About the job
Background
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls, the empowerment of women and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
Part of the Strategic Partnerships Division (SPD), the Private Sector Partnerships (PSP) Section leads UN Women’s engagement with the private sector, corporations, philanthropy, foundations, and individuals – both in terms of substantive components and resource mobilization – and it drives a wide range of UN Women’s global initiatives: HeForShe, Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) and Unstereotype Alliance (UA). It also leads the work with all UN Women National Committees, and on the development of individual/digital giving as well as Advisory Services business line for private sector. PSP Section’s main aims are to ensure that UN Women develops and sustains high quality and impact focused partnerships to achieve maximum results for gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Duties And Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
The UN Women HeForShe initiative is looking for an Editor with expertise in editing reports, knowledge products, and communication materials for publication to donors and public audiences. The consultant should have a strong background in gender equality, women’s human rights, and masculinities, with a good understanding of Results-Based Reporting skills. The consultant will support HeForShe on a retainer basis when needed. Under the direct supervision of the HeForShe Head, the consultant will be responsible for reviewing donor reports, knowledge products, communication materials, including publication documents, and ensuring that reports are comprehensive, concise, and results-based oriented, and that publications meet set standards.
Specific Duties:
- Review and revise UN Women internal and donor reports to ensure:
- Correctness of language, including grammatical correctness, spellings, politically correct language, among others.
- Results-based reporting: Ensure that activities are reported with strong results statements following the logic model. Outputs are reported at the output level, and outcomes are reported at the outcome level.
- Reporting includes results reporting as well as indicator reporting.
- Completeness of documents, including all sections of the narrative report and annexes.
- Ensure consistency with previous reports. The HeForShe team will provide previous reports to the consultant.
- Maintain a consistent style and format throughout the document, eliminating repetition and inconsistencies.
- Ensure appropriate positioning and numbering of boxes, figures, and tables.
- Maintain consistent font(s) for headings and text.
- Ensure the appropriate use of italicized and bolded words.
- Verify that all footnotes, sources, and references are complete and consistent.
- Perform a thorough review of annexes (people consulted, bibliography, etc.) to highlight incomplete areas and maintain consistency in presentation as per UN Women publication guidelines.
- Review the Table of Contents and Acronym List.
- Proactively work closely with the HeForShe identified staff on the report.
- Copy-edit, synthesize, and rewrite reports, knowledge products, communication materials, including publication documents, into concise formats to meet in-house reporting style manual, publication guidance, and given word count.
- Prepare specific report-related feedback for HeForShe to improve the quality of reporting.
Note: The consultant is required to inform UN Women on the progress of his/her work on regular basis.
Duration of Assignment and Duty Station:
The editors will be engaged under a retainer contract, which facilitates direct engagement of the editor depending on need and availability within the contract period for a pre-agreed fee. The consultant will work from their home location.
Schedule of Payments:
Payment in full upon delivery of final submission and satisfactory outputs/products in accordance with specified requirements.
Deliverables:
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Expected completion time (due day)
Payment Schedule (optional)
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