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International Junior Consultant on Women’s Economic Empowerment

Bangkok

  • Organization: UNWOMEN - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
  • Location: Bangkok
  • Grade: Consultancy - International Consultant - Internationally recruited Contractors Agreement
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Economics
    • Women's Empowerment and Gender Mainstreaming
  • Closing Date: Closed

Background

  1. 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.  Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, the UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

A key area of concern for UN Women is women’s economic empowerment as expressed in UN Women’s Strategic Plan 2018-2021 as well as in the targets and indicators of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 for gender equality and women’s empowerment and of several other SDGs relating to inclusive growth, decent work, ending poverty, and reducing inequality, and revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development.

The WeEmpowerAsia programme

The WeEmpowerAsia (WEA) programme is a collaborative effort between the Regional Office of UN Women for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) and the European Union (EU), which is funding the action under its Partnership Instrument. With this programme the two entities will leverage their joint commitment to enhance women’s economic empowerment globally. They each have longstanding experience and partnerships in the Asian region. UN Women will apply its triple mandate of normative, operational and coordination actions and use its convening power to bring multiple stakeholders together for effective collaboration. EU brings valuable private and public sector partnerships across sectors as well as its solid expertise in trade and economic development.

The overall objective of the WEA programme is that more women lead, participate and have access to enhanced business opportunities and leadership within the private sector to advance sustainable and inclusive growth. The programme will achieve this through three complementary outcome areas to be implemented in seven selected middle-income countries (China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam) in Asia:

  • ADVOCACY: Women’s networks, public institutions, and the private sector will collaborate and share expertise and knowledge to build an enabling business environment for women’s economic empowerment in the workplace and in the marketplace,
  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP: The capacity of women-owned businesses and women entrepreneurs will be developed to enable them to engage with government and private sector corporations in policy development and dialogues for advancing women’s economic empowerment, and
  • BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT: The private sector will be supported to implement gender-sensitive practices and culture within their businesses through the take-up of the Women Empowerment Principles (the WEPs – a set of guiding principles to achieve gender equality within companies).

Ultimately, the programme will contribute to the achievement of gender equality through enabling women’s increased participation in the labour force and in the market place, improved opportunities for women entrepreneurship and business start-ups, and through strengthening of corporate sector’s commitment and action to ensure gender equality in business culture and practices. 

The guiding platform for the programme is the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), a set of seven principles for businesses offering guidance on how to strengthen gender equality in the workplace, in the marketplace and in the community. The WEPs are jointly developed by UN Women and UN Global Compact and seeking the commitments and concrete implementation by private corporations around the globe.

Duties and Responsibilities

I.Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision and guidance of the Regional Programme Manager, the consultant will undertake the following tasks:

 

  • Provide support on programme planning and implementation, such as drafting of TORs, briefing notes, concept notes, and talking points, and support to programme coordination between the regional and country levels.
  • Provide support especially in the outreach processes to private sector companies and support the implementation of the regional entrepreneurship activities  
  • Provide research, writing and communications support on topics related to the WeEmpowerAsia Programme in the broader context for women’s economic empowerment and migration in the seven WEA programme countries.
  • Provide support to monitoring, evaluation and reporting, including collection and analysis of data, results monitoring, and contribute to drafting of programme reports, and supporting partner monitoring.
  • Assist in preparation and finalization of knowledge resources and background material for internal and external use, including policy briefs and programme documents.
  • Support the organization of consultations, conferences, meetings, events and trainings for the WeEmpowerAsia programme.
  • Provide support to the regional WeEmpowerAsia Communications team to produce communication assets, write blogs, knowledge products, keeping websites updated, develop a knowledge hub for women’s economic empowerment in the region and support building the WeEmpowerAsia Champions Network

 

II.Expected Deliverables

No.

Tasks & Deliverables

Target dates

1.

Task: Build external virtual regional WeEmpower Asia Database / Network of different stakeholder groups and support newsletter creation

 

Deliverables: Database created, and min. 2 newsletters

March 2020

2.

Task: Creating Private Sector WE Program Concept Notes / Presentations and Support Launching Process of new programs

 

Deliverables: Minimum 4 concept notes written

 

April2020

3.

Task: Support in organizing regional WEA events

 

Deliverables: Reports on 4 regional events/ roundtables

 

June 2020

4.

Task: Create Webinars, trainings and communications content based on the WEPs training materials

 

Deliverables: PowerPoint presentations for the WEPs training and output report from the webinars

 

July 2020

5.

Task: Developing Thematic Expert and Data Gathering of new researches

Deliverables:

  • Weekly news report on WEE 
  • Report on knowledge-hub on the website (Build on the website)

 

September 2020

6.

Task:  Support Private Sector outreach and replicate best practice from Win-Win Sister Program

 

Deliverables: Concept note conceptualizing and implementation of WEPs Awards Program with the country teams

 

October 2020

7.

Task: Mapping WE activities in the region to identify strategic priorities

 

Deliverables: Report on mapping and Gap Analysis of WEE activities in the region

 

December 2020

*Payment will be made upon submission of deliverables with an approval of the Regional Programme Manager

Competencies

I.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

 

II.Contract period and work location

 

The consultant will be based in Bangkok, Thailand and working at UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific as required. Round trip airfare from consultant original country to Bangkok, Thailand will be financially covered by UN Women.

 

Required Skills and Experience

I.Required qualification

  • Master’s degree in gender studies, business management, economics, international affairs, and/or any relevant field directly related to women’s economic empowerment;
  • Minimum 3 year of relevant work experiences with a demonstrable ability to undertake research in the area of women’s economic empowerment, preferably in Asia-Pacific.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of women’s economic empowerment, and the Asia-Pacific region
  • Experience working in the Asia Pacific region a big advantage.
  • Previous experience with UN Women and other UN agencies an advantage.
  • Previous experience with private sector an advantage
  • Excellent command of written English, other UN languages an asset.
  • Excellent writing skills. Experience in writing analytic papers and report

II.Evaluation

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.

 

Technical qualification evaluation criteria:

The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 100. The technical qualification of the individual is evaluated based on following technical qualification evaluation criteria:

 

Technical Evaluation Criteria

Obtainable

Score

Education

  • Master’s degree in gender studies, business management, economics, international affairs, and/or any relevant field directly related to women’s economic empowerment;

20 %

Knowledge and skills

  • Minimum 3 year of relevant work experience with a demonstrable ability to undertake research and programme support in the area of women’s economic empowerment in Asia-Pacific (to be assessed through P11 form).
  • Demonstrated knowledge of women’s economic empowerment, and the Asia-Pacific region
  • Experience working in the Asia Pacific region a big advantage.
  • Previous experience with UN Women and other UN agencies an advantage
  • Previous experience with private sector an advantage

 

60 %

Language and report writing skills

  • Excellent writing skills (to be assessed through writing sample) Fluency in English, with knowledge of other UN languages an advantage

20 %

Total Obtainable Score

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.

 

III.Submission of application

 

Interest candidates are encouraged to submit electronic application to hr.bangkok@unwomen.org with cc to Nutnita.limpanonda@unwomen.org , not later than 28 January 2020, COB (Bangkok time).

Submission package includes:

 

Items

Amount

(USD)

1. Lump Sum fee (equivalent to daily fee x no. of days)

 

Tasks & Deliverables

 

  • Database created, and min. 2 newsletters

 

  • Minimum 4 concept notes written

 

  • Reports on 4 regional events/ roundtables

 

  • PowerPoint presentations for the WEPs training and output report from the webinars

 

  • Weekly news report on WEE 
  • Report on knowledge-hub on the website (Build on the website)

 

 

  • Concept note conceptualizing and implementation of WEPs Awards Program with the country teams

 

  • Report on mapping and Gap Analysis of WEE activities in the region

 

2. Round trip airfare from original country to duty station

 

3. Others (please provide details as applicable)

 

Total Financial Proposal

 

 

IV. 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.

UNDP 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. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
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