Skip to main content

This job has expired

Consultant UN Mapping

Employer
ActionAid
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
Competitive package
Closing date
1 Nov 2018

View more

Function
International Development
Sector
International
Hours
Full Time
Contract Type
Contract

Job Details

Use your extensive experience and contacts within the UN to outline which agencies align to our international strategy and our human rights-based approach as well as which UN bodies have global strategic partnerships with INGOs. You will provide recommendations on which of these bodies we should prioritise building a strategic funding and engagement relationship with.

This mapping will include but is not limited to: UN Women (including the UN Trust Fund to end Violence Against Women and the UN Fund for Gender equality), UNDP, UNICEF, UNDEF, UNFPA, ILO and UNDEF.  Mapping can include other bodies if you deem them relevant to the work of ActionAid.

Key requirements

Internal mapping

You will collaborate with designated staff from ActionAid International and key country offices from around the Federation to conduct a short light-touch internal mapping to establish spaces of existing engagement/opportunities  

External donor trends and mapping:

• A short donor funding trends analysis, identifying key shifts

• Map which UN bodies and their underlying departments and funding mechanism align to ActionAid’s strategic programmatic priorities as described in ActionAid’s international strategy.

• Outline the funding mechanisms attached to each of those UN bodies, whether they are centrally managed (at Head office), regional or fully decentralized and managed in individual countries. Are there budgets centralized or decentralized? What is the size of the opportunities?

• Assess what policy forums/ engagement exist for policy influence that can connect to funding.

• Assess which funding opportunities ActionAid should prioritise and whether engagement and relationship building should be a global, regional or national level. Provide recommendations on which UN bodies it would be beneficial to have strategic New York level engagement and whether this should be targeted on the particular funding mechanisms or more generally with the specified UN body.

Additional requirements:

• Advice on building an ActionAid strategic donor engagement plan as part of the recommendations above.

• A short summary of recommendations on potential resourcing needs to support UN donor engagement

About you

• Have extensive knowledge of UN systems including funding instruments, preferably having worked with UN Women, UNDP or UNICEF previously.

• Have extensive contacts and key informants at head office level with key UN bodies to inform the mapping.

• Have experience working with INGOs and understand their needs.

• Preferably undertaken similar mapping exercises previously.

• Excellent reporting skills in English.

To Apply

Please include:

An up-to-date CV and proposal with the following components:

•         Clearly describing how you meet the consultant profile

•         Previous experience with the UN

•         Proposed outline of how you plan to conduct the mapping and present it.

•         A budget

•         Contactable references

Company

ActionAid is an international development charity which works in 45 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Founded in 1972, ActionAid is an international federation and has offices in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok and Washington DC, as well as London.

ActionAid UK is part of the international federation and almost all of the people and partners who run ActionAid programmes are from the developing world. This means its staff are on the ground, experiencing poverty at first hand. They see day-to-day how poverty affects people’s lives, and are uniquely placed to give a voice to the women and children who suffer most.

ActionAid’s work has several different components, unified by a commitment to place women and girls at the centre of its work. The charity aims to end hunger by giving millions of people in extreme poverty the skills they need to grow sustainable food, and campaigns to address the causes of hunger.

ActionAid also responds to emergencies and conflicts. It provided emergency assistance to more than 600,000 people in 2015 and trained nearly 46,000 others to protect lives and prepare for emergencies. In total the charity responded to 27 emergencies around the world last year.

Improving access to education is another facet of its mission. 59 million children, more than half of them girls, were out of school in 2013. ActionAid works with more than 5,000 schools across Africa, Asia and Latin America to help over a millions girls and boys get the free, quality education they are entitled to.

Women’s rights and gender equality informs all of ActionAid’s activities. The charity works with communities against female genital mutilation, gender-based violence and forced early marriage.

ActionAid also campaigns for tax justice, fairer wages and more effective aid which can tackle the roots causes of poverty. It estimates that poorer countries lose around $200 billion a year from tax dodging by companies.

A variety of different roles are available at ActionAid including policy adviser, fundraising offer and HR manager. Employee benefits are plentiful, encompassing the opportunity to develop new skills, a pension scheme, childcare vouchers and free advice services.

ActionAid also supports selected UK employees to travel to host countries in order to gain first-hand experience of its in-country work. Frequent secondments, whereby employees work, for a period, in another department or different country in the federation, take place. The charity encourages job shares.

Company info
Website
Telephone
020 3122 0561
Location
33-39 Bowling Green Lane
London
EC1R 0BJ
GB

Get job alerts

Create a job alert and receive personalised job recommendations straight to your inbox.

Create alert