UN Women is Recruiting for a Homebased Research Specialist on Gender and Climate Change Consultant

Closing Date: 4 September 2024

UN Women is Recruiting for a Homebased Research Specialist on Gender and Climate Change Consultant

Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

The Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division (PPID) sets the programmatic standards, assures the quality of programme design, and provides guidance to country level programme work of UN Women, as well as supporting the coordination role of UN Women at regional and country level. The division has global policy expertise, manages Global Trust Funds, and Global Programmes, and provides technical capacity to countries on request, including a humanitarian response capacity.

The Research and Data Section (R&D) in PPID is responsible for leading UN Women’s research and data agenda and for positioning UN Women as a global knowledge broker on gender equality and women’s empowerment. It leads UN Women’s work on gender statistics and produces knowledge products including UN Women flagship publications such as Progress of the World’s Women, The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development (World Survey) and the global Beijing review reports.

The next edition of Progress of the World’s Women will focus on gender equality and climate change. The global report will build on the paper, Feminist Climate Justice: A Framework for Action, as its conceptual framework. Alongside the global report, a gender equality and climate policy scorecard will be produced, which will define a gender-responsive climate policy agenda and assess the extent to which countries are implementing it.

Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Chief, Research and Data section and in close collaboration with the research specialists in the team, the research specialist on gender and climate change consultant is responsible for leading on the pilot for the gender equality and climate policy scorecard; and for producing an outline and research commissioning strategy for the global report.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Lead the development of an outline of the global Progress of the World’s Women report.

• Based on the conceptual framework outlined in UN Women’s paper: Feminist Climate Justice: A Framework for Action, and in consultation with the research and data section, other experts in UN Women and external experts on gender and climate change, develop options for the outline of the global Progress of the World’s Women report.
• Once an approach has been agreed, develop initial outlines for the chapters, to include key policy issues covered, and data to include.

2. Lead the development of a commissioning strategy for the global Progress of the World’s Women report

• Develop a research commissioning strategy for the chapters identified, based on a scan of existing research and an analysis of where UN Women can add value and contribute to the global knowledge pool on gender equality and climate change.  
• Work with data specialists in UN Women (HQ and regional offices) to identify new data analysis that could be commissioned, based both on data that UN Women holds, and on data collected and held by other institutions in and beyond the UN system.
• Draft TORs and identify leading researchers to commission background research papers and data analysis

3. Contribute to the pilot of the gender equality and climate policy scorecard.  

• Building on the scorecard methodological note developed by UN-Women, with partners at IUCN and Binghamton University, feed into a pilot study of 15-17 countries that aims to test and refine the methodological approach and indicator framework developed for the analysis of National Determined Contributions (NDCs) and for climate funds project data. This will involve working with UNW’s research team to review results, contribute to country coding, analysis and indicator adjustment. 
• Provide substantive inputs to adapt the NDC methodology already developed to analyse UNFCCC climate finance mechanisms project data (e.g.  the Green Climate Fund, the Global Environment Fund) to gain insights on the gender-responsive implementation of the NDCs.   
• Support the writing of a proof-of-concept for the scorecard in the form of a short brief or presentation that summarizes and validates the scorecard’s unique research approach, which can then be used to facilitate stakeholder engagement in key multilateral forums, for instance at COP29, and with UNFCCC national gender and climate focal points.
• Support liaison with scorecard partners as well as external academic/experts to ensure the scorecard methodology is informed by in-depth technical comments and guidance.
• Identify strategic opportunities to disseminate the scorecard, as a basis for positioning UN Women’s approach to climate policy analysis with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• The outline for the global Progress of the World’s Women report is completed and agreed.
• The commissioning strategy for new research and data analysis is competed, and ready for implementation.
• The gender equality and climate policy scorecard pilot is successfully completed, and recommendations are made to strengthen the methodology and data collection/analysis strategy.
• Expertise and advice is provided to the research team on other aspects of the project to produce Progress of the World’s Women global report and scorecard.

Required Skills and Experience

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