Job Description

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.

UN Women’s Country Office, based in New Delhi, India, works to accelerate the advancement of gender equality and the empowerment of women through the strengthening of strategic partnerships, technical and policy advisory services and advocacy with governmental, inter-governmental and civil society partners. In addition, UN Women CO is also leading and coordinating the UN system’s work on gender equality, including through ensuring accountability for results.

Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment is an essential element of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – the roadmap to a more equal, just, peaceful, and sustainable world. The Women’s Economic Empowerment Portfolio in India focusses on strengthening women’s economic rights and agency while creating an enabling environment for decent and safe employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for women in all their diversity. UN Women is implementing an ‘EU’ funded Women Empower India project to advance women’s economic empowerment in India. By promoting decent and safe economic opportunities, policy advocacy, and collaborative efforts including towards addressing discriminatory social norms, the project aims to create positive change for women and girls in all their diversity. The project envisions following result areas:

1. Increased access to safe and decent economic opportunities for women and girls in all their diversity.
2. Enhanced gender transformative policies and decision- making processes to improve women’s access to safe and decent employment and entrepreneurship.
3. Positive gender norms that enable and increase women’s participation in economic and social life promoted.

Under the project, UN Women India works closely with national and state governments to strengthen gender-responsive policies, institutions, and data systems. Recognizing the critical role of gender statistics in informing evidence-based policymaking, UN Women has partnered with the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) to strengthen gender data analysis, statistical publications, and capacity building on gender statistics.

To support this work, UN Women seeks to engage a Consultant – Gender Statistics and Data Analysis, who will be placed within MoSPI to provide technical, analytical, and coordination support on gender data and statistics.

Roles and Responsibilities:

The purpose of this assignment is to provide dedicated technical support to MoSPI for gender data analysis, statistical publications, and knowledge products.

Under the overall supervision of the relevant officer at MoSPI and in close coordination with the Country Programme Manager, Women’s Economic Empowerment, UN Women India, the consultant will undertake the following tasks:

Embedded Technical and Coordination Support within MoSPI:

• Provide technical and analytical support to MoSPI on their work on data and statistics such as undertaking research and analysis through collation, organization, and verification of datasets, preparing data briefs, and related documents
• Liaise with relevant MoSPI divisions, other relevant ministries and UN Women to ensure timely exchange of information and data.
• Facilitate coordination meetings, technical discussions, review processes, and follow-up actions between MoSPI and UN Women.
• Maintain a structured repository of datasets, references, working drafts, comments, meeting notes, and publication-related materials.
• Track timelines, deliverables, review processes, and pending inputs to support timely completion of agreed outputs.

Support Development of Analytical gender bulletins:

• Provide technical support to the ministry in developing the gender bulletins agreed between UN Women and MoSPI
• Assist in compiling, cleaning, organizing, and validating data from SDG-NIF reports, Economic Survey, National Accounts, PLFS, RBI, NCAER, IMF, OECD, World Bank, and other relevant national and international sources.
• Support data assimilation, consistency checks, and documentation of data sources and methodological notes.
• Contribute to statistical tables, charts, graphs, and visualizations for the bulletins.
• Provide technical inputs to ensure that the bulletins are aligned with official statistical standards and MoSPI publication requirements.
• Support the review and finalization process by consolidating comments from MoSPI, UN Women, and expert reviewers.
• Assist in preparing presentation decks, discussion notes, and background materials for technical consultations and expert committee reviews.

Support to Women and Men in India Publication and National Dissemination Workshop:

• Provide technical support to the ministry on facilitating necessary reviews and approvals for the National Dissemination Workshop organized by UN Women
• Provide technical inputs for strengthening gender-responsive analysis, indicators, disaggregation, and visual presentation in Women and Men in India 2026.
• Coordinate with MoSPI and UN Women teams to ensure timely preparation and clearance of workshop-related materials.

Support to Elderly in India 2026 Publication:

• Provide technical support to the ministry on analysis of ageing-related indicators.
• Review relevant draft sections and provide gender analysis inputs, comments, and recommendations.
• Support preparation of publication graphics, data visualizations, and dissemination materials.
• Coordinate with MoSPI and UN Women teams to consolidate technical comments and ensure timely incorporation of agreed inputs.

Knowledge Management, Documentation, and Capacity Support:

• Document key processes, technical discussions, decisions, and learning emerging from the UN Women–MoSPI collaboration.
• Support preparation of briefing notes, meeting minutes, technical summaries, and progress updates.
• Contribute to knowledge products, presentations, and communication materials related to gender statistics and gender-responsive policymaking.
• Support capacity-building activities, consultations, dissemination workshops, and technical review meetings on gender data and statistics.
• Ensure that all outputs are gender-responsive, accessible, analytically sound, and aligned with relevant national and international statistical standards.
• Provide any other technical or coordination support related to the MoSPI collaboration, as required

Deliverables:

Payments will be made against the satisfactory completion and submission of the following deliverables:

• Develop and submit a workplan in agreement with the ministry.
• Develop and submit analytical and technical notes, documents, and data briefs for submission to the ministry.
• Draft and submit minutes of coordination meetings, technical discussions, review processes, and follow-up actions.
• Maintain a structured repository of datasets, references, working drafts, comments, meeting notes, and publication-related materials.
• Develop and submit presentation decks, discussion notes, and background materials for technical consultations and expert committee reviews.
• Submit finalized gender bulletins in consultation with the ministry.
• Final consultancy report documenting activities undertaken, outputs delivered, recommendations, and lessons learned.

Competencies :

Core Values:

• Integrity;
• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Values and Competencies Framework:

Functional Competencies:

• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
• Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills
• Focuses on impact and result for the partners and responds positively to feedback

Education:

• Master's degree or higher in Statistics, Economics, Demography, Public Policy, Development Studies, Gender Studies, Data Science, or a related field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree

Experience:

• Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience in gender statistics, socio-economic analysis, public policy research, official statistics, or development research.
• Demonstrated experience working with large-scale national datasets such as NSS, PLFS, NFHS, Census, SDG indicators, administrative datasets, or comparable statistical systems.
• Proven experience preparing analytical reports, flagship publications, policy briefs, statistical publications, or knowledge products.
• Experience conducting quantitative and qualitative research and translating findings into policy-relevant recommendations.
• Familiarity with India's statistical system and government institutions, particularly MoSPI, is highly desirable.
• Experience working with UN agencies, multilateral organizations, research institutions, or government ministries is desirable.
• Strong data visualization, analytical writing, and stakeholder engagement skills

Language Requirements:

• Strong written skills in English and good command over Hindi.

Application:

Interested applicants should apply to this announcement through UN Women jobs site:

Careers at UN Women | UN Women – Headquarters

UN Women will only be able to respond to those applications in which there is further interest.

Evaluation and Selection Criteria:

Criteria for shortlisting of CVs will be based on the following assessment:

• Required Qualification (5 points);
• Minimum Experience relevant to the assignment (5 points);
• Experience working on data and statistics (5 points).

UN Women will only be able to respond to those applications in which there is further interest.

The evaluation process for selection of the candidate will be based on the following assessment:

• Interview (80 points)
• Writing Samples (20 points)

Please Note:

• For an assignment requiring travel, consultants of 65 years or more require full medical examination and statement of fitness to work to engage in the consultancy.
• Consultants are required to submit doctor's certificate to state fitness to work and travel for this assignment.
• Due to large number of potential applicants, only competitively selected candidates will be contacted for remaining steps of the service procurement process.
• The consultant is expected to use their own computer equipment. The office will not provide any computer equipment for this assignment.

Statements :

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.

Diversity and inclusion:

At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.

If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.

UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.)

Note: Applicants must ensure that all sections of the application form, including the sections on education and employment history, are completed. If all sections are not completed the application may be disqualified from the recruitment and selection process