Are you a passionate, experienced professional ready to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment? UN Women, dedicated to the vision of equality in the UN Charter, seeks a highly skilled Gender Equality Consultant for our Regional Office for Arab States (ROAS) team. This is a unique chance to help eliminate discrimination, empower women, and foster equality in 17 countries across the region.
Your Impact as a Gender Equality Consultant in Arab States
As a Gender Equality Consultant, you’ll report directly to the Regional Coordination Specialist. Simultaneously, you’ll work closely with colleagues across ROAS and Country Offices, as well as headquarters. Consequently, your contributions will be vital for implementing our Strategic Note/Biannual Work Plan, internal reporting, and crucial donor reports. This means you’ll play a key role in promoting gender equity throughout the region as a dedicated consultant on gender equality.
Without a doubt, this role is essential. It tracks and measures the impact of UN Women’s coordination mandate at both country and regional levels. Furthermore, you’ll assess our private sector engagement on ESG priorities. Looking ahead, you’ll also help develop our new Strategic Note for 2026-2029, including its comprehensive results framework and indicators for gender equality. We are looking for an impactful Gender Equality Consultant.
Key Responsibilities for a Gender Equality Consultant
In this dynamic role, you’ll tackle several impactful tasks as a Gender Equality Consultant:
- Lead In-Depth Research: You’ll conduct bespoke research using tools like Stata, R, SPSS, and Atlas.ti. This will, therefore, answer strategically important questions for the office, including assessing the Gender Equality Marker’s impact and analyzing corporate volunteerism. Your insights will directly support gender equality initiatives.
- Conduct Strategic Coordination Reviews: You’ll thoroughly review UN Women ROAS’s operational and normative coordination results within the current Strategic Note. Following this, you’ll pinpoint gaps and opportunities to strengthen coordination, aligning with the UN Gender Equality Acceleration Plan and UN80 process. This is vital for advancing gender equity across the region as a consultant on gender equality.
- Develop Innovative Frameworks: Design cutting-edge indicator frameworks, monitoring plans, and methodological notes. These will, therefore, be instrumental in facilitating gender-responsive measurement and reporting, especially for UN Women’s coordination, normative mandates, and private sector engagement.
- Build Capacity: You’ll create and deliver trainings, research, and analyses. This, consequently, boosts capacities for gender-responsive planning, monitoring, and reporting among UN Women staff (ROAS and Country Offices), UNCTs, and Gender Theme Groups in the Arab States region. Your expertise as a Gender Equality Consultant will be key here.
- Ensure Quality Reporting: Lead the coordination and quality assurance of ROAS’s corporate reporting (mid-year and annual). You’ll thus ensure the development of high-quality annual reports that accurately measure indicators against methodological notes for gender equality outcomes.
What We’re Looking For in a Gender Equality Consultant
We need a dedicated professional with a strong commitment to gender equality and proven expertise in monitoring, reporting, and research. This is an ideal role for an experienced Gender Equality Consultant.
Education & Certification:
- A Master’s degree or equivalent in data analysis, development, social sciences, gender, or a related field is a must.
- Alternatively, a first-level university degree combined with two additional years of relevant experience may be accepted.
Experience:
- You need at least seven years of progressively responsible experience in programme monitoring and reporting, evaluation, or a related field, at national and/or international levels.
- Experience in gender and women’s human rights is required.
- You must have experience working within the UN System.
- Experience specifically in the Arab States region is highly desirable.
- Excellent analytical skills and a strong drive for results, along with the ability to work independently, are crucial for this Gender Equality Consultant role.
Languages:
- Fluency in English is required.
- Knowledge of Arabic or French is a plus.
Our Values & Competencies
At UN Women, we uphold core values: Integrity, Professionalism, and Respect for Diversity. In addition, we also highly value:
- Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
- Accountability
- Creative Problem Solving
- Effective Communication
- Inclusive Collaboration
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Leading by Example
Furthermore, strong results-based management knowledge and skills are essential. A deep understanding of gender equity and women’s empowerment issues in the Arab States region is also critical. You should also possess strong knowledge of the UN system and its gender accountability tools and frameworks. Finally, a commitment to continuous improvement and advanced skills in qualitative and quantitative data analysis software are vital for any Gender Equality Consultant.
Join Our Diverse & Inclusive Team
UN Women was established in July 2010. The United Nations General Assembly created it to consolidate resources and mandates, thereby boosting impact on gender equality and women’s empowerment. We actively seek a skilled Gender Equality Consultant to join our team.
We are deeply committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. Consequently, we recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other legally protected basis. All employment decisions hinge on qualifications, competence, integrity, and organizational need.
If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment process, please include this information in your application.
UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy for conduct incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women. This includes sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks. They must also adhere to UN Women’s policies and standards of conduct.
Ready to Make a Difference?
This is a home-based consultancy. Should mission travel be required, UN Women will cover associated costs, following our travel policy.
Don’t miss this opportunity to contribute to meaningful change as a Gender Equality Consultant in the Arab States region! Be sure to complete all sections of your application form, including education and employment history. Incomplete applications, therefore, may be disqualified.
Apply now on the UN Women website: https://estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/26706
