Job Description

Consultant for Service Provisions for Peer Reviews and Adaptations on WeLearn Training Materials

Advertised on behalf of :



Location : INDONESIA
Application Deadline : 12-Nov-21 (Midnight New York, USA)
Time left : 0d 2h 53m
Additional Category : Gender Equality
Type of Contract : Individual Contract
Post Level : National Consultant
Languages Required :
English
Starting Date :
(date when the selected candidate is expected to start) 19-Nov-2021
Duration of Initial Contract : 2 months


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 equality between 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, the UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

A key area of concern for UN Women is women’s economic empowerment as expressed in UN Women’s Strategic Plan 2018-2021. Empowering women to participate fully in economic life is essential to building strong economies, establishing just societies, and achieving the 2030 Agenda including Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 for gender equality and women’s empowerment and several other SDGs relating to inclusive growth, decent work, ending poverty, and reducing inequality, and revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development.

In running and scaling up their businesses, women entrepreneurs have been facing challenges such as limited access to skills development, barriers to securing financial capital to set up or grow their businesses, accessing business networks which are often dominated by men. These challenges that rooted in gender bias and discriminatory norms and practices often inhibit women from expanding their business. Additionally, the impacts of COVID-19 on the economy has exacerbated their vulnerabilities in sustaining their businesses. According to the survey report on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic by UN Women in collaboration with Indosat Ooredoo, women in Indonesia largely depend on income from family businesses and 82% of them have seen substantial drops in this income source; 19% women have increased nonpaid care work compared to 11%men and 36% of women, compared to 30% men in informal employment have seen decreased paid work time[1].

The WeLearn program initiative aims to offer an equal opportunity for women to increase their entrepreneurial skills, in order to start or run their businesses. It offers various learnings and trainings on entrepreneurial skills, ranging from the self-online learning through WeLearn platform and trainings and coaching activities with trainers online and offline (limited). The target for WeLearn training is aspiring women and women entrepreneurs from micro and small enterprises.

Based on the above concerns, UN Women intends to build and promote an ecosystem of gender responsive entrepreneurship in Indonesia. In doing so, UN Women will equip women entrepreneurs with business development skills, while building their critical awareness to overcome gender-related barriers they encounter in day-to-day business management, or when accessing for necessary business support including financing.

For the above purpose, UN Women would like to hire a national consultant who will assist in reviewing the current materials and developing the new one around gender responsive entrepreneurship to support UN Women's efforts to create an inclusive MSME ecosystem in Indonesia.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the overall guidance and supervision from the Head of Programmes and with close collaboration with the Programme Officer of Women Entrepreneurship, the consultant will undertake the following tasks:

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• 
  Review and make necessary edit of the existing training modules on women’s leadership and gender equality for the ultra-micro, micro and small women entrepreneurs so as to fit with the objectives of the training materials as explained below;
• To integrate the contents related to gender equality into the existing entrepreneurship modules for women ultra-micro entrepreneurs with reference to the modules mentioned in points 1 and/or other related materials on gender responsive entrepreneurship that are deemed relevant.

The objective of the training materials:

The training materials that will be reviewed are the training materials for women ultra-micro entrepreneurs and they are available in the training guide modules for trainers and in training modules women ultra-micro entrepreneurs.

• 
  The women’s leadership training module contains the leadership soft skill material for the women ultra-micro, micro and small entrepreneurs, women employees and women at the households.
• The gender sensitization training module aims to increase understanding of the gender concept and gender sensitivity as part of gender mainstreaming in organizational activities and daily interaction. The modules for trainer provides step-by-step instructions for presenting a gender topic or issue in training so that easy to understand, to follow, adhere to participatory principles, inclusive and based on empathy.

• 
  The entrepreneurship training module contains entrepreneurial skills with gender perspectives to start a business and to run the business for women ultra-micro entrepreneurs, including business model canvas, digital marketing, cost calculation, financial management and business legalities. The content is adapted from the existing WeLearn training modules for micro and small business, and it is strengthened with gender perspectives to resonate with the needs of women entrepreneurs from ultra-micro enterprises (the source of adaptation: the existing WeLearn modules designed for the women entrepreneurs from micro and small enterprises).
• DELIVERABLES

• The consultant is expected to provide the following deliverables and timeframe:

  
  Deliverables

  
  Tasks

  
  Target delivery dates

  
  Percentages Payment

  • 
    Submission of the Workplan;
  • 
    To create the workplan

  
  24 November 2021

  
  10%

  • 
    Submission of the reviewed/edited training materials of the entrepreneurship, leadership and gender sensitive modules for trainers.
  • 
    To review 6 WeLearn training modules
  • To make necessary edit of the existing training modules on women’s leadership and gender equality
  • To integrate the contents related to gender equality into the existing entrepreneurship modules for women ultra-micro entrepreneurs as deemed relevant

  
  30 November 2021

  
  40%

  • 
    Submission of the reviewed/edited training materials of the entrepreneurship, leadership and gender sensitive modules for women entrepreneurs;
  • 
    To review and make necessary edits on the training modules to align with the revised training guide modules for trainers in point Deliverables (b)

  
  15 December 2021

  
  30%

  • 
    Submission of the revised materials based on input from UN Women

  
  22 December 2021

  
  20%

  
  All materials will be subjected to at least 2 (two) times revisions and all materials will be owned by UN Women (full copyright).

Competencies

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: http://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-employment-values-and-competencies-definitions-en.pdf.

Required Skills and Experience

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Gender studies, Social studies, Economics or related field; or a Bachelor’s degree in Gender studies, Social studies, Economics or related field with minimum of 10 years experience working in the field of gender issues/development, women’s economic empowerment and women’s leadership capacity building in lieu of Master’s degree is acceptable;
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience on women’s economic empowerment, gender consultant, gender assessment, gender audit, women’s leadership;
• Substantive experience in gender capacity building and or managing and implementing similar projects is preferred;
• Experience working in promoting women agency’s skills in communities is desirable;
• Excellent communication skills and fluent in English and Bahasa Indonesia.

EVALUATION

Applications will be evaluated based on the cumulative analysis.

• Technical Qualification (100 points) weight; [70%]
• Financial Proposal (100 points) weight; [30%]

A two-stage procedure is utilised in evaluating the applications, with an evaluation of the technical application being completed prior to any price proposal being compared. Only the price proposal of the candidates who passed the minimum technical score of 70% of the obtainable score of 100 points in the technical qualification evaluation will be evaluated.

Technical qualification evaluation criteria

The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 100. The technical qualification of the individual is evaluated based on the following technical qualification evaluation criteria:

Technical Evaluation Criteria

Obtainable Score

• 
  Education

20 points

• 
  Experience and skills

70 points

• 
  Language and writing skills

Excellent command of written English, with proven writing experience.

10 points

Total Obtainable Score

100 points

Only the candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% of total points will be considered as technically qualified candidates who may be contacted for validation interviews.

Financial/Price Proposal evaluation

• 
  Only the financial proposal of candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation will be considered and evaluated.
• Internet and communication cost should be included in the financial proposal
• The total number of points allocated for the price component is 100.
• The maximum number of points will be allotted to the lowest price proposal that is opened/ evaluated and compared among those qualified technical candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation. All other price proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.

SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION

Submission package includes:

• Updated CV
• Letter of Interest containing the statement on candidate’s experience in the field of recruitment
• Personal History Form (P11), which can be downloaded from http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/about-us/jobs
• Writing sample
• Financial proposal breaking down the daily fee

Applications without financial proposals will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

PAYMENTS

Payments for this consultancy will be based on the achievement of each deliverable and certification that each has been satisfactorily completed.