WEE Knowledge Management Assistant, Tanzania at UNWomen

General

Description of assignment title: WEE Knowledge Management Assistant

Assignment country: Tanzania

Expected start date: 09/01/2022

Sustainable Development Goal: 5. Gender equality

Volunteer category: International UN University Volunteer

DoA reserved for persons with disabilities: No

Host entity: UNWomen

Type: Onsite

Duration: 6 months

Number of assignments: 1

Duty stations: Dar es Salaam

Details

Mission and objectives

UN Women is the UN organization delivering programmes, policies and standards that uphold women’s human rights and ensure that every woman and girl lives up to her full potential.

Context

UN Women Tanzania Country Office is looking for an International University Volunteer familiar with issues of Gender and Climate Smart Agriculture to strengthen knowledge management and documentation of climate smart interventions at various levels, specifically for a project funded by KOICA titled “Realizing Gender Equality through the empowerment of women and girls” which aims at improving the agriculture productivity and collective marketing for women and girls, among other goals. The UNV will support the project team to document good practices and lessons learnt with the aim of improving project results and organizational learning.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of the Programme Specialist for Women’s Economic Empowerment, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks, as specific to the Project: “Realizing Gender Equality through the empowerment of women and girls (RGEWER)”:

•  Work closely with the WEE and M&E teams to support monitoring and reporting processes of the project RGEWER.
•  Draft and finalize relevant research reports and present findings to UN Women including partners, as requested.
•  Ensure timely compilation and documentation of user-friendly knowledge products as detailed in the RGEWER project document.
•  Support the creation of a knowledge management strategy for the WEE portfolio, including updating the project flier, fact sheets, and other communication tools in relation to the RGEWER project.
•  Produce three human interest stories documenting the journeys of three RGEWER project beneficiaries.
•  Building on existing studies and support collection of qualitative and quantitative data of women and communities in the project areas.
•  Liaise with RGEWER implementing partners (i.e. TAHA and Farm Africa) and document evidence-based best practices to accelerate women’s agricultural productivity.
•  Contribute to the review of background documents, briefs, and presentations related to the RGEWER project.
•  Help set a UN Women Tanzania WEE Community of Practice (COP) to share knowledge and good practices with stakeholders.

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Eligibility criteria

Age: 18 – 26

Additional eligibility criteria

ELIGIBILITY – Candidates must be Korean nationals between 18 and 29 years of age at the time of application. – You must be enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s degree or have recently graduated (no longer than 12 months ago at the time of application). – Candidates who already served on a UN Volunteer assignment funded by KOICA are not eligible. APPLICATION – If you are currently enrolled in a university and have not yet obtained a university degree, indicate in the section ‘Academic qualifications’ under ‘diploma/degree obtained’ that you are still studying and towards which degree. In the ‘to’ field, enter the current date, as the system does not allow you to enter a future date. Instead of the degree certificate, upload any evidence of your enrollment, for example a transcript. – You may apply to a maximum of three assignments and indicate the order of preference in the ‘Additional remarks’ field when filling in the application form. – If you are above the age of 26, a notification will be displayed that you are not eligible to apply. You may ignore this and proceed with submitting your application. – Application deadline: 1 May 2022 SELECTION – Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. The selection will be done by the UN Host Entity at the level of the country of assignment. Interviews will be conducted by the UN Host Entity between 23 May and 3 June. – Selected candidates will be invited to attend a mandatory online preparation training on 15 and 18 August. +++ UN Volunteer entitlement calculator: https://app.unv.org/calculator +++

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Nationality

Candidate must be a national of a country other than the country of assignment.

Donor priorities

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Requirements

Required experience

0 years of experience in Demonstrated interest and/or experience (up to two years) in knowledge generation, monitoring and evaluation of gender and development/ aid projects in the fields of women’s economic empowerment or agriculture.

•  Ability to work as part of a team and to plan and organize effectively.

Area(s) of expertise

Economics and finance

Driving license

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Languages

English, Level: Fluent, Desirable

Required education level

Bachelor degree or equivalent in Enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s degree or have recently graduated (no longer than 12 months ago at the time of application) in Gender Studies, International Development studies, Economics, Agriculture Economics, or related field.

Competencies and values

Integrity, Team work

Other information

Living conditions and remarks

Dar es Salaam is Tanzania’s most important city for both business and government. The city contains high concentrations of trade and other services and manufacturing compared to other parts of Tanzania, which has about 80 percent of its population in rural areas. Downtown includes many small businesses, many of which are run by traders and proprietors whose families originated from the Middle East and Indian sub-continent—areas of the world with which the settlements of the Tanzanian coast have had long-standing trading relations.

Inclusivity statement

United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.

Note on Covid-19 vaccination requirements

Selected candidates for certain occupational groups may be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) in line with the applicable host entity policy