International Consultant – Technical Lead, Gender-Responsive STI Policy and Digital Transformation

International Consultant – Technical Lead, Gender-Responsive STI Policy and Digital Transformation, Geneva, Switzerland

• Organization: UNCTAD - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
• Country: Switzerland
• City: Geneva
• Office: UNCTAD Geneva

Closing date: Monday, 21 September 2026

Result of Service

A coherent methodological approach is applied across the three beneficiary countries, resulting in evidence-based national gender assessments, actionable policy recommendations, practical capacity-building tools and implementation-oriented policy instruments, together with cross-country lessons for regional and global knowledge-sharing.

Work Location

Home-Based

Expected duration

15.12.26 - 30.06.29

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the overall supervision of the project officer, the consultant will serve as Technical Lead for the substantive and methodological work of Development Account project 2629G. Overall project coordination, contractual supervision, stakeholder engagement, monitoring and administrative arrangements remain the responsibility of UNCTAD. In particular, the consultant will:

• Develop and apply a common methodological framework for the three country gender assessments, including research questions, indicators, evidence requirements and guidance for fact-finding, ensuring methodological coherence and adaptation to national circumstances and priority sectors.
• Provide substantive and methodological guidance to the other international consultants and the three national consultants, and ensure coherent integration of their contributions and comparability across country work.
• Lead and contribute to fact-finding and analysis, including desk research, review of relevant STI, digital and sectoral policies and institutional frameworks, analysis of sex-disaggregated data and data gaps, stakeholder consultations and institutional mapping; participate in project missions as required.
• Lead preparation of the three draft and final national gender assessments, integrating country and sectoral inputs and translating findings into actionable, country-specific policy recommendations and priority actions.