National Consultant for Documentation and Knowledge Management, WGF Programme

The Position:

The National Consultant for Documentation and Knowledge Management will provide support to the WGF programme, operating under the direct supervision of the Programme Management Specialist. The consultant will focus on strengthening documentation frameworks, capturing institutional knowledge, and demonstrating programme impact.

By coordinating with field offices and thematic teams, the consultant will play a pivotal role in ensuring that all planned capacity-building initiatives with a specific focus on disability inclusion are successfully executed, tracked, and showcased.

How you can make a difference:

UNFPA is the lead United Nations agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is intended, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled. The UNFPA Strategic Plan for 2026-2029 articulates the organization’s response to a complex global environment, providing a roadmap for resilience and renewal. It is designed to accelerate the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This mandate is pursued through a focus on four interconnected outcomes: ending the unmet need for family planning; ending preventable maternal deaths; ending gender-based violence and harmful practices; and adapting to demographic change through evidence and rights-based policies.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates who transform, inspire, and deliver high-impact and sustained results and ensure effective external relations, communications, and partnership-building and resource mobilization in a rapidly changing development and funding landscape. We need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them, and who commit to delivering excellence in programme results.

Purpose of Consultancy:

UNFPA expands the possibilities for women and young people to lead healthy and productive lives. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV and AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect. Advancing gender equality and promoting the empowerment of women is a key programme priority of UNFPA defined in UNFPA Strategic Plan (2022-2025). This includes addressing gaps in gender equality, improving sexual and reproductive health services, responding to and preventing Gender Based Violence (GBV) and integrating gender equality and human rights perspectives into national policies, and development frameworks and laws.

UNFPA has successfully implemented its flagship multi-year multi donor supported “Women and Girls First Programme” Since 2015. The WGF Programme Phase 3 is currently in the final year of its implementation. As the third phase of the programme approaches its conclusion, the primary strategic focus for this year is to strengthen knowledge management, consolidate achievements, and secure institutional memory. To support this critical closing and transition to the next phase, a consultant is required to streamline final documentation, extract key operational learnings, and ensure the sustainability of the programme's impact.

The consultant will be responsible for the following core portfolios:

• Partner Documentation & Capacity Support: Support WGF implementing partners to strengthen their reporting and documentation capabilities. Ensure all planned training sessions, particularly disability inclusion initiatives, are successfully conducted and followed through with comprehensive documentation.
• Operational Strategy Analysis: Identify and document key strategy shifts in the operational strategy of implementing partners, analyzing how these adaptations influenced WGF Phase 3 programme delivery and resilience.
• Localization initiatives: Evaluate and document IP-sub-grantee relationships, the effectiveness of the support provided to them, gaps, challenges and the tangible results of localization efforts across the programme footprint.
• Knowledge Management & Impact Reflection: Under the guidance of the Programme Management Specialist, design and facilitate structured lessons learned workshops. Capture compelling case stories with the support of the communications specialist that effectively demonstrate the programme's qualitative and quantitative impact.
• Information Compilation & Synthesis: Systematically organize, manage, and compile all necessary program data and documentation, transforming fragmented inputs from various stakeholders into cohesive, high-quality information packages.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as a liaison, working closely with WGF team, field offices and thematic teams including M&E to align reporting with final-year programme goals.
• Support Workplan Development: Collaborate effectively with the WGF Programme Analyst to facilitate new implementation work plans for partners, ensuring operational consistency across the programme.
• Ad-hoc Technical & Operational Contributions: Provide technical assistance and operational guidance for any additional supplementary interventions or specialized tasks within the WGF portfolio as assigned by the Programme Management Specialist.

Qualifications and Experience:

Education:

• An Advance university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in law, human rights, GBV, social sciences or a related field is required.

Knowledge and Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant and progressive experience, including experience in programme management;
• Knowledge on sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender equality issues, particularly GBV, including relevant international human rights standards and instruments;
• Demonstrated strategic thinking skills, good coordination, communication, international and motivational skills
• Results-based programme management experience, with particular focus on strategic planning and capacity building;
• Experience of reporting and documentation
• Excellent computer skill (Windows environment, MS office applications including Word, Excel and Power-point); and
• Prior working experience with UN agencies is an asset.

Languages:

• Fluency in oral and written English and Myanmar is essential with ability to write clearly and concisely and to compose correspondence and documents in both languages.
• Knowledge of local languages in UNFPA target states and regions is an asset.

Other required skills:

• Experience in application of conflict sensitivity and “do no harm” approaches in the programming

Supervisory arrangements:
S/he will directly report to Programme Management Specialist, Women and Girls First Programme for technical oversight and progress of the assigned tasks.

Expected travel:
If the situation needed, National Consultant may be requested to travel to field locations where WGF programme’s implementation areas operate based on request and needs.

UNFPA Work Environment:

UNFPA provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, diversity, integrity and healthy work-life balance. We are committed to ensuring gender parity in the organization and therefore encourage women to apply. Individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community, minority ethnic groups, indigenous populations, persons with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups are highly encouraged to apply. Reasonable accommodation may be provided to applicants with disabilities upon request, to support their participation in the recruitment process. UNFPA promotes equal opportunities in terms of appointment, training, compensation and selection for all regardless of personal characteristics and dimensions of diversity. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is at the heart of UNFPA's workforce - click here to learn more.

Disclaimer:

Selection and appointment may be subject to background and reference checks, medical clearance, visa issuance and other administrative requirements.

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