National Consultant - Costing Specialist

This UN Women consultancy provides specialist costing and financial-planning support for Armenia’s draft National Action Plan to implement the Istanbul Convention. The consultant will review budgets and planned interventions, create a practical costing framework and model, assess resource gaps, consult national stakeholders, validate estimates, and deliver an actionable financing package for.

• Review the draft Action Plan, national strategies, budgets and expenditure frameworks
• Develop and agree a practical costing methodology and framework
• Identify cost components, assumptions and unit costs for Action Plan activities
• Collect and analyse financial, budgetary and programme data with stakeholders
• Develop annual and overall cost estimates and assess financing gaps
• Validate and finalize the costing with UN Women and national stakeholders

• Advanced university degree in economics, public finance, finance, public administration, public policy, development studies, statistics or a related field
• At least five years of relevant experience in public finance, programme costing, budgeting or financial analysis
• Knowledge of Armenia’s national budgeting, planning and public-finance context
• Fluency in Armenian and English

• Gender-responsive budgeting or costing gender-equality and violence-against-women interventions is a strong asset
• UN or international-organization experience is an asset

• Programme Costing
• Public Finance
• Budgeting
• Financial Analysis
• Costing Methodologies
• Financial Modelling
• Resource Mobilization
• Stakeholder Consultation

• Home-based consultancy in Yerevan, Armenia
• Assignment period: 20 September to 30 October 2026