• Dhaka

UN Women is looking for National Consultant-Project coordination (ProGRESS) 2024 in Dhaka.

Job Responsibilities:

  • To provide technical inputs to review/updating policies and strategies for gender responsive TVET and enterprises
  • To strengthening institutional capacity of public and private institutions to provide gender-responsive services.
  • Coordinate and provide technical support to form gender and skills taskforce to review the implementation of policies and strategies relating to the Gender Equality in TVET for the promotion of Gender Equality (GE) and elimination of Gender -based Violence (GBV) in TVET/Skills training institutions.
  • Organise periodic meetings with MoWCA and other relevant ministries to form the “Gender and Skills” taskforce.
  • Provide technical and coordination support for advocacy events on Gender Equality (GE) in TVET.
  • Provide technical support to develop background papers/ concept note on gender and skills.
  • Design and deliver capacity building workshops with MoWCA, DWA and other relevant ministries on gender aspects of skills.
  • Coordinate and provide technical support to organize policy dialogues on gender equality in TVET/Skills training to implement/review National Skills Development Policy (NSDP) and National Strategy of Gender Equality in TVET.
  • Develop policy advocacy plan for women/ girls’ access to nontraditional technical education and market-oriented skills for employment.
  • Develop series of policy briefs on select topics related to women/girls’ education in TVET and   employment opportunities in the Technical and Vocational sectors.
  • Organise consultations with multi-stakeholders for reviewing national strategy on skills and gender equality
  • Provide technical support DTE/BTEB to develop and set-up a tracking system for gender targets and monitoring implementation of action plans (Development and setting-up of the tracking system will be led by ILO. UN Women will provide technical support to integrate gender perspectives)
  • Provide technical support in developing the tracking system and developing tools and indicators from a gender lens.
  • Organize capacity building workshops for DTE/ BTEB/ TVET institute officials on gender responsive targets, reporting and monitoring.
  • Provide technical support DTE/TMED to undertake gender audit and self-assessment of the training institutions and identify the gaps and challenges relating to gender mainstreaming in skills trainings.
  • Liaise with government officials for the selection of gender audit tool/self-assessment tool, facilitate the assessment and organise capacity building sessions and workshops as required to facilitate the process, in close consultation with relevant national and international experts.
  • Manage coordination and communication with national and international experts for their inputs on gender audit.  A technical workshop will be organized among the national level gender and audit experts under the leadership of UN Women internal experts on “Gender and Audit” to select and develop gender audit tools.
  • Provide technical and coordination support to conduct needs assessment and validation workshops with TVET institutions.
  • Provide coordination support to ensure editing, translation, printing of the gender audit tool.
  • Documentation and reporting. Provide technical support to prepare events/ workshops reports and result-based reports following UN Women internal and donor reporting compliances.

Location:

Bangladesh

Benefits

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Eligibilities

Job Requirements: 

  • Master’s degree or equivalent in Economics / Women’s and Gender Studies/Development Studies/Law/Political Science/Anthropology or other relevant Social Science discipline.
  • Minimum 10 years of demonstrable experience of working with Government on the national polices/ strategies / action plan on gender equality/ women’s advancement.
  • Proven track record on developing policy briefs and advocacy papers for the government ministries/departments   focusing on the gender equality issues, specifically on women’s economic empowerment.
  • Strong background in capacity building and facilitation with the government officials particularly with the Technical Training institutions.
  • Experience in working with TVET/ Skills development institutions will be an asset.
Eligible Regions: Bangladesh

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