Women’s Empowerment Principles Intern

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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.

The Strategic Partnerships Division (SPD) works to strengthen UN Women’s position as a partner of choice for gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) among governments and private sector actors around the world. The Division does this by positioning GEWE in the intergovernmental and multilateral fora, and engaging with governments and private sector corporations, foundations and individuals as policy, programme and resource partners. A key premise for SPD is that engagement with partners should be holistic based on multiple aspects of partnerships, including policy advocacy and resource mobilization.

As the lead for UN Women’s corporate engagement with the private sector, corporations, foundations and individuals - both in terms of substantive/content component of partnerships and resource mobilization - the Multi Stakeholder Partnerships and Advisory Services (MPAS) Section drives the range of UN Women’s special programmes (Unstereotype Alliance, Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), HeForShe and Global Innovation Coalition for Change) as well as the work with its National Committees and individual giving with the aim to achieve maximum global impact for gender equality and contribute to financial sustainability for UN Women.

The WEPs constitutes the framework under which policy and action-driven dialogues, campaigns, and knowledge exchanges (case studies, training and tools) are developed, and drives deepened WEPs implementation, accountability and transparency of results. The knowledge management platform is WEPs.org.

Reporting to the Global Head, WEPs, the Intern will support the programmatic work of the WEPs including database management, communications and social media.

Duties and Responsibilities

Provide support to WEPs social media, communication and visibility work:

  • Draft and schedule daily posts on the WEPs platforms (Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn);
  • Support the planning and delivery of digital and social media content to attract the attention of policy makers, private sector, bloggers, academia, donors, practitioners, politicians, and volunteers;
  • Monitor, analyze and report on monthly trends of WEPs platforms using relevant social media analytics using applications, such as Google Analytics, Constant Contact, and Hootsuite;
  • Create and maintain a social media calendar that includes relevant international days to increase engagement on WEPs platforms;
  • Gather intelligence on online user behavior and suggest solutions on how to engage them better on the websites and social media channels;
  • Support the management of the WEPs contact databases for outreach and communication;
  • Scan and monitor digital and social media sites, identify opportunities for the WEPs community on digital platforms of other organizations;
  • Use social media to increase the number of WEPs signatories and to increase the number of learners on the WEPs Learn platform;
  • Design social media assets using WEPs branding guidelines; ensure they are aligned with UN Women communications guidelines.

Provide support to the WEPs programmatic work

  • Clean-up of WEPs database and Salesforce records;
  • Maintain ongoing contact and close communication with partners and manage the email marketing database of partners and stakeholders;
  • Provide administrative support to quality assure, format and validate resources and other learning and knowledge products on weps.org;
  • Support the maintenance of the WEPs database of companies, including the sign-on and onboarding process and verification process;
  • Respond to queries from potential and current WEPs signatories particularly on sign-on, updating/modifying the company profile page, logo and media inquiries, etc;

Learning objectives:

  • Understand the WEPs as a framework in promoting gender equality in the workplace, marketplace and community
  • Understand the communications and programmatic work of the WEPs
  • Engagement with relevant stakeholders, particularly WEPs signatories.

Competencies

Core Values:

  • Respect for Diversity
  • Integrity
  • Professionalism

Core Competencies:

  • Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
  • Accountability
  • Creative Problem Solving
  • Effective Communication
  • Inclusive Collaboration
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Leading by Example

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies:

https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf?la=en&vs=637

Functional Competencies:

  • Interest in the work of UN Women and to the ideals of the UN Charter;
  • Knowledge in managing cutting-edge content management systems and strategies;
  • Understanding of social media platforms, tools and strategies, including for driving traffic to web portals;
  • Skills in database management;
  • Ability to interact with stakeholders from the public and private sector;
  • Interest in gender equality and women’s empowerment;
  • Ability to organize and complete multiple tasks by establishing priorities;
  • Capable of handling large volumes of work under time constraints;
  • Excellent analytical skills
  • Detail oriented
  • Establish, build and sustain effective relationships with clients, demonstrating understanding of the client’s perspective; anticipates client needs and address them promptly.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

  • University studies in one of the following disciplines: communications, gender studies; media; information technology or other relevant subjects is required.
  • Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher); Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor's level or equivalent); Have graduated with a university degree and, if selected, must commence the internship within a one-year period of graduation, or Be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program which is part of a degree programme and undertake the internship as part of the program requirements.

Language:

  • Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in English are required;
  • Working knowledge of another UN language is an advantage.

Renumeration:

Interns who are not in receipt of financial support from other sources such as universities or other institutions will receive a stipend from UN Women to partially subsidize their basic living costs for the duration of the internship.

Application Information:

  • All applicants must submit a completed and signed P.11 form with their application.
  • Due to the high volume of applications received, we can ONLY contact successful candidates.
  • Successful candidate will be required to provide proof of enrollment in a valid health insurance plan at the duty station of the internship, proof of school enrollment or degree, a scanned copy of their passport/national ID and a copy of a valid visa (as applicable).
  • A selected candidate unable to report to the advertised duty station due to the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may be approved to undertake this internship remotely.

Note:

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.

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