Role Description

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.

Under Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE), UN Women Uganda focuses on programmes that provide technical, financial and opportunities for business development targeting women emerging entrepreneurs to own, manage and benefit from small medium and large enterprises in a profitable and sustainable manner. This includes:

• Providing opportunities for women and young girls to access sustainable livelihoods.
• Strengthening the capacity of financial systems to empower young women and their allies.
• Strengthening the capacity of public and private sector employers to adapt practices and policies that promote decent work and socio protection policies for the vulnerable and marginalized populations.

This consultancy assignment is guided by this background and will be focused specifically on supporting the expansion of partnerships for the Country Office focused primarily on Women’s Economic Empowerment and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), but also on cross-cutting priorities including Humanitarian Action and Women, Peace and Security. It will also support the start-up of small WEE-focused projects.

The consultant will be reporting to the Programme Specialist for Humanitarian Action (WEE Focal Point).

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent in economics, social sciences, Gender Studies, Law, Political Science, Development Studies or closely related fields.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A project/programme management certification would be an added advantage.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of progressively responsible experience at the national or international level in programmes to advance women’s economic empowerment and DRR.
• Experience contributing to resource mobilization on women’s economic empowerment (concept notes, proposals).
• Experience designing and implementing gender-responsive programming, particularly in an East African context, is an asset.
• Experience in working with local and national partners to design and implement capacity strengthening initiatives is an asset.
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages.
• Experience working with UN agencies is an added advantage.

Benefits

• This is a home-based consultancy, with an expected full-time level of input throughout the consultancy period.

Company Description

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact.

• It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.