UN Women: Communications Analyst (Retainer), Home-based, International Consultant

Background:

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. Across its strategic priorities, UN Women promotes women’s leadership and meaningful participation in building sustainable peace and resilience, while ensuring women and girls benefit equally from disaster prevention, humanitarian response, and recovery efforts.  Globally, including in Indonesia, the impact of conflict, climate change, and natural disasters has disproportionately affected women and girls. Structural inequalities limit women’s access to resources, decision-making, and protection mechanisms, increasing vulnerability during crises while also constraining their leadership potential in recovery and resilience-building processes.

UN Women Indonesia is implementing a project entitled ‘Empowered Women for Sustainable Peace: Addressing the Peace-Humanitarian Nexus to Enhance Community Resilience in Indonesia’ project, or WE Nexus for short. The project activities started in June 2023 and will last until 31 December 2026, with funding from The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). The project aims to strengthen community resilience and reduce vulnerabilities in emergency and conflict-affected areas by addressing the humanitarian-development-peace nexus in the context of Indonesia. WE NEXUS supports national and local institutions to apply risk-informed and gender-sensitive analysis, strengthen women’s influence in resilience-related policies and mechanisms, promote social cohesion and conflict prevention, and enhance multi-stakeholder collaboration across humanitarian, development, and peace actors.

As part of its programmatic areas, the project has maintained a strong focus on strategic communication, achieving a range of key deliverables. The consistent use of the WE NEXUS visual identity and key messages by UN Women and project partners has strengthened the project’s recognition at both national and local levels. UN Women and Responsible Partners (RPs) published 38 stories, including human-interest and feature stories, highlighting key milestones and impacts of the project. In addition, RPs developed various communication tools and materials—such as board games and books—to engage beneficiaries and raise awareness on peacebuilding and disaster risk reduction. On social media, a total of 170 posts were published incorporating the hashtag #PerempuanResilien. The social media strategy was adapted to emerging content trends by improving visual storytelling and strengthening collaboration with partners to expand impressions and reach. In 2024 alone, the project hashtag #PerempuanResilien appeared in 109 social media posts, generating 2,447 engagements, reaching 35,350 users, and producing 185,779 impressions. Additionally, one project newsletter was disseminated to key stakeholders to further amplify project updates and results.

In advancing the communication work particularly approaching the project closure, UN Women is seeking output-based, a part-time international consultant for the position of Communication Analyst. Under the overall guidance of UN Women Programme Manager for Governance, Peace and Resilience, and direct supervision of Project Coordination Analyst, the Communication Analyst will be responsible for implementing communication plans for the HDP and WPS-focused projects in Indonesia. The selected consultant will contribute to effective programme communication and visibility of UN Women’s work to support Indonesia to promote women’s empowerment and leadership in addressing humanitarian-peace-development nexus. 

Description of Responsibilities

1. Provide substantive support to the planning and design of external communication and outreach strategies and plans 
   1. Integrate communication and outreach strategies into project communication plans and other initiatives, as necessary; 
   2. Monitor and analyze print and social media and provide analysis; and 
   3. Provide technical inputs and communication plan for in-country events and campaigns, in line with UN Women/ UN corporate systems, including but not limited to, knowledge exchange/conference, exhibition,campaigns, or high-level meetings etc.
   4. Develop generic project presentations/standard decks for key stakeholders, including donors, governments, partners, and other relevant stakeholders.
   5. Presence in relevant meetings, including with the project key counterparts, such as the donor, governments, partners, and media as designated. Coordinate and contribute substantively to the development and dissemination of communication materials and knowledge products
   6. Dra