Consultant: Web-Consultant, BDP Gender Team

Description:

Location: Home-based, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Application Deadline: 05-Dec-08
Additional Category: Women’s Empowerment
Type of Contract: SSA
Languages Required: English
Starting Date (date when the selected candidate is expected to start): 25-Dec-2008
Duration of Initial Contract: 9 Months

The Gender Team is at the forefront of UNDP's commitment to gender equality and women's empowerment. The Gender Team is part of the Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) which provides policy advice and technical support to all of UNDP’s operations. The Gender Team works to implement gender equality as a core objective of UNDP through a two-pronged approach (i) mainstreaming gender in all core practices; and, (ii) dedicated interventions that empower women and promote gender equality. In order to advance UNDP’s mandate in this area, the Gender Team has recently finalized the UNDP Corporate Gender Equality Strategy 2008-11 which outlines in detail how UNDP will work towards gender equality in each of the goals and key results set out in the UNDP Strategic Plan 2008-11 (SP).

Motivating and inspiring partners to mainstream gender into policies, plans and programmes is central to achieving progress. As such, the role of communications and outreach is an essential part of the work of the UNDP Gender Team. The UNDP webpage on women’s empowerment (www.undp.org/women) and internal intranet workspaces on Gender Equality are important vehicles for promoting these messages and for disseminating advocacy and policy resources.

The Gender Team is planning a major update and improvement to the public and internal websites to include improved multimedia advocacy products, new policy guidance and updates on events at headquarters and around the world. The Team is seeking a web consultant to undertake this work, under the guidance of the Knowledge Management Team and in collaboration with the UNDP Office of Communications

Duties and Responsibilities:

The main objectives of the assignment are to:

• Improve accessibility to all key UNDP Gender resources to internal and external audiences by major revamping of internal and external web spaces.
• Upload existing resources and interactive content to intranet and public sites
• Assist with editing and uploading of multimedia advocacy content
• Analyze web traffic statistics for purposes of developing strategy for increasing traffic to the web site and workspace

Scope of Work:

The Web Consultant will work closely with the Gender Team and the Office of Communications and will report directly to the Knowledge Network Facilitator. Specifically, the consultant will undertake the following tasks:

• Work with policy advisors to gather and organize existing information and resources for posting on internal and external sites
• Improve structure of web spaces to facilitate access to key resources
• Code and upload new web pages for the Gender workspace on each focus area of the Gender Equality Strategy, and other pages as necessary, working in close collaboration with policy advisors to ensure regular inputs of content.
• Assist with formatting content to be uploaded to the sites, including multimedia content such as images, presentations, pdfs, and video.
• Submit materials available on the website and web feeds to major development portals, thematic search engines, women-related portals and services, feed aggregators, etc, to improve dissemination of UNDP Gender knowledge products
• Other knowledge sharing tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

Competencies:

• Knowledge of web standards, accessibility, and usability compliance issues.
• Highly organized and works to a very high standard, with good attention to detail
• Willingness to learn and ability to pick things up quickly
• Good writing and editing skills in English. Journalistic style preferred.

Required Skills and Experience:

• At least two years' experience with web development and management, including XHTML, CSS, video editing and Adobe Creative Suite for the Web, (particularly Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop and Acrobat).
• University studies in computer sciences, social sciences, international development or related fields, and/or journalism with an understanding of gender equality and women's empowerment issues.
• Knowledge of French and/or Spanish an advantage.
• Experience working with UNDP is a strong asset.

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Application Deadline: 05 December 2008

Website: http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=7515