National Consultant - Specialist Building Institutional Capacity for Inclusive Service Delivery, Freetown, Sierra Leone

UN Women • Freetown, AL

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About The Position

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.

Placing women's rights at the center of all its efforts, the UN Women leads and
coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender
equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It
provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States' priorities
and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other
relevant actors.

UN Women is seeking for a local consultant to lead the baseline survey for
“Empowering Communities Through Gender-Responsive Local Governance: Building
Institutional Capacity for Inclusive Service Delivery”. 3-year project funded by
the Embassy of Iceland from 1st December 2025 to 31st December 2028. The project
is being implemented across 6 districts with a budget value $1.8M. The project’s
overarching objective is to ensure all Women, youth and girls, particularly
vulnerable and marginalized groups, enjoy equal access to quality services,
resources, and opportunities within their local communities, enabling them to
fully participate in and benefit from social and economic life in the targeted
districts.

The consultant will be reporting to the Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting
Officer (Evaluation Manager) and Programme Specialist (Gender Mainstreaming) and
management of contract management and validating of all deliverables and
payment.

The scope is to led the conduct of baseline survey for Empowering Communities
Through Gender-Responsive Local Governance: Building Institutional Capacity for
Inclusive Service Delivery project.

Requirements

• At least a master’s degree in economics, sociology, international development, gender/women studies or related areas. Special training in Monitoring and Results Based-Management is considered an asset.
• At least 10 -15 years’ practical experience in conducting baselines, evaluations of international policies and programs utilizing a wide range of approaches and methods including utilization focused, gender and human rights responsive, and mixed methods with a background in social research.
• Extensive experience acting as team leader for complex evaluations and proven ability to manage a diverse Baseline team.
• Excellent knowledge of the UN system, especially UN Women programming at the country level, in development and conflict/post-conflict country contexts.
• Experience and knowledge on gender equality and women’s empowerment, EVAWG, gender analysis and the related mandates within the UN system; experience/knowledge of women’s movements
• Experience and knowledge on human rights issues, the human rights-based approach to programming, human rights analysis and related mandates within the UN system.
• Excellent analytical, facilitation and communications skills and ability to negotiate amongst a wide range of stakeholders.
• Expert in data analysis/visualization using ICT based tools
• Fluent in English and knowledge of other official UN languages.

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience in conducting baselines and evaluations on gender and women’s empowerment or related themes would be considered an asset.
• Experience with UN is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Inception report: This will comprise of Baseline objectives and scope, description of Baseline methodology/methodological approach, Survey instruments (questionnaires, field manual), data analysis methods, key informants/respondents, evaluations questions, performance criteria, issues to be studied, work plan and reporting requirements, Field plan and Training manual / PowerPoint presentation
• Inception Meetings: The consultant will host in-person (preferably) meeting to discuss and finalize the inception report and seek the by-in of the project stakeholders
• Field data collection: train and deploy enumerators to collect data using the finalized tools. National consultant will ensure data quality assurances during this process
• Cleaned and validated datasets (Primary data) with Summary of desk review: This comprises of clean databases for each segment of the data collection approach (quantitative and qualitative).
• Draft Baseline Report: highlighting key Baseline findings and conclusions, lessons learned and recommendations (shall be done in a specific format). The draft report will be discussed with the national partners to ensure participation and involvement of the national stakeholders during validation sessions.
• Final Baseline Report including executive summary, 2 stories expected to be submitted to the UN Women CO Monitoring and Evaluation Unit incorporating all comments and feedback collected from all partners involved.
• Knowledge Transition Materials: including PPT, Infographics and factsheets, would be made to facilitate exchanges and comprehension around the results for all implementing partners and stakeholders.
• Presentation of Results with the project team/stakeholders: At least 2 knowledge sharing sessions to disseminate the results with the stakeholders (including donors, partners, CSO coalition members, NGOs/INGO on peace building, UN agencies etc.)

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees