National Consultancy: Coordinator for the National Training Centre of GBV Response in Ukraine

How you can make a difference:

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

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 that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

UNFPA Ukraine is implementing the project Achieving Municipalities Breakthrough in Effective Response to SGBV (AMBER) in coordination with the Ministry of Social Policy and with the financial support of the Government of Canada.

During the last eight years the UNFPA GBV Response Programme contributed to development of the comprehensive national system for prevention and response to domestic and gender based violence in Ukraine. It included support to national legal framework development, piloting models of specialised services for GBV survivors, enhancing role of police in GBV response and setting up multi sectoral response at national and community levels.

Following the strategy to extend and enhance the GBV response both at national and municipality levels, including effective response to the challenges resulted by the war, the project, inter alia, focuses on knowledge sharing, scaling up of services, and sustainability of the achieved results.

To ensure replication of the knowledge of effective response to domestic and gender based violence in Ukraine, including conflict related sexual violence, implementation of the best models and practices, and development of opportunities for continuous capacity building for specialists, UNFPA in cooperation with the High School of Public Governance and other national stakeholders established of National Training Centre (NTC) for GBV Response in Ukraine in July 2023.

The NTC on GBV Response aims to serve as the knowledge hub of modern approaches to GBV prevention and response, including national and international best practices and the training centre for specialists and GBV specialised service providers.

Since its launching, the National Training Center developed and certified five specialized training programs of GBV Response both for public servants and GBV Service providers, and conducted pilot training sessions for more that 600 specialists.

The national consultant, working in close coordination with UNFPA and the Higher School of Public Governance, assures smoothly operation of the National Training Center, development and implementation of its strategic plan for 2024-2025.

 

Scope of work:

(Description of services, activities, or outputs)

The role aims at development of the Strategic Plan for National Training Center for 2024-2025 and coordination activities envisaged by the Plan to assure availability of needed certified training programs for public servants and GBV service providers national-wide.

The assignment, specifically, includes:

-    Development the Strategic Plan of Activities of the National Training Centre on GBV response for 2025, including overview of the national stakeholders expectations, including goals of the NTC’s operation, list and specifics of the certified training programs to be developed, key performance indicators, risk assessment and mitigation measures.  
-    Coordination of the development of the 2 training programs on matters of  response to CRSV and  Case Management on GBV  response,  including adaptation of the national practice of GBV response to international standards.
-    Organization and implementation of activities to  strength the pool of the national trainers of GBV response, including training of trainers,  and supervision of the national trainers’ work.
-    Coordination of the advocacy activities for development and promotion of the National Training Centre, inter alia via activities withing Richelieu Forum and Campaign of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence.
-    coordination of the training process, implementation of the training curriculum and training activities to assure covering of about 1500  of public servants and the GBV service providers with the certified training programs on GBV response.

Besides, the National Consultant to Coordinate Operation of the NTC is responsible for:
-    assuring communication between the involved parties (UNFPA, High School for Public Administration, Ministry of Social Policy, National Service Centre, and others) to agree upon the NTC concept, related implementation plan, division of the roles and responsibilities to support the activity of the NTC
-    assessment of the organizational needs of the NTC, planning of the organizational structure, and coordination of the required technical support for the NTC development of the NTC visual identity and the communication strategy
-    assuring the quality of the training programs and training curricula in line with the national requirements and standards in GBV prevention and response and best international models;
-    development and implementation of the strategies for sustainability of the NTC and communication strategies for the involvement of the target audience;
-    review of the draft training programs and curriculum and coordination of its certification according to the national procedures and standards for professional development.
-    coordination of the document flow, maintenance of the needed database
-    other related duties and responsibilities to support the of the NTC operation.

The performance of the mentioned above may require the participation of the consultant in the working meetings, workshops, advocacy events in the role of the expert and for data collection, presentations of the deliverables, and analyses of the feedback.

 

Duration and working schedule:

Starting date: September 1, 2024 (tentatively)
Duration: till March 31, 2025
 

Required expertise:
●    Minimum Master's degree in psychology, pedagogy, law, gender studies, social sciences, or related subject areas;
●    At least 5 years of proven experience in the development and coordination of training programs, training, and educational activities, or coordination of educational institutions.
●    Experience in planning and implementing of research in the social area, needs assessments, marketing research, and development of analytical thesis and reports.   
●    Experience in coordination or management of teams and experts in educational and awareness raisins fields.
●    Knowledge of gender equality concept approaches to GBV prevention and response, familiarity with the national policy, and experience in GBV response.
●    Proven experience in the development of training courses and training materials, including those related to gender equality in GBV prevention and response
●    Excellent analytical, reporting, and communication skills

Fluency (oral and written) in English and Ukrainian.