UN Women: WCSO Programme Support Consultant, Home-Based, National Consultant (Afghan Nationals only)

Coordinate Civil Society Engagement and Partnerships

Liaise with WCSO partners and coordinate on common needs and challenges required to be addressed to programmatically and operationally facilitate harmonized approach to WCSO partner engagement.

Identify partner needs, challenges, and opportunities to inform programme support and capacity-strengthening efforts.

Support organization and facilitation of consultations, coordination meetings, and engagement activities with partner organizations.

Liaise with programme teams, subnational offices, and relevant stakeholders to ensure timely follow-up and coordination.

Support documentation of key outcomes, lessons learned, and recommendations arising from partner engagement activities.

Facilitate Coalition Building and Knowledge Sharing

Support the planning of peer-to-peer exchange activities, learning events, and knowledge-sharing sessions among WCSOs partnered with UNW ACO.

Identify learning needs, capacity gaps, and areas of mutual interest among partner organizations to inform the design of peer exchange opportunities.

Facilitate consultations with WCSOs and programme teams to develop learning agendas and thematic priorities for peer-to-peer engagement.

Support moderation of virtual peer learning sessions, workshops and knowledge-sharing platforms, ensuring inclusive and meaningful participation.

Support to Grantmaking and Programmatic Processes

Facilitate timely partner onboarding, agreement processing, amendments, and project closure processes.

Provide operational and administrative support for grantmaking processes in accordance with UN Women rules, policies and procedures.

Assist in tracking and reviewing applicant submissions, including applications, supporting documentation, capacity building plans and related follow-up actions.

Maintain organized records of grantmaking and partner management processes including master matrix, ensuring documentation is complete, up to date and accessible for monitoring and decision-making purposes.

Support all PGAMs actions for project onboarding and project closures processes.

Assist in tracking active and closed projects and assist with programmatic processes including, reviewing all extension and amendment requests and provide feedback as part of quality assurance.

Support the review and preparation of No-Cost Extension (NCE) requests and related documentation for management review and approval.

Administrative Support

Aid in preparing and maintaining administrative documentation, correspondence, and records related to programme implementation.

Provide general administrative support to the team, as required, to facilitate the effective implementation of programme activities.