UN Women seeks a highly skilled professional writer who will support regional and country offices with project proposal writing. The consultant will support the drafting and finalization of proposals, concept notes and other fundraising materials, in response to identified funding opportunities, through specific missions. The duration of each mission will vary, depending on the requirements of the funding opportunity.

The consultant will prepare high quality grant applications (proposals or concept notes) or other material for submission to donors in a timely manner.

In particular, the consultant is expected to carry out the following functions and activities:

• Draft and design programme proposal following funding opportunity formats and deadlines.
• Maintain effective communication with UN Women staff and partners in the design process.
• Communicate regularly with the lead supervisor to inform about the proposals’ drafting advance and validate design decisions.
• Participate in relevant staff briefings and meetings or donor engagements to support the preparation of submissions; capture notes and synthesize information into a cohesive narrative.
• Manage the proposal / concept note writing, including: drafting the initial materials needed for the application for the technical team’s reviews; after reviews and quality checks, editing consolidating the team’s various contributions towards the finalization of the application documents; ensuring quality check and final consistency in regards to the donor language and requirements of the call for proposals ; delivering the finalized package to the partnerships team for submission.

Requirements:

Education and Certification:

• Advanced University Degree in social development, economics, business, philosophy, gender and development or other related fields.

Experience:

• At least 7 years of progressive work experience in the field of development developing and implementing development projects or programs with different funders.
• At least 7 years of progressive work experience writing and/or proved experience in resource mobilization and projects drafting.
• Previous work experience with UN, including UN Women, or other development agencies an asset.

Languages:

• Fluency in English is required.