UN Women - Editor (English Language), International Consultant

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women - UN Women

Internship Closes 25 May 2026 2 days left

Overview

The editor will copy-edit content into proper English for the UN Women Regional Office website and knowledge products, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and marketability.


Key Responsibilities
  • Write/edit/proofread UN Women knowledge products, including publications, brochures, briefs, factsheets, policy documents, guidance documents
  • Write/edit/proofread web articles for UN Women’s official regional website
  • Ensure consistency, accuracy, grammatical correctness and adherence to UN Women’s writing style guidelines
  • Liaise with UN Women Programme Specialist, Regional Communications Specialist and other relevant UN Women ECA RO regional staff as well as staff in field offices if needed for review and finalization processes
Required Experience

Minimum 5 years of experience as an editor, writer, with outstanding writing skills; Extensive experience in creating and editing website content; Experience in editing materials for human rights-related international organizations; UN experience is an asset. Proven record or writing and/or editing in the area of gender equality and women empowerment is an asset; Record or writing and/or editing in the area of feature stories is an asset. Excellent analytical skills with strong attention to detail, and ability to work independently under tight deadlines.

Qualifications

Master’s degree or equivalent in Communications, Journalism, English, International Relations, Social Sciences or a 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.

Other Details
Languages Required
Native knowledge of English is required (both written and spoken)
Languages Preferred
Not specified
Contract Duration
Not specified
Work Modality
home-based consultancy
Remuneration
Payment in full upon final submission and satisfactory outputs/products in accordance with specified requirements. The Consultant needs to fill out a timesheet, provided by the ECA RO, that would detail the work that was completed in a day and will be paid based on a daily fee.
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