Background

Grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, UN Women works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls, the empowerment of women, and the achievement of gender equality in development, humanitarian action, peace and security. UN Women works globally to make the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) a reality for women and girls and stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life.

UN Women West and Central Africa (WCA) programs, coordination and normative work support women’s economic empowerment, women’s political participation, the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda and ending violence against women in 10 countries of the region. The Regional office also works through the UN system as a technical support to gender mainstreaming in 14 countries.

In line with its Strategic Plan, UN Women WCA promotes a partnership building approach in advancing Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) to reach a higher impact. Expanding collaborations with bilateral and multilateral donor organizations and the private sector to increasing financing to GEWE is one of the key regional priorities.

UN Women West and Central Africa office seeks to recruit an intern to assist the Partnerships and Resource mobilization (PRM) regional and country units in developing a data-driven approach to donor and partner engagement and fundraising. This will be done by supporting the PRM in organizing, monitoring and analyzing the data on UN Women’s historical and current partnerships building and resource mobilization performance and trends, and in conducting data-driven analysis on the latter. This position reports to the PRM Specialist in West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO).

Duties and Responsibilities

Business intelligence and data-driven analysis on UN Women’s funding performances and resource mobilization efforts in the overall region (regional and country offices)

• Develop, set up and coordinate the implementation of business intelligence tools that enable the organization, tracking and analysis of the information.
• Provide regular data-based analysis reports to regional and country offices’ senior management and PRM staff to support pipeline building, planning and overall coordination of fundraising efforts.
• Provide ah-hoc data and reports to PRM staff to support donor outreach initiatives (donor meeting preparation, donor intelligence)
• Liaise between the helpdesk in HQ and system users in the region.

Capacity building

• Support WCARO in developing training sessions for the regional and country offices’ staff on performance tracking, data-driven resource mobilization and on the use of the tools.
• Ensure data quality across the regional and country offices through follow-up and monitoring actions.

Contribution to the PRM regional community of practice

• Support WCARO in developing regular sharing sessions to reinforce regional and country ownership of the data, present strategic analysis, showcase identified PRM best practices and discuss challenges.

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
• Accountability
• Creative Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Leading by Example

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FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:

• Excellent command of Microsoft office suite, especially, excellent command of Excel
• Strong experience with data visualization and analysis tools such as Power BI.
• Knowledge of a programming language (e.g., Python or R) is considered an asset.
• Excellent analytic and reporting skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Major attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a multicultural, multi-ethnic environment.
• Strong sense of responsibility, a flexible a proactive mindset, ability to work independently.
• Ability to work in a highly pressured environment

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Required Skills and Experience

Education and certification

• Advanced university degree in Statistics, Business Administration, Public Administration, Public policy, International Relations, Economics, or other related fields.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Strong knowledge in data analysis, business/ data intelligence is required.
• Strong knowledge in gender equality and women’s empowerment is considered an asset.

• Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher) in international development, gender and development, development economics or any other relevant development disciplines;

  • Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor’s level or equivalent) in international development, gender and development, development economics or any other relevant development disciplines;

  • Have graduated with a university degree in international development, gender and development, development economics or any other relevant development disciplines, and, if selected, must commence the internship within a one-year period of graduation; or

  • Be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program which is part of a degree programme and undertake the internship as part of the program requirements.

Experience

• Experience using data analysis visualization tools such as Power BI is required.

Remuneration

• Interns who are not in receipt of financial support from other sources such as universities or other institutions will receive a stipend from UN Women to partially subsidize their basic living costs for the duration of the internship.

Language Requirements

• Fluency in English and French is required.

Application

All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from: . Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

Note

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. It 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.

Diversity and inclusion

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. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.

If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.

UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.