Donor Engagement and Resource Mobilization Officer

UN Women is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide. UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide. It works globally to make the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals a reality for women and girls and stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life, focusing on four strategic priorities: Women lead, participate in and benefit equally from governance systems Women have income security, decent work and economic autonomy All women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence Women and girls contribute to and have greater influence in building sustainable peace and resilience, and benefit equally from the prevention of natural disasters and conflicts and humanitarian action UN Women also coordinates and promotes the UN system’s work in advancing gender equality, and in all deliberations and agreements linked to the 2030 Agenda. The entity works to position gender equality as fundamental to the Sustainable Development Goals, and a more inclusive world.

Grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, UNW 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. UN Women Regional Office for the Americas and de Caribbean (LACRO) is responsible for identifying and establishing partnerships and mobilizing complementary resources to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women in the region, in a context of shifting paradigms in traditional development cooperation and of challenges arising from the progress of many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) toward middle-income status. In this context, LACRO seeks to strengthen its efforts and the capacities of the Regional Office and Country Offices to expand partnerships and mobilize resources in line with organizational priorities. It also plays an important role in communication, facilitation, and coordination around funding opportunities for countries in the region, maintaining continuous articulation among relevant stakeholders. Leading on partnerships development, policy engagement, public advocacy and awareness, and resource mobilization with government actors, private sector entities, civil society and foundations, to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment under the overall guidance of UN Women’s Strategic Plan 2026-2029. Within the Partnerships and Resource Mobilization LACRO team, and in close coordination with the LACRO Communications team, the Donor Engagement and Resource Mobilization Officer will engage in donor visibility, partnerships and resource mobilization efforts with governments and private sector, traditional and emergent donors, foundations and supranational unions worldwide. Raising donor recognition with the aim of increasing overall funding to UN Women. The Officer will support developing funding proposals, communications material, donor visibility strategies, private sector initiatives including the implementation campaigns, development of presentations and related visibility material. Supporting knowledge management and strategic partnerships from the Regional Office as key levers for the achievement of fundraising results, particularly to support the transformation of social and gender norms, also by scaling up the use of new technologies and collaborative communication.

Under the direct supervision of the Resource Mobilization Specialist at UN Women LACRO, the Donor Engagement and Resource Mobilization Officer will conduct the following tasks: 1. Support the implementation of the Partnership and Resource Mobilization Strategy for LAC region in coordination with Communications RO team. - Produce content packages for donor visibility - Engage in regular updates via Teams channels and groups of noteworthy results and progress of the Strategy and funding opportunities for the region and countries. - Propose innovative solutions to enhance the effectiveness of partnership and resource mobilization strategies and activities in the region, through identifying trends and/or issues. - Increase strategic engagement in relation to raising the visibility of UN Women programmes and activities. 2. Strengthen knowledge management and coordination with UN Women offices, HQ and key stakeholders for the improvement of donor visibility, donor intelligence and the systematization and maintenance of funding proposals and other strategic documents. - Contribute to source content for funding proposals and donor engagement and recognition opportunity pieces. - Review communications material and project reports produced by UN Women RO programmatic areas to gauge the key results and impact to feed into presentations and engagement with funding purposes. - Collaborate with UN National Committees and Liaison Offices where appropriate on donor communications, partnerships and resource mobilization efforts for LAC. 3. Systematize resource mobilization data to support development of presentations, donor engagement and donor visibility material. - Analize funding and resource mobilization data collected from UN Women dashboards and exchanges with RO programmatic and thematic units, to extract key conclusions, trends and challenges, and presented it visually. - Support and dynamize the exchange spaces available like the LACRO Strategic Resource Mobilization Group (GEM) and the Resource Mobilization Focal Point monthly meetings. - Contribute to missions’ preparation for our RD, gathering information and write/edit draft talking points, as well as designing briefs ad hoc and funding graphics by donors using UN Women corporate templates. 4. Other duties - The incumbent performs within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.