Background
The current global policy context provides an historic opportunity to make considerable gains in ending violence against women and girls. Increased political will, strengthened UN resolve, the launch of the UN Secretary-General’s Campaign on ending violence against women, are all conducive and positive signs in this regard. At the root of gender-based violence are the discriminatory attitudes and practices towards women that perpetuate it: These can only be transformed by first changing the ‘hearts and minds’ of the public at large.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Overall, developing multi-year, multi-pronged and multi-media communications and outreach strategies, plans and products to advance work and resource mobilization on ending violence against women and girls, including across the organization’s global flagship and leading initiatives;
- Engaging the socially-responsible private sector in new concepts and initiatives developed by the section;
- Developing a public information and outreach plan supporting the strategy’s implementation with targeted constituencies and audiences;
- Establishing close links and partnerships with external stakeholders, including women’s groups and related campaigns on ending violence against women to identify and establish synergies, including the Secretary-General’s Campaign at global and regional levels;
- Developing and overseeing production of related promotional materials, messages, publications, campaigns, press releases, events and other products aimed at diverse constituencies and audiences, and contributing communications-oriented expertise in the development of high-quality donor and programme reports;
- Providing conceptual leadership and oversight for the maintenance of the section of UN Women’s website on ending violence against women;
- Providing oversight of related public events and panels at United Nations Headquarters, among other venues, including with UN Missions and other government representatives, civil society organizations, and private sector partners, and liaising with UN Conference services as needed;
- Identifying, enlisting and managing relations and workplans with celebrity and other high-profile spokespersons on ending violence against women as needed;
- Liaising with, and providing technical advice and support to, UN Women sub-regional offices on communications and private sector outreach initiatives on ending violence against women and girls as requested;
- Providing ongoing support to the Senior Advisor on Ending Violence Against Women as regards writing of advocacy, communications, speeches, op-eds/articles, soundbytes for the media and talking points for events, press, or other communication-related needs for the section, the Executive Director’s office or other purposes as needed;
- Identifying the capacities, partners, and budgets required to implement the strategy;
- Managing the budget allocated for the sections’ communications and outreach, as well as related contractual agreements, hiring and consultancies;
- Reporting on progress, applying results-based management and indicators established in the strategy and plans;
- Other tasks as may be required and requested by the supervisor.
Competencies
- Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards.
- Advocates and promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UN Women.
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
- Treats all people fairly without favoritism.
- Shares knowledge and experience and contributes to UN Women Practice Areas.
- Encourages office staff to share knowledge and contribute to UN Women Practice Areas.
- Develops deep knowledge in Practice Areas.
- Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development in one or more Practice Areas, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills.
- Ability to elaborate and implement communications and publications strategies.
- Ability to effectively develop, implement and manage advocacy and communications strategies and plans.
- Demonstrates excellent ability to write and communicate orally with accuracy and professionalism in English.
- Communicates sensitively and effectively across different constituencies.
- Demonstrates strong IT skills.
Required Skills and Experience
- Master's degree in communications, media relations, journalism, or related field.
- The candidate will have a minimum of 7 experience in designing, managing and developing communications and outreach programmes;
- General knowledge of and strong commitment to gender equality, women’s empowerment and ending violence against women;
- Prior experience working with the United Nations and in developing countries an asset;
- Self-starter with an entrepreneurial and creative spirit, ability to multi-task under pressure, and strong capacity to work in a team as well as independently with minimal supervision to complete tasks.
- Ability to work in other UN languages an asset, especially Spanish and French.
All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment
Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.