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.

The UN Women Cambodia Programme Office focuses on three key priorities to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEW. The first priority is to strengthen government capacity and accountability to integrate international norms and commitments (CEDAW, SDGs, Beijing PfA, Sendainto national legislative and regulatory frameworks, including supporting dialogue and civil society engagement in accountability for GEWE commitments. The second area of focus is Ending Violence Against Women where CCO’s focus includes creating an enabling environment to prevent, respond to and prosecute all forms of GBV as well as ensuring that marginalised women who experience violence, including women migrant workers, access services and protections. Thirdly, CCO works to enhance gender responsiveness in climate change action and Disaster Risk Reduction (DR. A focus on empowerment, women’s leadership, challenging negative gender norms and leaving no one behind runs through the programme.

UN Women in Cambodia office has empowered LGBTIQ persons/communities, especially LBT Women through feminist principles to strengthen networking and advocacy for policy and institutional transformation. Over years, UNWOMEN has contributed to promoting LGBTIQ right and increasing engagement of LGBTIQ communities, dialogues/platforms both at national and subnational level to discuss top three priorities (legal recognition of gender identity, discrimination and employment, and social and family exclusio. Building on our lessons learnt, UNWOMEN in Cambodia continues to support the LGBTIQ community to engage with policy dialogues, activism campaigns such as Pride Week and 16 Days of Activism and to capacitate LBT Women to apply feminist transformative leadership to enlarge networks, including for the purpose of advocacy. Further, Youth Leadership Academy (YL, developed by Cambodia gender advocates and purposefully designed to promote feminist leadership, has proven record in contributing to support Cambodia young women with less or no privilege to realize their potentials and increased confidence to apply feminist leadership to network and act for gender equality and women’s empowerment. The overall goals of the Youth Leadership Academy are:

1. To provide a safe and respectful space for young women with leadership potential to develop their capacity in critical thinking on a range of skills/knowledge from conceptual frameworks to approaches to techniques, using a multidisciplinary approach, including the social sciences, STEM, cultural studies, arts, etc.;
2. To develop transformative and adaptive leadership models that are applicable in the rapidly developing context of Cambodia;
3. To build and sustain a network for feminist collective action
4. To promote intergenerational feminist dialogue and learning.

The office intends to explore if YLA programme possible to apply for men group. Hence, consultations with various age of men groups to build understand on male perspective on gender equality and feminist leadership, challenges of being Cambodian men and opportunities to apply YLA promoting feminist leadership with men groups. Therefore, the programme is looking for a national LGBTIQ Right and women’s leadership Facilitator to work with programme staff to establish a space for dialogue between government and LGBTIQ and women activists/organisations to utilize social media safety to advocate for LGBTIQ rights and gender equality.

At the sometime, as HIV/AIDS continues to be a major public health challenge globally, with significant social and economic impacts. The epidemic disproportionately affects women and girls and new cases in Cambodia has been significant observe in youth group and MSM population. These highrisk population group often face more severe consequences due to biological, social, and economic factors. A gendersensitive approach to HIV prevention and protection is essential for addressing these disparities and improving health outcomes. As part of This Gender and HIV Protective Program aims to integrate gender perspectives into HIV prevention, treatment, and care strategies to enhance their effectiveness and sustainability. In Join Programme UN Women has been working on addressing HIV/AIDs prevention from a rightsbased perspective by working with highrisk population group and with marginalized population including women affected by HIV. To continue the work to address the prevention of HIV/AIDS epidemic, UN Women integrate the gender responsive HIV/AID prevention work with LGBTIQ movement to enable to outreach to LGBTIQ community while also provide safe space for the community to echo their voice on the quality of the service.

The consultant will be reporting to Country Programme Coordinator, and will be supported by National Programme Officer, who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues.

Duties and Responsibilities

The purpose of the assignment is strengthen youth movement to bring about gender equality by using gender transformational leadership and human right based approach and contributing to preventing HIV/AIDs epidemic. The scope of work also includes provision of technical support to implement Youth Leadership Academy (YLwith young women who have limited or no privilege. At the same time, the scope of work will also be working collaboratively with LGBTQI movement to integrate information related to HIV/AID prevention.

A LGBTIQ Rights and women’s leadership facilitator will work closely with UNWOMEN’s Programme Team and under the supervision and guidance of the National Country Coordinator to perform specific tasks below:

Provision of technical support to integrate HIV/AIDS prevention work with highrisk population group including Youth, MSM and transgender women.

• Support the conduction of the dialogue on LGBTIQ rights and the right to access HIV/AIDS prevention services with LGBTIQ community which will reach to 70 people.
• Integrate the information about HIV/AIDs prevention services in the road show for community dialogue and information sharing to provinces reaching to at least 30 people LGBTIQ individual.
• Provide technical input to the production of IEC materials on HIV/AIDS to fit with LGBTIQ needs with human rights based approach
• Conduct Monthly social media post to empower highrisk population to access HIV/AID prevention services
• Integrate the information on the right to access HIV/AID prevention services in the pride event
• Conduct a networking event with at least 50 people to exchange information and story about LGBTIQ wellbeing and rights as well as raising awareness on the right to access equal, safe and nondiscriminatory HIV/AID prevention services including testing.

Provision of technical support to colead the implementation of Youth Leadership Academy (YLGroup 4, including mobilization, selection of participants and leading in organizing and monitoring for a successful YLA Group The consultant expected to work very closely with relevant programme team and another resource person for coimplementation. The major key tasks include:

• Lead in implementation of Youth Leadership Academy (YLGroup This includes planning, reviewing and updating materials where it needs, mobilization of engagement of the YLA core group, and mobilization of participants with a great extent of participatory process;
• Lead in designing and conduct of outreach for selection process, including reviewing and updating the registration form, announcement and organizing for information session both in person and virtual forms;
• Led in in conducting an inception workshop with identified YLA G4 potential participants, involving preparation of concept note, agenda as well as materials needed;
• Lead in organizing a foundation workshop (34 day workshop with around 20 participant;
• Cofacilitate the foundation workshop and followup workshop together with YLA core group. The full YLA programme involves 34 day foundation workshop and a sequence of 3 followup workshops, with 2 day for each workshop;
• Support participants of YLA G4 to have regular meeting/discussion with their identified mentors who are member of YLA core group and YLA Group 1
• Monitor the progress of the YLA programme, including pre and post test, conducting key informant interview with participant and document story of change, and workshop reports

Provision of technical support to apply Youth Leadership Academy Programme with young men. The key tasks include:

• Cofacilitate to conduct consultations and interview with identified young men or small group of young men via established networks. The consultation should focus on young men perspective on gender equality, feminist leadership, challenges of being a man in their context as well as opportunities/entries points to support men, especially young men to apply feminist leadership.
• Support in developing a concept note, including guiding questions for conducting consultations/dialogues with men
• Lead in identifying male networks and potential young men for consultations
• Provide detail notes on consultations, including key findings and suggestions
• Support in mobilization of core group of Youth Leadership Academy with the process of consultations with men

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

The consultant will work in close collaboration with the UNWOMEN personnel in Cambodia under the direct supervision of the country programme coordinator. A workstation will be provided to the consultant to ensure effective consultation and support. The Consultant will bring his/her own personal computer to conduct this assignment. The consultant may be required to travel outside of Phnom Penh as needed for the purpose of the assignment where required by UN WomenCambodia. The standard UN Daily Subsistence Allowance (DSwill apply to any travel outside duty station that may be required in the fulfillment of this assignment.

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
• Accountability
• Creative Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Leading by Example

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FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:

Technical Competencies:

• Good knowledge of feminist transformative leadership and gender.
• A proven ability to facilitate dialogue and collaboration with a diverse group of stakeholders and leadership styles.
• Good knowledge on applying human rightbased approach.

Functional Competencies:

• Experience in working with marginalized groups like LGBTI, youth and poor women in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment.
• Experience in applying humanright based and gender mainstreaming in HIV prevention awareness raising.
• Experience internship or volunteer with UN system is an asset.
• Demonstrated sensitivity, discretion, tact, and courtesy in relation to gender equality and women’s rights, development principles, implementing partners, and national and international personnel of varied nationalities and backgrounds

Corporate Competencies:

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UN Women;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism; and
• Fulfills all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Required Skills and Experience

Education and Certification:

• Master’s degree in development studies, law, international relations, human rights, and other relevant disciplines. A firstlevel university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

• At least 2 years professional experience in designing and implementing community mobilization, campaign and advocacy for promoting gender equality and human rights.
• Have good understanding and knowledge of women human rights, gender issues, nondiscrimination and community participation is preferred.
• Experience in group facilitation using a participatory, inclusive approach to managing for learning purposed and honing agreements.
• Experience in facilitating learning with youth and diverse community groups.

Languages:

• Fluency in English is required.

EVALUATION

• Applications will be evaluated based on the cumulative analysis:
• Technical qualification (100 point

Technical qualification evaluation criteria:

Only the candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% of total points will be considered as technically qualified candidates who may be contacted for validation interview.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit an electronic application to cco.procurement@unwomen.org , with cc to hr.bangkok@unwomen.org not later than 18 October 2024 by 5 p.m. local time in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Late application submissions will not be considered.

All applications must include (as an attachmenthe completed UN Women Personal History form (P11) which can be downloaded from Application and recruitment process | About us: Careers at UN Women | UN Women – Headquarters Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment. Applications without the completed UN Women P11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

Submission package includes:

• P11 (P11 can be downloaded from: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UNWomenP11PersonalHistoryForm.doc
• A cover letter (maximum length: 1 pag
• Sample work for only shortlisted candidates

Payments

Payments for this consultancy will be based on the achievement of deliverable and certification that each has been satisfactorily completed. Payment will not be based on the number of days worked but on the completion of each stated deliverable within the indicated timeframes on satisfactory completion of task. Payments will be made upon submission of deliverables with an approval of the National Country Programme Coordinator. Travel cost will be reimbursable based on actual expenses and proof of document and complied with the UN Women travel policy. And the travel cost will not be included in the contract value.

Note:

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 UNIFE, which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

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