Overview
The role involves supporting the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine and other state institutions in conducting gender audits. The consultant will lead the development of the gender audit methodology, provide technical support, and draft reports with recommendations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development of the Gender Audit (GA) Methodology.
- Provide inputs during expert discussions, consultations, and technical meetings.
- Facilitate gender audit related training sessions and other events.
- Lead the desk review of existing organizational and regulatory documents.
- Support the conduction of online surveys and facilitate key informant interviews.
- Lead the detailed analysis of all collected primary data.
- Lead drafting the GA report, including best practices, areas for development, and recommendations.
- Support the organization of the GA report validation and presentation.
- Support the development and finalization of the Action Plan for addressing identified issues.
- Provide other support for the Ministry/other state institutions to implement gender audit recommendations.
Required Experience
- At least 2 years of relevant work experience (after Master’s degree) in the field of human rights and/or gender equality, governance and public administration, research and development, or other related fields.
- Proven experience in planning and conducting gender assessments, gender analyses, gender-responsive evaluations, working with gender-sensitive data.
- Experience in conducting gender auditing in State institutions.
- Previous experience of providing advisory/technical support to the government institutions on the issues of GEWE.
- Experience with coordination and technical support of meetings and consultations with government authorities.
- Proven understanding of human rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment, and national and international GEWE commitments in Ukraine.
Qualifications
- Advanced (Master’s) degree or equivalent in public administration, law, social science, international relations, human rights, gender studies or other related fields.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
