Senior CSO Consultant (Chinese National Only)

Consultant

Contract

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Background

To promote a safe and enabling social environment that is free from Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in China, UN Women China Office has selected Beijing Dongcheng Yuanzhong Family and Community Development Service Center (hereinafter abbreviated as “Yuanzhong”) as Responsible Party (RP) to enhance the capacity of CSOs GBV service providers in GBV prevention and response based on the roll-out of standardized essential service package through the development of systematic training of trainer (ToT) module, delivery of ToT workshop, and providing technical support to selected GBV CSO service providers in 2022.

One of the key assignment within the cooperation between UN Women and Yuanzhong is to develop the social service manual on GBV and organize ToT/capacity building Workshops. Following the capacity development workshops, there will be technical support provided to selected GBV CSO Service providers.

Therefore, a senior CSO Consultant with professional expertise on leading CSOs and ToT Workshop development and implementation is demanded to guide Yuangzhong. The senior CSO Consultant will be in charge of reviewing the manual developed by selected experts and providing feedbacks, reviewing training slides selected and providing feedbacks, and providing support for CSO.

Duties and Responsibilities

Main Objective

• To provide technical support to Yuanzhong on the development of social service manual on GBV
• To guide Yuanzhong on the worshop design and organization
• To provide overall technical input on capacity development for GBV CSOs

Scope of Work:

The Consultant is responsible for the following tasks:

1. Review of the CSO GBV manual developed by selected experts and provide feedbacks

2. Review of ToT training slides selected and provide feedbacks

3. Provide support of selected CSOs after the capacity development workshop.

Deliverables and Timelines

Deliverables

Tasks

Target Delivery Date

• Reviewed documents with feedbacks on manual developed by selected experts

• Disccus with UN Women EVAW team, Yuanzhong and manual development experts

• Provide feedbacks and recommendations on developped manual

40%

15 May 2022

• Reviewed documents with feedbacks on selected workshop slides

• Disccus with UN Women EVAW team, Yuanzhong on workshop sildes design

• Review the workshop slides and provide feedbacks

40%

15 June 2022

• Progress report on the support on supvervision of selected CSOs

• Work with UN Women EVAW team, Yuanzhong on better technical support to selected CSOs after the capacity development workshop

20%

20 December 2022

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
• Accountability
• Effective Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies:

https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf

Functional Competencies:

• Proficiency in GBV social services, manual development, and capacity development
• Ability to coordinate and work cooperatively with different CSOs in China

Required Skills and Experience

Experience and required qualifications

The consultant should demonstrate qualifications, experience and competencies in the following areas:

1. Minimum educational requirement: Master’s degree in social science, law, human rights, and other relevant field. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree
2. At least 5 years’ working experience under the domestic violence sector, including training, research, and practice
3. Proven experience on GBV manual development
4. Proven experience on trainings/workshops design on issues of women’s rights, gender equality, and GBV in China
5. Proficient in Chinese is required

Selection and evaluation criteria

Applications will be evaluated based on the cumulative analysis:

• Technical qualification (100 points); weight: (70%)
• Financial proposal (100 points): weight (30%)

A two-stage procedure is utilized in evaluating the applications, with evaluation of the technical application being completed prior to any price proposal being compared. Only the price proposal of the candidates who passed the minimum technical score of 70% of the obtainable score of 100 points in the technical qualification evaluation will be evaluated.

No.

Criteria

Point

1

Minimum educational requirement: Master’s degree in social science, law, human rights, and other relevant field. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree

20

2

At least 5 years’ working experience under the domestic violence sector, including training, research, and practice

20

3

Proven experience on GBV manual development

30

4

Proven experience on trainings/workshops design on issues of women’s rights, gender equality, and GBV in China

30

Total

100

Only the candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% of total points will be considered as technically-qualified candidates who may be contacted for validation interview.

Financial/Price Proposal evaluation:

• Only the financial proposal of candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation will be considered and evaluated.
• The total number of points allocated for the price component is 100.
• The maximum number of points will be allotted to the lowest price proposal that is opened/ evaluated and compared among those technical qualified candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation. All other price proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.

How to apply

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit electronic application (consolidated as ONE attachment) online, no later than 18 April 2022. Kindly note the system will only allow one attachment, please combine below listed submission package into one.

The Submission package includes:

• CV
• Motivation letter
• Education certificate
• List of trainings and manuels developed including information of key partners, training materials
• Personal History Form (P11 which can be downloaded from
• https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form.doc
• Financial Proposal (in below template)

Deliverables

Amount (CNY)

Deliverable 1

Deliverable 2

Deliverable 3

Total

Payments

Payments for this consultancy will be based on the achievement of each deliverable and certification that each has been satisfactorily completed. Payments will not be based on the number of days worked but on the completion of each stated deliverable within the indicated timeframes on satisfactory completion of task.

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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