As a highly motivated, results-oriented and creative communicator, I have a proven track record of guiding strategic communication and brand management from the United Nations. Campaigning for change – through visuals and words – drives me. I have a passion for equality, having spent a large amount of my career fighting for women’s rights, which was also the focus of my education.
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Strategic Communication ExpertNordic Council Of Ministers Feb 2023 - Sep 2023The development of a solution-oriented, easy-to-read report on gender barriers to green jobs in the Nordic region – containing definitions, the latest figures, country approaches and key recommendations for future work – launched at COP28 and targeting policymakers across the Nordic region.
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Communications SpecialistScaling Up Nutrition (Sun) Movement Aug 2016 - Dec 2021Geneva, SwitzerlandMy achievements include:• Project managing the largest SUN Movement biannual conference to date, in Kathmandu, Nepal, including undertaking longer-term missions to decide on the venue and coordinating with national stakeholders. • Rolling out the 10-year anniversary of SUN brand book and communication strategy. • Reconfiguring the 2020 SUN progress report into a progress portal, to better showcase results and stories and ensure cost-effectiveness. • Re-vamping the SUN website, and topic portals on COVID-19, gender and food systems, leading to 40 percent more users in a year. • Ensuring the SUN Movement cements its role as a leader within the equality and non-discrimination space, by being considered a top scorer in the 2021 Global Health 50/50 Index and ensuring female nutrition champions are in the spotlight, by creating the most popular website stories and newsletter seen since 2019. • Putting in place high level communication for country missions, such as the SUN Movement Coordinator's visit to Mali – for the country's second National Nutrition Conference – in both English and French. • Drafting and rolling out communication strategies for the annual Lead Group meetings, the 2017 SUN Global Gathering, held in Abidjan and the 2019 SUN Global Gathering, held in Kathmandu. -
Communication And Brand Management ExpertInternational Labour Organization Apr 2014 - Aug 2016Geneva Area, SwitzerlandMy achievements include:• Leading the production of the Organization’s Results Report — the ILO at Work: Development Results 2012-2013, which included editing the text, providing visuals and overseeing the work of the design, print and web production teams (see: www.ilo.org/results);• Revamping the public-private partnerships online portal to garner new audiences and better reflect the ILO’s extensive portfolio of partnerships;• Conceptualizing and building the brand and visual identity of the rural development framework for the International Training Centre of the ILO, including ensuring easy-to-read case studies, using the framework’s look and feel. -
Brand Management And Marketing OfficerInternational Labour Organization (Ilo) Feb 2011 - Feb 2014Geneva Area, SwitzerlandMy achievements include:• Developing and heading the ILO artist engagement/Goodwill Ambassador programme, ArtWorks: designing and maintaining editorial control of the website and its take action centre; approaching potential Goodwill Ambassadors; coordinating and managing the ILO’s relations with artists and their management teams for strategic entry-points and partnerships (see: http://www.ilo.org/artworks);• Leading the Department’s brand management and marketing endeavors including: creating and curating large-scale exhibitions, managing brand consistency within the Organization and with partners, giving technical advice on re-branding exercises and in the creation of visual identifiers and other products; ensuring appropriate branding at key events;• Coordinating ILO flagship moments, such as dedicated campaigns and events for international days – as the acting head of the Campaigns and Outreach Unit; giving advice on communication strategy and opportunities and supporting technical departments in implementing and evaluating their agreed activities, and ensuring day-to-day strategic communication support to the media and ILO departments, offices and partners all over the world;• Producing the first ever ILO results report, The ILO at Work: Development Results 2010-2011, and a range of other products such as communication appraisal checklists, donor reports and fact sheets with the ILO Department of Partnerships to ensure strategic branding and corporate communication opportunities;• Managing the design and production of the ILO World of Work magazine and a range of other communication material with external artists, design houses and production companies; undertaking writing assignments for public outreach, including press releases, blogs, scripts and advertisements for world renowned media outlets such as Huffington Post and Vanity Fair magazine. -
Advocacy And Communications Officer, International Programme On The Elimination Of Child LabourInternational Labour Organization Feb 2010 - Jan 2011Geneva Area, SwitzerlandMy achievements include:• The creation of a range of multimedia products and advocacy material for the 2010 Global Hague Child Labour Conference and World Day Against Child Labour; • Ensuring that knowledge is shared on how to combat child labour through drafting and getting consensus on key ILO messages for the launch of the 2010 Global Report, in particular, and coordinating Knowledge Fairs at high-level events;• Designing and implementing a social media strategy for World Day Against Child Labour and providing mentoring and technical support for the campaign’s roll-out; • Developing an awareness-raising campaign with the tripartite actors to end the worst forms of child labour in Syria. -
Technical Expert On Gender MainstreamingInternational Labour Organization Jul 2009 - Jan 2010Geneva Area, SwitzerlandMy achievements include:• Preparing and taking part in the evaluation of the public awareness-raising campaign Gender Equality at the Heart of Decent Work (2008-2009), having been on its management team;• Drafting, reviewing and adapting communication material, such as ILO Gender News;• Coordinating meetings and high-level events, including the ILO's celebrations of International Women's Day;• Technical backstopping of ILO gender mainstreaming work on in the Europe and Central Asia region, including co-facilitating ILO Gender Participatory Audits (the most recent was for the UN Country Team in Albania in 2010). -
Associate Expert, Bureau For Gender EqualityInternational Labour Organization (Ilo) Mar 2006 - Jul 2009Geneva Area, SwitzerlandMy achievements include:• Leading the development, design and implementation - as a member of the management team - of the public awareness-raising campaign Gender Equality at the Heart of Decent Work (see: www.ilo.org/gender/Events/Campaign2008-2009);• Developing and managing the campaign’s brand and ensuring consistency and harmony in line with the Organization’s guidelines, with creative companies;• Drafting and editing written communication products (such as fact sheets, brochures) and adapting this into multimedia products;• Responsible for creating and managing the dedicated campaign web portal and for coordinating and ensuring the dissemination of all printed and electronic campaign materials;• Arranging the ILO’s celebrations of International Women’s Day (2008, 2009 and 2010) including overseeing all branding and production of materials. -
Executive OfficerMinistry Of Foreign Affairs, Norway Nov 2003 - Mar 2006Oslo Area, NorwayMy achievements include:• Contributing to, editing and compiling a publication launched at the 2005 World Summit, entitled Towards Achieving the MDGs in Sudan: The Centrality of Women’s Leadership and Gender Equality – in collaboration with UNIFEM and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI);• Analyzing and coordinating policies, proposals and activities on gender equality and women’s rights within the Government and with the UN and other international organizations, with a specific focus on UNIFEM and the OECD;• Writing speeches and statements for Ministers and Ambassadors on women's rights and gender equality for a range of UN-related events.
Iselin Danbolt Education Details
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Law In Development -
Overseas School Of ColomboDesign And Applied Arts, English Literature, East Asian History, Math Studies, Spanish And Biology -
International School Of Kenya -
Kristelig Gymnasium -
Smestad Barneskole
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Iselin Danbolt attended University Of Warwick, University Of Warwick, Overseas School Of Colombo, International School Of Kenya, Kristelig Gymnasium, Smestad Barneskole.
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