Location:

Jakarta, Indonesia
Salary:

negotiable / YEAR
Job type:

CONTRACTOR
Posted:

2 months ago
Category:

Gender and Diversity, Research and Data, Social and Inclusive Development
Deadline:

06/10/2024

JOB DESCRIPTION

Background

Background/Context

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.

In Indonesia, UN Women works with government, civil society organizations (CSO, academia, the media, the public and private sectors to address national priorities of gender equality and women’s empowerment. Placing the advancement of women’s rights at the centre of our work, UN Women Indonesia focuses on (1) Ending violence against women (2) Promoting women’s human rights (3) Women’s economic empowerment (4) Women contribute to and have greater influence in building sustainable peace.

As the specialized UN Agency on gender equality and the empowerment of women, UN Women in Indonesia is also working alongside other UN Agencies to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming are translated into UN works and programmes to achieve Sustainable Development Goals across the country. UN Women programmes in Indonesia are guided by the Strategic Note 20212025, that is aligned with UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCsigned between the Ministry of National Planning and UN system in the country. In addition to programmatic interventions, UN Women has a triple mandate of normative support, UN coordination, and operational activities.

Objectives of the Assignment

Aligning with the UN Women Strategic Note 20212025 Output 2 “National Statistical System has increased capacity to produce and analyze gendersensitive data and statistics to support an enabling policy environment to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment”. Besides, in accordance with the collaboration with Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection (MOWEC20242025, one of the area focus is to enhance gendermainstreaming efforts on gender statistics data. Therefore, the Gender Statistics Advisor will work on supporting the liaison with the National Statistics Office (BP, Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection (MOWEC, and other relevant government entities in Indonesia in producing and utilizing the gender statistics for the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment in Indonesia. The Gender Statistics Advisor will also lead the technical planning and coordinate with the national counterparts for the organization of capacity building events and data userproducer dialogues, as well as to gather inputs for the preparation of reports, knowledge products and result monitoring documents. Furthermore, the Gender Statistics Advisor will actively participate in national coordination meetings and mechanisms, including liaising with data producer and data user, to promote the use of gender data to inform national policy making and monitoring.

Under the overall guidance of the Head of Programmes, the consultant will be reporting to the Monitoring and Reporting Analyst, who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues.

Duties and Responsibilities

Description of Responsibilities/Scope of Work

Provide advisory services and strengthen strategic partnership with National Statistical Office/BPS as data producer and collaboration with relevant ministries or institutions as data users, focusing on providing technical assistance to produce and analyze existing gender statistics, generating briefs showcasing gender results from microdata analysis. She/He will support the production of knowledge and communication products in the area of gender, climate change, disaster, resilience, and time use data to support advocacy for gender responsive policy and programme.
Conduct capacity building for National Statistical Office/BPS on twin gender indices, in collaboration with UN Women’s technical supports from the Head Quarter and Regional Office of Asia and Pacific, to support BPS in defining the methodology for data collection relevant to gender twin indices indicators.
Support data producer and data user coordination to promote the use of gender statistics at the country level, ensuring that gender statistics are being utilized for knowledge and communication products for policy making, including national development plan and other policies.

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

This is a homebased consultancy. The consultant will be based in Jakarta, Indonesia, with possible official travel within the country/outside of Jakarta.

Expected Deliverables

The consultant will work under the direct supervision of Monitoring and Reporting Analyst, UN Women Indonesia.

No	Deliverables	Deadline of Submission
1	A comprehensive report approved by Monitoring and Reporting Analyst that include concrete actions/contribution with a clear milestone reflected in the agreed workplan on the following aspects: Advisory service provided to UN Women and BPS on the genderenvironment nexus indicators. Substantive inputs/review provided to the selected list of indicators for the genderenvironment nexus. Strategic partnership identified to establish Technical Task Force on gender and environment nexus. Other tasks performed as specified in the Scope of Work.	31 October 2024
2	A comprehensive report approved by Monitoring and Reporting Analyst that include concrete actions/contribution with a clear milestone reflected in the agreed workplan on the following aspects: Advertisement Advisory service provided to UN Women and BPS to collect data on the genderenvironment nexus indicators. Substantive inputs/review provided to BPS knowledge products, concept notes and other documents. Meetings attended, strategic partnership identified, engaged and documented with the Technical Task Force on genderenvironment nexus. Other tasks performed as specified in the Scope of Work.	30 November 2024
3	A comprehensive report approved by Monitoring and Reporting Analyst that include concrete actions/contribution with a clear milestone reflected in the agreed workplan on the following aspects: Advisory service provided to UN Women and BPS on the genderenvironment nexus data analysis. Substantive inputs/review provided to BPS on data analysis related to genderenvironment nexus knowledge products, policy brief, and other documents. Meetings attended, strategic partnership identified, engaged and documented with Technical Task Force on genderenvironment nexus. Other tasks performed as specified in the Scope of Work.	31 December 2024
4	A comprehensive report approved by Monitoring and Reporting Analyst that include concrete actions/contribution with a clear milestone reflected in the agreed workplan on the following aspects: Advisory service provided to UN Women, BPS, and the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection (MOWECin integrating genderenvironment nexus data in SIGA. Substantive inputs/review provided to UN Women, BPS, and MOWECP to utilize data incorporated in SIGA. Meetings attended, strategic partnership identified, engaged and documented. Other tasks performed as specified in the Scope of Work.	31 January 2024
5	A comprehensive report approved by Monitoring and Reporting Analyst that include concrete actions/contribution with a clear milestone reflected in the agreed workplan on the following aspects: Advisory service provided to UN Women, in collaboration with UN Women HQ and Regional Office of Asia and Pacific, to conduct capacity building for BPS in twin gender indices. Cofacilitate in the capacity building for BPS on twin gender indices. Meetings attended, strategic partnership identified, engaged, and documented. Other tasks performed as specified in the Scope of Work.	28 February 2024
6	A comprehensive report approved by Monitoring and Reporting Analyst that include concrete actions/contribution with a clear milestone reflected in the agreed workplan on the following aspects: Advisory service provided to UN Women and BPS for data collection on twin gender indices. Substantive inputs/review provided to BPS data analysis, knowledge products, and other documents on twin genderindices. Meetings attended, strategic partnership identified, engaged and documented. Other tasks performed as specified in the Scope of Work.	31 March 2024

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

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: https://www.unwomen.org/en/aboutus/employment/applicationprocess#_Values

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:

Advance statistics skills, including trong microdata analysis skills, data analytics and interpretation.
Strong planning and organizing skills
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, including for liaising with others
Ability to listen and provide targeted technical advice to colleagues and national government representatives
Familiarity with interministerial processes, including for evidencebased monitoring and evaluation of policies, goals and targets
Working knowledge on gender statistics, particularly on resiliencerelated areas such as environment statistics or crisis statistics, an asset
Ability to implement activities in a timely and efficient manner
Strong teamworking skills
Affinity with UN Women’s mandate of gender equality and women’s empowerment

Required Skills and Experience

Education and Certification:

Master’s degree in statistics, economics, gender, development studies or other social science fields.
A firstlevel university degree, in relevant field such as statistics, economics, social and data science, in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
A certification on statistics will be an advantage.

Experience:

A minimum of 8 years of progressive work experience in the field of statistical project coordination, implementation or quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
Experience liaising with national government, international organizations and other stakeholders for project coordination, preferably in the area of gender statistics.
Experience organizing events and managing logistical arrangements.
Experience drafting statisticsbased research and analysis a strong asset.
Competent user of STATA/R is an advantage. (STATA/R is a statistical software that enables users to analyze, manage, and produce graphical visualizations of dat.
Knowledge of communication strategies an asset, particularly utilizing gender data.
Experience supporting national policy makers on data use for evidencebased decisionmaking is a strong asset.

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