Overview
UN Women is seeking international consultants with expertise in copy-editing, synthesizing, and rewriting reports, knowledge products, and communication materials for dissemination to donors and public audiences. The consultant will support the UN Women Afghanistan Country office on a retainer basis when needed.
Key Responsibilities
- Review and revise UN Women reports for language correctness, politically appropriate terminology, and consistency with previous submissions.
- Strengthen results-based reporting by ensuring activities are accompanied by clear results statements aligned with the logic model.
- Apply a consistent style and format across documents, eliminating repetition and inconsistencies.
- Verify footnotes, sources, and references are complete and consistent.
- Conduct a thorough review of annexes, highlighting incomplete areas and ensuring alignment with UN Women publication guidelines.
- Review and refine the Table of Contents and Acronym List.
- Edit and refine reports, knowledge products, and communication materials.
- Recast content into concise, accessible formats aligning with UN Women’s reporting style manual and publication guidance.
- Synthesize information from multiple sources into coherent, results-focused narratives.
- Prepare specific, actionable feedback to UN Women ACO teams to strengthen reporting quality and adherence to standards.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive relevant editorial expertise is required.
- Strong knowledge of gender equality and women’s human rights, with proven ability to integrate these perspectives into reporting and publications is required.
- Demonstrated expertise in results‑based reporting (RBM), including familiarity with logic models, indicators, and donor reporting requirements is required.
- Prior relevant work experience with UN Women is desirable.
- Knowledge and understanding of the social, cultural and political context of Afghanistan and women’s rights situation and work in the country will be desirable.
Qualifications
• Master degree in communications, journalism, international development, gender studies, or related field is required.
