National Consultant - Baseline Profiling and Capacity Needs Assessment

About the role

UN Women Tanzania, together with the Ministry of Community Development, Gender, Women and Special Groups (Mainland) and the Ministry of Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (Zanzibar), wants to engage a qualified consultant to carry out an integrated baseline profiling and capacity needs assessment across the eight priority regions of the TNAP-WPS (Kigoma, Mtwara, Lindi, Arusha, Mara, Tanga, Unguja Mjini and Pemba Kusini). The assessment is funded by the Embassy of Ireland through a joint initiative supporting gender equality coordination. The consultant reports to the programme manager, with technical oversight from the WPS National Technical Committee and relevant ministries.

Key responsibilities

• Map WPS actors, networks, committees, peace clubs, security organs and community structures, and document existing peacebuilding, protection, humanitarian and gender-equality mechanisms.
• Profile contextual risks, conflict drivers, protection risks and gender-specific vulnerabilities, and establish baseline indicators aligned with the TNAP-WPS results framework.
• Assess institutional, technical, human resource, coordination and operational capacities, including gender desks in the police and LGAs, peace clubs in schools and women's networks.
• Evaluate the role of religious and traditional leaders, CSOs, WROs, refugee-hosting institutions, disaster management committees and border management centres.
• Analyse regional and district development plans to see how WPS priorities are integrated into subnational planning.
• Hold KIIs, FGDs and consultations with regional authorities, security organs, community leaders, women's rights organizations, youth groups and humanitarian actors.
• Identify gaps in gender mainstreaming, conflict prevention, SGBV response and peacebuilding, and develop a capacity-building plan with training modules, institutional strengthening measures and coordination mechanisms.

Required profile

• Advanced degree in gender studies, peace and security, international development, political science or a related field; a master's is an added advantage.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in gender, peacebuilding, security reform or humanitarian programming.
• Proven experience in capacity assessments, institutional analysis or WPS-related research, and experience with security organs, LGAs, CSOs and women's networks.
• Strong understanding of Tanzania's governance, security and gender equality landscape.
• Fluent English and Kiswahili, with excellent verbal and written communication.

Required skills

• Excellent qualitative and quantitative research skills.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder engagement and analytical skills, able to work independently.

The assignment includes five deliverables: an inception report, a zero-draft baseline and capacity assessment, a first draft with stakeholder presentations, and a final report with a capacity-building plan. Performance is judged on timeliness, quality, analytical rigor, stakeholder engagement and clarity of reporting.