Partnerships Specialist

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Mission and objectives

UNESCO is the UN specialized agency building peace in the minds of people through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information. Our mission is to foster intercultural dialogue and sustainable development, by promoting the free flow of ideas.
By adopting a multi-disciplinary and inclusive approach, UNESCO works with both duty-bearers and rights-holders across the world to develop and implement targeted actions that are born out of local needs, which ensures a holistic and results-based approach for sustain-able change.
The UNESCO Office in Beijing was established in 1984, and it is now representing UNESCO in the North-East Asian countries (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Korea) in all five programmes (Education, Natural Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Culture, Communication and Information). Altogether, these countries encompass about 1/5 of the world’s population, around 25% of global economic output, and over 5,000 years of rich history and culture.

Context

UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office for East Asia (UNESCO Beijing) was established in 1984 and is responsible for projects and work in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Korea. UNESCO Beijing works to find and implement innovative solutions in social, cultural, environmental and economic dimensions of sustainable development, helping countries to achieve their national development priorities and commitments on Sustainable Development Goals and the Education Agenda 2030.

Task description

Under the primary supervision of the Director, the UN Volunteers will undertake the following tasks:
• Provide technical and coordination support for internal and external relationship management in established and potential partnerships.
• Support the development and implementation of partnership and stakeholder engagement strategies of UNESCO, including preparations and communications relating to multistakeholder dialogues, work-shops and and support the follow up.
• Capture and disseminate partner and stakeholder intelligence and prepare agendas, substantive briefs, reports, data/statistics, and requirements for meetings or different events with partners, stakeholders and different constituencies.
• Provide logistical and programmatic support to the UNESCO leadership in engagements and meetings with internal and external partners and stakeholders and the follow up.
• Develop and draft inputs for briefing notes, key messages, concept notes, donor and results reports, presentations and remarks.
• Assist in ensuring regular internal and external partner communications and timely information-flows and timely sharing of information for advice, decision-making and follow-up.
• Coordinate timely delivery of services, updating contact data base and other inputs in collaboration with colleagues across UNESCO in benefit of ongoing partnership and multistakeholder initiatives.
Furthermore, UNVs are encouraged to:
• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and taking an active part in UNV activities (for instance, IVD celebration events);
• Get acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country;
• Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking;
• Contribute news and articles on field experiences and submit them to UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.;
• Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UNV volunteers;
• Promote online volunteering and encourage individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering Service whenever technically feasible.
Results/Expected Output:
Delivered at a level of high quality and in a timely manner, the following outputs are expected:
• Communication products and materials produced in support of UNESCO’s partnerships strategy and priorities.
• Information about, materials for, and relationships with partnership outreach and resources mobilization.
• Research conducted, recommendations developed and presented in support of partnership activities.
• Partnership-related content initiatives successfully coordinated add delivered on time.
• Monitoring and evaluation activities undertaken, including preparation and presentation of results and analysis reports.
• A final statement of achievements at the end of the assignment.