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UN Women Seeks Home-Based Consultant for Gender, Disability, and Care in New York
UN Women Seeks Home-Based Consultant for Gender, Disability, and Care in New York
- Job Identification: 24810
- Apply Before: 03/26/2025, 05:59 AM
- Job Schedule: Full time
- Locations: New York, United States Home Based
- Agency: UN Women
- Vacancy Type: Individual Consultancy
- Job Function: Operations
- Initial Contract Duration: 4 months
- Vacancy Category: Consultancies
UN Women is inviting applications for a home-based consultant position focused on gender, disability, and care. This role, based in New York, aims to enhance gender equality and support individuals with disabilities, contributing to strategic initiatives and impactful projects. The consultant will be reporting to the Global Adviser and Team Leader, Gender Equality and Disability Inclusion, United Nations Coordination System Division and will be supported by an Administrative Associate who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues.
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Responsibilities
- Investigate the distribution of care and support responsibilities for children with disabilities within the family, including differences to other families. How much more care and support tasks do women, including women with disabilities, provide in a household with a child with disabilities compared to men and compared to women in other families?
- Outline how unpaid care and support work impacts on women’s physical and mental health, adequate standard of living, economic independence and livelihoods, personal growth, etc. along the lifecycle (long terms impacts into older age). Identify stories and experiences that can be highlighted in the brief with the consent of the persons concerned.
- The impact of societal and cultural norms and beliefs affecting families of children with disabilities, particularly mothers (e.g. family separation, abandonment, isolation).
- Good practices of care and support policies and measures that had concrete impact on the well-being of families of children with disabilities, particularly mothers.
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Requirements
Education and Certification:
- Master’s degree or higher in human rights law, international relations or related areas/fields 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.
Experience:
- At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in human rights is required.
- Experience in gender and the human rights of persons with disabilities is required.
- Experience of undertaking research and analysis is required.
- Experience in social protection, care and support policies, and the rights of the child is desirable.
Languages:
- Fluency in English is required.
- Knowledge of French, Spanish or Arabic is an asset.
