Chief, Global Content Strategy, P5, Division of Global Communication and Advocacy, New York HQ, USA, Post No 86981, Fixed-Term
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 208,877 USD and 261,770 USD.
Salary for a P-5 contract in New York
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More about P-5 contracts and their salaries.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
Under the supervision of the Deputy Director of the Division of Global Communication and Advocacy (GCA), you will provide strategic leadership and effective management of the Content Strategy Section to establish UNICEF as the leading advocate for children and their rights across the world.
You will guide and manage large teams within the Content Strategy Section in GCA to ensure high-level communications, editorial standards, and creativity in our multimedia, editing, and publication products. You will lead the Global Content section for UNICEF, develop the rollout and adoption of new multimedia and written material, and oversee design and content guidance and implementation in the development of print and multimedia collateral, all in a digital-first environment.
You will oversee executional aspects of the organization's creative development and visual positioning in print and multimedia and ensure that the overall quality of the creative work executed on all UNICEF global platforms drives brand cohesion and audience engagement.
With a focus on team building, you will manage and supervise to ensure effective financial, human resources, and administrative operations for a substantial division and promote the alignment of functions and capacities for an agile, effective, and efficient content strategy team. You will also maintain working relations with key stakeholders in the organization, including HQ divisions, Regional and Country offices, and National Committees (NatComs), to leverage and maximize the impact of organizational assets to promote children’s issues on the global agenda.
How can you make a difference?
1. High level planning and product management
The incumbent will lead the editorial, multimedia and publishing teams, in order to create and produce creatively powerful, high-quality materials for UNICEF's advocacy campaigns and daily digital and media outreach.
2. Interdivisional collaboration and demand management
Leads processes to identify new areas of collaboration at headquarters level and advises GCA senior management accordingly, in consultation with relevant GCA sections, determines and recommends how the demand for visual materials to achieve programmatic and organizational goals should be best met, establishes and oversees workflow and processes to efficiently manage staff time, and serves as a strategic liaison with HQ divisions to advise and encourage adoption of UNICEF’s campaigns and messaging.
3. Capacity building
Develops, implement and enhances the staff learning/development of design skills in order to provide effective and powerful visual communications materials and products.
4. Policy and practice
Working in close collaboration with the Brand section, works to promulgate and enrich accurate interpretation of brand policy, principles and products. Contributes to the development of HQ and global editorial and design policy and practices, directions, approaches and methodologies that strengthen communication, participates in strategic process reviews, consults with Regional Offices and HQ divisions and offices, monitors internal and external environments and follows trends, identifies opportunities, new thinking and innovation in these areas.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in communication-related field; or *A first University Degree in combination with an additional 2 years of relevant experience may also be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
- A minimum of 10 years of professional work experience in design, planning and creation of multimedia communications products including at least 4 years in a leadership role.
- Experience with high level editing, meeting rapid and constant deadlines.
- Experience in an international organization an advantage.
- Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
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: UNICEF Values
UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others (8) Nurtures, leads and manages people.
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:
UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children.
Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.
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.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.