Gender Consultant

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United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Nationals-only contract
  • Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 11/03/2026
  • Location: Pakistan 
Gender budgeting Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
For every child, a future!

UNICEF Pakistan is dedicated to promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls as a fundamental part of its mandate to uphold children’s rights and advance sustainable development. The UNICEF Pakistan Gender Strategy 2024-2027 outlines a comprehensive plan to address gender inequalities and empower women, adolescent girls, and marginalized groups. Adopting a socio-ecological approach, the strategy targets barriers in key areas such as health, education, child protection, and social protection. It aims to expand gender-equitable initiatives, improve access for girls, foster gender-responsive policies, and actively engage men and boys as allies in this effort.

How can you make a difference? 

The Gender Consultant is specifically expected to do the following:
    • Technical Support: Provide technical support on gender integration across all aspects of UNICEF Pakistan’s country programme and ensure alignment with UNICEF’s GAP and global/regional priorities.  
    • Support design, review and quality assurance of gender-responsive strategies, policies, sector plans, and programme initiatives.  
    • Facilitate development of gender analyses, contextual evidence and strategic recommendations to inform policy dialogue, planning and budgeting.  
    • Gender-Responsive Programme Design & Results Frameworks: Works with sectoral teams (health, education, child protection, WASH, social policy, etc.) and cross sectorial teams (SBC, ADAP, Climate Change) to integrate gender objectives, indicators monitoring, and evaluation frameworks through the programme cycle.
    • Generate and promote gender disaggregated data in implementation research, behavioral insights, and tracking of social norms/power shifts within institutional systems and platforms.
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    • Gender Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Products Support the operationalization of Gender Toolkits and Guidance Notes for mainstreaming into professional institutions, women-led organizations, and networks to strengthen SBC strategies to address gender norms at institutional and organizational level.
    • Lead capacity-building initiatives for UNICEF staff, partners and government actors on gender concepts, tools, and gender-responsive programming approaches.  
    • Promote knowledge sharing and learning on gender equality practices across sectors and partners.  

    • Gender Partnerships & Policy Advocacy Products Cultivate strategic partnerships with government ministries, academia, civil society organizations, UN partners, and donors to advance gender equality outcomes.  
  •     Represent UNICEF in inter-agency coordination bodies and national-level forums on gender and development.  
  •     Support gender advocacy messaging and external communication to raise awareness and influence behaviour change.
  •     Contribute to programme reviews, donor reporting, and coordination.

Minimum requirements:
  • Advanced university degree (master’s or higher) in Gender Studies, Social Sciences (sociology, psychology), Public and Social Policy, International Development.
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience in gender equality programming, evidence-led strategy development, gender mainstreaming, gender-responsive policy analysis and advocacy, and institutional capacity building.  
  • Demonstrated track record of working with government, UN agencies or civil society in Pakistan or similar contexts.  
  • Experience in research, gender analysis, policy development and results-based programming.  
  • Prior extensive experience of developing evidence led gender responsive and transformative programming, strategies, approaches and tools and project management skills for coordinating multi-sectoral gender programming
  • Stakeholders’ engagement: Experience of managing large and complex partnerships.
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills.
  • Fluency in English and Urdu is required. 

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