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.
UN Women leads and coordinates efforts across the United Nations system to ensure that commitments to gender equality and gender mainstreaming are translated into concrete action at national, regional, and global levels. In the East and Southern Africa Region (ESAR), UN Women provides strong and coherent leadership in advancing Member States’ priorities, while building effective partnerships with development partners, civil society, and the private sector to ensure that women and girls fully realize and enjoy their rights.
UN Women’s work is taking place amid significant global shifts, including a growing backlash against women’s rights, the erosion of multilateral norms, heightened geopolitical competition, and increasing political polarization. These challenges are further intensified by a shrinking and increasingly constrained development financing landscape, a rise in humanitarian crises driving a “humanitarian reset,” and ongoing major UN system reforms under the Secretary-General’s UN 80 Initiative. Collectively, these dynamics create strategic uncertainty, requiring UN Women to strengthen its value proposition, protect its mandate on gender equality and women’s empowerment, diversify partnerships and funding sources, and strategically position itself across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus through adaptive and forward-looking leadership.
The East and Southern Africa Region maintains a presence in 13 countries namely Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Somalia (Programme Presence), and works closely with Non-Resident Agencies throughout the region. The Regional Office is led by the Regional Director, supported by the Deputy Regional Director. Field offices are headed by Country Representatives, with support from Deputy Representatives and Operations Managers, who work together to provide effective leadership and ensure the successful delivery of the organizational mandate. Deputy Representatives play a pivotal role in ensuring programme quality, strengthening strategic partnerships, managing operations, promoting effective people management, and maintaining internal coherence.
The Facilitator will be engaged on an as-needed basis to facilitate and moderate high-level strategic forums for ESA Region Senior Management, enabling focused discussions, critical analysis, and the delivery of actionable outcomes from each workshop. He/she must demonstrate proven expertise in designing and delivering high-level workshops for similar multilateral senior leadership teams.
The consultant will report to the Human Resource Business Partner and work under the guidance of the Head of Office.
Description of Responsibilities/ Scope of Work:
The facilitator will be expected to develop a practical approach for facilitating the workshop, ensuring that sessions are interactive, engaging, participatory, and creatively organized in a culturally sensitive manner. The facilitations will be done virtually, requiring the facilitator to leverage on digital tools and approaches to ensure effective engagement and interaction.
Specifically, the consultant will be required to undertake the following:
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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 UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.
Diversity and inclusion:
At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.
If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.
UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.)
Note: Applicants must ensure that all sections of the application form, including the sections on education and employment history, are completed. If all sections are not completed the application may be disqualified from the recruitment and selection process.
