Communication and advocacy assistant

Tags: Human Rights UN Women Russian English translation
  • Added Date: Saturday, 09 August 2025
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Mission and objectivesUN 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. UN Women Country Office (CO) is based in Astana, Kazakhstan aims to support to the Government and civil society organizations in the development and implementation of innovative approaches aimed at achieving gender equality and womenโ€™s empowerment, specifically targeting increasing womenโ€™s political participation and leadership, securing womenโ€™s economic rights, strengthening women's involvement in peace building, ending violence against women and making government budgets and policies more responsive to women's needs.

ContextMedia content for social media will promote UN Women Kazakhstan knowledge products and raise awareness of the audience on gender equality and women's empowerment. This online volunteering assignment will help the Online Volunteers learn more about UN Women work in the country and would be able to enhance their skills in advocacy and communications among different stakeholders, outreaching diverse audiences and using different communication tools in promoting gender equality and women empowerment initiatives. Online volunteer will provide support in communications and technical part of project implementation.

Task DescriptionCommunications and project implementation technical support, including assisting with logistical arrangements, communication with counterparts, compiling the requested information, analysis and preparation of simple draft reports, translation of texts (English to Russian/Kazakh, Russian to Kazakh โ€“ 5 pages, in total), media monitoring and research, drafting social media posts, cards (2 cards), reels (duration: 1 min), 2 posts for Instagram and Facebook in Kazakh, English. It is expected to prepare media and social media monitoring on main Kazakhstani developments in GEWE at least once per week. Creating subtitles for videos.

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