UN Women – Learning and Training Consultant

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. The Strategic Partnerships Division (SPD) works to strengthen UN Women’s position as a partner of choice for gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) among governments and private sector actors around the world. The Division does this by positioning GEWE in the intergovernmental and multilateral fora, and engaging with governments and private sector corporations, foundations and individuals as policy, programme and resource partners. A key premise for SPD is that engagement with partners should be holistic based on multiple aspects of partnerships, including policy advocacy and resource mobilization. SPD convenes a number of partnerships with private sector partners and seeks to ensure that these are complementary and synergistic. The Multi-Stakeholder Private Partnership Section brings these together, leveraging the range of UN Women’s partnership vehicles and its National Committees to achieve maximum impact for gender equality.  It is the driver of UN Women’s corporate engagement with the private sector both in terms of substantive partnership and resource mobilization. With European Union funding, UN Women and the International Labour Organization have created an innovative programme that focuses on “Promoting women’s economic empowerment at work through responsible business conduct in G7 countries” (WE EMPOWER) that is being implemented over a period of three years 2018-2020. The project’s operational platform is the Women’s Empowerment Principles, established by the UN Global Compact and UN Women in 2010. The EU-funded WE EMPOWER programme team manages the websites, www.EmpowerWomen.org, www.weps.org and welearn.unwomen.org: Empower Women, the global movement for women’s economic empowerment (WEE), engages gender equality advocates and empowers women to achieve their full economic potential in more than 190 countries since 2013. Empower Women equips over a million women and men with resources, opportunities and a global platform to become change-makers and leaders in their communities. It is built on Sitecore. Weps.org is the knowledge management platform for the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), which hosts the information about the principles, signatories and resources available for the WEPs network. WeLearn is currently a prototype global learning portal (built on Moodle) that will offer experiential, personalized and learning curricula to support women’s full participation in the economy. WeLearn will focus on equipping women with the skills needed for the jobs of the future (entrepreneurship and employment), including 21st century skills. It will provide access to customized, skills-based learning paths, a supportive community of learners and change-makers, and connections to real-world learning and employment opportunities that will empower women and girls and build a more gender inclusive society. WeLearn will be piloted in Indonesia in 2019. UN Women’s WE EMPOWER - G7 Programme will scale up its use of the platforms to host and disseminate capacity development materials  that contribute to women’s economic empowerment, including training and learning materials on the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), entrepreneurship, responsible business conduct, negotiation and other professional growth and skills development courses. Developing women’s competences is critical to provide them with the conditions for the best possible start in their lives and for making companies more effective. The WeLearn platform plays a critical role in providing women with access to tailored knowledge to do well in business and in the labour market. WE EMPOWER–G7 Programme facilitates capacity building and skills development sessions for women employees and women entrepreneurs, to help them acquire a skill they need to be more successful in their career and/or business. Reporting to the Policy Adviser for WEE and WEPs, and under day-to-day supervision of the Innovation and Knowledge Management Specialist, the Learning and Training Consultant will be responsible for conceptualizing, launching, managing and monitoring the learning content. The Learning and Training Consultant will also work closely with independent experts [the “Experts”] who will develop the content for the 10 lessons as well as the selected contractor [the “Contractor”] that will prepare the instructional design and develop the 10 lessons.

Duties and Responsibilities

Summary of key functions:

Support the overall planning, the day-to day coordination of the development of 10 lessons, launch and monitor progress in accordance with the WE EMPOWER – G7 Programme plan and objectives:

Content creation

• Identify the learning objectives and learning components for each lesson.
• Map existing available courses, tools and training needs to determine the niche areas for the 10 lessons.
• Help identify the Experts for curricula development.
• Work with the Expert to develop content for 10 lessons.
• Support the organization of webinars and other online learning activities to gather technical inputs for content creation.

Course production

• Oversee the Contractor’s development of the 10 lessons and propose engaging exercises, quizzes and tools, in accordance with the best learning methodology for course design and in line with the priority areas of the programme.
• Define and coordinate the delivery channel.
• Organize internal and external peer review processes for the learning materials developed by the Contractor.
• Upload the lessons to the learning management system (Moodle).

Roll out

• Lead the packaging, piloting and roll out of the lessons.
• Organize pilot testing for the lessons.
• Collaborate with the WE EMPOWER – G7 communications team to develop the outreach, communication and social media strategy and determine the best tools and channels to reach out to the target audience.
• Develop evaluation criteria to measure progress and success.
• Contribute a chapter on the delivery of the 10 lessons to the final evaluation and final progress report to the European Union.

Impact of Results

The position has an impact on the overall effectiveness and success of WE EMPOWER – G7 and WEPs programme interventions and results. Efficient and prompt delivery of services will contribute to positioning the WEPs Learn as the learning place for women’s empowerment and gender responsive content in the workplace, marketplace and community.

Competencies

Core values /Guiding principles:

Integrity:

• Demonstrating consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.

Professionalism:

• Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.

Cultural Sensitivity / Valuing diversity:

• Demonstrating an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff;
• Demonstrating an international outlook, appreciating differences in values and learning from cultural diversity.

 

Core Competencies:

Ethics and Values:

• Demonstrating / Safeguarding Ethics and Integrity.

Organizational Awareness:

• Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment.

Developing and Empowering People / Coaching and Mentoring:

• Self-development, initiative-taking.

Working in Teams:

• Acting as a team player and facilitating teamwork.

Communicating Information and Ideas:

• Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively.

Self-management and Emotional intelligence:

• Creating synergies through self-control.

Conflict Management / Negotiating and Resolving Disagreements:

• Managing conflict.

Knowledge Sharing / Continuous Learning:

• Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others.

Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making:

• Informed and transparent decision making.

 

Functional Competencies:

Client Orientation:

• Monitor ongoing developments inside and outside the client’s environment to keep them informed and anticipate problems;
• Meet timeline for delivery of products or services to clients.

Technological Awareness:

• Experience in working in a multicultural and web-based environment;
• Fluency in office software, email, web-based applications and databases.

Planning and Organizing:

• Ability to plan own work and manage conflicting priorities;
• Ability to develop clear goals that are consistent with agreed strategies;
• Identifies priority activities and assignments and adjusts priorities as required.

Ability to organize, facilitate and participate in learning webinars and workshops:

• Outstanding networking, team building, organizational and communication skills;
• Capacity to work with diverse stakeholders;
• Interest and commitment to the empowerment of women particularly through gender lens training and learning, and capacity development;
• Ample knowledge of gender issues and economic development agenda;
• Substantive knowledge of gender stereotypes and biases in training and learning approaches.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Advance university degree (Masters or equivalent) in education, instructional design, business administration, gender studies, social sciences, international development, or related fields. Undergraduate degree in similar field will be accepted with two additional years of work experience.

Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in the fields of instructional design, course development, pedagogy, training/capacity development related to gender equality and/or development, education, or other related areas;
• Experience at the international level is highly desirable;
• Experience in the design and management of e-Learning materials is highly desirable;
• Experience with the UN system is highly desirable.

Languages:

• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English is required;
• Knowledge of additional official UN language is desirable.