UN Women Seeks Coordination Specialist Assistant to Drive Gender Equality Initiatives

UN Women Seeks Coordination Specialist Assistant to Drive Gender Equality Initiatives

• Job Schedule: Full time
• Locations: Geneve, Switzerland
• Job Function: Humanitarian Action
• Deadline: Mar 25, 2025

UN Women is hiring a Coordination Specialist/Special Assistant to support strategic initiatives. This role involves enhancing collaboration, managing projects, and advancing gender equality efforts globally, contributing to impactful change in women’s empowerment and rights.

UN Women hosts the Secretariat of the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund. The WPHF Secretariat provides support to the Funding Board, mobilizes resources from Governments, companies, foundations and individuals, designs funding windows and mechanisms, provides day-to-day support to Country Offices implementing WPHF programmes, and ensures timely and quality monitoring and reporting. The Secretariat’s mandate is also to strengthen stakeholders’ knowledge of and engagement with women, peace and security issues through proper internal and external communications, advocacy and outreach. Finally, the Secretariat provides knowledge management services for the WPHF and manages the Community of Practice (CoP) for WPHF partners and grantees. 

Under the supervision of the Head of Secretariat, the Coordination Specialist/Special Assistant coordinates and provides general oversight on WPHF, coordinates strategic communication initiatives and support resource mobilization initiatives.

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Responsibilities

• Oversee administrative functions supporting the Head of Secretariat 
• Provide technical support and guidance to the development of strategic partnerships and resource mobilization efforts 
• Manage substantive support to the WPHF Funding Board 
• Advise on building and consolidating partnerships across the inter-governmental space, within the UN and across civil society. 
• The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization. 

Requirements

• Master’s degree or equivalent in International Relations, Communications, Public Relations, Public Affairs, Social Sciences, Public Administration, Business Administration 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. 
• A project/programme management certification would be an added advantage.
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience in international/regional organizations and communications/public relations required. 
• International development work preferably focused on, or strongly involving Women Peace and Security or Humanitarian work at national, regional, and international levels is required. 

Application Process

• Applicants must ensure that all sections of the application form, including the sections on education and employment history, are completed. If all sections are not completed the application may be disqualified from the recruitment and selection process.