Deadline: 20-Aug-20
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) plans to procure the services of an agency to conduct a Virtual Study of Social Diversity in News Media with a focus on Gender and Gender Representation.
UN Women plans to commission a virtual study to help understand gender diversity in newsrooms and its impact on the coverage of daily news developments across media platforms in print, electronic, digital, and radio. The study will examine whether gender diverse newsrooms create more gender-sensitive content.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Analyze the composition/gender diversity of print, television, digital, and radio news platforms.
- Study the year-on-year change (2019 to 2020) of composition/gender diversity of print, television, digital and radio news platforms – have things improved, remained the same, or gotten worse; have there been any pandemic- specific changes that have resulted in a shift to digital spaces due to the virus.
- Analyze the impact of gender diversity on the content produced in print, television, digital, and radio news platforms – whether gender diversity directly correlates with gender-sensitive news content produced.
- Map year-on-year change (2019 to 2020) of gender responsiveness of the content produced in print, television, digital, and radio news platforms – the change in gender composition with gender-sensitive news content produced.
- Provide recommendations on gender-empowering media policies and sustaining equality in the media.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations registered as for-profit private or public companies with following background and experience will be eligible.
Qualifications of the Organisation:
- Minimum of two research projects focusing on social diversity in the newsroom.
- Over 3 years of hosting large scale conferences on media and gender and curating virtual sessions with news media industry professionals.
- A demonstrative network in India’s news media sector, think-tanks, and other civil society organizations is preferred.
- A partnership with a leading independent news media organization is preferred.
- It would be preferred if the organization has prior experience of undertaking similar research projects or can partner with an agency with the relevant experience.
- Prior experience of working with a UN agency is an added advantage.
Qualifications of the team leader:
The Team Leader should have:
- Master’s degree in conflict, gender issues, economics, business administration, public policy, law, international relations, or other related fields.
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience with a demonstrable ability to undertake research and analytical and policy reviews, and provide technical expertise in the areas of gender, economic empowerment, and multi-sector partnerships. A candidate who has undertaken a similar study in the past is preferred.
- Very good multi-stakeholder understanding with a strong focus on governments and private sector
- Very good understanding of policy landscape
- Excellent English writing skills is a must.
Qualifications of team members:
Team members should have:
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in management or related field
- Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in research and policy reviews in the gender space
- Knowledge of Women’s Economic Empowerment
- Proven experience in business planning and development and project management
- Strong English Writing Skills
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