Consultancy Opportunity at UNDP: International Consultant for Women´s Economic Empowerment

Finance August 20, 2023

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The immediate objective is to provide technical and strategic advice to UN Women BiH in the area of women’s economic empowerment – care economy, entrepreneurship and agriculture and rural economy in particular, and provide further programming recommendations related to our work on economic empowerment of women.

Consultancy Opportunity at UNDP: International Consultant for Women´s Economic Empowerment

Location :	Home based
Application Deadline :	28-Aug-23 (Midnight New York, USA)
Time left :	9d 17h 28m
Type of Contract :	Individual Contract
Post Level :	International Consultant
Languages Required :	English
Expected Duration of Assignment :	3 months

DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE

The overall objective of this consultancy is to promote and contribute to an environment in which women benefit from resilient, inclusive and sustainable growth in BiH through strengthened policy development and stakeholders’ capacity to promote women’s economic empowerment.

IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVE

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the WEE Programme Coordinator, and the overall supervision of UN Women Programme Specialist, the consultant is expected to deliver the following results:

Provide strategic advice on Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Portfolio including entrepreneurship, care economy, and women in rural and agriculture by:

Identifying areas of work where UN Women BiH has the comparative advantage in WEE, as well as linkages and synergies across different projects based on available programming in the country (WEE Portfolio team to supplement the knowledge of the available programming by different stakeholders and UN Women’s current programming activities);
Organizing and facilitating a 3-hours online workshop with WEE team to discuss the comparative advantage and current programming, and the future UN Women’s WEE priorities where UN Women should continue investing to apply multiplier effect to elevate activities to a higher level
Based on the workshop and materials provided, developing a WEE Portfolio Concept Note for future fundraising
*UN Women will utilize these findings for the Strategic Note Mid-Term Review

Provide peer expert review to the following programming areas:

Quality assurance of the deliverables (total of seven) made under the two contracts currently in place for the piloting of two care models (one-stop shop for elderly care and care of people with disabilities and piloting of “gerentodomacice” employment scheme for home care for the elderly).
Provide successful examples and suggest sets of proposals of investment in rural area development and agri businesses of women, which can be used as a national tourism tool;
Quality assurance of proposed gender-sensitive funding criteria for the existing public subsidy mechanisms for women in rural and agriculture project and propose additional tools and services which can be introduced under government.

Required Skills and Experience

Academic Qualifications:

PhD degree in gender studies, economics, finance, or any other area relevant to the requirements of the TOR.
Master’s degree in combination with at least five additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the PhD degree

Skills and Experience:

At least 7 years progressively responsible experience in gender, women´s rights, women´s economic empowerment, feminist economy or socio-economic response, recovery or related area of work;
Minimum 5 years of experience in drafting analytical reports, policy and strategic documents;
Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in working with diverse public and private actors on gender and socio-economic empowerment and response, preferable in the Western Balkan region;
Previous experience in working with UN agencies will be considered an advantage;
Previous experience working in the Europe and Central Asia region a strong asset.

Language requirements:

Fluence in written and spoken English is required. Candidates to provide certificate of English knowledge or sample of a part of study conducted in English (one to two pages maximum).

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