International Consultant AI-driven gender data and research, Home-based

Position: International Consultant on AI-driven gender data and research, Home-based

Up to 40 working days between 2 September 2024– 30 January 2025 Languages

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UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups, and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action, and peace and security. The UN Women Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (ECA RO) was established in Istanbul, Türkiye, in early 2014.

It provides support and oversight to Country Offices in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Ukraine. In addition, the Regional Office directly supports programme and project presence in Kosovo (under UN Security Council Resolution 1244), the Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Tajikistan, and Türkiye.

Since 2018, UN Women ECA RO is implementing a regional component of the Flagship Programme Initiative “Making Every Woman and Girl Count” (Women Count), developed by UN Women Headquarters (HQ). The Women Count programme aims to affect a radical shift in the production, availability, accessibility, and use of quality data and statistics on key aspects of gender equality and women’s empowerment.

The programme intends to achieve results in three interlinked areas of work:

• Enabling environment: Building a supportive policy and institutional environment for the localization and effective monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
• Data production: Increasing the quality, comparability, and regularity of gender statistics to address national data gaps and meet reporting commitments under the SDGs;
• Data accessibility: Ensuring that gender statistics are accessible to users in governments, among civil society, academia, and the private sector to strengthen adequate demand for their production.

To support UN Women’s research and data agenda and to contribute to the implementation of the Strategic Note (SN) of the UN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) strategic directions and objectives in key areas on gender equality and women’s empowerment, ECARO plans to explore non-conventional data sources, such as big data analysis, to generate data and insights on pressing gender issues and to strengthen internal and external capacities on potential uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for gender data and research in different settings.

Thus, UN Women seeks to hire an International Consultant on using AI to generate gender data.

The purpose of this consultancy is to provide expert support in leveraging AI tools to conduct in-depth research on the gendered impacts of war in Ukraine and to take lead in UN Women capacity building initiatives on exploring AI to generate gender data across various settings. The consultant will be reporting to Regional Gender Data Specialist, Regional Humanitarian Specialist and will be supported by Knowledge Management and Programme Consultant, who will be the main point of contact on the contract and payment issues.

The International Consultant will support UN Women in conducting AI-driven research on the gendered impacts of Ukraine’s invasion across the region and leading capacity-building initiatives for UN Women to enhance the knowledge about potential use of AI in generating gender data and evidence across different contexts. The main objective of this research is to pilot the use of non-conventional data sources to generate data and evidence on specific gender issues faced by women and girls affected by war in Ukraine. Scope

of Work

The scope of work for the assignment will include the following tasks:

• Conduct AI-driven research on the gendered impacts of the war in Ukraine:
• Develop, discuss, and agree with UN Women a sound methodology of analyzing big data from Google searches, social media posts, websites, and other digital content to compile data and evidence on gendered impact of Ukraine’s invasion across the region. The purpose of the research is to generate data on the evolution of the gendered impact of the war on access to services and resources in order to inform policy and programme priorities.
• Lead the data collection and analysis process for selected research questions and reference period in close collaboration with UN Women country offices and ECA RO. Develop and submit an initial draft of the comprehensive research report detailing research…