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

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Job Description

Under the overall supervision of the Director of the Nordic Liaison Office (NLO) and in close collaboration with the Public Partnerships team, the Partnerships and Visibility Junior Consultant will support the implementation of UN Women’s communications strategy and work to increase UN Women’s visibility in the Nordic countries. This will be done through event planning and social media efforts aimed at engaging UN Women’s partners in dynamic conversation on its mandate and the impact of its work. The Partnerships and Visibility Junior Consultant will provide support to the Nordic Liaison Office on the partner portfolio that includes amongst others, but is not restricted to, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and the Baltic states, as well as other partnerships including with the private sector, civil society, academia, UN Associations and UN Women National Committees in the Nordic region.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The junior consultant will lead on local partner visibility efforts, including event management, to strengthen partner recognition with Nordic audiences.

The objective of the consultancy is fourfold:

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

Lead on event planning for strategic engagement with Nordic partners, including support to partner recognition and visibility for core resources:

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.

Analytical background support for the Nordic Liaison Office:

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:

Support in partnership management and advocacy:

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.

Provide input to partner intelligence:

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.

Required Skills and Experience:

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.

Source: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=115036

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