equality issues in Kyrgyzstan’s context, as well as key players both at the national and grassroots level;
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills;
• Competent in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel and etc.);
• Fluency in Kyrgyz, Russian and English languages is a requirement;
• Proven working experience with central and local government partners will be considered as a strong asset;
• Previous work experience with UN agencies and other international development partners is highly desirable.

Application procedure:

The following documents should be submitted as part of the application:

• Cover letter to include a brief overview about which of your previous experiences makes you the most suitable candidate for the advertised position
• P11 including past experience in similar assignments; can be downloaded at http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment, a signed copy should be submitted with the application
• A financial proposal with a total lump sum including all costs as described below.

Payment Schedule

• A financial proposal with a total lump sum including all costs as described below

Financial Proposal Format:

#

Item

Per month

Number of months

Total cost

1

Monthly rate

2

Other

Total

Please note that the financial proposal is comprehensive and should take into account the various expenses incurred by the consultant during the term of the contract. The financial proposal must be submitted in KGS. If the proposal is submitted in any other currency, it will be converted at the UN exchange rate on the closing date.

Evaluation of applicants

The evaluation starts with shortlisting of potential candidates and received applications against the mandatory requirements. Only full applications will be considered. Shortlisted candidates will be then evaluated using a cumulative analysis method taking into consideration the combination of the applicants' technical qualifications and experience, and financial proposal. The contract will be awarded to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

1. Technically responsive/compliant/acceptable to the requirements of the ToR; and
2. Having received the highest cumulative (technical & financial) score out of below defined technical and financial criteria.

The selection of candidates will be done in 3 stages:

1st stage: Prior to detailed evaluation, all applications will be thoroughly screened against eligibility criteria (minimum qualification requirements) as set in the present ToR in order to determine whether they are compliant/ non-compliant.

Eligibility Criteria

1

Master’s degree or equivalent in social sciences, human rights, gender/women's studies, or a related field is required

2

At least 5 years of relevant work experience of implementing projects in the area of democratic governance and development with a focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the areas of EVAWG, WEE, and Women, Peace and Security.

2nd stage: Technical Evaluation/ Desk review.

Short-listed candidates will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

Criteria

Weight

Max. Point

Technical

70%

70

Education:

15%

Maximum 15 points, including:

Master’s degree or equivalent in social sciences, human rights, gender/women's studies, or a related field is required

15%

15

Experience, including:

40%

Maximum 40 points, including:

At least 5-7 years of relevant work experience of implementing projects in the area of democratic governance and development with a focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the areas of EVAWG, WEE, and Women, Peace and Security.

10%

10

Demonstrated substantive knowledge of women’s empowerment and gender equality issues in Kyrgyzstan’s context, as well as key players both at the national and grassroots level;

10%

15

Proven working experience with central and local government partners will be considered as a strong asset;

10%

15

Skills and knowledge, including:

5%

Maximum 5 points, including:

Knowledge and skills of relevant computer applications of MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Power Point), knowledge of Internet communications

5

5

Language Requirements

10%

Maximum 10 points, including:

Fluency in Russian, Kyrgyz and English: 5 points – fluently, 0 points – not fluently

10%

10

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points out of 70 points at the Technical Evaluation/ Interview will be considered for the Financial Evaluation

Financial

30%

30

3rd stage: Financial evaluation will be conducted according to the method described below:

The maximum number of points assigned to the financial proposal is allocated to the lowest price proposal. All other price proposals receive points in inverse proportion.

A suggested formula is as follows: p=30 (µ/z)

Where:

p - points for the financial proposal being evaluated;

µ - price of the lowest priced proposal;

z - price of the proposal being evaluated

The candidate achieving the highest cumulative score for both Technical and Financial evaluations will be recommended by the Evaluation Committee for contracting

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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