Closing date: 14 June 2023
Duty Station: New York, NY
Duration: 6 months (1 July – 30 December 2023
Background/Purpose:
Under the overall supervision of the Strategic Partnerships Adviser for Parliamentarians and CSOs, the CSO and Parliamentary Specialist will temporarily assist in operationalizing strategies and policies that will shape UNFPA’s approach to working with Civil Society and Parliamentarians and ensure that UNFPA relationships with these important constituencies contribute to UNFPA’s political and programming objectives.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Providing advocacy and outreach support:
- Conduct advocacy including digital, outreach and knowledge-sharing efforts supporting UNFPAs strategic approach to parliamentarians and civil society partnerships;
- Develop activities and interventions to facilitate dialogues with key civil society partners and parliamentarians, including supporting IPCI preparations and the Regional Conferences on P&D on the road to ICPD30.
- Identify opportunities to engage CSOs and parliamentarians in UN and intergovernmental fora (e.g, HLPF, UNGA) to strengthen linkages with the ICPD Programme of Action and advance the 2030 Agenda.
- Strengthening and supporting the work on expanding civic space:
- Provide support to the development and management of the implementation of strategies and interventions on expanding civic space and ensuring coordinated work on civil society, including through relevant UN Interagency Task Teams;
- Interact and liaise with feminist civil society and key CSO partners to ensure strong UNFPA engagement and support to the ICPD mandate, including by supporting UNFPA’s corporate engagement at the upcoming Women Deliver Conference;
- Support relevant platforms for meaningful CSO engagement, and multi-stakeholder dialogues at country, regional and global levels, including as part of the ICPD30 Review Process in line with the CSO/MP roadmap to ICPD30.
- Strengthening and providing internal coordination support: