Background
Over the past years, UN Women has provided support to national and local stakeholders in strengthening democratic governance and advancing women’s rights through initiatives aimed at mainstreaming gender in policy planning and budgeting.
In 2014, UN Women launched the 3-year regional project on Promoting Gender Responsive Policies in South East Europe and Republic of Moldova financed by Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and Swiss Agency Development and Cooperation. It is a direct follow up of the UN Women CSEE regional project “Promoting Gender Responsive Policies in South East Europe” (2011 -2013) that covered Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) of Macedonia. The final evaluation of this project recommended continuation of activities especially with regard to institutional capacity building and increased involvement of key budget actors at the required decision-making levels. UN Women will share more details about the project with the selected consultant.
The purpose of the consultancy is to prepare performance monitoring framework, methodology and guidance for progress data collection in order to enhance accountability, inform decision-making and contribute to learning on the best ways to achieve women’s empowerment and gender equality through operational and normative work. As a member of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), UN WOMEN follows its norms and standards. UN WOMEN evaluations are gender equality and rights responsive.
Responsibilities
UN Women is seeking to recruit team of 5 consultants. The team will consist of Team Leader (Senior Consultant) and four national consultants, who will be supervised by the Team Leader, but based in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia and Republic of Moldova respectively. The key responsibility of the team members will be to collect data for the baseline and validate the PMF with the project staff and other stakeholders in their respective countries.
The Team Leader will be responsible for the overall delivery under the TOR.
The team leader will have essential expertise in results based management in the context of international development; expertise in gender and gender responsive budgeting, expertise in leading teams in similar assignments, demonstrated track record in monitoring and evaluation; relevant regional expertise; ability to conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis; requisite skills in facilitation, and language proficiency in English.
The team members will have demonstrated expertise in applied research knowledge of gender issues and public administration. They will be fluent in English and the respective local language/s. All team members need to be familiar with human rights and gender responsive approach to evaluation.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in a relevant field (social sciences, e.g. sociology, political science, international relations, legal studies, public policy,
international development) field, PhD an advantage.
- At least 7 years of demonstrated experience in results based management of international development projects and programs
- Demonstrated work experience on gender issues incl. gender responsive policies, public administration, familiarity with GRB is an asset
- Track record (at least three instances) of managing international teams for similar assignments (applied research studies, evaluations),
ideally with a focus on gender/GRP and/or relevant regional coverage
- Demonstrated work experience in/on South Eastern Europe and Moldova/Eastern Europe/CIS
- Demonstrated experience with applied research with data collection, analytical and presentation skills and demonstrated ability to
structure information
- Previous experience working /consulting for UN agencies
Deadline: 22 April 2014
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