National consultant on Women’s Economic Empowerment

This home-based UN Women consultancy advances women’s economic empowerment in Azerbaijan by engaging private companies and business associations on the Women’s Empowerment Principles. The consultant will recruit and coordinate WEPs signatories, strengthen gender-responsive corporate policies, map prospects including ICT firms, conduct outreach meetings, and produce company success stories.

• Promote WEPs among private-sector partners and business associations
• Support new enterprises to sign WEPs and implement gender-responsive policies
• Maintain coordination with WEPs focal points from private-sector companies
• Liaise with the WEPs Secretariat on Azerbaijani members
• Develop company success stories
• Map potential WEPs signatories including ICT and innovation firms
• Conduct bilateral and multilateral outreach meetings

• Master's degree or equivalent in business, finance, gender, social sciences, economics or a related field
• Experience using MS Office, spreadsheet and database packages, and web-based management systems
• Fluency in English and Azerbaijani

• Private-sector gender-equality and women’s-empowerment experience is an asset
• Network-coordination experience is an asset

• Women’s Economic Empowerment
• Women’s Empowerment Principles
• Private Sector Engagement
• Corporate Policy Development
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Business Network Building
• Outreach
• Gender Mainstreaming

• MS Word
• Excel
• Spreadsheet packages
• Database packages
• Web-based management systems

• Home-based consultancy provided in Baku, Azerbaijan
• Reports to the UN Women Programme Specialist
• Final deliverable deadline: 20 November 2026