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.
The Strategic Partnerships Division (SPD) works to strengthen UN Women’s position as a partner of choice for gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) among governments and private sector actors around the world. The Division does this by positioning GEWE in the intergovernmental and multilateral fora, and engaging with governments and private sector corporations, foundations and individuals as policy, programme and resource partners. A key premise for SPD is that engagement with partners should be holistic based on multiple aspects of partnerships, including policy advocacy and resource mobilization.
As the lead for UN Women’s corporate engagement with the private sector, corporations, foundations and individuals – both in terms of substantive/content component of partnerships and resource mobilization – the Multi Stakeholder Partnerships and Advisory Services (MPAS) Section drives the range of UN Women’s special programmes (Unstereotype Alliance, Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), HeForShe and Global Innovation Coalition for Change) as well as the work with its National Committees and individual giving with the aim to achieve maximum global impact for gender equality and contribute to financial sustainability for UN Women.
The WEPs constitutes the framework under which policy and action-driven dialogues, campaigns, and knowledge exchanges (case studies, training and tools) are developed, and drives deepened WEPs implementation, accountability and transparency of results. The knowledge management platform is WEPs.org.
Reporting to the Global Head, WEPs, the Intern will support the programmatic work of the WEPs including database management, communications and social media.