[Hiring] UN Women Copy Editor Consultant @UNDP

Role Description

Working under the supervision of UN Women Regional Communications Specialist, the consultant will be responsible for updating UN Women Regional Programme, Joint Programme and Country Offices website pages with content and information as well as developing specific web-based projects and relevant digital content management system of UN Women and its approved web applications.

The consultant will work closely with the Regional Programmes and Country Offices or project leads to perform the following tasks:

• Conceptualize, develop and maintain webpages and web-based digital content for the EmPower project (subsumed under UN Women Asia-Pacific website).
• Plan and design high-quality, innovative and attention-grabbing web-based digital content for online dissemination to promote UN Women visibility on websites and web pages.
• Modify, revise and edit webpage assets, layouts, diagrams and network documentation as required by and in consultation with relevant Regional Programme staff.
• Provide support in managing UN Women Asia Pacific video channel and photo gallery on Youtube and Flickr.
• Generate information on website analytics for monthly monitoring and reporting.
• Recommend website visibility best practices for the programme and its campaigns and events.
• Support full website migration of UN Women Asia and the Pacific on Drupal.
• Support full website migration of UN Women Asia and the Pacific on Drupal as the back stopper.
• Support at maximum five Zoom virtual meetings for Regional Programme for the period of one year.
• Provide ICT client support to Regional Programmes.
• Provide network-related troubleshooting.
• Backstop web administration function for UN Women Asia and the Pacific Regional Office.
• Backstop web administration function for UN Women Pacific Multi-Country Office.
• Provide on-site support of IT functions to Programme teams on behalf of Regional Communications Unit.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in social sciences, international development, and/or communications, and other relevant field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of high-level experience in writing, editing, reporting, and communicating complex programmatic information in reader-friendly formats and styles.
• Demonstrated abilities and track record writing high quality English-language reports and information.
• Excellent understanding of and experience with gender-sensitive and results-based management and reporting.
• Understanding of international development, resource mobilization, and the UN context is an asset.
• Must be capable of effectively using MS Word, Excel and Acrobat Reader for copy-editing work especially when reviewing documents using track change functions.
• Fluency in written and oral English is required.

Benefits

• This is a home-based consultancy with no official travel.
• Consultant will be engaged under a retainer contract, which facilitates direct engagement of the consultant depending on need and availability within the contract period for a pre-agreed fee.

Company Description

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact.

• UN Women merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.
• At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect.
• UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.