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 for women as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, the UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
Based on UN legislative mandates and the UNW Strategic Plan, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) is tasked with providing strategic programme development, policy/ technical advisory services and quality assurance support to Multi-Country Offices (MCOs) and Country Offices (COs). It undertakes or coordinates regional research and data analysis; advises on norms, policies and strategies for achieving the internationally and regionally agreed goals related to gender equality and women’s empowerment issues. It acts as a knowledge hub at the regional level, collecting evidence on progress and emerging issues and sharing knowledge on innovative approaches and lessons learned in implementation.
Within the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, the Resilience Unit advances gender equality across climate action, disaster risk reduction, and humanitarian action. This includes support to governments, regional institutions, civil society, women-led organizations, and communities to strengthen gender-responsive resilience in an increasingly complex climate and crisis context. The portfolio includes flagship initiatives such as the EmPower: Women for Climate-Resilient Societies Programme, jointly implemented with United Nations Environment Programme.
As EmPower moves into its final phase of implementation, there is a need to strengthen programme quality, implementation follow-up, results-based management, partner coordination, evidence generation and learning across regional and country-level work. This includes supporting joint UN Women-UNEP implementation, tracking progress against agreed results, documenting programme achievements and challenges, supporting donor and corporate reporting, and ensuring that evidence and learning inform adaptive management and sustainability planning.
The programme also requires continued support to inclusive partnership engagement, including with civil society organisations, women’s rights organisations, women-led organisations, youth-led networks, Indigenous peoples’ groups, grassroots climate actors and other partners contributing to gender-responsive climate action and resilience-building. These partnerships are central to ensuring that programme implementation is informed by community-level realities, women’s leadership, locally grounded evidence and inclusive accountability.
UN Women therefore seeks a Programme Analyst on Gender and Climate Action to provide analytical, coordination and technical support to the Resilience Unit. The Consultant will support programme implementation, monitoring, reporting, partner coordination, civil society engagement, knowledge management and learning, with a particular focus on the EmPower programme and related gender, climate and resilience initiatives in Asia and the Pacific.
Description of Responsibilities /Scope of Work
Under the supervision of the Programme Coordinator on Gender and Climate Action, the Consultant will provide programme analysis, coordination, monitoring, reporting, learning and partner engagement support for the EmPower programme and related gender, climate and resilience initiatives.
The Consultant will support programme quality and implementation follow-up by strengthening results-based management, evidence generation, partner coordination, civil society engagement and learning across regional and country-level work.
1. Programme implementation, coordination and analytical support
- Support day-to-day programme coordination and implementation follow-up for EmPower and related gender, climate and resilience initiatives.
- Track progress against annual workplans, agreed outputs, implementation milestones, partner deliverables and donor commitments.
- Coordinate inputs from UN Women and UNEP regional and country teams, Country Offices, implementing partners and technical teams to support timely programme delivery and reporting.
- Prepare analytical updates on programme progress, implementation bottlenecks, risks, emerging opportunities and recommended management actions.
- Contribute to the preparation of programme briefs, background notes, meeting summaries, coordination notes, action-point trackers, presentations and management updates.
- Contribute to annual work planning, programme reviews, implementation reflection sessions, sustainability planning and final-phase consolidation processes.
- Support coordination across joint programme implementation, including tracking of joint priorities, shared results, partner inputs and follow-up actions.
2. Monitoring, reporting, evidence generation and learning
- Coordinate the monitoring, reporting and results-based management for EmPower, ensuring alignment with the programme results framework, donor requirements, UN Women reporting standards and relevant UNEP reporting requirements.
- Coordinate data collection, validation and consolidation across programme teams, Country Offices and implementing partners.
- Maintain and update results trackers, monitoring tools, dashboards, evidence matrices and reporting templates.
- Support indicator tracking, analysis of progress against targets, documentation of achievements and identification of gaps in evidence or implementation.
- Prepare inputs for donor reports, annual reports, quarterly updates, programme briefs, dashboards, evaluation processes and internal reporting products.
- Support documentation and verification of programme results, including collection of means of verification, partner evidence, field-level results, case studies, knowledge products and other supporting materials.
- Support the use of monitoring information and evidence to inform adaptive management, decision-making and programme learning.
- Contribute to evaluation-related processes, including the mid-term evaluation, outcome harvesting, management response follow-up and use of evaluation findings for programme adaptation and sustainability planning.
3. Partner coordination, civil society engagement and inclusive partnerships
- Support coordination with programme partners, including civil society organisations, women’s rights organisations, women-led organisations, youth-led networks, Indigenous peoples’ groups, grassroots climate actors and other partners contributing to gender-responsive climate action, disaster risk reduction, humanitarian action and resilience-building.
- Coordinate partner engagement processes, including regular coordination meetings, onboarding, workplan follow-up, partner reflection sessions, consultations, regional dialogues, learning exchanges, capacity-building activities and partner-led initiatives.
- Monitor partner implementation against approved workplans, planned activities, deliverables, reporting timelines and agreed outputs, and identify implementation challenges, risks, delays and support needs.
- Review partner narrative reports, progress updates and supporting documentation to ensure consistency with approved workplans, results frameworks, donor requirements and UN Women standards.
- Provide practical guidance to partners on results-based management, indicator tracking, evidence collection, documentation of achievements, reporting quality and visibility of community-level work.
- Support identification of partner capacity needs related to results-based reporting, evidence generation, documentation of results, implementation monitoring and inclusive participation.
- Support civil society participation in relevant climate, disaster risk reduction, humanitarian, and gender equality platforms, ensuring that engagement is well-prepared, purposeful and linked to programme results.
- Document partner and civil society contributions to women’s leadership, inclusive climate governance, community-based resilience, advocacy and accountability.
- Support risk-informed approaches to partner and civil society engagement, including attention to civic space, inclusive representation, participation risks and partner safety.
- Consolidate partner contributions, challenges, lessons learned, capacity needs and implementation risks for use in programme reporting, management updates, learning products and adaptive management.
- Support partner selection and engagement processes, including calls for proposals, technical review processes, capacity assessments and related coordination, as needed.
4. Knowledge management, learning and evidence-based engagement
- Support the development of knowledge and learning products that document programme results, civil society contributions, emerging practices, implementation challenges and scalable approaches.
- Prepare briefs, presentations, case studies, learning notes, meeting summaries, evidence summaries and analytical materials to support donor engagement, regional advocacy, policy dialogue and internal learning.
- Facilitate learning sessions, reflection meetings, communities of practice and cross-country exchanges related to gender-responsive climate action, disaster risk reduction and resilience-building.
- Coordinate with programme, communications and technical colleagues to ensure that monitoring evidence, partner results and field-level learning inform communications, advocacy and strategic positioning.
- Support documentation of sustainability pathways, institutionalization of results, partner capacities and final-phase learning priorities.
Expected Outputs
In consultation with the Programme Analyst on Gender and Climate Action, the consultant will submit monthly reports on key items including, but not limited to:
- Programme coordination and implementation support for EmPower and related Resilience Unit initiatives, including workplan follow-up, tracking of implementation milestones, joint programme priorities, partner deliverables, risks, bottlenecks and agreed action points.
- Monitoring, reporting and results-based management support, including updated results trackers, indicator tracking, dashboard inputs, evidence matrices, monitoring tools, reporting templates and consolidated inputs for donor, annual, quarterly and internal reporting.
- Documentation and verification of programme results, including collection and review of means of verification, partner evidence, field-level results, case studies, knowledge products and other supporting materials.
- Partner coordination and civil society engagement support, including follow-up with implementing partners, review of partner progress and narrative reports, coordination of consultations, learning exchanges, partner reflection sessions and documentation of civil society contributions to programme results.
- Knowledge management and learning products, including briefs, presentations, case studies, learning notes, meeting summaries, evidence summaries and analytical materials to support donor engagement, regional advocacy, policy dialogue, internal learning and strategic positioning.
- Technical inputs to evaluation, learning and sustainability processes, including mid-term evaluation preparation, outcome harvesting, evidence mapping, management response follow-up, documentation of sustainability pathways and final-phase consolidation priorities.
Monthly progress updates and a final consultancy report summarizing outputs delivered, achievements, implementation challenges, lessons learned and recommendations for strengthening programme coordination, monitoring, reporting, partner engagement, civil society engagement and learning across EmPower and the Resilience Unit portfolio.
*Payment will be made upon submission of deliverables and approval of the Programme Coordinator for Gender and Climate Action
Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel
The consultant will be based in Bangkok, Thailand based (with travel within the Asia-Pacific region as required). (The contract period is from 1 July 2026 – 30 June 2027. The consultant will work 20 days per month. Travel will be managed following UN Women travel policy.
III. Competencies
Core Values:
- Respect for Diversity
- Integrity
- Professionalism
Core Competencies:
- Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
- Accountability
- Creative Problem Solving
- Effective Communication
- Inclusive Collaboration
- Stakeholder Engagement
Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment/application-process#_Values FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:
- Ability to work efficiently, proactively and responsively within a multicultural team, with initiative and capacity to carry out tasks independently.
- Sound judgement, professionalism and maturity, with strong coordination, communication and analytical skills.
- Good understanding of gender-responsive programming
- Skills in Results-Based Management, monitoring, reporting and evidence synthesis.
- Ability to coordinate programme implementation and support implementing partners, including CSOs, women’s rights organisations and women-led organisations.
- Ability to build and maintain strategic partnerships with diverse stakeholders.
- Skills in resource mobilisation, including inputs to concept notes, proposals and donor-facing materials.
- Ability to provide technical support, capacity-building and practical guidance to partners.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
