Online Volunteer, Women's Land Rights Research

About this role

UN Women Tanzania is recruiting an online national volunteer to research, document, and manage knowledge on women's land rights, tenure security, and economic empowerment in Singida and Dodoma. The volunteer will support the Women's Economic Empowerment unit and the Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress Towards Rural Women's Economic Empowerment, implemented with FAO, IFAD, and WFP. The assignment involves preparing an inception report with research parameters and tools, gathering sources from project documents and stakeholders, and conducting structured research. The volunteer will document good practices, lessons learned, and community-driven approaches that improve women's access to land and productive resources.

Responsibilities include drafting a findings report and policy brief, reviewing about 10 to 12 documents, and collecting data from UN focal points, implementing partners, land and agricultural officers, gender champions, and traditional and religious leaders in Dodoma, Singida, and Zanzibar. Applicants must hold a master's degree in human rights law, land law, gender studies, development studies, public policy, economics, governance, or a related field and have at least 10 years of progressive experience in policy development, research leadership, and programme implementation related to land governance, gender equality, and women's economic empowerment. Strong research and analytical skills are required, with a track record in research on gender, land governance, women's land rights, and institutional support systems and experience working with government institutions on policy reform. Knowledge and experience in women's empowerment and gender are desirable, as is collaboration with UN agencies, international NGOs, regional organizations, and local civil society.

UN Women Tanzania's Strategic Note aligns with national priorities and the UNSDCF, and this work sits within its Women's Economic Empowerment programme. The assignment is a United Nations Volunteers placement hosted by UN Women in Tanzania and is delivered online under the Program Specialist's guidance. The source states no closing date, contract length, travel or compensation and applications go through UN Volunteers.