Position Description

To ensure high-quality implementation, the project is structured around three complementary pillars: the Central Management and Coordination Team, the Local Experts (LEs), and a pool of Short-Term Experts (STEs) mobilised on demand.

-          The Central Management and Coordination Team includes a Head of Project, who provides overall leadership, coordination and technical guidance; a Key Expert on Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB), who ensures methodological quality and supervises the pool of LEs together with the STEs; a Project Manager, responsible for contractual, financial and administrative oversight; and a dedicated support team, composed of an Administrative and Financial Officer and a Project Assistant, providing logistical and financial management.

-          The Local Experts form the project’s frontline, working in close partnership with Beneficiary Authorities (BAs). They ensure that methodologies and tools are adapted to national and local contexts, provide tailored technical assistance and capacity building, and act as liaison between Expertise France and the BA.

-          Short-Term Experts (STEs) are mobilised during peak periods or for specialised contributions (e.g. gender impact assessment, MEAL, capitalisation, communication), complementing the work of the central team and the LEs by bringing targeted expertise.

This position is dedicated to providing tailored support to the City of Paris in consolidating and improving its efforts in gender-responsive budgeting (GRB).

The City of Paris has been implementing gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) since 2020 but continues to face challenges in integrating gender equality into budgetary decisions. While €14 million has been directly allocated to equality measures and 36.5% of the operational budget has been identified as potentially gender-relevant (€1.5 billion in 2022), the tools to assess actual impact remain limited. The first GRB report (2021) highlighted major shortcomings, including insufficient gender-disaggregated data, weak use of existing information, and the absence of indicators on measures with measurable impact. Moreover, the three-category classification methodology applied to operating expenses, although useful to identify gender-relevant budget lines, is not an impact-based approach and therefore does not determine whether financed measures promote equality or perpetuate inequalities, particularly in public space policies such as street lighting, parks, and mobility[1].

To address these challenges, the project will build on and consolidate the City of Paris’ efforts by supporting the development of a robust methodology for gender-responsive budgeting, strengthening expenditure tracking and gender indicators, and piloting this approach within the Public Health Department.

3.1. Objectives

The Local Expert (LE) will contribute to the design and implementation of project activities in the City of Paris, provide tailored technical support aligned with the specific needs of the Beneficiary Authority (BA), and facilitate coordination with national and subnational stakeholders to ensure ownership and sustainability of results.

Specifically, the Local Expert will conduct the initial assessment and contribute to the Inception Report; provide tailored technical support for the design, rollout, and evaluation of the GRB pilot; deliver capacity building and awareness-raising activities for civil servants and gender equality officers; facilitate coordination between Expertise France, the Beneficiary Authority, and stakeholders; and contribute to monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning through regular reporting and inputs to capitalisation outputs.

3.2. Reporting Lines

The Local Expert will work under the overall supervision of the Head of Project, technical supervision of the Key Expert, and in close collaboration with Expertise France and the BA.

3.3. Main Tasks & Responsibilities

a.       Inception Phase:

Conduct desk research and fact-finding missions; review existing GRB tools and indicator frameworks; provide methodological inputs; and produce the Inception Report. Establish the state of the art and define the baseline for outputs and outcome indicators.

b.       Tailored Technical Support:

Guide the design, rollout, and evaluation of the GRB pilot in the Public Health Department (PHD), including the definition of objectives, criteria, and analytical tools. Prepare a tailored support report outlining activities, realistic timelines, recommendations, and mitigation measures. Design and test a pilot methodology for gender budgeting in the PHD and evaluate its results, with a view to extending the approach to other municipal departments.

c.       Capacity Building and Awareness Raising:

Identify training needs among PHD staff, gender equality officers, and other relevant civil servants, in consultation with the Beneficiary Authority. Contribute to the design and delivery of training sessions and assess their results and sustainability. Support the organisation of awareness-raising workshops for civil servants and key stakeholders.

d.       Coordination:

Maintain regular communication and hold coordination meetings with Expertise France and the City of Paris to ensure coherence, alignment, and ownership of project activities.

e.       Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning  (MEAL):

Submit mission reports, contribute to regular progress reports, and provide inputs for capitalisation products and the final outputs of the project.

3.4. Key Deliverables