Mapping of Women’s Economic Empowerment Interventions within the UN in Tanzania

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Location :	Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA
Application Deadline :	15-Dec-16 (Midnight New York, USA)
Time left :	1d 22h 28m
Additional Category :	Gender Equality
Type of Contract :	Individual Contract
Post Level :	National Consultant
Languages Required :	English
Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start)	20-Dec-2016
Duration of Initial Contract :	15 days
Expected Duration of Assignment :	15 days
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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. 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. The UN Women Tanzania Country Programme is part of United Nations Delivering as One and its programmatic activities constitute part of the UN Development Assistance Programme (UNDAP) 2014-2016. In addition, UN Women Tanzania is part of the UNDAP 2016-2021 and in this regard has been mandated to lead the UN System in its’ work on Women’s Economic Empowerment. As an initial starting point, UN Women would like to conduct a mapping of the previous and planned activities of the UN Agencies on Women’s Economic Empowerment and is seeking a consultant to conduct this mapping. At a global level UN Women, UNESCO and UNFPA have signed a joint programme entitled Empowering Adolescent Girls through Education. In Tanzania, this programme is intended to be a 5-year programme with a focus both adolescent girls both in and out of school. UN Women has a focus area on the economic empowerment of adolescent girls looking at interventions both in school as well as out of school. To this end, UN Women is seeking a consultant to support the development of the programme in this phase and to develop the strategy and relevant interventions for the 5-year programme. In addition, the consultant will be responsible for supporting the finalization of documents required for finalization (results framework, budget, etc)

Duties and Responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities Propose a tool for mapping the interventions of the various UN agencies ensuring alignment with UNDAP, UN Women Strategic Note and other joint programmes; Conduct interviews with UN Agencies to complete to tool and collect the relevant information; Produce a report outlining all the interventions and identifying key areas that need further interventions in light of the UNDAP; Develop detailed interventions with workplan, budget and targets for the interventions of the Joint Programme on Empowering Adolescent Girls through Education in Tanzania; Deliverables: Tool for mapping data collection Completed data collection tool Narrative report of findings and recommendations Develop detail workplan and budget for interventions on the Joint Programme on Empowering Adolescent Girls through Education in Tanzania.

Competencies

Core Values/Guiding Principles Integrity:  Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct; Professionalism: Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work; Cultural sensitivity and valuing diversity: Demonstrate an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrate an international outlook, appreciating difference in values and learning from cultural diversity; Core Competencies Ethics and Values: Demonstrate and safeguard ethics and integrity; Organizational Awareness: Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment; Development and Innovation: Take charge of self-development and take initiative; Work in teams: Demonstrate ability to work in a multicultural, multi ethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different national and cultural backgrounds; Communicating and Information Sharing: Facilitate and encourage open communication and strive for effective communication; Self-management and Emotional Intelligence: Stay composed and positive even in difficult moments, handle tense situations with diplomacy and tact, and have a consistent behavior towards others; Conflict Management: Surface conflicts and address them proactively acknowledging different feelings and views and directing energy towards a mutually acceptable solution; Continuous Learning and Knowledge Sharing:  Encourage learning and sharing of knowledge; Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making: Demonstrate informed and transparent decision making; Functional Competencies Ability to support the development of systems for structuring, codifying and providing access to information and knowledge; Ability to support strategic planning, results-based management and reporting; Ability to support formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development programme and projects; Ability to help evaluate programme results and impact and to propose adjustment if needed; Strong IT skills; Focuses on result for the client and responds positively to feedback; Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude; Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexity.

Required Skills and Experience

Education: Completion of University degree at Masters Level (or equivalent) in International Development, Economic Development, Rural Development or any other similar field is required. Experience: A minimum of 5 years progressively responsible experience in women’s economic empowerment, rural development, agriculture development; Experience in project management and understanding complex development programmes; Experience working with UN Agencies an asset; Knowledge of Gender and Development is an asset. Language Requirements: Excellent verbal and written skills in English required; Application procedure: Interested consultants need to submit the following documentation in support of their application: Cover letter: Explaining why the candidate the most suitable for the work indicating availability for the assignment; Please provide technical proposal and indicate consultancy fee (TZS); UN Women Personal History Form (P11), which can be downloaded at http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment ; Please group all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document; The consultancy is available for national consultants only. Only shortlisted consultants for the vacancy will be contacted

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.

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