Private Sector Coordination Support Consultant

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Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, 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.

Part of the Strategic Partnerships Division, the Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships and Advisory Services Section (MPAS) brings together UN Women’s multi-stakeholder initiatives through various partnership engagement. It convenes Private Partnerships, HeForShe, Individual, Digital and Public Giving, the Unstereotype Alliance and the Women’s Empowerment Principles |WE EMPOWER-G7 and seeks to ensure that these are complementary and synergistic. MPAS is the driver of UN Women’s corporate engagement with the private sector both in terms of substantive partnership and resource mobilization, as well as leveraging the range of UN Women’s partnership vehicles and its National Committees to achieve maximum impact for gender equality and women’s empowerment.

MPAS and the Private Partnerships team also has a coordination role as the technical lead on private sector engagement within and across UN Women, in order to build and promote a holistic, “One UN Women” approach to the private sector. This involves developing knowledge products and business intelligence on key private sector entities; researching background on history of engagement and partnership in alignment with Due Diligence; and providing technical expertise and advisory services to all colleagues engaging with private sector entities across the agency, including UN Women Regional, Country and Liaison Offices, as well as with UN Women National Committees, for partnership, resource mobilization and advocacy purposes.

Under the supervision of the Resource Mobilization Specialist, the Private Sector Coordination Support Consultant will focus on tasks aimed to improved knowledge management on UN Women’s private sector engagement, business intelligence and due diligence, and supporting the development and growth of the MPAS Community of Practice.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Contribute to MPAS Knowledge Management and Engagement Support, including research and analysis for the development and design of partner intelligence and coordinating the integration of inputs across HQ, regional and country offices
• Provide technical support to developing and maintaining the MPAS Community of Practice, an online mechanism and platform for effective knowledge sharing on private sector engagement across HQ and regional/country-based teams
• Assist in facilitating regular engagement coordination meetings with all UN Women Private Sector Engagement focal points
• Provide technical support to MPAS partnership engagement and due diligence functions, with particular focus on private sector engagement by UN Women National Committees
• Strengthen coordination and institutional memory of UN Women’s due diligence and private sector engagement, through monitoring of the MPAS Support e-mail
• Support on private sector engagement as needed.

Competencies

• 7 new Business Intelligence developed, designed and uploaded to the MPAS Intelligence Hub in Sharepoint
• 2 Partnership Engagement case studies on specific industries or types of partnership (e.g. cause-related marketing, visibility campaigns) developed, designed and uploaded to the MPAS Community of Practice
• Support to MPAS external and internal communications, including quarterly newsletter for Q1 2022 and Q2 2022
• Coordinate and respond to requests from UN Women colleagues on Due Diligence and Partnership engagement history, together with Due Diligence team
• Maintain MPAS Intranet and Community of Practices pages, including monitoring the MPAS Support email inbox

Required Skills and Experience

• Master’s Degree in international relations, law, business, gender studies, economics, public policy or similar is required
• At least 1 year of experience in partnerships, private sector engagement and/or business intelligence is required
• Strong knowledge of gender equality and women's rights issues;
• Experience in project management and/or knowledge management
• Excellent research & analysis skills with experience synthesizing and summarizing;
• Communication and media plans an asset.
• Familiarity with private sector engagement, UN Women National Committees and/or partner organizations is considered an asset
• Strong IT literacy in standard applications is mandatory (Excel, Word, PowerPoint,etc) and Sharepoint considered an asset
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills
• Fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is desirable.