Consultancy: Gender Action Plan (Hub) Consultant – Req. # 564548
Job no: 564548
Position type: Consultant
Location: United States Division/Equivalent: Programme
School/Unit: Programme Group
Department/Office: Programme Group Leadership Team
Categories: Gender Development
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Consultancy Title: Gender Action Plan (Hub) Consultant
Section/Division/Duty Station: Gender Equality Section, Programme Group – NYHQ
Duration: September 1, 2023 to July 31, 2024
Home/ office Based: REMOTE
About UNICEF
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you. For over 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children’s survival, protection and development. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
BACKGROUND
Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:
The UNICEF Gender Action Plan 2022-2025 (GAP) prioritizes gender-transformative approaches to promoting gender equality, which includes dismantling the formal structures as well as harmful stereotypes that hold girls and boys back from reaching their full potential. The GAP also has a focus on institutional change to achieve strategic gender outcomes, which includes measurement and evaluation of results, staff talent and capacity strengthening, and knowledge management and communications.
To support country offices in operationalizing and reporting on the GAP priorities across goal areas – health and nutrition, education, child protection, protection and water and sanitation, and social protection – as well as on institutional enablers, key guidance and tools need to be developed/updated and socialized. These tools support country staff to identify gender challenges in their context and develop appropriate programmatic and policy solutions. The results of the gender analysis, implementation of gender interventions, and lessons learned need to be reported on, documented, and shared within UNICEF and beyond, as accountability tools and as global knowledge products.
The UNICEF-Gates Foundation partnership joint investment mechanism (JIM) has the shared goals of (i) ending preventable maternal and child deaths (ii) accelerating gains on maternal and childhood nutrition (iii) increasing cognitive development outcomes and (iv) improving adolescent health and well-being. The five-year partnership has also committed to ensure gender equality is meaningfully included in analysis, design, implementation, evaluation and learning stages of the work of JIM countries to achieve positive outcomes for women, children, and adolescents.
To support these UNICEF HQ efforts within JIM countries and globally to enhance gender analysis, monitoring and reporting, the UNICEF Programme Group Gender Section seeks a consultant to support the following tasks: 1) Support the production of gender programmatic reviews (GPRs) and other gender analyses
2) Develop materials on GAP standard indicators and cross-check data
3) Support the production of gender reports to document gender results, challenges and lessons
Scope of Work:
Under the main groups of analysis, monitoring, and reporting, the Consultant will be responsible for the below deliverables to HQ, executed in consultation with regional and country offices as needed.
1) Support the production of gender programmatic reviews and analysis in JIM and other countries
- Support the undertaking of gender programmatic reviews in at least one country per region (including in JIM countries Burkina Faso, DRC, and Kenya all of whom need GPRs for their current or upcoming country programme cycles)
- Review, organize and share outputs from the reviews globally; identify key communication moments for optimal dissemination internally and with partners (e.g., webinars, internal site (SharePoint) management, social media updates, other)
2) Develop materials on GAP standard indicators and cross-check data submitted by JIM and other countries
- Support the development of accessible materials explaining the indicators/dimensions of the GAP standard – institutional readiness, accountability structures, programming and results – for all relevant staff. The materials will include a methodological explainer, a brochure, slide deck, and page on the Gender SharePoint site.
- Support quality assurance of 2023 monitoring and reporting data on the GAP standard submitted by country offices (under the guidance of the Gender section Planning, monitoring and evaluation focal point)
- Collate data for reporting on the UN System Wide Action Plan
3) Support the production of various gender reports to document gender results, challenges and lessons from JIM and other countries
- Develop project timelines (for e.g. Gantt charts) for the development of the GAP Executive Board report, and a public facing summary report
- Extract text and data materials from country office annual reports and share them with the report writer, and review drafts for accuracy and completeness
- Support the M&E specialist to develop the data companion to the GAP Executive Board report, including reviewing drafts for accuracy and completeness
- Support the development of a slide deck with photos and infographics for presentation of gender results to the Executive Board, working with the designer
- Support the production of a public-facing summary report with text, data and photos, working with the writer and designer
Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:
Work Assignments Overview
Deliverables/Outputs – Delivery deadline
- Gender analysis hands-on support
– Gender Programmatic Review calls and reports (minimum one country per region) – 1 Sep. 2023 to 31 March 2024
- GAP standard hands-on support (capacity building on composite measurement of institutional readiness, accountability, and programming indicators)
– GAP standard calls (Minimum 7 calls, one per region) – 1 Sept. to 31 Dec. 2023
- GAP standard materials
– Methodological explainer, accessible brochure, and slide deck on all the dimensions of the GAP standard – 1 Sept. 2023 to 31 Mar. 2024
- Quality assurance of 2023 country office annual reporting on the GAP standard
– Flags/analysis of missing or inconsistent data in raw Excel file provided – Jan 2024 to 31 Mar. 2024
- UN System-wide Action Plan reporting
– Data collated for all 17 dimensions of UN SWAP – 1 Nov. 2023 to 31 Jan. 2024
- GAP report coordination
– Detailed project timeline and coordination process with report writer and designer – 1 Feb. to 30 Apr. 2024
- GAP report content
– Narrative results, data, and photo content identified for the GAP report and data companion, drafts reviewed for accuracy – 1 Mar. to 30 Jun. 2024
- GAP report presentation
– Draft content for slides extracted and coordination process with designer, drafts reviewed – 1 Apr. to 30 Jun. 2024
- Summary annual results report
– Draft content for summary report extracted and coordination process with designer, drafts review – 1 Jun. to 31 Jul. 2024
Qualifications
Education:
- Advance university degree (Master’s or higher) in social sciences (i.e. sociology, demography, psychology, political science, social policy or economics), public health, public policy, public administration, international development, or in an area relevant to UNICEF’s sectoral work (e.g. Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, Child Protection, Social Protection, Inclusion, HIV/AIDs, etc.) is required.
- Fluency in English (written and verbal) is required. Knowledge of another official UN language is an asset.
Work experience:
- Academic credentials in gender are a strong asset.
- A minimum of 5 (five) years of progressively responsible professional experience and demonstrated track record of having undertaken substantive writing and led technical support on gender and development.
- Experience in managing programmes/projects is essential, including budget and knowledge management.
- Excellent written communication skills are essential.
- Knowledge of UNICEF/UN reporting systems is an asset.
Competencies:
- Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
- Works Collaboratively with others (1)
- Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
- Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
- Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
- Drive to achieve impactful results (1)
- Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)
Requirements:
- Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system
- Upload copy of academic credentials
- Financial proposal that will include:
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- your financial proposals should reflect the costs per each deliverable and the total lump-sum for the whole assignment (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference.
- travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR.
- Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, and living costs as applicable.
- Indicate your availability
- Any emergent / unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF.
- At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.
- Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.
U.S. Visa information:
With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4, and the consultant’s household members (spouse) will require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G4.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process
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UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results. View our competency framework at: Here
UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles 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.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Consultants are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.
Advertised: Jul 30 2023 Eastern Daylight Time
Application close: Aug 11 2023 Eastern Daylight Time
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UNICEF Programme Group Gender Section seeks a consultant to support the following tasks: 1) Support the production of gender programmatic reviews (GPRs) and other gender analyses 2) Develop materials on GAP standard indicators and cross-check data 3) Support the production of gender reports to document gender results, challenges and lessons
