Humanitarian Action and Gender Consultant

The consultant will provide technical support across humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, localization, humanitarian coordination, monitoring and evaluation, capacity-building, and related humanitarian thematic areas for UN Women in Asia and the Pacific. This is a home-based retainer consultancy supporting gender-responsive humanitarian programming and coordination.

Responsibilities

• Support the design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of gender-responsive humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction (DRR), preparedness, response, recovery, resilience-building, localization, and anticipatory action initiatives across Asia and the Pacific.
• Contribute to the development of programme documents, concept notes, funding proposals, technical guidance, and operational tools related to humanitarian action, the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, and gender equality.
• Provide technical support to UN Women Regional Office, Multi-Country Offices, and Country Offices in responding to emerging humanitarian priorities, crisis response efforts, and surge support requirements.
• Support programme quality assurance, implementation oversight, and documentation of programme results and achievements.
• Support UN Women’s engagement in regional humanitarian coordination platforms, UN system mechanisms, inter-agency processes, and Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Groups.
• Facilitate coordination and collaboration with governments, humanitarian actors, women-led organizations, women’s rights organizations, civil society organizations, and regional, national, and sub-national stakeholders.
• Support the organization and facilitation of regional consultations, technical meetings, workshops, learning exchanges, and coordination dialogues related to gender-responsive humanitarian action, localization, and resilience-building.
• Contribute technical inputs to partnership initiatives, inter-agency coordination processes, humanitarian policy discussions, advocacy efforts, and regional engagement on localization and gender equality commitments.
• Conduct humanitarian research, assessments, and analysis to identify gender-specific needs, vulnerabilities, capacities, and trends in humanitarian and disaster risk contexts.
• Support the design and implementation of Rapid Gender Analyses (RGAs), Post-Disaster Needs Assessments (PDNAs), gender profiles, multi-sectoral needs assessments, and other analytical exercises.
• Conduct data analysis and interpretation to strengthen evidence-based humanitarian programming, policy development, and decision-making.
• Develop methodologies, indicators, monitoring frameworks, and analytical products to support gender-responsive humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, and anticipatory action initiatives.
• Contribute to reports, publications, briefing materials, and evidence products highlighting gender dimensions of humanitarian crises and disaster risks.
• Develop training materials, learning resources, toolkits, and knowledge products related to Gender in Humanitarian Action, disaster risk reduction, localization, and anticipatory action.
• Facilitate capacity-building activities, technical workshops, simulations, trainings, and learning sessions for humanitarian actors, UN entities, governments, women-led organizations, and civil society partners.
• Support information management activities, including data collection, analysis, visualization, information products, dashboards, situation updates, and knowledge systems to strengthen evidence-based humanitarian coordination, decision-making, and reporting.
• Deliver training and learning initiatives on gender-responsive humanitarian programming, Gender and Age Marker (GAM), localization, women’s leadership, disaster risk reduction, and related thematic areas.
• Document lessons learned, good practices, implementation challenges, and emerging trends to support institutional learning and cross-country exchange.
• Support knowledge-sharing initiatives and learning processes to strengthen gender-responsive humanitarian programming and coordination across the region.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Gender and Development, Humanitarian Action, Disaster Risk Reduction, International Development, Social Sciences, Public Policy, Development Studies, or other relevant disciplines. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, resilience-building, localization, or related fields, with integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment in programme and policy work, is required.
• Technical experience in one or more of the following areas: humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA), localization, resilience-building, humanitarian preparedness and response, or related humanitarian thematic areas is required.
• Experience in programme design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, analytical work, and report writing related to humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, localization, Gender in Humanitarian Action, or related thematic areas would be an asset.
• Experience in information management and knowledge management, including data collection, analysis, reporting, development of knowledge products, technical resources, dashboards, learning materials, or information products to support humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, or related humanitarian initiatives would be an asset.
• Experience working within the UN system or other international organizations engaged in humanitarian action or disaster risk reduction would be an asset.
• Experience working with governments, UN agencies, international organizations, women-led organizations, civil society organizations, donors, and humanitarian partners is desirable.
• Experience supporting or engaging with humanitarian coordination mechanisms, inter-agency processes, Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Groups, humanitarian assessments, or humanitarian response efforts is desirable.
• Experience in the Asia-Pacific region is desirable.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of other languages spoken in the Asia-Pacific region, or any UN official language is an asset.

Skills

• Humanitarian Action
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Gender in Humanitarian Action
• Localization
• Resilience Building
• Humanitarian Preparedness
• Programme Design
• Programme Implementation
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Analytical Work
• Report Writing
• Information Management
• Knowledge Management
• Data Collection
• Data Analysis
• Development of Knowledge Products
• Capacity-Building Initiatives
• Humanitarian Coordination
• Inter-agency Processes
• Humanitarian Assessments

Languages

English