Senior Gender and Training Specialist

The consultancy aims to strengthen UNDRR’s institutional capacity and leadership accountability for advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women. The consultant will design and facilitate a tailored Gender-Responsive Leadership Training for UNDRR senior management to integrate gender equality into leadership, decision-making, and organizational accountability.

Responsibilities

• Review relevant UNDRR policies, strategies, assessments and institutional documents, as well as relevant UN frameworks, guidance and resources on gender equality, women’s empowerment and gender-responsive leadership.
• Review relevant UN-SWAP requirements and the UN Secretary-General’s GEAP to ensure alignment with institutional priorities and reporting commitments.
• Identify key leadership competencies, emerging issues and good practices to inform the training content and approach.
• Conduct a Learning Needs Assessment (LNA) to identify senior managers’ existing knowledge, competencies, experiences and learning priorities in gender-responsive leadership.
• Conduct 15-minute one-on-one introductory calls with each participant to identify common and individual learning needs, leadership challenges and opportunities for applying gender-responsive leadership within UNDRR.
• Use the findings to inform the training design, learning objectives, session content and approaches to measuring progress.
• Design and facilitate ten (10) one-hour online learning sessions monthly over the 10 months period, tailored to UNDRR’s institutional context and informed by the LNA.
• Ensure each session has clear learning objectives, relevant content, interactive exercises and practical application opportunities that enable participants to apply gender-responsive leadership knowledge and skills, develop strategic GRL action plans, and implement and measure results.
• Review and adapt session content, as appropriate, to reflect evolving gender equality issues, changes in the socio-political context and participants’ progress throughout the training.
• Respond to participants’ questions and requests for clarification, additional resources or guidance to support their engagement and practical application of learning.
• Develop a practical participant workbook to accompany the learning sessions and support continued reflection and application between sessions.
• Incorporate mechanisms for documenting leadership commitments, tracking implementation progress, measuring results and reflecting on lessons learned throughout the training programme.
• Conduct a follow up peer review session after 6 months to bring all participants together to review the progress in implementing their individual gender-responsive leadership action plans, assess achievements against agreed objectives and indicators, exchange experiences and lessons learned, identify challenges and opportunities, and strengthen mutual learning and accountability for sustained application of gender-responsive leadership practices within UNDRR.

Requirements

• An advanced degree in a social science discipline associated with gender studies such as social anthropology, economics, social sciences, management, international studies, or other relevant fields is required.
• A minimum of 10 years of training and advisory experience in gender equality and women’s empowerment in international organizations is required.
• Experience in capacity building, development of training programmes and training facilitation in gender equality is required.
• Strong experience and track record in development and facilitation of workshop as well as training on gender mainstreaming for staff project personnel and gender focal points within the UN system and/or similar international organizations is desirable.
• Experience with frameworks to support the integration of gender equality issues, including gender transformative approaches is desirable.
• Fluency in English is required.

Skills

• Gender Equality Training
• Women’s Empowerment
• Capacity Building
• Training Program Development
• Training Facilitation
• Gender Mainstreaming
• Workshop Facilitation
• Gender Transformative Approaches
• Gender Studies
• Social Science Research
• Leadership Training
• Organizational Accountability
• International Organization Experience

Languages

English