Duties and responsibilities

Stakeholder engagement and advocacy

Identify and build relationships with policy actors and stakeholders working in international affairs and development in Geneva and around the world:

• Map relevant policy actors and stakeholders for PoliSync’s work broadly, and for specific PoliSync projects

• Outreach to relevant policy actors and stakeholders for PoliSync activities

• Plan and execute multi-stakeholder dialogues with relevant policy actors and stakeholders

• Attract relevant individuals to follow and engage in PoliSync’s social media accounts, events and activities

• Attend events, conferences and workshops organised by others and liaise with policy actors and stakeholders

• Maintain and manage PoliSync’s newsletter and contact database

• Disseminate research findings through digital tools and communications techniques targeting PoliSync’s audiences

• Develop communications material and disseminate among relevant policy actors and stakeholders

Capacity building workshops

Manage PoliSync’s workshop trainers and participants

• Promote PoliSync’s workshops among relevant policy actors and stakeholders around the world, as well as among future professionals in international affairs and development

• Gather insights from policy actors, as well as future professionals in international affairs on their needs for policy skills development

• Identify and build relationships with PoliSync’s workshop trainers and participants and manage their workshop participation to ensure smooth delivery

• Conduct post workshop evaluations to understand participant and trainer experiences that can support the development of future workshops

• Follow up with workshop participants and trainers following the workshops

Projects

Support projects with stakeholder engagement

• Identify and involve relevant policy actors in research/tech/data viz. projects

• Facilitate PoliSync team members to present research findings at international conferences and summits with policy actors

• Conduct policy analysis and policy research for PoliSync’s research projects

Community engagement

Support the implementation of projects through community engagement

• Facilitate the inclusion of community perspectives in research projects where relevant, particularly of affected populations, such as refugees and displaced persons.

• Gather insights from communities around the world on their attitudes towards global challenges, to ensure relevance between what is being produced at international levels and what is happening on the ground at local levels

• Develop communications material and disseminate among communities around the world to facilitate the implementation of international agreements to address global challenges, to counter disinformation, and to ensure relevance