Vetted Experts Roster

Vetted Experts Roster – Gender Mainstreaming and EU Accession

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

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 gender equality, considering women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women's rights at the centre of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates the United Nations system's efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world.

UN Women works in Europe and Central Asia across the development, peace, humanitarian and refugee response and recovery nexus to ensure gender-transformative results for women and girls. Its programmatic, normative and coordination work is grounded in the mandate operationalized by the corporate Strategic Plan and the Humanitarian Strategy launched in 2022. These strategic documents provide guidance for programme development, advise on norms, policies, and strategies for achieving the internationally and regionally agreed goals related to gender equality and women's empowerment (GEWE) issues, deliver policy and technical advisory services and quality assurance support to partners.

In this context, UN Women ECA RO is currently inviting experienced experts to apply to be considered for registration in the UN Women ECA RO expert roster on mainstreaming gender in the EU accession process.

Duties and Responsibilities

Roster members selected for the consultancy assignment will work with ECA RO and COs in the region in the following areas:

1. Technical Assistance
   • Provide strategic and operational advice to governments, private sector and/or civil society organizations on the formulation and execution of gender responsive national and sectoral policies in line with EU gender equality acquis;
   • Provide technical support in designing, implementing, monitoring or evaluating policies in the assigned areas;
   • Develop tool, protocols and operating procedures for state and non-state service providers in line with the national policies;
   • Undertake gender analysis of laws and national/sectoral and policies and develop a set of recommendation on how to integrate gender perspectives;
   • Design and delivery of various trainings;
2. Knowledge Management
   • Carry out research and prepare a comprehensive needs assessment reports;
   • Provide technical inputs to development of knowledge products and reports;
   • Share knowledge, experience, good practices and lessons learned;
   • Developing toolkits, guidelines, publications;
   • Collect and analyse relevant documentation;
3. Advocacy
   • Design advocacy strategies to support the gender mainstreaming efforts;
   • Support to improving legislative framework, processes and procedures;
   • Support to awareness raising.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Master Degree in Gender Studies, Social Science, Sociology, International Relations, Development studies, Political Science or a field relevant to the requirements of the TOR.

Experience:

• At least 5 years' experience in development work with specific emphasis on gender equality and women's empowerment focusing on EU accession and gender mainstreaming and/or and supporting member states which are EU candidate countries to leverage EU approximation process for increased GEWE;
• Experience with development, implementation, monitoring or evaluation of national and sectoral policies;
• Experience on design and development of assessments/studies and analytical knowledge products and report from gender perspectives;
• Experience in this or a related field in Europe and Central Asia would be considered an asset;
• Previous professional experience with the United Nations or similar organisations in this or a related field would be considered an asset;
• Experience working with EU institutions will be considered as an asset.
• Experience in conducting trainings is an asset.

Language:

• Fluency in English is required;
• Knowledge of the other UN working language is an asset;
• Knowledge of other regional languages is an asset.

Contracting arrangements:

Successful candidates will be included in the Vetted Roster of Experts until the end of 2027. Membership beyond that period must be renewed through a new application process. Entry into the expert roster system does not necessarily mean that contract with UN Women is guaranteed.

Application procedure:

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

• Examples of previous work related to EU accession and gender mainstreaming area.

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