Overview
UN Women seeks to expand its pool of experts for an international retainer contract to provide technical support across humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, localization, and related thematic areas in Asia and the Pacific.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of gender-responsive humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction (DRR), preparedness, response, recovery, resilience-building, localization, and anticipatory action initiatives.
- Contribute to the development of programme documents, concept notes, funding proposals, technical guidance, and operational tools.
- Provide technical support in responding to emerging humanitarian priorities, crisis response efforts, and surge support requirements.
- Support programme quality assurance, implementation oversight, and documentation of programme results.
- Support UN Women’s engagement in regional humanitarian coordination platforms, UN system mechanisms, inter-agency processes, and Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Groups.
- Facilitate coordination and collaboration with governments, humanitarian actors, women-led organizations, and other stakeholders.
- Support the organization and facilitation of regional consultations, technical meetings, workshops, and learning exchanges.
- Contribute technical inputs to partnership initiatives, inter-agency coordination processes, humanitarian policy discussions, and advocacy efforts.
- Conduct humanitarian research, assessments, and analysis to identify gender-specific needs, vulnerabilities, capacities, and trends.
- Support the design and implementation of Rapid Gender Analyses (RGAs), Post-Disaster Needs Assessments (PDNAs), and other analytical exercises.
- Conduct data analysis and interpretation to strengthen evidence-based humanitarian programming and decision-making.
- Develop methodologies, indicators, monitoring frameworks, and analytical products.
- Contribute to reports, publications, and evidence products highlighting gender dimensions of humanitarian crises.
- Develop training materials, learning resources, toolkits, and knowledge products.
- Facilitate capacity-building activities, technical workshops, simulations, trainings, and learning sessions.
- Support information management activities, including data collection, analysis, visualization, and knowledge systems.
- Deliver training and learning initiatives on gender-responsive humanitarian programming, Gender and Age Marker (GAM), localization, and women’s leadership.
- Document lessons learned, good practices, and emerging trends.
- Support knowledge-sharing initiatives and learning processes.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, resilience-building, localization, or related fields, with integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment in programme and policy work, is required.
- Technical experience in one or more of the following areas: humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA), localization, resilience-building, humanitarian preparedness and response, or related humanitarian thematic areas is required.
- Experience in programme design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, analytical work, and report writing related to humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, localization, Gender in Humanitarian Action, or related thematic areas would be an asset.
- Experience in information management and knowledge management, including data collection, analysis, reporting, development of knowledge products, technical resources, dashboards, learning materials, or information products to support humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, or related humanitarian initiatives would be an asset.
- Experience working within the UN system or other international organizations engaged in humanitarian action or disaster risk reduction would be an asset.
- Experience working with governments, UN agencies, international organizations, women-led organizations, civil society organizations, donors, and humanitarian partners is desirable.
- Experience supporting or engaging with humanitarian coordination mechanisms, inter-agency processes, Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Groups, humanitarian assessments, or humanitarian response efforts is desirable.
- Experience in the Asia-Pacific region is desirable.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Gender and Development, Humanitarian Action, Disaster Risk Reduction, International Development, Social Sciences, Public Policy, Development Studies, or other relevant disciplines. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
