UNDP recruits 01 National Consultant

1. CODING Camps in countries across Africa targeting young girls aged between 17 – 20 years from African countries. The first CODING Camp took place in Addis Ababa in August 2018 with up to 90 young girls aged 17-20 years from all AU Member States followed by the second regional coding camp that hosted 43 girls from the SADC region.

2. Mainstream ICT, CODING and Gender in to the national curricula– AGCCI will work closely with Ministries of Education and Ministries of ICT in countries across Africa to mainstream ICT, gender and CODING into the national curricula. This part of the Initiative will allow millions of both urban and rural girls to learn IT skills from the early stages of their primary, middle and high school education. This approach will allow interest in ICT to be engrained in the young girls and place them on the path to reap benefits of the global digital boom. Ethiopia and 9 other countries will be the first countries, where the approach for mainstreaming ICT, gender and CODING will be refined and implemented. The experiences from those countries will form part of the interventions in other African countries.

Understanding the unique advantage of training of the relevant ministries of African countries to mainstream ICT, Gender and Coding in to their national curricula including the role it plays in exposing young girls to ICT the training will be used as a key intervention. In line with this, UN Women Ethiopia, in collaboration with International Communication Union (ITU) and African Union Commission (AUC), have approved and adopted a guide on mainstreaming ICT, Coding and Gender into the national curricula of relevant ministries of African countries and is currently preparing to organize a three-day training followed by a two-day TOT based on the guide.

The participants will know more about the strategy and how to apply it and will receive skills that will allow them to plan and implement duplication of the training to the selected staff in their respective ministries, of the corresponding countries. The trainees will then be guided to work on plans of actions including activities they will need to undertake once back in their countries.Therefore, UN Women is hiring national consultant preferably Bi lingual (French and English or Arabic and English); to develop, facilitate and coordinate a training based on the available mainstreaming ICT, Gender and coding guide

• Develop, design and implement a three-day training programme on Mainstreaming ICT, Gender and Coding into the national curricula of relevant ministries including outline content and time frame; (The training must be contextualized to African countries reality).
• Develop, design and implement a consecutive two-day TOT following the initial training
• Prepare major points of discussion (e.g. using Power Point) that could be easily referred to in the organization of the training,
• Develop and conduct Pre- and Post-assessment of the training
• Prepare a final workshop report that includes assessment of participants evaluations
• Guide the participants to prepare plan of activities relating to duplication of the training in their respective countries
• Prepare a full report of the training and TOT

• Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UN Women;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism;
• Fulfils all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

• Master’s degree in Social Sciences such as Gender and Women’s Studies, International Studies or related field.
• Additional qualifications in working on projects/programmes such as Girls in ICT, Coding or STEM is strongly preferred

Experience and skills

• A minimum of five years professional experience iworking on policy and/or research related to only girls in ICT; demonstrated skills in gender analysis, particularly in relation to ICT and Coding.
• Substantial experience in content editing and writing as well as publication of manual/strategy of similar nature.
• Familiarity with UN and/or AU report writing style preferred.
• Demonstrated substantive and technical knowledge to meet requirements of the consultancy tasks.
• Prior experience in providing a training on Mainstreaming ICT, Coding and Gender in other African countries is strongly preferred.
• The consultants  should be able to understand the practical challenges and opportunities of mainstreaming ICT and Coding in times of conflict.
• An ideal candidate should have creativity, strong organizational ability, capacity to deliver on time, excellent presentation skill and be responsive to feedback.

Language

• Excellent knowledge of written and oral communication in English

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