Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist - Retainer

UNOPS Myanmar

Nexus Response Mechanism 

The Nexus Response Mechanism (NRM) is an EU-funded programme designed to implement innovative,  tailor-made, flexible activities along the humanitarian-development peace (H-D-P) spectrum in Myanmar. The NRM’s objectives are to reduce the vulnerabilities, build the resilience and protect the rights of conflict-affected people throughout Myanmar. 

NRM’s interventions are designed to pilot new ways of working and are aimed at contributing to systemic change. Both its short-term and long-term interventions incorporate rights objectives and pathways for advocacy and dialogue, ensuring that programming is accompanied by substantive efforts to address rights and structural challenges in Myanmar. To ensure its projects are holistically designed, the NRM utilizes a three-pillared approach focused on the integration of H-D-P sectors and the incorporation of a rights-based approach, the transformation of power dynamics and imbalances through greater localization and inclusion, and accountability to both donors and communities through adaptive project design and a robust learning agenda. The integration of gender and conflict sensitivity is paramount to delivering relevant high quality interventions to the people and communities we work with.

The Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist supports the NRM to apply gender equality and disability inclusion into all projects and program designs by giving advice and technical support to the NRM Secretariat and partners in Myanmar.

The scope of the work of the Gender and Disability Specialist requires experience and in-depth understanding of gender equality and women’s empowerment issues specific to Myanmar, the situation of persons with disabilities in the context of Myanmar, as well as programming expertise and experience. 

The Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist will support NRM’s partners to recommend and support the monitoring and evaluation of concrete gender and inclusion measures into their projects   following a review of project documents and reports together with meetings with partners and project assessments. These responsibilities should culminate with the co-creation of action plans that can be implemented by  partners to ensure that projects  are GESI sensitive and/or transformative to the greatest degree possible.

In addition, the Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist is expected to provide technical  advice regarding disability inclusion in Myanmar with strong considerations of the social, political and institutional context in conflict-affected areas of the country.

SUPPORT TO PROGRAMME TEAM

• Conduct the gender and disability inclusion focused review of project documents, proposals, reports, etc. to ensure projects adequately mainstream GESI considerations

• Provide  guidance   to  grantee organizations to ensure active gender inclusion and reach to persons with disabilities and other marginalized and vulnerable groups

• Apply knowledge of Disability Rights and Gender Equality  in Myanmar to enable review and monitoring of NRM assistance for potential negative and positive conflict sensitivity interactions

• Guide capacity strengthening of team and partners on gender/disability inclusion, including organizing GESI workshops, trainings, etc

• Develop concept notes, scoping reports, and other analyses as needed on the way gender and inclusion has been incorporated in NRM programming, and how it can be strengthened moving forward.

• Review partner reports with an eye on gender and inclusion, and provide feedback to the programme team and partners on how this can be strengthened.

• Support ongoing NRM review processes, including mid-term reviews, project evaluations, and strategy revisions

• Assist grantees to incorporate gender and disability inclusion components to their budgets and incorporate the correct allocations within the proposed budgets

• Support the incorporation of inclusive principles and GBV guidelines to all NRM grants

MEAL AND KNOWLEDGEMENT MANAGEMENT 

• Collaborate with M&E Specialist and provide recommendations to ensure that the M&E frameworks and formats include  Gender  and Disability related guidance and indicators

• Collaborate with M&E Specialists and provide technical recommendations to capture, analyze and visualize the gender disaggregated results, lessons learned, best practices and case studies.

• Suggest activities in MEAL to help NRM, IPs, and communities to understand how gender and inclusion impacts humanitarian, development and peace outcomes.

• Provide necessary technical inputs to grantees for planning and executing independent evaluation (if any) , incorporating gender as a cross-cutting evaluation criteria 

• Advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent), preferably in law/human rights, social science, international development, business administration, gender analysis, public administration, international relations or related areas is required. 
• Bachelor’s Degree with additional 2 years of relevant work experience preferably in the above duties and responsibilities may be accepted in lieu of Master Degree.

Contract type: Local Individual Contractor Agreement
Contract level: LICA-10
Contract duration: 60 Days per year ( subject to organizational requirements, availability of funds, and satisfactory performance) 

Note:  This is a home-based retainer contract.  

• Please note that UNOPS does not accept unsolicited resumes.

• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

• Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process, which involves various assessments.

• UNOPS embraces diversity and is committed to equal employment opportunity. Our workforce consists of many diverse nationalities, cultures,  languages, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities. UNOPS seeks to sustain and strengthen this diversity to ensure equal opportunities as well as an inclusive working environment for its entire workforce. 

• Qualified women and candidates from groups which are underrepresented in the UNOPS workforce are encouraged to apply. These include in particular candidates from racialized and/or indigenous groups, members of minority gender identities and sexual orientations, and people with disabilities.

• We would like to ensure all candidates perform at their best during the assessment process.  If you are shortlisted and require additional assistance to complete any assessment, including reasonable accommodation, please inform our human resources team when you receive an invitation.

Terms and Conditions 

• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post. 

• For retainer contracts, you must complete a few mandatory courses ( they take around 4 hours to complete)  in your own time, before providing services to UNOPS. Refreshers or new mandatory courses may be required during your contract. Please note that you will not receive any compensation for taking courses and refreshers. For more information on a retainer contract here.

• All UNOPS personnel are responsible for performing their duties in accordance with the UN Charter and UNOPS Policies and Instructions, as well as other relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, all personnel must demonstrate an understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a manner consistent with UN core values and the UN Common Agenda.

• It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential personnel. Recruitment in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.