Consultant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Tanzania.

📋 Description

• Deliver field-based technical assistance that incorporates gender-responsive and gender-transformative methods into ICT Clubs and extracurricular programs across five designated schools.

• Assist teachers, mentors, school focal points, and the technical implementing partner in promoting girls’ participation, leadership, confidence, safety, inclusion, and empowerment.

• Collaborate in the design of gender-transformative strategies and content for ICT Clubs, mentorship initiatives, the Innovation Bootcamp, and associated activities.

• Identify and prepare female role models and mentors in ICT and STEM, facilitating mentorship and career-exposure events.

• Embed gender-transformative content within methodologies, facilitation processes, implementation tools, and school-level activities.

• Support ICT Clubs, mentorship initiatives, the Innovation Bootcamp, and related activities, fostering girls’ technical and leadership involvement in digital projects.

• Monitor the implementation of gender components, identify challenges and opportunities, propose solutions, and provide ongoing support.

• Document successes, lessons learned, effective practices, challenges, and recommendations from the assigned schools.

• Prepare school-level monitoring reports along with a comprehensive report encompassing all five designated schools for the Lead Gender Expert.

• Submit inception and teacher-orientation workshop reports, reports from assigned schools, gender-integration reports, and a final technical report.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Gender Studies, Education, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or a related discipline.

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in gender equality, girls’ empowerment, and gender-transformative programming.

• Proven experience in integrating gender into educational, ICT, STEM, youth, or community development initiatives.

• Experience engaging with schools, adolescents, teachers, and community stakeholders.

• Prior experience with governmental agencies, development partners, or international organizations is a plus.

• Strong skills in facilitation, mentoring, communication, analysis, and report writing.

• Proficient in both written and spoken English and Kiswahili.

• Capacity to provide support across five designated schools while reporting to the Lead Gender Expert.

• External candidates are welcome to apply.

• Submit an updated CV that highlights relevant experience along with any assignment-related fees and travel expenses.

🏝️ Benefits

• Individuals from minority and indigenous groups, as well as persons with disabilities, are strongly encouraged to apply.

• All applications will be handled with the utmost confidentiality.

• UNESCO does not impose any fees at any stage of the recruitment process.