National Consultant to plan and facilitate workshop for youth-led and women-led organization and networks in the use of Social Media tools and digital platforms

Background

UN Women’s goal in Liberia is to promote women’s human rights and gender equality which are key in sustaining and furthering achievements in stability and development.  In this regard, its programming in the Country is connected to five corporate priority areas: women’s leadership and political participation; enhancing women’s economic empowerment (WEE); engaging women in all aspects of peace and security processes (WPS), and advancing women’s rights to live free from violence (VAW) and Gender Responsive Governance. UN Women also coordinates and promotes the UN system’s joint work in advancing gender equality.

Over 2 years, starting in the beginning of 2024, UN Women will be implementing a joint program with UNFPA and OHCHR called the “Youth Promotion Initiative – Accelerating Digital Opportunities for Youth Civic Participation as a lever for Building and Sustaining Peace in Liberia”. The project goal is to increase opportunities for youth participation in decision making processes through the digitalization of existing youth and women-led informal platforms, networks, and organizations. This will be achieved by transforming the youth-led “Atayee centers” and women-led Peace Huts into spaces where youth can meaningfully participate in political and intergenerational dialogues, interact with political actors, women leaders, mentors, traditional and religious leaders and other state actors, and connect to formal civic platforms using a digital interface. 

As a part of this project, UN Women Liberia office with the support of Orange Digital Center is planning to provide innovative training for representatives from youth-led and women-led organizations and networks to advance women’s and young peoples’ equal and substantive participation and leadership in peacebuilding processes and civic space advocacy. This will be done by providing and train the participants in digital usage and platforms. The training will be a pilot training to be provided for 24 representatives from youth-led and women-led organizations from Montserrado and Lofa counties.

This will provide women and young people with some of the tools they need to actively participate and influence civic spaces in Liberia and to challenge some of the negative norms and attitudes that act as barriers to women’s and youths’ participation in civic spaces, politics, and policy making.

The main objective of this consultancy is to develop and facilitate a 3-days workshop to train 24 representatives from youth-led and women-led organizations in the use of social media and other digital platforms. The training aims to build the capacity of representatives from women-led and youth-led organizations and networks to effectively use social media and other digital platforms for advocacy and participation in peacebuilding processes and civic spaces. Furthermore, it will build transferable knowledge and capacity of representatives from women-led and youth-led organizations and networks in content creation and coding and provide them with clear tools they can use to train more women and youths in their organizations and networks.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the guidance and management of UN Women Deputy Country Representative and direct supervision of the UN Women Peace, Women, and Security Programme Specialist and in close collaboration with the Orange Foundation/Orange Digital Center, the National Consultant will perform the following tasks:

1. Draft the training agenda and materials corresponding to the objectives of the training. Content of the training includes, not limited to, support to creating captivating social media profiles with practical exercises to create knowledge-raising and informative content (photo, video, going viral, Tiktok), linking profiles across social media platforms, creating Go- fund-me pages or using mobile money app for fundraising, training in digital ethics and cyber bullying etc.
2. Develop and submit the pre- and post-capacity survey to UN Women and Orange Digital Center
   
3. Facilitate a three-day training for representatives from women-led and youth-led organizations and networks on the use of social media tools and other digital platforms to strengthen advocacy efforts, spread knowledge about peacebuilding and related issues, and provide technical guidance to trainees as needed.
   
4. Draft and submit a brief training report, including key achievements, challenges encountered during the training, lessons learned, training evaluation findings, and recommendations to support UN Women’s knowledge management.

All the deliverables, including annexes, notes and reports should be submitted in English language.

Upon receipt of the deliverables and prior to the payment of the first installment, the deliverables and related reports and documents will be reviewed and approved by UN Women. The period of review is one week after receipt.

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
• Leading by Example

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:

• Excellent facilitation and training skills

Submission of package                  

• Cover letter;
• CV, including contact information of 3 referees;

• All applications must include (as an attachment) a CV .

  *Please note that only short-listed candidates will be invited for the interviw.

  Deliverables

• 	Percentage of Total Price (Weigh) for payment)	Fixed price	Due Date
  Develop the agenda and related training material for the three-day training
  Develop the pre- and post-capacity survey
  Facilitate a three-day training on the use of social media and other digital platforms to strengthen advocacy efforts, spread knowledge about peacebuilding and related issues, and provide technical guidance to trainees as needed.
  Draft and submit a training report

   

   

Required Skills and Experience

Education and Certification:

Master’s degree or equivalent in in Digital Marketing, Campaign Management, IT, Communications, Public Relations, or a related field is required.

Experience

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in the field of training, Digital Marketing, or Campaign Management.
• Previous experience in facilitating capacity building for representatives from CSOs in social and media spaces.
• Experience in training, working and communicating in a multicultural environment.

Experience working with multi-stakeholder organizations is essential: governments, CSOs, and the UN/multilateral/bilateral institutions.

Language:

Fluency in English is required.