Career Opportunities at UN Women

Duties And Responsibilities

• Provide support to WPHF’s data management system and data use
• Support in the overall implementation of the M&E plan for the WPHF
• Support data mining for the WPHF annual Index which tracks global trends on the participation of women’s organizations in peace, security and humanitarian contexts
• Support the management of data entry, cleaning and validation processes across WPHF funding windows
• Support in data consolidation, aggregation and/or analysis for the use of data for advocacy products, presentations and other key documents
• Provide support to WPHF’s key monitoring, evaluation and reporting processes
• Support the revision/update of WPHF templates, including project documents and reporting templates
• Support the evaluation of proposals received (management of inbox, longlisting, consolidation and preparation of files)
• Support the annual country level reporting, including data compilation and aggregation
• Contribute to M&E knowledge building and capacity building
• Promote the awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of M&E among all staff members through communication, training, learning and development activities
• Support the data compilation and transfer for use in knowledge management products and capacity building efforts

Competencies

Functional Competencies

• Strong knowledge in the use of Microsoft Excel, including more advanced functions such as pivots, automatic dashboards, etc., and including other data management systems (e.g. PowerBI)
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and evaluation processes, data collection and analysis, and reporting processes
• Ability to synthesize program performance data and produce analytical reports
• Ability to manage large amounts of data
• Detail orientated and ability to manage multiple tasks
• Good understanding of and commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment

Core Values

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies

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

Required Skills And Experience

Education and certification:

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Political or Social Science, Economics, International Development Studies, Gender/Women's Studies, and/or Information Technology, etc. is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience

• At least 1 year of experience in data management, processing, working with Excel (or equivalent), and monitoring of development projects/ programmes;
• Field experience is an asset, particularly in relation to management of data and results;
• Experience working in gender equality and women’s rights is an asset;
• Experience in the United Nations systems in an asset.

Language Requirements

• Fluency in English is required
• Knowledge of French, Arabic or Spanish is an asset.

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Duties And Responsibilities

Responsibilities

The consultant will be responsible for reviewing and consolidating data and information from key reports and declarations, including WPHF’s documents. Based on a gender inclusive analysis of these findings, the consultant will produce a compilation of relevant documents and a draft outline of the Global Women’s Forum Declaration, which will serve as a starting point to support the CSO participants in the preparatory phase and during the WPHF GWF 2023 to draft a declaration based on their urgent gaps, needs and priorities and should not exceed 10 pages in total (excluding annexes).

Key Deliverables

Key Deliverables And Tasks With Estimated Dedication Are

The consultancy is to commence by April 2023 and is expected to require up to 18 days of work over a period of three months.

• Inception meeting with WPHF Secretariat (L-HUB and Programme team) (2 hours)
• Desk review based on existing literature on women's CSOs’ leadership and contributions to PSHA and analysis of the advocacy needs, challenges, and gaps to advance the advocacy and support for increasing women's CSOs’ effective participation and influence in PSHA, including WPHF documents that will be provided by the WPHF (3 days)
• Draft outline of the GWF’s Declaration (main needs, challenges and gaps and structure and orientations for the future drafting of the Declaration) setting an advocacy for a better recognition and support of women's CSOs’ leadership and influence in PSHA and recommendations to engage WPHF CSO partners in the preparatory phase of the GWF (4 days)
• Discussion of the GWF’s Declaration outline with WPHF L-HUB and Programme team and finalization of the outline of the Forum’s Declaration following feedback from WPHF Programme team (2 days)
• Distribution of the literature review/analysis of CSOs’ gaps and needs among the CSO participants to foster the women’s CSOs’ engagement and ownership of the GWF’s literature review and Declaration’s outline (this could include liaising with specific CSOs and speakers to prepare for the GWF) (8 half days).
• Provide a short presentation of the literature review the first day of the GWF in plenary (including PowerPoint slides deck giving an overview of main women's CSOs’ needs, gaps and priorities to advance the advocacy and support for women's CSOs’ PSHA work at all levels) (0,5 day for preparation of the presentation)
• Support the CSO participants in the drafting of the GWF’s Declaration during the event, including recommendations and ideas of joint actions (draft roadmap) based on the women's CSOs’ challenges, needs, priorities and possible collaborations identified during the Forum (4 days).

Knowledge and Experience

• At least 7 years of demonstrable experience working on women, peace, and security.
• Strong knowledge of women’s CSOs role and leadership in peace and security, crisis response and humanitarian action.
• Strong understanding of the peace and security agenda and good knowledge of international declarations and documents relating to WPS and women's CSOs’ roles and trends in crisis response.
• Experience in working with civil society and feminist movements is required.
• Knowledge and/or experience working on at least two different geographic regions related to work on conflict-affected and/or post-conflict contexts.

Language Requirements

• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of Arabic and/or French and/or Spanish is an asset.