Private Sector Liaison Consultant at UN Women

UN Women is a United Nations entity working for the empowerment of women across the globe. It became operational as the entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women in January, 2011. As a UN Reform Agenda, it was established to bring together resources and mandate for greater impacts in the lives of women. UN Women is a member of the United Nations Development Group and it is focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

UN Women is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Private Sector Liaison Consultant

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Type of Contract: Individual Contract
Post Level: National Consultant
Duration of Initial Contract: 6 months

Background

• The General Assembly of the United Nations established the UN-Women on resolution 64/289 of 2 July 2010 on system-wide coherence, armed with the vision to assist countries toward the goal of achieving gender equality, women’s empowerment and upholding women’s rights.
• UN Women envisages the private sector in Nigeria as integral to realizing the Sustainable Development Goals, and equally, its 5-year Strategic Note (2018-2022).  UN Women’s global work with the private sector and foundations provides a blueprint on how to collaborate with the private sector in Nigeria.
• The regulations cover the following areas mentioned below:

1. Establish high-level corporate leadership for gender equality;
2. Treat all women and men fairly at work – respect and support human rights and non-discrimination;
3. Ensure the health, safety and well-being of all women and men workers;
4. Promote education, training and professional development for women;
5. Implement enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices that empower women;
6. Promote equality through community initiatives and advocacy;
7. Measure and publicly report on progress to achieve gender equality.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Liaison and partnership management with the private sector
• Carry out regular mapping exercise of the private sector in Nigeria to identify opportunities for engagement and partnership with UN Women
• Provide ongoing advice to UN Women on how to better-engage private sector companies as development partners
• Facilitate the dissemination of knowledge and relevant research on women’s empowerment and gender equality to private sector companies to facilitate partnership-building
• Undertake ongoing assessments of opportunities on CSR programmes of private sector companies to identify opportunities for building synergies with UN Women’s programming priorities
• Elaborate concept notes and proposals to facilitate resource mobilization through programming partnerships with the private sector.
• Oversee the delivery of gender technical support services to private sector companies
• Elaborate and oversee implementation of a strategy to facilitate wide-scale adoption of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) by private sector companies in Nigeria
• Oversee on request, the provision of targeted, cost technical support services to companies to improve the gender-responsiveness of their internal policies, using the WEPS  Gender Analysis Tool
• Facilitate strategic convening with private sector companies to share innovative ideas and strategies for enhancing gender-responsiveness of their internal policies and CSR programming activities, and to adopt affirmative procurement practices

Deliverables:

• Updated Mapping of Private Sector companies promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment
• Strategy for expanding Private Sector adoption of the Women’s Empowerment Principles in Nigeria
• Strategy to guide affirmative procurement practices in the Private Sector
• Report on the role of the private sector in promoting the rights of women and girls in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Policy briefs on the role of the private sector in promoting women’s empowerment and gender equality

Competencies
Planning and Organizing:

• Ability to plan work assignments, establish priorities and to meet strict assignment deadlines.

Communications:

• Excellent verbal and written skills, including ability to write reports, formulate and defend sound recommendations and articulate options concisely conveying maximum necessary information;
• Negotiating skills and ability to work at all levels with others to reach mutually benefiting and lasting understandings.
• Excellent facilitation skills and experience facilitating meeting and conferences with diverse audiences

Teamwork:

• Excellent interpersonal skills; capacity to recognize and respond appropriately to the ideas, interests and concerns of others;
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relations with people in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity.

Functional Competencies:

• Promotes a knowledge sharing and learning culture.

Management and Leadership:

• Build strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and results for the client and responds positively to feedback;
• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
• Demonstrate openness to change and ability to manage complexities;
• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills;
• Demonstrate good listening skills and responsiveness to the opinion of others.

Required Skills and Experience
Education:

• Master’s Degree in Social Science, Economics, Gender Studies, International Development, Law, Human Rights, Political Science, International Relations, or other related fields.

Experience:

• At least 7 years of relevant professional experience in working with the private sector in Nigeria
• Experience working in women’s empowerment and gender equality
• Good knowledge of the SDGs and women’s empowerment principles
• Demonstrated ability to work independently; ability to organize work efficiently and deal with multiple tasks

Language:

• Excellent oral and written English language skills

Consultancy Requirements:

• The consultant will be required to work full time, reporting to the UN Women office

Application Closing Date
1st June, 2020.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online