Background

I. Organizational Context

UN Women (the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of 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.

In Türkiye, in line with its global Strategic Plan 2022-2025 and Country Strategic Note (2022-2025), and the overall UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for Turkiye (UNSDCF) (2021-2025), UN Women works towards the overarching goal of “Women and girls including those at greatest risk of being left behind fully exercise their human rights, enjoy a life free from violence and discrimination, and lead, influence and benefit for Turkiye”. UN Women works in four thematic areas: (i) governance and participation in public life; (ii) women’s economic empowerment; (iii) ending violence against women and girls; and (iv) women, peace and security, humanitarian action and disaster risk reduction. UN Women contributes to three UNSDCF outcomes: 1) Women and girls have improved and equal access to resources, opportunities, and rights, and enjoy a life without violence and discrimination; 2) By 2025, Persons under the Law on Foreigners and International Protection are supported towards self-reliance. 3) By 2025, governance systems are more transparent, accountable, inclusive and rights-based with the participation of civil society, and quality of judicial services is improved.Towards these goals, UN Women implements programmes and projects that aim to advance gender equality, improve women’s access to opportunities, rights and services in political, social and economic life and combat gender stereotypes, discrimination and violence, as required by international and national legal and policy commitments. UN Women collaborates with numerous partners – central and local level government authorities, civil society organizations, including women’s organizations and platforms, academia, private sector companies, other UN agencies. It commits itself to the Leaving No One Behind principle, by supporting targeted actions to remove the obstacles that marginalized and vulnerable groups of women face in accessing their rights and to promote them as agents of change.

As a full member of IASC, UN Women has a crucial role in humanitarian response through a two-pronged approach: 1) To Strengthen Accountability towards gender commitments in Coordination and Implementation of UN Led Humanitarian and Refugee Responses; 2) To Strengthen Comprehensive Protection and Livelihood support to Crisis Affected Women and Girls.

On February 6th, 2023, Türkiye was struck by two significant earthquakes that caused widespread devastation in the Southeast region of the country. The earthquakes resulted in a significant loss of life, with over 50.000 deaths making it the deadliest disaster since the country’s founding 100 years ago and one of the deadliest worldwide during this century. Additionally, the earthquakes resulted in widespread damage to residential areas, with millions of individuals affected and at least 118,000 buildings have either collapsed or severely damaged. These events have had a profound impact on numerous cities throughout the affected region.

Aligned with UN Women’s draft Humanitarian Strategy and the two-pronged approach stated above above UN Women in Türkiye implements “Addressing the urgent needs of women and girls impacted by the earthquake for multi-sectoral services in Türkiye” Project. In the scope of this project contributing to Output 1.3: Model of women-friendly temporary settlement is developed and applied it is aimed to provide a gender responsive temporary settlement for women and girls to live in. The two main focus areas are (1) building gender responsive urban settings where services are designed through inclusive planning and investment (2) Increasing skills and capabilities and access to information to participate in and access livelihoods opportunities for women affected by crisis. Accordingly within temporary settlements build in Hatay and Kahramanmaras women’s empowerment hubs will be established and managed by a responsible party of UN Women Türkiye. The main aim of the empowerment hubs will be supporting women and girls recover while strengthening their resilience and enable them to participate in recovery process. A women’s empowerment hub is a safe space for women and girls to learn livelihood skills in order to increase their economic well-being, and a service point for gender-based violence protection and prevention. Apart from that technical support will be provided for the temporary settlement built in Adiyaman.

To contribute to the implementation of the project in Kahramanmaras and Adiyaman, a National Consultant – Field Associate who will be mainly responsible from supporting the management and coordination of temporary settlements will be hired. Reporting to Programme Analyst, the Field Associate will work in close collaboration with the responsible party of UN Women Türkiye which will be responsible from Women’s Empowerment Hub management in Kahramanmaras also will provide technical support to the temporary settlement in Adiyaman.

Duties and Responsibilities

II. Functions

Under the direct supervision of Programme Analyst, the National Consultant will undertake the following tasks:

1. Providing coordination and networking support

• Conducting a mapping of the services provided by government and national/international CSOs including services specific to earthquake survivors to support the referral system in the empowerment hub.
• Networking and liasing with provincial level government organisations and national/international CSO partners both in Kahramanmaras and Adiyaman
• Attending and reporting on inter agency and coordination meetings held in Kahramanmaras and Adiyaman.
• Supporting travel and meeting arrangements of the UN Women Country team for field missions

2. Providing support to the management, monitoring and service delivery in women’s empowerment hub in Kahramanmaras.

• Monitoring and monthly reporting on the services provided by the responsible party, physical conditions and the staff of the empowerment hub.
• Ensuring data collection and beneficiary registries are being done accurately and timely in the empowerment hub
• Supporting the empowerment and awareness raising activities conducted in the empowerment hub through coordinating with national and local partners including, private sector,public institutions and CSO partners.
• Supporting the identification of community leaders and monitoring and supporting their participation in hub and possibly temporary settlement management.
• Performing any other duties, as may be required by UN Women Turkiye Office.

3. Providing technical support to the temporary settlement in Adiyaman.

• Monitoring the implementation of the gender responsive temporary settlement model.
• Providing guidance regarding the empowerment and awareness raising activities conducted in the empowerment hub
• Providing technical support for the identification of community leaders and monitoring and supporting their participation in hub and possibly temporary settlement management

III. Deliverables and Payment Schedule

The Consultant is expected to invest approximately 21.75 working days per month for this Assignment.

The Consultant shall be paid upon successful completion and acceptance of their timesheet submitted at the end of each month by them. The payment shall be affected only if the timesheets are submitted to the UN Women Programme Specialiast on a monthly basis. Without submission of and approval of the timesheet, the Consultant shall not receive any payment even they invest time for this assignment.

The Consultant will be paid in local currency at the end of each month at the UN Operational Rate for Exchange (UNORE) effective at the month of payment.

Travel:

All the travel arrangements under this assignment will be handled by UN Women as per the UN Women rules and regulations.

Mandatory Courses:

Mandatory courses for this assignment will be around 8 hours. The Consultant shall complete all the mandatory and further required UN courses, training and modules on time. The certificates shall be submitted to the Hiring Manager.

Competencies

IV. 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

Functional Competencies

• Ability to administer and execute administrative processes and transactions;
• Ability to create, edit and present information in clear and presentable formats;
• Ability to manage data, documents, correspondence and reports information and workflow;

Required Skills and Experience

V. Required Skills and Experience:

VI. Application Procedure:

Only shortlisted candidates would be considered for the interview stage and interview will a take place after the shortlisting for the selection of best candidate.

The following documents should be submitted as part of the application:

• Cover letter to include a brief overview about which of your previous experiences makes you the most suitable candidate for the advertised position.
• CV in English containing the relevant educational and professional experience.
• Signed UN Women Personal History (P11) Form including past experience in similar assignments which can be downloaded at http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment

When applying; the Cover Letter, CV and the signed P11 Form should be merged into one (1) single PDF document since the system will allow only to upload maximum one document. Therefore, please combine these forms and documents into one (1) single PDF document and upload them to the system.

Should they be short-listed in consideration of the consultancy post, candidates should have the ability to quickly submit degree certificates, medical certifications or any other requested document. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Applicants are responsible to make sure to have provided all the requested application materials before the deadline.