Moderator for High Level Annual Conference on Gender and Elections in Africa COGE

UN Women seeks a moderator in Johannesburg to professionally host the inaugural High Level Annual Conference on Gender and Elections in Africa. The consultant will prepare with partners and speakers, manage protocol, facilitate plenaries and panels, anchor dialogue in the #TryWomen theme, maintain momentum and participation, communicate programme changes, represent the conference publicly, join...

• Review agenda, speaker biographies and protocol list
• Develop transitions and contingency announcements
• Welcome delegates and manage ceremonial protocol
• Open and close plenaries and high-level panels
• Anchor discussion in representation, electoral integrity and support systems
• Submit final script and conference summary

• Master’s degree in international development, human rights, law, gender and governance or a related field
• At least two years of experience facilitating or moderating high-level multi-stakeholder conferences
• Fluency in English

• AU, SADC or UN conference experience
• Gender, elections and African political-context experience
• Participatory data-collection experience

• Conference moderation
• Protocol
• Gender equality
• Elections
• Stakeholder engagement
• Facilitation

• Johannesburg conference scheduled 28–29 October 2026