Retainer: National Consultant - Training Facilitator

OBJECTIVE OF THE CONSULTANCY

The objective of this consultancy is to enhance the leadership, political participation, and electoral engagement capacities of women leaders and aspiring candidates by delivering high quality training across multiple capacity‑building programs using UN Women’s modules and tools. It also has an objective of enhancing the capacity of electoral actors in the various areas related to gender responsive electoral processes. Through this assignment, the consultants will facilitate a range of capacity building interventions for various actors and stakeholders. The consultancy aims to ensure consistent, impactful, and context appropriate delivery of these training sessions to support women’s effective and meaningful participation in political and electoral processes.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES/ Scope of the Work

Under the direct supervision of the LEAD Program Specialist, the consultants are expected to undertake the following tasks:

• Develop training packages suitable both for online and offline trainings, in line with UN Women’s already available training modules and facilitators guide;
• Facilitate training sessions across multiple capacity‑building programs, including:
• Presidential leadership program.
• Transformative Leadership for Gender Equality (TLGE).
• Women’s Political Empowerment, Leadership, and Campaigning, including candidate and aspirant preparation, using UN Women’s training modules and toolkits.
• Electoral Legal and Normative Frameworks, including gender‑responsive electoral administration, election observation, and monitoring across the electoral cycle.
• Gender‑Responsive Media Reporting and Communication, including ethical coverage of women in politics and elections.
• Prevention of and Response to Violence Against Women in Politics and Elections (VAWiP/E), using UN Women’s global VAWiE modules and other recommended training packages.
• Gender‑Sensitive and Gender‑Responsive Election Observation and Monitoring, including documentation, reporting, and accountability mechanisms, using UN Women training modules and tools, and
• Training on other cross cutting areas such as Women, Peace and security (WPS)
• Conduct pre and post‑training assessments using standardized tools to measure changes in participants’ knowledge, skills, and capacities.
• Collect daily feedback from participants and adapt training approaches and methodologies as needed to ensure effective learning outcomes.
• Prepare a comprehensive training report summarizing the training content, pre‑ and post‑assessment results, participant engagement, challenges encountered, lessons learned, and recommendations for strengthening future UN Women capacity‑building programs.
• Consolidate and harmonize all individual session and training reports into one comprehensive final document for submission to UN Women.
• Review, adapt, and develop standardized training content for online delivery, ensuring consistency across modules and enhancing accessibility through inclusive design, clear learning outcomes, and user‑friendly digital formats.

DELIVERABLES

• Develop and enhance comprehensive training packages for both online and offline delivery across all LEAD program capacity-building components, ensuring alignment with UN Women’s existing training modules and facilitator guides.
• Deliver high-quality training sessions across the various LEAD program capacity-building programs using UN Women’s designated training packages. This includes preparing agendas, PowerPoint presentations, practical exercises, and administering pre- and post-training assessments, as well as conducting daily and overall training evaluations.
• Prepare a concise training summary report that highlights key issues discussed, major action points, session highlights, participant stories or reflections, and the results of the pre‑ and post‑training assessments
• Consolidate and harmonize all individual session and training reports into a single, comprehensive final document for submission to UN Women.
• Review, adapt, and develop standardized training content suitable for online delivery, ensuring consistency across modules and improving accessibility through inclusive design, clear learning outcomes, and user-friendly digital formats
• Provide expert advice to UN Women on effective follow-up strategies to monitor how the training contributes to participants’ leadership development and supports broader behavioral or institutional change.

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

This consultancy is home‑based; however, travel to designated training locations is required as part of the assignment.

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 visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Values and Competencies Framework:

Functional Competencies:

• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Evidence of having undertaken similar assignments
• Experience in editing reports, developing policy briefs, and preparing documents for publication.
• High level written and oral communications skills in English
• Result-oriented, team player, exhibiting high levels of enthusiasm for gender equality, diplomacy, and integrity.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and professional skills
• Ability to work effectively and harmoniously with people from varied cultures and professional backgrounds.
• Ability to produce well-written and edited documents

Education and Certification:

• Minimum of master level degree in social sciences, particularly on governance, law, management, political science, leadership, peace and security, or another relevant field.
• 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:

• A minimum of five years’ experience in developing training materials and facilitating capacity building programs on gender equality, TLGE, WPE, VAWE, electoral legal frameworks and media guidelines and cross-cutting themes such as WPS.
• Strong knowledge of women’s human rights, electoral processes and legal frameworks, women’s political participation, VAWE, transformative leadership, gender‑sensitive media reporting, and peace and security issues, including the WPS agenda.
• Personal commitment, ability to work independently, and capacity to work effectively and harmoniously with individuals from varied cultures and professional backgrounds.
• Proven experience with developing and applying adult learning methodologies and providing training for Government institutions and community-based organizations.
• Past experience with collaborative training, development of training and facilitation of workshops with diverse stakeholders.
• Previous experience working with UN agencies, particularly UN Women, is considered an asset.

Languages:

• Fluency in Amharic and English is required.
• Working knowledge of other UN languages is an asset.

Skills Required:

• Legal / Law
• Political / Science / Ir
• Social / Science / Project / Management / Development