UN Women Home Based Consultant Vacancy to Develop a Strategy for Prevention of Violence against Women. Apply!

Vacancy Details
- Position(s): Consultant to Develop a Strategy for Prevention of Violence against Women
- Organization: UN Women
- Job Schedule: Full time
- Locations: Home Based
- Job Function: Ending violence against women
- Vacancy Category: International opportunities
- Deadline: Feb 7, 2025
Background
UN Women Home Based Consultant Vacancy to Develop a Strategy for Prevention of Violence against Women. Apply! 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 centre of all its efforts, UN Women supports UN member states as they set global standards for achieving gender equality and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programs and services needed to implement these standards. It stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life, focusing on five priority areas: (1) increasing women’s leadership and participation; (2) ending violence against women; (3) engaging women in all aspects of peace and security processes; (4) enhancing women’s economic empowerment; and (5) making gender equality central to national development planning and budgeting. UN women coordinate and promote the UN system’s work in advancing gender equality.
Ending Violence against Women and Girls is one of the priority areas of UN Women. The Ending Violence against Women Section in New York is part of the Policy Division at UN headquarters. It works to prevent and respond to violence, to increase access to services for survivors, and to make private and public spaces safer for women and girls. At the global level, we work to advance international policies, providing support to the United Nations General Assembly and the Commission on the Status of Women and ensuring that all development agenda includes specific targets to end violence against women and girls.
Ending Violence Against Women (EVAW) is a central pillar of UN Women’s strategy to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment by 2030, as articulated in its Strategic Plan 2022-2025, reflected in the Gender Equality Accelerator on EVAW and outlined in the Action Coalition on GBV. This recognises that VAWG is both a cause and consequence of gender inequality and a barrier to achieving the SDGs, and it promotes a comprehensive and whole-of-society approach.
Violence and women’s fear of it limit women’s choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has long-term, as well as short-term, consequences on women’s physical and emotional well-being. It detrimentally affects women’s ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships and participate in public activities, including development programmes. Over the past few years, UN Women has played a critical role in coordinating and shaping the programming approaches to the prevention of VAW. Notable among these efforts are.
- Collaborating with WHO and other UN agencies to develop frameworks for prevention, including The Framework to Underpin Action to Prevent Violence against Women and the RESPECT Women: Preventing Violence against Women and its implementation package,
- Facilitating a transformative approach to promoting positive social norm change, including through addressing toxic masculinities,
- Promoting a whole of government approach to preventing violence against women through supporting the formulation of national action plans on VAWG prevention and
- Strengthening programming through the development of frameworks and tools to inform practice and evidence-based programming
As UN Women grows its prevention portfolio, different stakeholders are beginning to ask for a forward-looking prevention strategy that recognizes the gains, challenges, and opportunities to elevate our prevention work. We are being asked internally and externally to articulate our vision and a value add to the EVAW prevention field. Without a clear and coherent strategy, we find ourselves saying different things.
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Objective
UN Women EVAW section is seeking to recruit a consultant to develop a prevention strategy that analyses the current prevention ecosystem, UN Women’s vantage points and footprints in the field of prevention over the years and proposes pathways for prevention programming and policy advocacy that is aligned to what is happening in the prevention field, who we are and what we can do well. The consultant will synthesize already existing documents in the field of prevention, including those developed by UN Women., speak with UN Women staff from Cos, ROs, and HQ, as well as with a few colleagues from other thematic areas that work closely with the EVAW thematic area and engage with other UN agencies, Development Partners and CSOs who play central roles in the field of prevention of VAW to help put together a strategy to inform our EVAW prevention direction for the 4-5 years.
Description of Responsibilities /Scope of Work
The consultant will be reporting to the Policy Specialist- Prevention and shall undertake the following tasks:
Deliverable | Expected completion time (due day) |
Synthesis report summarizing key trends, gaps, challenges, and opportunities in prevention, with actionable insights. | April 15, 2025 |
Draft prevention strategy document for review, including a vision, objectives, and proposed actions for 4-5 years. | May 10, 2025 |
Final prevention strategy document, incorporating feedback and providing a clear and coherent framework for action. | May 30, 2025 |
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Requirements
Education:
- A master’s degree in social sciences, human rights, gender/women’s studies, international development, or a related field is required. A PhD in a relevant field is an advantage.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
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Experience:
- Minimum 10 years of proven experience at the international level in the design, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of ending violence against women programs.
- Technical expertise and thought leadership in evidence-based approaches to preventing violence against women and girls
- Proven experience in designing and conducting participatory approaches to research, particularly in the field of EVAW, is a strong asset
- Strong communication skills (ability to moderate meetings and give presentations)
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