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Strategic Partnerships Assistant

Sri Lanka

  • Organization: UNV - United Nations Volunteers
  • Location: Sri Lanka
  • Grade: Administrative support - Administrative Services and Support - Generally no need for Higher Education
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Administrative support
    • External Relations, Partnerships and Resource mobilization
  • Closing Date: Closed

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Mission and objectives

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Context

UN Women is the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide. It works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men and the third gender as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. The UN Women Sri Lanka office is aligned to the UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand. It focuses on six priority areas: increasing women’s leadership and participation; ending violence against women; engaging women in all aspects of peace and security processes; enhancing women’s economic empowerment; making gender equality central to national development planning and budgeting; and supporting inter-governmental processes, such as the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and CEDAW review processes. The office presently leads the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in Sri Lanka. With regard to the WPS Agenda, UN Women recognizes that ongoing and emerging conflicts have devastating consequences, including the widening of development gaps between women and men. Women frequently make up the bulk of displaced and refugee populations and are disproportionately targeted for sexual violence. Despite being at the forefront of peace movements, women are rarely part of formal peace negotiations. UN Women acts to build women’s participation and influence in decision-making to prevent and resolve conflicts and works towards more inclusive and peaceful societies. UN Women’s programmes on women, peace and security are guided by a series of commitments to women’s rights. These include the historic UN Security Council Resolution 1325, and seven supporting resolutions—1820, 1888, 1889, 1960, 2106, 2122 and 2242. Other key reference po

Task description

Under the direct supervision of the UN Women Country Focal Point / Programme Analyst, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: Strategic partnerships and resource mobilisation: Assist the UN Women team in the development and strengthening of partnerships with UN agencies, government institutions, civil society, development partners and other stakeholders on advancing GEWE in Sri Lanka; Participate and provide support in managing activities and other promotional events to engage the abovementioned stakeholders to expand interest and commitment to GEWE through UN Women programmes and joint UN system programmes; Contribute to the preparation of background documents and analysis to forge and implement strategic partnerships to increase outreach on UN Women’s work in country; Support in resource mobilisation efforts to further UN Women’s efforts initiated in the country. Advocacy and knowledge management: Contribute to advocacy and outreach initiatives/campaigns together with key stakeholders on gender equality and women’s empowerment in Sri Lanka, including the Generation Equality Campaign, Women’s Empowerment Principles, 16 Days of Activism, amongst others. Contribute to communication related aspects of the office by creating content for internal and external audiences to showcase UN Women’s work and expertise; Support in developing advocacy products (videos, infographics, etc.) and documentation of good practices and case studies related to UN Women’s portfolio; Support the UN Women team in disseminating and sharing resources, good practices and lessons learnt from UN Women’s work; Any other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

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