Overview
Provides senior leadership and strategic direction for UN Women’s global advocacy agenda, exercising substantial autonomy in the design, prioritization, and execution of advocacy initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of UN Women’s global advocacy strategies.
- Manage institutional relationships with programme and policy leads.
- Direct the coordination of advocacy efforts across DCA teams, Regional and Country Offices, and National Committees.
- Lead UN Women’s humanitarian advocacy agenda within DCA.
- Represent UN Women in relevant inter-agency, humanitarian, and policy forums.
- Provide strategic leadership for UN Women’s institutional flagship campaigns and global advocacy moments.
- Oversee the development of integrated advocacy and campaign plans.
- Direct the planning and execution of the International Women’s Day flagship event.
- Direct and oversee UN Women’s global cohort of Goodwill Ambassadors.
- Formulate and direct a renewed global Goodwill Ambassadors and influencers strategy.
- Provide authoritative guidance to Regional and Country Offices and National Committees on the strategic engagement of Goodwill Ambassadors and influencers.
- Lead the implementation of UN Women’s brand strategy.
- Shape and drive advocacy contributions to public and private resource mobilization efforts.
- Lead relationships with key advocacy stakeholders and partners.
- Mobilize additional resources for public campaigning, advocacy, and engagement initiatives.
- Build and sustain strategic alliances.
- Lead a small team of 2-3 staff members plus temporary consultants.
Required Experience
- At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in advocacy, with responsibility for advocacy strategies, campaigning and partnerships are required.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing global advocacy strategies with measurable outcomes is required.
- Proven experience leading large-scale global campaigns and high-visibility advocacy initiatives are required.
- Substantial experience working with Goodwill Ambassadors, high-profile influencers, and public figures is required.
- Demonstrated experience in fundraising and resource mobilization, including supporting donor engagement, developing advocacy-linked value propositions, and mobilizing resources from public and private donors is required.
- Demonstrated experience in brand strategy leadership, including oversight or implementation of organizational brand positioning, visibility, and coherence across advocacy, campaigns, and public communications is desirable.
- Experience leading and managing personnel in international, multicultural and diverse settings is required.
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.
- Experience in the use of a modern web-based ERP System, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable.
- Experience working within the UN system or with international organizations is highly desirable.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree (master degree or equivalent) in international relations, political science, public policy, communications, international development, gender studies 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.
