Advocacy Manager (COVID-19 Response) P-4, Division of Global Communication and Advocacy, UNICEF NYHQ

Contract

This is a P-4 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 7 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 171,387 USD and 220,969 USD.

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, an Advocate

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does in programmes, advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children's rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism.

In supporting senior leadership, HQ Divisions, Regional and Country Offices to progress the UNICEF vision, mandate and commitment, the Division of Global Communication and Advocacy (GCA) serves as the global centre of excellence in advocacy, communication and brand. By coalescing our collective efforts, UNICEF aims to be the leading advocate for children, enabled by a cohort of networked, strategic, innovative, and effective advocates who deliver change for children in every part of the world.

GCA's Advocacy Section has three core objectives:

1. To collaboratively develop, strengthen and implement advocacy, campaigns and communication strategies, with robust monitoring and evaluation, on advocacy priorities.
2. To build and strengthen strategic partnerships for advocacy - with civil society, influencers, partner organizations (UN and non-UN) and other actors, to ensure a strategic approach to deploying these partners to increase our advocacy impact.
3. To develop and implement clear plans to build advocacy capacity across UNICEF.

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF plays a key role in the COVID-19 pandemic response and the race to vaccinate the world, in one of the biggest and most complex mobilization efforts in its history. As part of this effort, UNICEF is a part of several multi-stakeholder partnerships, which brings growing demands for communications management and coordinated advocacy with public, private and inter-agency partners, including those donating significant resources to support UNICEF’s vaccination delivery role. This includes management of relations and visibility requirements across both donor and host governments and coordination with our regional and country offices supporting Governments with vaccination arrivals and rollouts.

As a member of GCA's Health advocacy team, the Advocacy Manager (COVID-19 Response) works in close coordination with other GCA sections, including media, social media, web, content strategy, multimedia and other teams in the Partnerships Cone, especially our Public Partnerships and Private Sector Partnerships Teams, EMOPS, Programme Group, Supply Division and other HQ Divisions, Regional, Country Offices, National Committees, other relevant internal and external stakeholders.

In addition, the Advocacy Manager (COVID-19 Response) plays a critical role representing UNICEF in a number of inter-agency partnerships and in managing relations with communications and advocacy counterparts in key Government, Private Sector and International Agency partner and donor institutions. This includes representing UNICEF and playing a coordinating role as part of the advocacy and communications working groups associated with the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A), especially the COVAX Pillar, and other COVID-19 response partnerships.

Duties include:

• Working as part of an integrated health and pandemic response advocacy team, lead the advocacy and communications strategy development process around the COVID-19 pandemic response with a strong emphasis on the achievement of vaccination equity, country readiness, confidence and demand.
• Coordinate and project manage the work of an inter-disciplinary project taskforce, creating a collaborative, creative and supportive environment, in line with UNICEF's highest ethical standards and values.
• Ensure UNICEF’s brand, child rights mission and programmes are optimally positioned and promoted within the various global pandemic response partnerships, and partners and donors, to maximize our income, influence and communications impact.
• Support colleagues in negotiation, liaison and development of agreements with partners (Governments, Corporations and Hybrid Alliances) for branding, visibility, content gathering, media and social media promotion, events and other communications activities associated with dose donations, gifts in kind (eg air freight services, injection equipment, UCC) and funds for UNICEF’s role in the pandemic response.
• Develop partner communications and advocacy strategies and plans as required by Donor Government communications partners to offer visibility, accountability, recognition and support for dose donations and funding to ACT-A, COVAX and UNICEF’s HAC (including work to vaccinate in humanitarian settings).
• Coordinate the inputs into partnership communications strategies and plans across all DGCA communications teams, regional and country offices and HQ teams, including Supply Division, Programme Group, Public Partnerships Division and EMOPs, assessing resource requirements, project managing delivery and supporting with donor reporting. Including the sourcing of human interest stories, contributing to situation reports, donor reports and multimedia content.
• Develop guidance, resources and materials and manage internal coordination and support across UNICEF regional and country offices supporting the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and other tools (in liaison with DGCA brand, media and social media teams, Supply Division, PPD and PG teams, and where needed, WHO and GAVI).
• Contribute to the development of UNICEF Communications and Advocacy Strategies on the wider agenda around Health, Vaccines and the Pandemic Response, including our Global Advocacy Priority and BMGF Advocacy Partnership deliverables – supporting communications and partnerships that contribute towards Vaccine Confidence and Demand; Vaccines Equity; Vaccines Domestic Financing and ODA/Donor Financing; and reaching Zero Dose Communities.
• Ensure coherence and alignment in the activities of the project taskforce, conveying strategic priorities and setting clear deliverables. Where relevant, manage cross-divisional, international and inclusive teams, to drive and deliver strategic advocacy initiatives.
• Contribute to knowledge management, internal communications and inter-divisional cohesion and information sharing.
• Support work to raise funds and mobilize resources for UNICEF.
• Ensure effective and transparent management of resources.
• Carry out additional activities as required, including deputizing for the Head of Advocacy / Global Lead for health, vaccines and pandemic response, as required.

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To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education:

An advanced university degree is required in one of the following fields: International Relations, Political Science, International Development, Public Policy, Public Administration, Economics, Communication or related fields, eg journalism.

*A first-level university degree (Bachelor's) in a relevant field, in conjunction with ten (10) years of relevant work experience in advocacy, campaigning or a related field may be taken in lieu of a Master's degree.

Experience:

• At least eight (8) years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience in advocacy/campaigning and/or strategic communications, public and political affairs is required, with at least two (2) years at the international level.
• Experience in leading the development and implementation of communications, partnerships and advocacy strategies, with clear theories of change, specific, measurable and timebound objectives, and performance indicators.
• A track record of achieving or contributing to tangible policy change, resource mobilization results and/or significant strategic communications outcomes.
• Experience in building and maintaining a network of stakeholders, and in working in complex multi-sectoral partnerships.
• Strong communicator with emphasis on being able to present complex policy issues in succinct engaging ways through campaign narratives and creative tactics.
• Demonstrated experience in design and management of projects, including managing multi-disciplinary project and campaign teams, ‘matrix’ style management, budget management and monitoring and evaluation of results.
• Knowledge of international development, humanitarian issues and children's rights.
• Experience working in a developing and emergency environment is an asset.

Language Requirements:

Fluency in English in required. Knowledge of another UN language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

UNICEF's Core competencies required for this post are:

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness
• Works Collaboratively with others
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships
• Innovates and Embraces Change
• Thinks and Acts Strategically
• Drives to achieve impactful results
• Manages ambiguity and complexity

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.