Date of Issue: 27 March 2026
Closing Date: 06 April 2026
SSA Announcement No. UNWOMEN/ICO/SSA/2026/008
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Title
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Senior National Consultant – PMU (Gender Responsive Budgeting, MWCD) (Local Post for Indian Nationals and Applicants with Valid Work Permit)
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Duty Station
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New Delhi
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Contact Type
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SSA
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Contact Duration
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5 months (April 2026 - September 2026; 20 working days per month) *
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No of Positions
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1
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Contract Supervision
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Program Lead - GRB, UN Women India CO
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* Renewable – subject to availability of funds
II. CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT
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, men and diverse genders as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
All human development and human rights issues involve gender dimensions. UN Women globally focuses on key priority areas that are fundamental to women’s equality, and that can unlock progress across the board. UN Women’s priority areas include increasing women’s leadership and participation in political spaces, ending violence against women, enhancing women’s economic empowerment, engaging in all aspects of women peace and security processes, making gender equality central to national planning and budgeting through Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) and advancing gender in intergovernmental processes.
UN Women’s work on Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) or Gender Budgeting (GB) involves ensuring that national planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation processes incorporate a gender perspective. UN Women’s GRB programmes at the regional and country level have made significant contribution towards this by building political support, developing technical resources and capacities, generating good practices for improving women's access to services and increasing accountability for Gender Equality and Women’s empowerment (GEWE). At the forefront of global, regional and local advocacy for application of GRB, UN Women has built partnerships with diverse government, inter-governmental and non-governmental partners to further efforts and demonstrate GRB’s relevance to sustainable development, aid effectiveness, public sector reform and financing for development.
UN Women’s India Country Office, based in New Delhi is implementing a project with the objective of strengthening institutional mechanisms for GRB resulting in an increase of gender perspective in budgets, improved availability of data, and tracking of progress on gender equality initiatives across ministries and select states/UTs. It will aim to create a conducive policy environment and enhance institutional capacities on gender budgeting at the national and State/UT level. It will identify strategies and operational approaches to strengthen on-going efforts in the area of GRB. Insights generated from this project will enable key stakeholders at the national and state level to accelerate their efforts to ensure that women’s priorities are adequately reflected in national and state budgeting processes, and to make concrete changes for adequate resource allocation towards women’s priorities.
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 Senior Consultant – PMU (GRB-MWCD)to be embedded in Ministry of Women and Child Development, GoI in New Delhi. The consultant will provide high-level technical and programmatic support to strengthen the implementation and institutionalization of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) across Union Ministries and selected States/UTs.
Reporting to the Program Lead – GRB, UN Women India Country Office, and working closely with the designated nodal officials in MWCD, the Senior Consultant – PMU (GRB-MWCD) will support the Ministry in strengthening coordination mechanisms, monitoring progress on gender budgeting initiatives, and advancing institutional systems for integrating gender perspectives in planning, budgeting, and monitoring processes across government institutions.
The consultant will support in monitoring frameworks, evidence generation, capacity building, and policy inputs related to gender budgeting.
Education:
- Master’s Degree or equivalent in Social Sciences/Economics/Social Work /Gender Studies/Public Administration/Policy or related fields.
- Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience at the national/state level working with development projects preferably on Gender Responsive Governance, Gender Equality and Women Empowerment; with hands-on experience of design, implementation and monitoring/evaluation of projects.
- Some experience of working with national/ state governments on gender issues, preferable on gender responsive budgeting.
- Experience of undertaking budgetary/ policy analysis and capacity building of government officials.
- Proficiency in the use of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.).
Language:
- Proficiency in English; good command over Hindi in reading and writing.
Application:
Interested applicants should apply to this announcement through UN Women jobs site:
UN Women will only be able to respond to those applications in which there is further interest.
For detailed information, please check the complete version of the advert attached below.