Consultant - Gender Statistics Expert
Duty Station : Nairobi, Kenya
Duration of the Initial Contract : 35 days over two months
REF : UNWOMEN/Regoff/40/12
UN women under the auspices of the UN joint programme for gender and women’s empowerment (JP-GEWE) is undertaking a programme of building the capacity of planning officers, monitoring and evaluation officers and gender focal points in collecting, analyzing and using sex disaggregated and gender specific data and information.
UN women is looking for an expert to conduct a needs
assessment/training needs analysis of the identified target group, and based on
that develop a five day initial training for the officers.
Specific tasks for the assignment are to:
- Review
the SDD-GSI that is collected and used by the identified sectors and
ministries to identify
- What
information is collected and how it is used.
- Who
is primarily tasked with collecting information
- Assess
which SDD-GSI collected is needed to inform policy and decision making,
whether it is available in the participating ministries and how it is used
to inform policy and decision making.
Identify the data gap
- Make
a comparative study of the ministries in terms of how far advanced their
SDD-GSI collection and use.
- Establish
which skills are needed to analyze and use SDD-GSI and identify collective
and individual capacity gaps with the planning officers in responding to a
gender informed planning process
- Develop
a proposal for a training programme for statistics officers that will
address identified gaps and needs.
- In
conjunction with the UN participating agencies, agree on a phase 1
training for planning officers — that will take into account the general
and specific needs of the participating ministries
Education and training
An Advanced Degree (Masters with 10 years’ experience or PHD) in any social science or statistics field.
If the degree is not on gender then applicants must have some
training in gender.
- Facilitation
and training skills
- Report
writing skills
Experience:
- At
least ten years demonstrable experience in the field of gender analysis or
statistics.
- Experience
with Government of Kenya Planning processes
III. Application procedure
Interested candidates are requested to apply with the following to email:
consultancies.eharo@unwomen.org with the subject heading : Gender statistics and quoting the reference number
- cv/Ph
- Expected
daily rate
- A
brief account of past work in gender statistics
Incomplete applications or applications received after the
closing date (3rd August 2012) will not be given consideration.
Please note that only applicants who are short-listed will
contacted.
