International Consultant on partnership and visibility with fluency in a Nordic language

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• Lead the NLO´s event planning for strategic engagement with local Nordic, civil society and UN partners, including supporting the NLO´s engagement in UN Women’s corporate partner recognition, and support work to ensure visibility for core resources, and contribute to background analysis on impact of core resources
• Support the work of the NLO in background analysis and research as needed
• Provide technical support to external relations and partnerships of assigned funding partners portfolio
• Provide input to partner intelligence.
• Scope of Work and Responsibilities

• Conceptualize and plan public events in UN City to raise awareness of UN Women’s work, including its collaboration with UN and civil society partners, and to provide recognition for financial and political support from Nordic governments
• Draft concept notes, communications materials, draft talking points and HR paperwork as necessary for events organized or supported by UN Women. This should be done in close consultation with external partners and NLO HoO, with inputs from UN Women Communication Division, the Partner Intelligence, Visibility & Analysis Team (PIVA), HQ technical teams and HR as needed
• Support UN and government partners in the planning and organization of events, including knowledge-sharing, providing UN Women inputs and supporting logistical arrangements as necessary
• Support the NLO’s engagement with relevant HQ sections and Country Offices and in close collaboration with the Communications and Visibility Intern for the implementation of the corporate partner recognition week campaign on social media
• Draft messaging and assets tailored to the Nordic audience in question in consultation with the NLO government partnerships team and relevant Country and Regional Offices and request timely feedback on materials from relevant government counterparts
• Support in background analysis to demonstrate the flow of core and non-core resources and the impact of these funds across Strategic Plan impact areas
• Support in the design standard one-pagers for UN Women partners to demonstrate impact of their funding contribution to UN Women.    

• Provide background analysis of partners engaged in organized events, in writing background notes for meetings and events
• Provide ad-hoc support to the NLO’s advocacy and communication efforts addressing strategic partners as needed
• Provide logistical support to the NLO as needed.
• Provide technical support to the external relations and overall partnership of assigned funding partner portfolio:

• Provide background analysis in support of resource mobilization activities
• Provide input to the advocacy for gender equality and women’s empowerment and UN Women normative, coordination, and operational work globally.

• Support the gathering of data to provide real-time intelligence on partner policies and priorities and act as a central repository of this information, for support of the dissemination to offices globally, to promote partner engagement
• Provide input to briefs, reports, statistics, revenue projections and requirements for high-level meetings.

• Master’s Degree in Political Science, International Development, Gender Studies or a related field
• Demonstrated experience working with and advocating on gender issues
• Experience in planning and organizing complex events, such as multi-stakeholder events on gender-related issues
• Demonstrated experience in supporting high-level events such as political negotiations, high-level meetings or related initiatives, preferably with Nordic governments
• Demonstrated experience in supporting engagement with the Nordic governments
• Demonstrated experience in political analysis, and excellent drafting skills
• Experience working with the UN an advantage
• Fluency in the English language required
• Fluency in a Nordic language required.

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