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UN Women Knowledge and Partnerships Centre in the Republic of Korea
The UN Women Knowledge and Partnerships Centre in the Republic of Korea (formerly the UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality, hereinafter \"the Centre\") was established in 2022 in partnership with the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (MOGEF) of the Republic of Korea (ROK). The Centre was founded with a shared mandate to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls across Asia and the Pacific.
Located in Seoul, the Centre has, in just over two years, contributed to developing strategic partnerships and strengthening cross-country exchanges and learning among countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including ROK. It has facilitated capacity development, advocacy, and convening of strategic policy dialogues across various thematic areas, including women's economic empowerment, gender-transformative disaster risk reduction, gender-responsive climate actions, Women, Peace and Security, ending gender-based violence, gender statistics, and private sector partnerships. In early 2025, the Centre was rebranded with a new name to emphasize its key functions in facilitating partnership development and knowledge exchange on promising practices and lessons learned for advancing gender equality and women's empowerment.
In 2025โ2026, the Centre will focus on accelerating investments in two priority areas: 1) transforming care systems, and 2) tackling Technology-Facilitated Gender Based Violence (TFGBV). The Centre will embrace innovation, including as it relates to new technologies and partnerships, to increase the breadth and impacts of its work, aligning with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Pact for the Future and the on-going regional and global dialogue on Beijing+30 and its transformative promise to leave no one behind. Prioritisation will be given to supporting at the regional and global level: enhanced knowledge, responses and strategies on transforming care system as a cornerstone of womenโs overall empowerment; strengthened knowledge, policies and tools to end technology-facilitated gender-based violence; and increased emphasis on advancing multistakeholder partnerships for gender equality and womenโs empowerment.
At the global level, under the leadership of the UN Deputy Secretary-General, UN Women recently coordinated an inter-agency working group, which includes the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), ILO, UNOHCHR, and UNDP. This resulted in a UN System policy paper on \"Transforming Care Systems in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals and Our Common Agenda.โ The paper provides a practical framework for UN agencies to address care within the context of the SDGs and promotes comprehensive care systems that enable gender equality and social justice. It highlights policy options to support the transformation of care systems and highlights the importance of human rights-based, universal, and transformative approaches to care. This is an important milestone as it will shape and guide UN and system-wide action on Care in the decades to come.ย
Within the focus on Transforming Care Systems, theย TransformCare Investment Initiative Asia-Pacific (TCII-AP)ย is a UN Women-convened initiative to make care systems prosperous for people and the planet. TransformCare is a global large-scale, long-term response aiming to catalyse multi-donor investments and multi-partner collaborations to build resilient care systems, serving as a foundation for caring societies and inclusive and green economies where women can fully realize their economic rights and participation. Advancing womenโs economic empowerment by building caring societies and inclusive and green economies aims to contribute by 2035 to: (i) Benefit 100 million women and girls in all their diversities; (ii) Create 125 million new employment opportunities in the care economy in 2035 as well as in future-oriented sectors, including the green and digital economy; (iii) Release 2 billion hours of time spent by women on unpaid care workย
An important part of TCII is to support policymakers with tools and guidance for designing gender-responsive policies and practices to create an enabling environment to transform care systems. Towards this, UN Women is seeking an expert to advance evidence-informed policy design to accelerate actions towards gender equality and womenโs economic empowerment through the use of official statistics on care.ย
Description of Responsibilities/Scope of Work
The objective of the consultancy is toย Develop technical guidelines on evidence-informed decision making to transform care systems.ย Theย technical guidelines will blend with the UN Womenโs HQ standard training on transforming care systems and leverage the experience from the ROK on the use of official statistics, such as time use data among others, to inform the design and monitoring of care policies.ย ย
Under the supervision of the Statisticsย Specialist in the Women Economic Empowerment Unit at the UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Gender Training Specialist, the consultant will develop the technical guidelines, including best practices in the Asia and Pacific region in using relevant official statistics for the design of policies on transforming care system.
The specific tasks of the consultant:ย
Inception Phase & Workplan Development
- Conduct an inception meeting with UN Womenโs team to align on expectations, scope, and deliverables.
- Develop a detailed work plan, including methodology and timeline.
Desk Review & Context Analysis
- Review existing global and regional frameworks and initiatives on, evidence-informed decision-making, including a whole-of-society approach.
- Analyze the UN Women HQ standard training on transforming care systems to ensure alignment with the technical guideline.
- Analyze practices in some countries in the AP region, including the Republic of Koreaโs (RoK) experience in utilizing Time Use Data for care policy development and extract key lessons. Other good examples from other regions should be considered if possible.
- Develop the outline of the guidance.
Stakeholder Consultationsย
- Conduct key informant interviews or focus group discussions with policymakers, care sector experts, national statistical offices and UN Women stakeholders to gather insights.
- Through consultation with UN Women, engage with relevant actors in Asia-Pacific to understand challenges and opportunities in using official statistics for care policy transformation.
Development of the Technical Guideline
- Draft a comprehensive guideline that consider UN Womenโs standard training, and lessons from countries in the region, including the experience from the ROK as well as relevant best practices from other regions.
- Provide clear methodologies, tools, and case studies to support policymakers in applying evidence-informed approaches to the design and monitoring of care policies.
ย Validation and Finalization
- Present the draft guideline to UN Women, experts, and key stakeholders for feedbackย
- Develop a short presentation or briefing note to facilitate knowledge-sharing and future training sessions.
- Integrate feedback and refine the guideline for finalization.
- Submit the final guideline, ensuring clarity, usability, and alignment with UN Womenโs objectives. Deliverablesย Target datesย
- Minutes meeting of the Inception meeting with the UN Women Team
- Inception report that includes a detailed work plan, methodology and timeline, initial identification of main frameworks to guide evidence-informed policy making and a draft outline of the guidance. 15 September
- List of the stakeholders that the consultant consults during the development of the guidelines and minutes of the consultations.
- Minutes of the inception meeting with the Peer Review Group to discuss the scope of work and timeline. 15 October ย
- First draft guidelines that are aligned with UN Womenโs editorial guidelines and standard training on Transform Care Systems and include lessons and best practices from countries in the region, including experience from the ROK. 15 December
- PPTs to present the draft guideline to relevant stakeholders for validationย
- Final draft of the guidelines and associated tool to operationalize the guidelines (e.g., guidance on usersโ producers dialogues)ย
- Final PPTs of the guidance after integrating feedback 15 January 2026
Consultantโs Workplace and Official Travel
This is a home-based consultancy. Meanwhile, as part of the official duty of this consultancy, the consultant may be expected to travel, which will be processed by UN Women following the duty travel policy.ย
COMPETENCIES :
Core Values:
- Integrity;
- Professionalism;
- Respect for Diversity.
Core Competencies:
- Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
- Accountability;
- Creative Problem Solving;
- Effective Communication;
- Inclusive Collaboration;
- Stakeholder Engagement;
- Leading by Example.
Please visitย this linkย for more information on UN Womenโs Values and Competencies Framework:ย
Functional Competencies:
- Strong understanding of the priorities of the ESCAP Committee on Statisticsย
- Demonstrated knowledge of data ecosystems and governance and the UN role in enhancing evidence-informed decision making
- Skills in project management
- Excellent analytical skills
- Excellent writing skills in Englishย
- Demonstrated experience with UN processes and systems, particularly as relates to Project Documents
- The consultant must have a strong sense of responsibility, a flexible and proactive mindset, and the ability to work independently
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing with multicultural personnel at all levels of the organization
- Ability to work productively in a highly pressured environment
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Education and Certification:
- Masterโs degree or equivalent in business management, social sciences, public administration, international relations, communications, or a related field is required
- A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree
Experience:
- Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible professional work experience in statistics
- Proven experience managing diverse stakeholders, particularly donors
- Experience developing UN knowledge products is an asset
- Experience in a multicultural, multi-ethnic environment is desirable
- Experience working in UN Women or another UN organization is desirable
- Experience working in or with developing countries is an advantage
Languages:
- Excellent Englishย writingย skills are required.
Evaluation:ย
- The application will be evaluated based on the technical qualification.ย
- Only short-listed candidates will be requested to submit any one similar statistics product that they have contributed.ย
Evaluation criteria:
The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 100. The technical qualification of the individual is evaluated based on following technical qualification evaluation criteria:
Criteria No.Technical Evaluation CriteriaObtainable Score 1 Educationย 20 % 2 Experience and skills 60 % 3 Language and report writing skills 20 % ย Total Score 100 %
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- Excellent Englishย writingย skills are required.
- First draft guidelines that are aligned with UN Womenโs editorial guidelines and standard training on Transform Care Systems and include lessons and best practices from countries in the region, including experience from the ROK. 15 December