Donor Engagement and Resource Mobilization Officer

Volunteering

Overview

Support UN Women in advancing gender equality through resources mobilization and partnerships.

You have:

• Minimum 3 years of professional work experience in communication, multimedia content production, or related areas.
• Excellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting, formulation, reporting skills. Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing.
• Strong ability in producing end-to-end digital content for various media formats.
• Experience producing content for high-visibility digital content is required.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners.
• Previous experience with UN Women or with other UN organizations is an advantage.
• Experience in development organizations is desirable.
• Excellent command and knowledge of major social media platforms.
• Proficiency in the use of corporate templates in Canva, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign is an asset.
• Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various Microsoft Office applications.
• Highly skilled in using AI-powered tools in content production.
• Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision and tight deadlines.

Contract

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Grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, UNW works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

UN Women Regional Office for the Americas and de Caribbean (LACRO) is responsible for identifying and establishing partnerships and mobilizing complementary resources to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women in the region, in a context of shifting paradigms in traditional development cooperation and of challenges arising from the progress of many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) toward middle-income status.

In this context, LACRO seeks to strengthen its efforts and the capacities of the Regional Office and Country Offices to expand partnerships and mobilize resources in line with organizational priorities. It also plays an important role in communication, facilitation, and coordination around funding opportunities for countries in the region, maintaining continuous articulation among relevant stakeholders. Leading on partnerships development, policy engagement, public advocacy and awareness, and resource mobilization with government actors, private sector entities, civil society and foundations, to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment under the overall guidance of UN Women’s Strategic Plan 2026-2029.

Within the Partnerships and Resource Mobilization LACRO team, and in close coordination with the LACRO Communications team, the Donor Engagement and Resource Mobilization Officer will engage in donor visibility, partnerships and resource mobilization efforts with governments and private sector, traditional and emergent donors, foundations and supranational unions worldwide. Raising donor recognition with the aim of increasing overall funding to UN Women. The Officer will support developing funding proposals, communications material, donor visibility strategies, private sector initiatives including the implementation campaigns, development of presentations and related visibility material. Supporting knowledge management and strategic partnerships from the Regional Office as key levers for the achievement of fundraising results, particularly to support the transformation of social and gender norms, also by scaling up the use of new technologies and collaborative communication.

Under the direct supervision of the Resource Mobilization Specialist at UN Women LACRO, the Donor Engagement and Resource Mobilization Officer will conduct the following tasks:

1. Support the implementation of the Partnership and Resource Mobilization Strategy for LAC region in coordination with Communications RO team.

• Produce content packages for donor visibility • Engage in regular updates via Teams channels and groups of noteworthy results and progress of the Strategy and funding opportunities for the region and countries. • Propose innovative solutions to enhance the effectiveness of partnership and resource mobilization strategies and activities in the region, through identifying trends and/or issues. • Increase strategic engagement in relation to raising the visibility of UN Women programmes and activities.

2. Strengthen knowledge management and coordination with UN Women offices, HQ and key stakeholders for the improvement of donor visibility, donor intelligence and the systematization and maintenance of funding proposals and other strategic documents.

• Contribute to source content for funding proposals and donor engagement and recognition opportunity pieces. • Review communications material and project reports produced by UN Women RO programmatic areas to gauge the key results and impact to feed into presentations and engagement with funding purposes. • Collaborate with UN National Committees and Liaison Offices where appropriate on donor communications, partnerships and resource mobilization efforts for LAC.

3. Systematize resource mobilization data to support development of presentations, donor engagement and donor visibility material.

• Analize funding and resource mobilization data collected from UN Women dashboards and exchanges with RO programmatic and thematic units, to extract key conclusions, trends and challenges, and presented it visually. • Support and dynamize the exchange spaces available like the LACRO Strategic Resource Mobilization Group (GEM) and the Resource Mobilization Focal Point monthly meetings. • Contribute to missions’ preparation for our RD, gathering information and write/edit draft talking points, as well as designing briefs ad hoc and funding graphics by donors using UN Women corporate templates.

4. Other duties • The incumbent performs within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

• Awarenes and Sensitivity on Gender Issue • Accountability • Creative Problem Solving • Effective Communication • Inclusive Collaboration • Stakeholder Engagement • Leading by Example

• Minimum 3 years of professional work experience in communication, multimedia content production, or related areas. • Excellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting, formulation, reporting skills. Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing. • Strong ability in producing end-to-end digital content for various media formats (graphics, identify human interest stories for the Communication Unit to prepare, especially on women rights and social issues linked to UN Women’s results, programs and initiatives). • Experience producing content for high-visibility digital content is required. • Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners; familiarity with tools and approaches of communications for development. • Previous experience with UN Women or with other UN organizations is an advantage. • Experience in development organizations is desirable. • Excellent command and knowledge of major social media platforms, including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, and LinkedIn to inform content and strategies is desired. • Proficiency in the use of corporate templates in Canva, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign is an asset. • Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, Power Point, Forms, Teams, Power Bi, Outlook, among others); familiarity with database management. • Highly skilled in using AI-powered tools in content production. • Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision and tight deadlines.

The assignment will be carried out 100% remotely from the UN Volunteer's place of origin/residence. Should travel within the region be required, it will be coordinated in advance and conducted in accordance with UN Women’s travel policies and guidelines.

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