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. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations System efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
The United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) was established through the UN General Assembly Resolution 50/166 in 1996 with UN Women as its Administrator on behalf of the UN system. The UN Trust Fund is a global multi-lateral grant-making mechanism supporting national efforts to prevent and end violence against women and girls, one of the most widespread human rights violations in the world. The UN Trust Fund provides technical assistance and funding to advance the development of innovative models and strategic interventions in the area of ending violence against women and girls. To date, the UN Trust Fund has awarded USD198 million to support 609 initiatives in 140 countries and territories.
Under the supervision of the UN Trust Fund Resource Mobilization and Advocacy Specialist, in internal coordination with all members of the UN Trust Fund team, the Resource Mobilization and Advocacy Analyst will be responsible for supporting UN Trust Fund’s resource mobilization activities and global advocacy and fundraising work.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Contribute to building partnerships and resource mobilization tailor-made approaches:
Provide research inputs to resource mobilization approaches tailored to specific partners and prospects,
Provide support to the analysis of resource mobilization results to identify lessons,
Provide support to maintaining information and databases up to date, including assistance in updating donor profiles and intelligence,
Assist in coordinating UN Trust Fund’s resource mobilization and advocacy work with UN Women’s National Committees,
With supervisor’s guidance carry out tasks related to due diligence screening, in coordination with UN Women’s Due Diligence Helpdesk under MPAS, for identification of prospective private sector partners.
Provide inputs to advocacy and communication efforts:
Provide inputs to relevant documents, such as project summaries, briefing notes, speeches, and presentations.
Support the organization of advocacy activities and campaign events, workshops, and knowledge products.
Provide logistical and other event support as needed including transcribing and notetaking.
Provide support for organization of UN Trust Fund’s virtual and in-person advocacy events, as needed.
Support building individual giving and keep up to date the contact management system for resource mobilization of the UN Trust Fund:
Keep up to date a contact management system with new contacts on regular basis,
Streamline contact management across a variety of sources and ensure contacts are organized across tools used for e-newsletters once per month,
Pull and clean contacts, maintain a database of those to receive steward emails for monthly contributions each quarter,
Organize data of contacts to facilitate analysis of trends each quarter,
Draft and disseminate thank you messages for individual donors as needed,
Assist with research into best practices of acquiring new individual and monthly donors and deliver synthesis with findings,
Assist with research into private sector companies’ corporate social responsibility practices and contacts for the purpose of expanding employee giving,
Assist with research into automation options for contact management systems for resource mobilization and individual giving,
Extract data and organize contacts from employee-giving initiatives to ensure they are properly stewarded,
Organize contacts in an e-newsletter system based on individual giving planned activities,
Assist with outreach to individual contacts through mail merge tailored blasts,
Assist with plans for individual giving campaigns/bursts around the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (November).
Extract information and data from the UN Trust Fund’s portfolio of grantees for targeted outreach purposes:
Provide inputs for social media packages for social networks to inform external partners on UN Trust Fund updates and for advocacy and resource mobilization purposes, with the view of UN Women National Committees’ needs,
Support updating the UN Trust Fund’s Trello board with new content from social media plans, as needed,
Filter through a review of the UN Trust Fund’s portfolio on a needs basis to contribute to donor snapshots and proposal writing
Required Skills and Experience:
Education:
Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Social Sciences, Human Rights, Gender/ Women’s studies, 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:
At least one (1) year of progressively responsible experience in the areas of resource mobilization, advocacy for women’s rights, and ending violence against women.
Experience in the area of ending violence against women work is required.
Experience with computer office tools and digital giving platforms (Salesforce, RallyUp (or equivalent) Excel, PowerPoint, Word etc.) is desirable.
