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 equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates the efforts of the United Nations system to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. UN Women provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
Women’s economic empowerment is one of the strategic priorities for UN Women in the Asia-Pacific region. Many international commitments support women’s economic empowerment, including the Beijing Platform for Action, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and a series of International Labour Organization conventions on gender equality. UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) supports women’s economic empowerment in line with these normative frameworks.
Within this scope, the programme regularly develop impact stories, news materials, and other web-related information and web-based digital content to be featured on the regional UN Women Asia-Pacific website to showcase WeEmpowerAsia initiatives and their impact on women’s lives. The programme also produces newsletters throughout the year to inform stakeholders of programme-related activities.
Duties and Responsibilities
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.
- Recommends website visibility best practices for the programme and its campaigns and events.
- Support full website migration of UN Women Asia and the Pacific from SiteCore to Drupal.
- Support full website migration of UN Women Asia and the Pacific as SiteCore and Drupal backstopper.
- 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.
- Backstopping web administration function for UN Women Asia and the Pacific Regional Office.
- Backstopping 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.
Final products and deliverables
Deliverables
- High quality webpages and digital content complying with agreed formats and communication objectives indicated in the instructions message for each assignment.
- Minimum of 20 videos uploaded to YouTube.
- Design and distribution of minimum 10 MailChimp emails for regional and country teams.
- Technical support of five zoom events for Regional Programme.
- Complete migration of UN Women ROAP website from Sitecore to Drupal (subject to HQ’s migration schedule).
Timeframe
- The deadline of submission for each assignment will be indicated in the instructions message.
Competencies
The consultant should:
- Follow closely UN Women branding guidelines as well as other UN Women corporate and donors visibility tools.
- Utilize approved corporate branding, colour and theme for all materials produced.
- Explore and propose ways to convey information through innovative methods.
- Ensure messages are positive, empowering and reflect the programme’s vision;
- Acknowledge that UN Women has non-exclusive world rights in perpetuity of all webpage material and related digital content.
Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in web design, programming, communication or other related discipline;
- At least 4 years of professional experience in Sitecore and website applications management;
- Experience on development of communication materials on gender is an asset;
- Working experience with UN and/or international organizations is an asset;
- Expertise and command over website and graphic design software;
- Fluency in English with excellent writing skills.
Closing date: 12 January 2023