National Consultant – IT Specialist, Gender Responsive Budgeting

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About the Organization

UN Women exists to advance women’s rights, gender equality, and the empowerment of all women and girls. As the lead UN entity on gender equality, we shift laws, institutions, social behaviours, and services to close the gender gap and build an equal world for all women and girls.

UN Women is the global champion for gender equality, working to develop and uphold standards and create an environment in which every woman and girl can exercise her human rights and live up to her full potential. We are trusted partners for advocates and decision-makers from all walks of life, and a leader in the effort to achieve gender equality.

Job Description/Responsibilities

UN Women through this programme will work with national ministries including Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Ministry of Finance and line ministries to deepen anchoring of GB across union ministries and sectors. It will create and strengthen institutional mechanisms for GRB and institute methodological changes in Planning-Budgeting and Auditing (PBA) systems for enabling gender responsive actions. The project will aim to enhance capacities of government officials and other stakeholders to implement the gender responsive PBA measures, and leverage technology to advance gender budgeting including through and e-governance tool.

Within this context, UN Women seeks the services of Consultant IT Specialist. Reporting to the Team Lead- Gender Responsive Budgeting, UN Women India, the Consultant IT Specialist will be responsible for coordinating and implementing the e-governance tool on Gender Budgeting.

Under the overall guidance and supervision of Team Lead, the Consultant IT Specialist will support in developing and strengthening the e-governance tool on gender responsive governance and budgeting.

The Consultant IT Specialist will work closely with the nodal official in MWCD, and have the following tasks:

• Develop a plan for the e-governance tool life cycle including software methodology, definitions, user management, IT requirements, sourcing, and sustenance.
• Design/strengthen the layout of e-governance tool on gender budgeting based on the content provided by UN Women.
• Translate information and data received from Ministries/States on Gender Budgeting into user and web-friendly formats
• Translate modules and training material into user and web-friendly format
• Manage the dashboard for ministries and states based on data on gender budgeting indicators
• Develop dynamic ways of making the tool interactive and accessible to users
• Strengthen the design of the web tool with templates in line with industry standards appropriate for e-governance and in alignment with National E-Governance Plan of the Government of India.
• Support continuation of the tool, UAT testing, and aggregation of dashboard.
• Ensure compatibility of the tool with National e-government portals, popular web browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox, Windows, Safari) and mobile platforms (Android and IOS)
• Ensure integration of tool with government platforms
• Ensure legal and other compliances of UN Women and Government of India, security audit and measures to safeguard information and privacy
• Undertake risk management and develop mitigation strategies
• Support team for effective roll out and implementation of the e governance tool at nation and state levels
• Draft and submit reports on relevant programme activities
• Any other task assigned in addition to the above.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Master’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Graphic designing, web designing or related fields

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in web designing, and relevant experience in using different web development technologies, tools and software’s
• Experience of working on social issues, gender concerns and experience of development projects
• Command over content management systems and applications like Site Core, Word Press, My SQL Database, Apache Web Server etc.
• Knowledge of web programming languages and programs including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, Macromedia Flash, Java etc.
• Knowledge of recent trends in graphic design, web sites, including online video publishing etc.
• Demonstrated ability to create innovative and visually appealing design;
• Experience of government functioning.

Language:

• Proficiency in English; good command over Hindi in reading and writing.

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