Background

The Asia Pacific Regional Office (Ris responsible for proactively driving the positioning of UN Women among the donor community and development partners in the regional as well as globally through various HQ units by communicating strategic results, valuable good practices and key messages. Given the functional responsibilities of the RO, the work of the RO includes ensuring technical quality of donor reports and other documents and materials by providing high quality technical advice, strengthening resultbased reporting/writing skills of staff, tracking submissions by multi/country offices and supporting them in the finalization/clearance processes. Communicating strategic results and key messages are a must to mobilize partners and resources and are becoming more and more important in the highly complex sociopolitical dynamics, in the context of 2030 Agenda and the SDGs, in light of Beijing+30 and in various harmonization efforts among development partners. Also, as it strives to achieve resource mobilization goals set by the Strategic Plan 20222025, the number of donor reports is growing in the region as donor funds grow. It is expected that the current and expanding costsharing programmes require approximately 190250 donor reports per year for 2024Also, with the decentralization of donor report clearance, the RO plays a more significant role for itself and countries that have not received decentralization in this regard. One of the indicators of the Business Review Committee that the HQ Senior Management pays attention to is the timeliness of donor report submissions, and an internal review of compliances of donor agreements reaffirmed that submitting good quality donor reports to donors on time is a must.

Similarly, sixmonthly and annual reporting has become an important tool for monitoring and oversight as well as sharing results to external partners with an introduction of “Transparency Portal”, a platform to share information on progress towards and achievements of results exported from annual reports. In this context, there is urgent needs for country offices and the RO units to strengthen their capacity (and their monitoring and reporting focal points’ in particulato produce quality reports and compelling stories meant for external audience and for the RO Monitoring and Reporting Unit to provide good quality feedback and coaching on how to address them. These require that the RO have comparable capacity to meet the demand of writing and reporting needs, providing quality control and reflecting the resultsbased discipline, in order to support and strengthen advocacy and strategic partnerships development.

Duties and Responsibilities

Description of Responsibilities /Scope of Work

Under the overall guidance of Head of Planning, Monitoring and Reporting Unit/ the Regional Programme Specialist, the consultant is responsible for the following:

• Editing, revising and rewriting as needed and formatting to produce high quality, readerfriendly, accessible, timely, resultsbased reports, planning documents, background documents, programme and corporate communications materials and policy research reports and other documents and materials aligned with UN Women’s established standards and formats, and in compliance with the RO’s clearance and routing process.
• Provide reporting writing coaching sessions when requested.
• Compile tips and lessons learnt by extracting and synthesizing information from planning documents, reports and feedback received from stakeholders and conducting desk reviews when requested.
• Tier assessment reports (Tier 1 and/or 2) as requested.
• Take notes of key meetings/events and make a summary, if requested.
• Other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

Assignment Workplan and Tentative Timelines

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

This is a homebased consultancy.

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:

• Excellent analytical skills.
• Strong knowledge of UN Women processes and systems.
• Strong networking skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, communicate effectively with staff at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work in a highly pressured environment.

Required Skills and Experience

Education and Certification:

• Master’s degree or other advanced degree in one or more of the following disciplines: social sciences, international development, and/or communications.
• A firstlevel university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university.

Experience:

• Minimum of 7 years of highlevel experience in in writing, editing, reporting, and communicating complex programmatic information in readerfriendly formats and styles.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with gendersensitive and resultsbased management and reporting.
• Demonstrated abilities and track record writing high quality Englishlanguage reports and information.
• Familiarity with the UN/UN Women writing/editing guidance is an asset.
• Working experience in planning and/or reporting in the UN Women online systems is an advantage.
• Familiarity with the Planning, Monitoring and Reporting policy/procedure of UN Women is an advantage.
• Must be capable of effectively using MS Word and Excel.

Languages:

• Fluency in English is required.

Evaluation:

Applications will be evaluated based on the technical qualification.

Evaluation criteria:

The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is The technical qualification of the individual is evaluated based on following technical qualification evaluation criteria:

Payments:

Payments for this consultancy will be based on the achievement of each assignment/output and certification approved by the Head of the Unit/Regional Programme Specialist that each has been satisfactorily completed.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit by the following.

• P11 (P11 can be downloaded fro https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UNWomenP11PersonalHistoryForm.doc)
• 1 Writing sample, preferably in the area of gender equality or women’s empowerment or international development. This will be required from the shortlisted candidates.

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