Partnerships Associate

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 United Nations Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) is a partnership between the United Nations, Member States, and the civil society, which supports women led and women’s rights organizations working to build peace and provide humanitarian response throughout the world. Since the end of 2016, the WPHF has supported over 1400 civil society organizations and is present in 44 countries. UN Women hosts the Secretariat of the United Nations Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund, which is a UN multi partners trust fund that supports grassroots women’s civil society organizations and women human rights defenders in crisis and conflict affected settings. 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, 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.

The Partnerships Associate will be reporting to Partnerships Analyst by provide support to facilitate engagement with donors and WPHF Board members, support with organization of outreach and advocacy events and activities with donors and key partners, well as assist in donor tracking and donor intelligence and any coordination tasks with other teams as needed.

Under the direct supervision of Partnerships Analyst, the Partnerships Associate will:

• Support the preparation of quarterly donor meetings and briefings, donor outreach and events in partnerships key stakeholders, including assisting in the preparation of any resource mobilization events in 2025, as well as other WPHF donor engagements;
• Support the preparation and follow-up of WPHF Board Meetings, including scheduling meetings, briefs, preparing presentations, scripts, and minutes.
• Assist preparation and follow up of meetings and engagements with external stakeholders and partners, including UN;
• Assist the preparation of briefs and coordination with other WPHF teams in relations to donor requested information.
• Assist in keeping the donor tracking sheet updated, support with coordination tasks and donor intelligence.
• Support with research, data collection and analysis on partnerships and outreach as well as issues/topic related to the WPHF mandate;
• Support in cross cutting issues related to external relations;
• Carry out other tasks assigned to support the WPHF secretariat, as required


Results/Expected Outputs:

• Successfully supported the partnerships analyst and team in mobilizing resources for the Fund
• Successfully supported meetings and exchanges with Board Members
• Successfully contributed to the development of briefs, background papers, and presentations
• Successfully supported donor tracking, intelligence and outreach to donors and key partners
• Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment
• A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed