Team Leader with a Sub-Contracted Research Team to support Gender-Responsive Analysis and Research on Institutional, Policy and Service-Delivery Frameworks for Social Protection in four (4)

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Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

UN Women has entered into an Agreement with a development partner on women’s economic empowerment in the Eastern Caribbean. The project, which will be implemented from 2022 – 2025, will contribute to women’s economic resilience in the Eastern Caribbean by taking a comprehensive approach to addressing the barriers women face to economic empowerment and providing increased sustainable opportunities for women’s economic growth. Government and the private sector in four Eastern Caribbean countries will benefit from strengthened capacity and access to financing to sustainably alleviate women’s unpaid care work burden through subsidized quality childcare. Women’s livelihoods will be made more resilient as women owned MSMEs in the sectors most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic benefit from increased access to reliable financing and strengthened abilities to ensure they have the skill-set to effectively use the financing to grow their businesses through environmentally friendly, climate and shock resilient innovation. The most marginalized women, including VAW survivors and elderly women will have their livelihoods strengthened through increased access to comprehensive social protection packages, and reliable referral pathways which are shock responsive and include sexual and reproductive health services. Capacities will be strengthened across health care systems to ensure the availability of quality sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services to women and youth.

The project’s overall theory of change is that if women in Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, especially the most marginalized, have increased access to subsidised childcare, reliable sexual and reproductive health services, to climate and shock-responsive social protection which includes gender-based violence services and opportunities for and access to innovative financing, digitization and climate-smart and environmentally-friendly practices to grow their businesses; then they will experience economic resilience and their countries will benefit from their increased productivity to Build Forward Equal from COVID-19.

Duties and Responsibilities

UN Women is seeking to contract a Team Leader with a Sub-Contracted Research Team to (1) conduct a gender gap analysis of the policy and legislative frameworks of the social protection systems in four Eastern Caribbean Member States, in order to assess the responsiveness of these system to narrowing inequalities between women and men; (2) undertake a gender aware beneficiary assessment (GABA) of public assistance programmes in three of the four Eastern Caribbean Member States[1] to assess and strengthen responsiveness of service delivery to both women and men; and (3) informed by the results of the gender gap analysis and GABA, prepare Strategic Planning Frameworks for promoting gender equality in these four countries. NB: These four frameworks should address the provision of priority access to childcare, sexual and reproductive health services, continuing education, job skills/readiness training at a minimum to beneficiaries of the programmes.

S****cope of Work

The Team Leader is expected to:

  • Undertake a gender gap analysis of the policy and legislative frameworks of the social protection system in four Eastern Caribbean Member States to ensure responsiveness of these systems to narrowing inequalities between women and men: The Team Leader is expected to do this by applying a robust and gender-responsive analytical tool to undertake this assessment of social protection policy and legislative frameworks and social protection systems in these countries. UN Women recommends the following approach as outlined in the document Toward Gender-Responsive Social Protection Strategies: A Four-Step Checklist that includes defining the overarching framework for assessing gender-responsiveness; identifying gender-specific risks and vulnerabilities (such as early marriage, maternity-related risks, teenage pregnancy, single parenthood, widowhood, old-age among others); programme design; and monitoring and evaluation.
  • Undertake a gender aware beneficiary assessment (GABA) of three public assistance programmes in the Eastern Caribbean countries to assess and strengthen the responsiveness of these programmes, service delivery to both women and men: The Team Leader will assess gender-related barriers in beneficiaries’ interaction with public assistance programmes in these countries to determine the differentials that might exist between women and men. The GABA will also provide recommendations for strengthening these programmes’ capacity for gender-responsive service delivery with the results informing policy, legislative and institutional strengthening interventions. The GABAs are mainly intended to provide data and information on the gender dimensions of the procedural and operational limitations that beneficiaries experience in accessing the services of public assistance programmes. Effective approaches and good practices currently employed in service delivery systems will be highlighted in the analysis. The beneficiary analyses will also support governments with exploring opportunities and bottlenecks for women to access decent work. The GABA will identify and map the entire cycle of the beneficiaries’ interface with the public assistance programmes in order to rigorously assess the gender dimensions of the bottlenecks in policies and operations. The GABA will clarify beneficiaries’ experiences in engaging with these programmes, starting from the application stage and/or the initial point at which the beneficiaries interact with the programme. The impact of conditionalities/co-responsibilities that may be actively implemented or seriously considered for introductions will be assessed to determine possible differences in their impact on women and men beneficiaries, including differentials associated with unpaid care work. Programmes/services/projects that may have direct institutional links with these public assistance programmes as the education grants and bursaries; and others to be identified will be included in the GABA. Finally, recommendations for procedural and operational reform will be put forward, based on the results of the GABA.
  • Strategic Plan and Results Framework: Promoting Gender Equality in the four Public Assistance Programmes: Guided by results of the GABA and national priorities, four draft Strategic Plans and Results Frameworks (i.e. one per country) to promote the gender-responsiveness will be developed by the Team Leader. NB: These four frameworks should address the provision of priority access to childcare for children aged five and younger, sexual and reproductive health services, continuing education, job skills/readiness training at a minimum to beneficiaries of the programmes.

DELIVERABLES

  • Time-Bound Work Plan for the Assignment – 17 March 2023
  • Four Draft Reports: Gender Gap Analyses of the Policy and Legislative Frameworks of the Social Protection System in four Eastern Caribbean countries – 31 May 2023
  • Final Reports: Gender Gap Analyses of the Policy and Legislative Frameworks of the Social Protection System in four Eastern Caribbean countries – 30 June 2023
  • GABA – 3 Eastern Caribbean countries: Background Desktop Reviews – Draft Methodology and Analytical Framework – 28 July 2023
  • GABA – 3 Eastern Caribbean countries: Final Methodology and Analytical Frameworks – 31 August 2023
  • GABA – 3 Eastern Caribbean countries: Data Collection/Field Work: September 2023 – November 2023
  • GABA – 3 Eastern Caribbean countries: Draft Reports: 31 January 2024
  • GABA – 3 Eastern Caribbean countries: Final Reports: 31 March 2024
  • First Draft Strategic Plan and Results Frameworks – 4 Eastern Caribbean countries: Promoting Gender Equality in Public Assistance Programmes: NB: 1 of these Eastern Caribbean countries has already undertaken a GABA – 12 April 2024
  • Second/Final Draft Strategic Plan and Results Frameworks – 4 Eastern Caribbean countries: Promoting Gender Equality in Public Assistance Programmes: 30 June 2024 NB: 1 of these Eastern Caribbean countries has already undertaken a GABA – 31 August 2024

Reporting Requirements

The Team Leader will work under the overall supervision of the UN Women MCO-Caribbean Representative with direct supervision of the Deputy Representative.

[1] One country has already undertaken a GABA.

Competencies

Core Values:

  • Respect for Diversity;
  • Integrity;
  • Professionalism.

Core Competencies:

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

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:

  • Strong gender analysis and social research skills.
  • Excellent written and oral communications skills including the conveying complex concepts and recommendations, in a clear and persuasive style tailored to match different audiences.
  • Ability to interact independently as part of a team.
  • Ability to multi-task and operate effectively in stressful situations.

Required Skills and Experience

TEAM LEADER

Experience – Team Leader:

The Team Leader for the assignment must possess the following:

  • At least five years direct experience on gender analysis of social protection systems
  • A minimum of 2 years of experience leading gender-sensitive/gender-responsive beneficiary assessments of social protection/social assistance/social welfare programmes
  • At least five years conducting socioeconomic research and analysis on gender and poverty
  • Experience working in small island developing states of CARICOM or the Pacific is an asset, but not required

Languages:

  • Fluency in written and oral English is required.

Education:

  • A Master’s Degree in any of the following areas: Economics, Social Sciences, Statistics, Public Health, Gender and Development.

SUB-CONTRACTED RESEARCH TEAM

Experience – Sub-Contracted Research Team:

The Members of the Sub-Contracted Research Team, for the assignment must collectively possess the following:

  • At least two years conducting socioeconomic research and analysis on gender and poverty
  • Experience working in small island developing states of CARICOM or the Pacific is an asset, but not required

Languages:

  • Fluency in written and oral English is required.

Education:

  • A Bachelor’s Degree in any of the following areas: Economics, Social Sciences, Statistics, Public Health, Gender and Development.

LOCATION AND DURATION

  • The assignment will be home-based
  • A minimum of three (3) travel missions to each of the four countries should be expected and included in the financial proposal.
  • The Team Leader will be engaged during the period 14 February 2023 – 31 October 2024.

REMUNERATION

  • The consultancy fee will be negotiated before contracting. Each payment will be based on a predefined and formal agreement between UN Women and the consultant and will be disbursed based on satisfactory completion of agreed deliverables.

  • The remuneration for this contract type is an all-inclusive fee, the organization will not be liable for additional cost or benefits. Hence, it is the responsibility of the consultant to take out adequate medical insurance for the duration of the contract and it is recommendable that the policy includes coverage for COVID-19 related illness. The medical coverage should be international when the contract requires missions or international assignment.

  • If selected for this vacant post, proof of medical coverage should be presented within the first two months of the contract.

HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, AND COMMUNICATION:

  • The consultant must be equipped with a fully functional laptop, which must comfortably run Office 365 programs, using operating systems Microsoft Windows 10/11, or Mac OS X 10.11 or upward. The consultant must be reasonably accessible by email and telephone (preferably mobile). The use of reliable, internet-based (Skype or equivalent) is required.

REFERENCES:

  • Minimum of three client references that include the name of the contact person, title and contact information.

OTHER:

  • Interviews may be conducted with the shortlisted applicants if deemed necessary.
  • The CVs of the Team Leader and each member of the Research Team must be included in the application.
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  • 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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