UN Trust Fund - Knowledge Management Advocacy and Communications Consultant

Consultant

Overview

Support SHINE growth through knowledge management and communication initiatives.

You have:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in Communications, Human Rights, International Development or related field required.
• At least one year of relevant experience in external communications and knowledge management.
• Excellent writing skills and ability to translate complex issues into advocacy messages.
• Familiarity with moderating online and in-person discussions.
• Understanding of and experience in advocacy for women’s rights and ending violence against women.
• Knowledge and understanding of UN system and familiarity with inter-governmental processes.
• Excellent command of the English language, working knowledge in other UN languages is an asset.
• Solid knowledge and use of computer office tools and design platforms like Adobe and Canva is desirable.

Contract

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Background

The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) was established by General Assembly Resolution 50/166, with UN Women as the Fund’s Administrator on behalf of the UN system. The UN Trust Fund is the only multilateral grant-making mechanism providing support for civil society organizations and women’s rights organizations working to address the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. To date, the UN Trust Fund has awarded USD 198 million to 609 initiatives in 140 countries and territories.

In September 2017, the European Union and United Nations launched the Spotlight Initiative to end all forms of violence against women and girls. One of its central objectives is to strengthen women’s movements – the “crucial driver of progress” in ending violence against women – across the world.[1] The UN Trust Fund, as the only global demand-driven grant-making mechanism specialized in ending violence against women and girls, is uniquely positioned to contribute to realizing this goal through funding contextually relevant initiatives and providing support to grantees, many of which are small, women-led and women’s rights organizations.

The partnership between the UN Trust Fund and the Spotlight Initiative Secretariat has since been further strengthened with support and collaborations on multiple occasions and on multiple aspects, including on elevating feminist civil society-led practice-based knowledge. In March 2022, the UN Trust Fund and the Spotlight Initiative Secretariat introduced SHINE – an online knowledge hub for exchange knowledge where civil society, government actors and practitioners alike can discuss and advocate for ways to prevent and end violence against women. The UN Trust Fund aims to promote SHINE using a holistic approach including: amplifying knowledge products, initiating and creating discussions on SHINE, producing and disseminating external facing content that conveys both technical knowledge and advocacy messages. The UN Trust Fund requires a full-time Knowledge Management Advocacy and Communications Consultant to contribute to and support tasks needed to contribute to the growth of SHINE in scope and quality.

Under the supervision of the UN Trust Fund External Relations and Advocacy Analyst, the Consultant will contribute to creating and disseminating communications tools through existing UN Trust Fund platforms to further build and maintain SHINE as a powerful knowledge exchange hub focusing on practice-based knowledge. The Consultant will support the UN Trust Fund’s Knowledge Management and Global Giving team with coordinating and delivering specific tasks as relevant to the UN Trust Fund’s external communications and advocacy activities to amplify civil society-led practice-based knowledge.

[1] Spotlight Initiative. Annual Report 1 July 2017 – 31 March 2018. https://www.un.org/fr/spotlight-initiative/assets/pdf/Spotlight_Annual_Report_July_2017-March_2018.pdf

Duties and Responsibilities

The Consultant will be responsible for:

1. Providing support to knowledge management and inputs for communications materials development:

• Support the creation of digital content based on the UN Trust Fund’s knowledge products (in total at least 10 articles and interviews, with selected photos and videos when applicable) to highlight the work of civil society and women’s rights organizations on existing platforms to promote SHINE.
• Working closely with the SHINE Hub Coordinator, create content on SHINE including at least 30 comments, 10 announcements, 5 updates about webinars and events hosted by the UN Trust Fund and co-hosted with the Spotlight Initiative Secretariat.
• Contribute to packaging practice-based knowledge and knowledge products into snapshot results and advocacy messages (5 social media messages per week) for different platforms and audience to promote civil society-led knowledge to post on SHINE and other platforms of the UN Trust Fund and Spotlight Initiative.
• Support in the planning, managing and executing advocacy campaigns to amplify civil society-led knowledge in at least 4 external communications packages during international days and campaigns such as videos, photos and social media messages.
• Support in the planning and implementation of the UN Trust Fund’s Knowledge Management dissemination and Communications strategies, including the SHINE Communications, Visibility and Engagement plans.
• Liaise when needed with internal and external partners to produce external facing communications content (up to 5 interviews or articles) in line with safety and ethics guidelines and UN Trust Fund guidance.

1. SHINE knowledge hub, social media and website management support

• Support in the dissemination of knowledge products and conversion of knowledge products into actionable advocacy messages on different UN Trust Fund channels including identifying, organizing, reviewing, uploading to the website and social media platforms, sharing and tracking media assets.
• Identity, track, and monitor key partners and industry trends on UN Trust Fund social media accounts, SHINE and LinkedIn. Provide one industry trends analysis by the end of contract term.
• Working closely with the SHINE Hub Coordinator, support in moderating discussions on SHINE and maintaining the sections on knowledge products and learning on the UN Trust Fund website.
• 2. Event coordination
• Support in organizing advocacy campaigns (including but not limited to preparing up to 3 concept notes, 3 invitations, 4 social media packages, 4 post-event write-ups and 4 analyses) hosted by the UN Trust Fund a including during international days and around UN Trust Fund’s convenings in 2022.
• Support in organizing knowledge exchange events, including those linked to SHINE online discussions.

Competencies

Functional Competencies

• Excellent IT skills, including HTML, databases, extranet and office software packages, Sitecore, Drupal, Open Social, Adobe Suite, Canva, Trello, Mailchimp, Google Analytics.
• Ability to communicate sensitively and effectively across different constituencies.
• Demonstrated capacity to perform effectively within a multicultural work environment, tact and ability to deal with confidential matters in a discreet and reliable manner.
• Strong Team player with an ability to participate effectively in a fast-paced, information- and knowledge-sharing environment that fully collaborates and cooperates with others.
• Strong inter-personal skills and excellent organizational and coordination skills.
• Excellent analytical skills of substantive as well as organizational issues.
• Capacity to plan, prioritize and deliver tasks on time. Ability to set priorities; work under pressure with colleagues at all levels.
• Ability to perform a variety of tasks in a fast-paced and pressured environment.

Required Skills and Experience

Education

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Communications, Human Rights, International Development or related field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience and Competencies

• At least one year of relevant experience in external communications and knowledge management;
• Excellent writing skills and ability to translate complex issues into advocacy messages;
• Familiarity with moderating online and in-person discussions ;
• Understanding of and experience in advocacy for women’s rights and ending violence against women;
• Knowledge and understanding of UN system and familiarity with inter-governmental processes;
• Familiarity with UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women and its constituents;
• Solid knowledge and use of computer office tools and design platforms (Adobe, Canva, Excel, PowerPoint, Word etc.) is desirable;
• Excellent command of the English language, working knowledge in other UN languages is an asset.
• Prior experience with the UN will be considered an asset.

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