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Strategic Communication Consultant to support the Women in Leadership and Governance AreaVacancy Number: UN23/02672
Contacts: Ms. Mariana Aricova. mariana.aricova@unwomen.orgBackground
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. The work of UN Women in Moldova is guided by its new Country Strategic Note 2023-2027, aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for Moldova (2023-2027), UN Women Global Strategic Plan, National Programs and Strategies and aims to contribute to the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Strategic Note focuses on four main areas: 1) Ending Violence against Women; 2) Women’s Leadership and Governance; 3) Women’s Economic empowerment and 4) Humanitarian and Peace development nexus and UN Coordination on Gender equality. Guided by its Strategic Note, UN Women provides extensive support to relevant national and local stakeholders to ensure promotion of women’s leadership and women’s meaningful political participation. Women and girls constitute more than half of Moldova’s population, yet they are under-represented in the bodies that make key decisions affecting their lives. Although Moldova committed to support the increase of women’s political participation by adopting in 2016 the 40% gender quota and by nationalization of SDGs on gender equality, women remain under-represented in political and public leadership. In the last few years Moldova faced a significant increase related to women’s political participation, by electing in 2020 its first female President and of 40% women in the Parliament after 2021 Snap Elections due to quota provisions. The new Government Cabinet formed in 2021 is led by a female Prime-Minister and has 29% women cabinet members. Its 2019 local elections contributed less to 22 % women as mayors (compared to 20.5% in 2015), 28.73% women district councilors (compared to 18.61% in 2015) and 36.5% women local councilors (compared to 30.6% in 2015). Despite the recorded achievements in the area of political participation, Moldova is still far to achieve 50/50 representation as per SDG commitments, with the value of the Political Empowerment Sub-index of the Gender Gap Index in 2020 being still low (0.264 – placing Moldova on 45th place)[5]. Violence Against Women in Politics and Elections (VAWP/E) continues to be a significant barrier for women to enter and remain in office. UN Women Moldova. UN Women registered close to 260 cases of gendered political and electoral violence during the 2020 Presidential and 2021 Parliamentary elections alone. With General Local Elections scheduled for last week of October 2023, efforts to raise awareness on preventing VAWP/E, geared at women candidates in particular, but also women in office need to amped. Concurrently, multi-faceted efforts are required to encourage women, including women from under-represented groups to run for office considering the relatively low representation of women in leadership roles in local municipalities. Although the 40% gender quota will be applied for the election of local and district councilors in the upcoming local elections, there are significant risks that women’s interest to enter the political races may be low, considering pre-existing inequalities, but also the emerging challenges and backlash against women leaders exacerbated by the competing economic, regional security and refugee crises. Therefore, outreach efforts to raise awareness of political stakeholders and society at large about the need, importance, and benefits of women equal representation in decision making roles, particularly women facing multiple layers of exclusion and discrimination (e.g. Roma women, women with disabilities), need to be scaled up. In this context, UN Women Moldova Country Office intends to hire a strategic communication consultant to support the conceptualization and coordination of a series of audiovisual, print products and events on women’s leadership and political participation. Scope of work
The main objective of this consultancy is to provide strategic inputs and exercise oversight over the development and delivery of high-quality communication products/events/materials on topics related to Violence Against Women in Politics and balanced participation of women in politics and decision making at all levels, in compliance with UN Women standards. More specifically, the consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:
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Please visit this for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf
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Documents to be included
Interested candidates are invited to submit their online applications in the https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=111311 portal, including the following documents:
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