[Hiring] Facilitator for ESAR Senior Management Workshops @UN Women

Role Description

The Facilitator will be engaged on an as-needed basis to facilitate and moderate high-level strategic forums for ESA Region Senior Management, enabling focused discussions, critical analysis, and the delivery of actionable outcomes from each workshop. He/she must demonstrate proven expertise in designing and delivering high-level workshops for similar multilateral senior leadership teams.

The facilitator will be expected to develop a practical approach for facilitating the workshop, ensuring that sessions are interactive, engaging, participatory, and creatively organized in a culturally sensitive manner. The facilitations will be done virtually, requiring the facilitator to leverage digital tools and approaches to ensure effective engagement and interaction.

• Design Workshop Modalities: Develop the overall structure and approach for facilitating the workshops;
• Finalize Methodology: Collaborate with the Senior Management Planning Committee to develop and refine the methodology, incorporating feedback to ensure the workshops meet their objectives and reflect regionally diverse contexts;
• Facilitate Key Sessions: Lead and moderate core sessions, promoting active participation, effective time management, and the achievement of defined objectives and results;
• Summarize Sessions: In consultation with the Workshop Planning Committee, prepare concise summaries of each session to support daily recaps and contribute to the overall workshop report;
• Prepare Technical Report: Compile a comprehensive workshop report outlining outcomes, recommendations, and actionable next steps.

Deliverables

• Workshop facilitation methodology and approaches;
• Facilitation and moderation: Execution of workshop sessions with summaries of key deliberations and identified action points;
• Final Workshop Report: A concise report capturing the main discussions, action points, and recommendations from each workshop.

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

This is a home-based consultancy. As part of this assignment, there will be travels on a needs basis to the workshop venues.

Competencies

Core Values

• Integrity;
• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencies

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

Functional Competencies

• Strong familiarity with gender equality and women’s empowerment issues in Africa, and UN Women’s mandate and efforts in these regards;
• Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions in line with the UN Code of Conduct;
• Ability to work in a team and develop synergies;
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, ability to foster networks and partnerships;
• Ability to complete complex assignments in a timely manner and deliver quality results;
• Demonstrate respect for culture, gender, religion, and nationality;
• Demonstrated pedagogical experience, subject knowledge, sound judgment, and advanced skills in transformational leadership skills training and staff development;
• Excellent reporting and analytical skills.

Required Qualifications

Education and Certification

• Master’s degree or equivalent in International Development, Human Rights, Law, Gender and Governance or related is required;
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree;
• A project/programme management certification would be an added advantage.

Experience

• At least 10 years of work experience in the field of development at international level with international, regional or bilateral development organizations is required;
• Experience in facilitating and/or moderating high-level meetings/workshops engaging culturally diverse groups is required;
• Strong understanding and experience working on policy and legal frameworks on gender equality, human rights and gender-responsive Peace & Security programming is required;
• Strong experience working with senior management teams in the United Nations system is required;
• Previous working experience with UN Women would be an asset.

Languages

• Fluency in English is required;
• Knowledge of any other UN official language is an asset.

Diversity and Inclusion

At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.

If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.

UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks.