Chief Advocacy and Communications, P-5, Brasilia, Brazil

Contract

This is a P-5 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 10 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 160,538 USD and 201,191 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

Since 1950, UNICEF has supported the most important transformation for children and adolescents in Brazil. Currently, UNICEF Brazil is completing its 2017-2023 Country Programme, and in the process of designing the new Programme for 2024-2028, to deliver programmes and policies for the most excluded boys and girls. With its main office in Brasília and nine field offices UNICEF works in close partnership with national and sub-national government, corporate partners, youth and civil society organizations. For information of the work of our organization in Brazil, please visit our website: UNICEF Brazil

Advocacy and Communication are at the center of UNICEF’s mandate, and of our work in Brazil. We advocate with decision makers and key stakeholders to advance the rights of all children and adolescents, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. To do so, we communicate, advocate and partner with key public and private audiences to build support for the cause of children.

UNICEF Brazil Country office is seeking to engage a Chief of Communication responsible for the development and implementation of the Communication and Advocacy strategies and plans, strengthening partnerships with key stakeholders and networking with civil society organizations, corporate partners, media organizations, governments, and high-level counterparts.

How can you make a difference?

Under the general guidance of the Representative, you will lead and manage a team to design and coordinate effective, integrated communication, advocacy and engagement strategies, through the development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation stages. Working collaboratively with colleagues across UNICEF and partners at the country, regional and global level, you will build alliances or coalitions with external partners to drive changes in policy and practice, and secure political and financial commitments for children.

This includes:

1. Advocacy: lead the design, implementation and measurement of UNICEF Brazil’s Communication, Engagement and Advocacy strategy in support of country priorities. This entails working closely with the Representative and the Programme and field teams to design public and policy advocacy strategies to advance UNICEF programmatic priorities, in line with global priorities and campaigns.
2. Communication strategy, including Media relations, Digital engagement, as well as Celebrities and Special Events. Ensure that the Country Office has a clear communication strategy and associated work plan to support the country programme objectives and get children’s issues into the public domain, strengthen political will in support of UNICEF's mission and objectives, and enhance the organization’s credibility and brand. This includes work across different media channels, both traditional media and digital, and managing a national celebrity relations programme.
3. Social and Behavioural Change Communication: Working closely with Programme teams, lead and coordinate the overall design and implementation of evidence-based behavioural and social change strategies and activities through cross-sectoral consultation, identify technical support requirements, assessing potential for innovation approach and building close relationships with key government and civil society partners, as well as with the private sector.
4. Communication, networking and partnerships for strategic results: Ensure that the Representative and the country team are provided with professional expertise and advice on all aspects of communication as required, strengthening networking, partnerships and stakeholder engagement. This includes support to global and country level fund-raising activities, ensuring these are supported through engaging powerful and effective communication material and storytelling.
5. Management. Manage a medium size communication team based in Brasília and the field offices, ensuring teambuilding and effective working relations across office teams. Lead annual work planning of the communication section, ensuring effective planning, monitoring and evaluation of communication results, supported by optimal use of financial resources (budget planning, management, and monitoring).

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

• Education - Advanced university degree in Communication, Journalism, Public Relations or other related fields of disciplines. Or an undergraduate degree plus at least 14 years of demonstrated professional experience in the field of journalism, communications, external relations, public affairs, public relations or corporate communications.
• Experience - Ten years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience. International and national work experience in both developed and developing countries. Professional experience in communication, print, broadcast, new media. Background/familiarity with Emergency situations.
• Language - Fluency in English. Fluency in Portuguese, Spanish, or other roman language is highly desirable as the post will require a commitment to achieve fluency in Portuguese (if not already acquired).

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (2)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

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 is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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. This position is classified as “rotational” which means the incumbent is expected to rotate to another duty station upon completion of their tour of duty.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.