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We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: National Consultant to Conduct Mid-Term Evaluation of Women’s Political Participation Project

Location: Abuja
Duration of Initial Contract: 45 Working days
Type of Contract: Individual Contract
Additional Category: Gender Equality
Expected Duration of Assignment: 45 Working days

Background

• UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works towards the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; empowerment of women; and achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action, and peace and security.
• UN Women supports the strengthening of women’s voice, agency, and leadership across sectors to advance their rights, provide space for their meaningful participation, and contribute to tangible differences in their lives.
• UN Women, under the overarching SN 2023-2027, focuses on four programmatic areas, namely, governance and public life, women’s economic empowerment, ending violence against women and girls, and women, peace and security, and humanitarian action and disaster risk reduction.
• UN Women’s work supports the Government’s national priorities which encompass the empowerment of women and girls, and their contribution to all areas of economic, political, and social development.
• While Nigeria has ratified most international and regional instruments guaranteeing women’s equal rights, the government could further domesticate these instruments to promote women’s political participation.
• There has been limited political and public support for introducing gender progressive legislation and affirmative action principles to redress gender inequalities in politics in Nigeria.
• UN Women, placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, leads and coordinates the United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action.
• It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts to build effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
• Further, in line with the UN General Assembly resolution on women’s political participation, UN Women promotes awareness and recognition of the importance of women’s participation in the political process at the state and national levels. It further addresses and counters the barriers faced by women in accessing and participating in politics and decision-making.
• UN Women works to promote the representation of women in politics, and positively portray women leaders.

Duties and Responsibilities
Purpose (and Use of the Evaluation):

• This evaluation is a key component of the project design and presents an opportunity to access the design of the project, its performance, processes, and progress toward results.
• The evaluation will generate substantial evidence for informed future interventions and best practices.
• It will identify what has worked, what needs to be improved, and what should be changed including findings, challenges, lessons learned, good practices, conclusions, and recommendations that will support future programming and foster organizational learning and accountability.
• It will employ relevant evaluation criteria including those of relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, human rights and gender equality, and connectedness and sustainability.
• The evaluation findings will be used to:
  • Strategically plan and manage the next 2 years of the project
  • Refine implementation and accelerate progress toward impacts
  • Sustain results in coordination with key stakeholders
  • Contribute to increased ownership and accountability of results.
  • Inform the development of future programming interventions to strengthen the results of increasing women’s political participation.
• It will further inform the implementation of the Government’s National priorities, and the United Nations Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF), and refine the strategies towards the promotion of women in governance and public life.
• Ultimately, the results will be publicly available through the Global Accountability and Tracking of Evaluation Use (GATE) system for learning.

Targeted users of the Evaluation:

• The main evaluation users include UN Women at the country level, program staff as well as the Government of Canada.
• Further, national stakeholders such as the Ministry of Women Affairs, the Senate, the House of Assembly, the House of Parliament, and key stakeholders include but not limited to donors, regional actors, and the UN system.

Objectives of the Evaluation

• The overall objective of the midterm evaluation is to assess the extent to which the ADVANCE WPE project has achieved the intended and/or unintended outcomes and provide an in-depth understanding of why certain intended or unintended outcomes have or have not occurred, analyze the challenges encountered, lessons learned, and document areas for improvements. It will consider the processes and nature of interventions to connect them with identified longer-term changes, to determine which elements work well and in which contexts, and which would be worth replicating or scaling up. In addition, it will assess the level of synergy and multiplying effect between the various activities implemented by this programme and the extent of synergies and multiplier effects with other partners involved in women political participation.
• The evaluation will assess progress towards the achievement of results as specified in the logical framework of the project and the initial and potential impacts of the project. The evaluation will assess early signs of success or failure with the goal of identifying the necessary changes to be made to set the programme on- track to achieve its intended results. The midterm evaluation will review the strategy and risks to sustainability as well as identify lessons learnt and best practices which could be applied to future and other on-going programmes. Specifically, the midterm evaluation will assess:
• The program strategy:
  • How appropriate was the project design?
  • Are there clear baselines indicators and/or benchmark for performance? How are these being used in project’s management?
  • To what extent is the implementation strategy relevant and does it provide the most effective route towards expected results?
  • To what extent does the project addresses UN Women’s triple mandate?
  • To what extent does the project align or not with the systematic approach of leaving no one behind (LNOB)? What recommendations can the project adapt to capture LNOB information within the existing performance monitoring framework.
• Progress towards results:
  • To what extent does the log frame indicators track progress towards targets?
  • To what extent can the project achieve its objectives within the remaining implementation timeframe? What barriers have been identified and how can they be mitigated?
  • To what extent has the project been successful? What good practices and upscaling opportunities have been identified?
  • To what extent does the overall effectiveness of project’s management and governance structure support implementation? Are responsibilities and reporting lines clear? Is decision-making transparent and undertaken in a timely manner? What recommendations can be made for improvements?
  • To what extent has implementation been delayed? What are the causes? How have they been resolved (if at all)? What potential delays could arise in the future and how can they be prevented from occurring?
  • To what extent does the project have appropriate financial controls, including reporting and planning, that allow management to make informed decisions regarding the budget and allow for timely flow of funds?
  • To what extent are monitoring tools currently being used? Do they provide the necessary information? Are they efficient? Are additional tools required? How can they be made more participatory and inclusive?
  • To what extent is the financial management of the monitoring and evaluation sufficient and how are resources allocated to monitoring and evaluation?
  • To what extent has the project enabled and/or leveraged strategic partnerships with relevant stakeholders at regional and country levels?
  • To what extent has the project contributed to advancing UN Women’s coordination mandate on the other thematic areas, both at global and country level?
  • To what extent does the project and partners undertake, and fulfil UN Women reporting requirements (internal and external)?
  • To what extent is the internal project communication regular and effective? Are there key stakeholders left out of communication? Does this communication with stakeholders contribute to their awareness of outcomes and activities and investment in the sustainability of project’ results?
  • To what extent is the project’s external communication effective? Are proper means of communication established or being established to communicate the project progress and intended impact?
  • To what extent are the risks identified in the project risk matrix still valid? Are the risks still the most important and are risk ratings applied are appropriate and up to date? If not, explain why. Provide an updated risk matrix.
• The evaluation will be guided by the standard OECD/DAC evaluation criteria[1] as well as the UN Global Evaluation Reports Assessment and Analysis System (GERAAS) criteria of relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability, coherence/connectedness, and gender equality and human rights.
• Specifically, the objectives of the midterm evaluation are to:
  • Analyze the relevance of the project’s objectives, strategy and approach in the implementation of the women’s political participation at the federal and state levels, and progress towards improving gender-responsive legal environment including implementation of accompanying policies at the federal and state levels.
  • Assess the effectiveness and efficiency measurable impact of the strategies employed by the project towards increasing women’s political participation and the project’s contribution towards increasing women’s participation in political processes and leadership in elective and appointive positions.
  • Assess the connectedness and sustainability of the results and the intervention in increasing women’s political participation.
  • Assess the extent of progress towards strengthening collaboration and coordination among WPE partners and stakeholders for women’s political leadership promotion as a result of the mainstream actions undertaken by the project.
  • Assess organizational efficiency and coordination mechanisms in progressing towards the achievement of the programme results.
  • Determine whether human rights approach and gender equality principles were integrated in the project.
  • Identify lessons learned and strategies for upscaling best practices and innovations and that could be upscaled and replicated by UN Women and its partners.
  • Provide actionable recommendations with respect to UN Women’s intervention in women political participation.
  • Review the major risk management and mitigation strategies.

Scope of the Evaluation

• The evaluation will employ a transparent and participatory process involving relevant stakeholders and partners and will cover all aspects of the project implementation and the entire programme period from March 2022 to April 2023.
• It will apply a combination of portfolio analysis, desk reviews, online and onsite interviews, and surveys with relevant stakeholders, beneficiaries, partners, etc. in the 6 WPE States of Borno, Cross River, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Kaduna and Kwara and the FCT and will include field missions to these States.
• Timeframe considered: May 15, 2023 – September 30, 2023
• Geographical coverage: Borno, Cross River, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Kaduna and Kwara and the FCT
• Programmatic field: Women Political Participation
• Supervision of the evaluation: WPE Program Coordinator

Evaluation Design (Process and Methods)

• The evaluation process is divided into six phases:
  • Preparation phase: gathering and analyzing programme data, conceptualizing the evaluation approach, internal consultations on the approach, preparing the TOR, establishment of the evaluation steering committee and stakeholders mapping.
  • Conduct phase: includes the inception report, stakeholder workshop, data collection and analysis. Consultations between the evaluation consultant and the UN Women, desk review, finalization of stakeholder mapping, inception meetings, review of the project logic, analysis of information relevant to the initiative, finalization of evaluation methodology and preparation and validation of inception report. Data collection also occurs including in-depth desk research, review of the programme documents and monitoring frameworks, in-depth online and in-person interviews as necessary, staff and partner survey/s, and onsite data collection. Debrief sessions with the key stakeholders will be organized to present preliminary findings and build ownership of the findings with programme counterparts. This will help create a sense of the evaluation team’s preliminary findings ahead of the draft reporting phase.
  • Reporting phase:  presentation of preliminary findings, draft, and final evaluation report.
  • Use and follow-up includes management response, dissemination of the report and follow-up to implementation of the management response. Once the evaluation is completed, UN Women is responsible for the development of a Management Response to evaluation recommendations
• The consultant is responsible for phases 2, and 3, with the support of UN Women, while phases 1 and 4 are the responsibility of UN Women after the final approval of the evaluation report.
• In addition, UN Women employs a UN System-wide Action Plan on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-SWAP) reporting, and the consultant will take into consideration that evaluations in UN Women are annually assessed against the UN-SWAP Evaluation Performance Indicator and its related scorecard. In line with the above mentioned, the evaluation report will be subjected to UN-SWAP quality scoring and must demonstrate evidence of gender integration in the evaluation process and report. The methodology should clearly focus on highlighting gender issues in the implementation of the program. This is one of the elements by which this evaluation report will be scrutinized by a team of external evaluators, using the UN-SWAP criteria. The evaluation performance indicator [UN SWAP EPI Technical Guidance and Scorecard] is used to appreciate the extent to which the evaluation report satisfies the following criteria:
  • GEWE is integrated in the evaluation scope of analysis and evaluation indicators are designed in a way that ensures GEWE related data will be collected.
  • GEWE is integrated in evaluation criteria and evaluation questions are included that specifically address how GEWE has been integrated into the design, planning, implementation of the intervention and the results achieved.
  • A gender-responsive methodology, methods and tools, and data analysis techniques are selected.
  • Evaluation findings, conclusions and recommendations reflect a gender analysis.

Methodology

• The evaluation methodology will be mixed methods quantitative and qualitative analytical approach that will account for complexity of gender relations and ensure participatory and inclusive processes that are culturally appropriate. Participatory and gender sensitive methods will support active participation of women and girls, men and boys benefiting from the project interventions. The evaluation consultant is expected to follow a collaborative and participatory approach ensuring close engagement with the UN-Women Governance & Women’s Political Participation Team, Project Steering committees, the UN-Women Offices, UN-Women HQ and Regional Advisor, and other key stakeholders.
• The evaluation consultant will review all relevant sources of information (listed below) and any other materials considered useful for this evidence-based review. The evaluation will consider the strategic context, the overarching theory of change, project logic framework, country strategic note, and how results brought together under the ToC have been delivered efficiently and are likely to be sustained or not. It will use a theory-based approach and contribution analysis methodology, and the consultant is expected to undertake a broader examination of the programme Theory of Change (TOC) and results chain to gain an understanding of the conditions that affect results; identify those strategies that are effective; collect information that helped adaptation or lack thereof; and should the desired results not materialize, ascertain whether this was because of programme design, implementation or external factors beyond the control of the programme.
• The evaluation report should describe the midterm review approach taken, and the rationale for the approach making explicit the underlying assumptions, challenges, strengths and weaknesses about the methods and approach of the review.
• List of documents to be reviewed by the evaluation consultant include but are not limited to:
  • ADVANCE Project document
  • Annual Reports including Progress of Indicators matrix
  • Quarterly monitoring from Result Management System (RMS)
  • Annual Work Plans including
  • Mission reports (where applicable)
  • UN-Women Programme and operational manual
  • UN-Women Strategic Plan
• The detailed methodology for the evaluation will validated by UN Women at the inception phase of the evaluation
• The Consultant will undertake the following tasks, duties and responsibilities:
  • Design evaluation methodology: The consultant will develop and submit a detailed methodology for the evaluation including desk review, analytical work, data collection techniques, key activities and timeframe for the assignment, in close cooperation with the UN Women office in Nigeria.
  • Desk review: The consultant will review relevant documents, including but not limited to project documents, work plan, quarterly and annual reports, programme monitoring reports, and any other technical reports, etc.
  • Key informant interviews: The evaluation consultant will conduct a stakeholder mapping at the onset to identify key informant respondents. The consultant will carry out key informant interviews with key informants. The interviews will be organized in a semi-structured format to include for instance. focused group discussions, individual interviews, surveys, and/or participatory exercises with the community or individuals. The information from this assessment will be used as refine project implementation.
  • Field visits: Conduct field missions to target states and consultation meetings with project key stakeholders, partners and beneficiaries, including relevant government institutions, civil society organizations, women’s groups/networks, and the donor, among others to review the project in line with the set objectives of the midterm evaluation. During field visit, the consultant will conduct out interviews with the community, making sure that the perspective of the most vulnerable group is included in the consultation.
  • Report: Develop and submit a midterm evaluation report of the project, with relevant recommendations based on the interpretation of the evaluation findings and key lessons identified.
• The evaluation consultant will take measures to ensure data quality, reliability and validity of data collection tools and methods and their responsiveness to gender equality and human rights; for example, the limitations of the sample (representativeness) should be stated clearly, and the data should be triangulated (cross-checked against other sources) to help ensure robust results.
• Evaluation consultant is solely responsible for data collection, transcripts or other data analyses and processing work. Usage of online platforms and surveys as a complimentary and additional methodology is highly recommended. The evaluation team is expected to manage those platforms and to provide data analyses as defined in the Inception report.
• The evaluation consultant should detail a plan on how protection of subjects and respect for confidentiality will be guaranteed. In addition, the evaluation consultant should develop a sampling frame (area and population represented, rationale for selection, mechanics of selection, limitations of the sample) and specify how it will address the diversity of stakeholders in the intervention
• The evaluation should be conducted in accordance with UN Women evaluation Policy, evaluation Chapter of the Programme and Operations Manual (POM), the Global Evaluation Reports Assessment and Analysis System (GERAAS evaluation report quality checklist), the United Nations System-Wide Action Plan Evaluation Performance Indicators (UN-SWAP EP) and UN Women Evaluation handbook. All the documents will be provided by UN Women at the onset of the evaluation.
• The evaluation will be based on gender and human rights principles, adhere to the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Norms and Standards, Ethical Code of Conduct, and UN Women Evaluation Policy and guidelines.

Stakeholder Participation:

• During the inception phase, the evaluation consultant is expected to describe how the process will be gender-sensitive, consultative, and apply inclusive and participatory processes as reflected in the UN Women’s guidelines for gender-responsive evaluations and the UNEG Evaluation Handbook. Throughout the evaluation process, the consultant will ensure the participation of relevant state government institutions, women-led organizations, and communities representing various groups of women from project target areas. The consultant is expected to validate findings through engagement with stakeholders at workshops, debriefings or other forms of engagement.
• The consultant is expected to ensure participation of stakeholders at all stages, with a specific emphasis on women in politics, parliamentarians and other key stakeholders. The evaluator is encouraged to further analyze stakeholders according to their characteristics and provide a mapping of relationships and power dynamics as part of the evaluation.  The evaluation consultant should also specify ethical safeguards that will be employed and validate findings through engagement with stakeholders at stakeholder workshops, debriefings or other forms of engagement.

Evaluation Criteria and Questions:

• The evaluation will apply OECD/DAC evaluation criteria of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and coherence. The evaluation will also take into consideration gender equality and human rights. The evaluation should be guided but not limited to the evaluation questions listed below as UN Women could raise any other relevant issues that may emerge during the inception phase. In general, the evaluation will seek to answer the following key questions:
• Relevance: The extent to which the objectives of the project are consistent with the evolving needs and priorities of the beneficiaries, partners, and stakeholders, and are aligned with the priorities of UN Women
  • To what extent was the project design appropriately articulated? Is the definition of goal, outcomes and outputs clearly articulated? Is the theory of change still valid?
  • To what extent has the project objectives addressed identified rights and needs of the target groups?
  • To what extent has the project been catalytic in addressing some of the barriers to women political participation especially those limiting support for women in politics and public life?
  • To what extent were target partners involved in the conceptualization and design process?
  • To what extent is the intervention aligned with national and international agreements and conventions on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the context of women in politics?
  • Are the activities and outputs of the project consistent with the intended impacts and effects? Do they address the problems identified?
  • To what extent are human rights recognized and addressed as priorities through the project and its implementation to comply with CEDAW and other international commitments?
• Effectiveness: The extent to which the project’s objectives were achieved or are expected/ likely to be achieved.
  • To what extent did the intervention areas assist in increasing women political participation?
  • To what extent has the project been effective in creating an enabling environment?
  • How successful was the project in terms of the progress made towards achievement of the expected results outputs and outcomes? What are the results achieved?
  • What are the reasons for the achievement or non-achievement?
  • To what extent have beneficiaries been satisfied with the results? To what extent have capacities of relevant stakeholders and target groups been strengthened?
  • To what extent did UN Women build the capacity of implementing partners to deliver results and set targets?
  • Does the project have effective monitoring mechanisms in place to measure progress towards results?
  • Has the project’s organizational structure, managerial support and coordination mechanisms effectively supported the delivery of the project?
  • To what extent are the project approaches innovative for achieving the planned results?  What -if any- types of innovative good practices have been introduced in the project for the achievement of results?
• Efficiency: A measure of how economical resources/inputs (funds, expertise, time, etc.) were converted to results.
  • Have resources (financial, human, technical support, etc.) been allocated strategically to achieve the project outcomes?
  • What measures have been taken during planning and implementation to ensure that resources are efficiently used?
  • Have the outputs been delivered in a timely manner?
  • Were the project and its components cost-effectively implemented? Could the activities and outputs have been delivered with fewer resources without reducing their quality and quantity? What are the key successes and recommendations for improvement?
  • How did the project utilize existing local capacities of to achieve its outcomes?
  • To what extent were the project’s monitoring mechanisms in place implemented to effectively measure and inform the management of the project’s performance and progress towards targets? To what extent were monitoring data objectively used to inform management action and decision-making?
  • To what extent were follow-up actions taken address challenges, obstacles and risks associated to the Project, and what has been done to mitigate these in order to reach planned outcomes.
  • What were (if any) key opportunities and/or challenges and future considerations in the operational context of the project? What future considerations should be made to address any emerging challenges?
  • What changes/interventions would have been emphasized to capitalize on the opportunities for improving the project delivery?
  • Impact: The effect of the project
  • What are the effects produced, positive and negative, intended or unintended, directly (target groups) and indirectly (larger society)?
  • Have there been any negative effects of the project on the four cross-cutting issues: gender, human rights, climate and the environment and corruption?
  • To what extent were gender equality and women’s empowerment advanced as a result of the intervention?
• Sustainability: The likelihood of a continuation of benefits for women from a development intervention after the intervention is completed or the probability of continued long-term benefits.
  • Were requirements of national ownership satisfied? Was the project supported by national/local institutions?
  • Do these institutions, including Government and Civil Society, demonstrate leadership commitment and technical capacity to continue to work with the Project or replicate it?
  • What capacities of national partners, both technical and operational, have been strengthened?
  • What is the likelihood that the benefits from the project will be maintained for a reasonably long period of time if the project were to cease?
  • To what extent are the financial capacities of partners likely going to maintain the benefits from the project?  What might be needed to support partners to maintain these benefits?
  • How successful was the project in promoting replication and/or up-scaling of successful practices?
  • Which innovations have been identified (if any) and how can they be replicated?
• Coherence: The extent to what other interventions support or undermine the intervention and vice-versa, including aspects of complementarity, harmonization and co-ordination.
  • What capacities and skills should UN Women prioritize and further develop to bring greater coherence and relevance to its interventions?
  • To what extent did the implementing partners possess the comparative advantage in the project’s area of work in comparison with other partners in Nigeria?
  • To what extent is the project coherent with similar interventions implemented for promoting women’s protection and participation in the country, internally in UN Women and within the UN System in Nigeria, wider donor policy, with international obligations for women’s human rights, other human rights conventions and other international frameworks for gender equality and the empowerment of women?
  • To what extent is the project coherent internally in UN Women and within the UN System in Nigeria?
  • To what extent is the project coherent with wider donor policy?
  • To what extent is the project coherent with international obligations for women’s human rights, other human rights conventions and other international frameworks for gender equality and the empowerment of women?
• Gender Equality and Human Rights:
  • To what extent have gender and human rights considerations been integrated into the project design and implementation?
  • How has attention to/ integration of gender equality and human rights concerns advance the area of work?
  • What was the main value added of the project in changing the quality of life of women and girls?
• Disability Inclusion:
  • What portion of beneficiaries were persons with disabilities?
  • How has the program contributed to addressing the priorities and changing the quality of life of people with disabilities?
• Based on these findings, what are the recommendations for possible new projects after the completion of the current project?  This should include necessary follow-on interventions identified, components that requires continued investments, new entry points identified, and level of engagement (state/federal, policy/operational).
• The questions above are a suggestion and could be changed during the inception phase in consultation with UN Women. It is expected that the evaluation team will develop an evaluation matrix, which will relate to the above questions, the areas they refer to, the criteria for evaluating them, the indicators and the means of verification. The questions will be revised by a during the inception phase.  It is expected that the evaluation consultant will develop an Evaluation Matrix, which will relate to the above questions (and refine them as needed), the areas they refer to, the criteria for evaluating them, the indicators and the means for verification as a tool for the evaluation. The final evaluation matrix will be approved by UN Women along the final methodology/inception report.
• Considering the mandate to incorporate Human Rights and Gender Equality in all UN work, and the UN Women Evaluation Policy, which promotes the integration of women’s rights and gender equality principles into evaluation, these dimensions will require special attention for this evaluation and hence will be considered under each evaluation criteria.

Time Frame

• The estimated duration of this consultancy is 45 working days. The proposed timeframe for the evaluation process is expected to be conducted according to the timeframe below:

• All products such as inception, draft and final reports will be validated by the UN Women. The consultant will maintain an audit trail of the comments received and provide a response on how the comments were addressed in the final inception report. The final evaluation report will be approved by the evaluation steering committee.
• Payment to the consultant will be subject to the approval of deliverables by the evaluation management group in line with conformity to GERAAS evaluation guidelines. Upon receipt of the deliverables and prior to the payment of installments, the deliverables and related reports and documents will be reviewed and approved by UN Women. UN Women will approve the deliverables when it considers that the deliverables meet quality standards for approval.  The period of review is one week after receipt.
• The consultant cannot have participated in the programme preparation, formulation, and/or implementation and should not have a conflict of interest with programme related activities

Required Skills and Experience
Education:

• Advanced University Degree (Master’s Degree or equivalent) in Gender Studies, Education related fields, Political Science, Sociology, International Relations or any relevant field and/or equivalent practical experience.

Experience:

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience in the field of gender equality and women’s empowerment, as well as in projects/programme evaluations.
• Substantive knowledge of and experience in women’s participation in public life and women’s leadership generally.
• Experience in working and communicating in a multicultural environment.
• Demonstrated capacity to draft and produce well-written, clear reports for effective understanding.
• Experience with UN organizations and programmes, including those related to women’s empowerment, gender mainstreaming and gender equality is an asset.

Language:

• Fluency in oral and written English is required.

Competencies:
Core Values and Guiding Principles:

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling UN Women values and ethical standards.
• Demonstrates a commitment to UN Women’s mission and vision.
• Able to work effectively within a team.
• Displays cultural and gender sensitivity and adaptability.
• Able to multi-task and juggle competing demands.
• Can assess and prioritize work needs quickly.
• Able to relate to external partners, including other international organizations and agencies, NGOs, grassroots community groups, etc.

Functional Competencies:

• Sound expertise in gender equality and women’s empowerment, including on women’s participation in public life.
• Relevant expertise in women’s political participation programming/evaluation.
• Broad knowledge of evaluation methodologies and tools.
• Good communication skills.
• Fluent in Microsoft word, excel, e-mail, web-based applications and databases.
• Demonstrated leadership and personal examples of promoting knowledge management and a professional learning environment.
• Outstanding networking, team building, organizational and communication skills.
• Capacity to work with diverse partners including governments, donors and civil society.
• Ability to work effectively and harmoniously with people from varied cultures and professional backgrounds.
• Ability to produce well-written documents demonstrating excellent interpersonal communication skills.

Application Closing Date
5th May, 2023 (Midnight New York, USA).