BACKGROUND INFORMATION

As part of the ITU-D Women in Cyber program portfolio, and in particular the “Her CyberTracks initiative”, a global cybersecurity capacity-building program designed to strengthen the policy and technical cybersecurity skills of women from more than 100 countries, this roster will support the effective scaling, implementation, and delivery of programme activities.
The Cybersecurity Consultant will play a key role in coordinating and supporting the delivery of training and capacity-building activities, ensuring their quality, relevance, and effective implementation for beneficiaries across eligible countries and regions. The consultant will contribute to stakeholder engagement, programme coordination, monitoring, and the achievement of the initiative's objectives to advance women's participation and leadership in cybersecurity.

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Under the guidance of the Head of Division of the Cybersecurity Division (Resilience) (CYB), the Cybersecurity Project Officer and in close collaboration with the project partners, the consultant will provide technical, operational, research, training, and programme management support to the implementation of the “Her CyberTracks initiative” and other activities related to women's participation, leadership, and capacity development in cybersecurity and cyber resilience. Depending on the expertise required and the assignment, the consultant may undertake one or more of the following activities:

• Her CyberTracks program support: Support the implementation and continuous improvement of the Her CyberTracks programme, including participant engagement, mentorship activities, stakeholder coordination, event delivery, and reporting.
• Research, analysis, and knowledge development: Conduct research and analysis on topics related to women in cybersecurity, gender and cyber resilience, digital inclusion, cybersecurity workforce development.
• Training and capacity development: contribute to the design, development, review, and delivery of training materials, curricula, toolkits, and learning resources related to women in cybersecurity and cyber resilience initiatives, to include cybersecurity, cyber resilience, cyber hygiene, and digital safety.
• Communications: support the development of communication materials, success stories, promotional content, presentations and knowledge-sharing products related to women in cybersecurity and cyber resilience initiatives.

CONCRETE DELIVERABLES

Specific deliverables will be defined according to the Terms of Reference to be established for each specific requirement and may vary depending on the context and priorities of the project and programme. Depending on the expertise required and related assignment(s), deliverables may include one or more of the following:

• Successful planning, coordination support and organization of Her CyberTracks.
• Development, review, adaptation, and/or maintenance of training materials, curricula, toolkits, learning resources, cyber hygiene awareness materials.
• Preparation of research papers, policy briefs, analytical reports, case studies, surveys, assessments, data analysis outputs, and other knowledge products related to women in cybersecurity, cyber resilience, digital inclusion, and workforce development.
• Projects analysis, reports and meeting summaries.

COMPETENCIES

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

REMUNERATION INFORMATION

Between USD 150 to USD 250 per working day to be defined according to the work experience of the consultant and the complexity of the assignment.