Communication Analyst – Digital and visual media - IPSA 8 - Office-based

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This is a IPSA-8 contract. This kind of contract is known as International Personnel Services Agreement. It is normally internationally recruited only. It usually requires 1 years of experience, depending on education. More about IPSA-8 contracts.

Background

Instructions to Applicants: Click on the "Apply now" button. Input your information in the appropriate Sections: personal information, language proficiency, education, resume and motivation. Upon completion of the first page, please hit "submit application" tab at the end of the page. Please ensure that CV or P11 and the Cover letter are combined in one file.

The following documents shall be required from the applicants:

Personal CV or P11, indicating all past positions held and their main underlying functions, their durations (month/year), the qualifications, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate, and at least three (3) the most recent professional references of previous supervisors. References may also include peers.

A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page) indicating why the candidate considers him-/herself to be suitable for the position.

Managers may ask (ad hoc) for any other materials relevant to pre-assessing the relevance of their experience, such as reports, presentations, publications, campaigns or other materials.

Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP

The Independent Evaluation Office of UNDP supports the oversight and accountability functions of the Executive Board and the management of UNDP, UNCDF and UNV. The structural independence of the Office underpins and guarantees its freedom to conduct evaluations and report evaluation results to the Executive Board. The IEO conducts independent evaluations and other activities according to its programme of work approved by the Executive Board. The work of the IEO includes:

  • Conducting thematic programmatic and other independent evaluations, ensuring strategic and representative coverage of UNDP programmes and results against national, regional and global scales.
  • Developing evaluation standards, procedures, criteria and methodological guidance for UNDP evaluations, and contributing to innovation in evaluation methodology and dissemination of good practices.
  • Providing UNDP and its development partners with timely knowledge and lessons drawn from evaluations that can feed into development programming at global, regional and country levels.
  • Assessing the quality of decentralized evaluations of UNDP, UNCDF and UNV, and monitoring compliance with best international evaluation and data collection standards, including the UNEG norms and standards, code of conduct and ethical guidelines.
  • Communicating its evaluation findings, conclusions and recommendations through multiple channels and maintaining a searchable, publicly accessible repository of all UNDP, UNCDF and UNV evaluations, and respective management responses and resulting actions.
  • Supporting the development of communities of practice, and partnering with professional evaluation networks to improve evaluation utility and credibility.
  • Supporting the harmonization of the evaluation function in the United Nations system, including contributing to the annual work programme of UNEG, participating in systemwide evaluations, and prioritizing joint evaluations with United Nations organizations.
  • Promoting national ownership and leadership in evaluation through country-led and joint evaluations.

Institutional Arrangement

The successful candidate will be based in IEO’s New York office reporting to IEO’s Communication Specialist.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work

The Communications Analyst will perform the specific tasks including but not limited to the following:

  • Provide visual and digital products including but not limited to: visuals, gifs and infographics for the IEO website, social media channels and other platforms as required; develop and edit videos for the IEO’s public information use; develop other items required by the IEO (document and powerpoint templates, backgrounds, signatures etc.).
  • Curate and maintain the IEO’s social media platforms on a daily basis (Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flicker, Yammer, etc.) using appropriate tags, and quantitative analytics tools and qualitative analysis to support efforts to grow the IEO’s social media footprint.
  • Remain abreast of new developments in digital and social media to support the communications team in keeping the IEO’s online presence at the cutting edge, taking a creative approach to presenting evaluation reports and products.
  • Provide archiving and dissemination support to the Comunications Unit for the production and dissemination of IEO publications and reports, including maintaining up-to-date archiving of all IEO publications and audiovisual data, including SharePoint, the Evaluation Research Centre, maintaining the IEO website, intranet and NEC website, and digital records of all IEO events and webinars.
  • Maintain and update the contacts database for communications products, ensuring that the mailing list is complete and up-to-date, and serves as an effective tool for distribution.
  • Support publishing tasks as required such as coordinating uploads on ERC, formatting documents and annexes, and pre/post-production phases. Maintain and manage shared folders for various documents, photos, files and figures and other tasks as requested.

Within this structure and due to the increasing demand for evaluation products, assets, and platforms and to engage audiences across multiple dissemination platforms, the Communications Unit of the IEO seeks a consultant to support communications and dissemination activities. The Communications Analyst will work as a part of the Communications Unit, which is part of the Knowledge and Data Management Section. The IEO produces a large number of publications and products including evaluation reports, annual reports, infographic briefs, national evaluation capacity proceedings, evaluation syntheses and other products every year, all of which are produced and disseminated by the Comunications Unit. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting IEO’s cutting-edge visual and digital products and platforms, including social and digital media analytics to maintain awareness and stay on top of emerging trends, as outlined in the IEO Comunications Strategy.

Competencies

Required skills and competencies

Core Competencies

  • Vision, Mission: Promotes the vision, mission and strategic goals of UNDP.
  • Integrity: Demonstrates integrity by modelling UN values and ethical standards.
  • Achieve Results: Scales up solutions and simplifies processes; balances speed and accuracy in doing work.
  • Think Innovatively: Offers new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking.
  • Learn Continuously: Goes outside comfort zone; learns from others and supports their learning.
  • Adapt with Agility: Adapts processes/approaches to new situations, involves others in change process.
  • Act with Determination: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously.
  • Engage and Partner: Is a facilitator/integrator, brings people together, builds/maintains coalitions/partnerships. Acts as a team player and facilitates teamwork, and maintains confidentiality.
  • Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Facilitates conversations to bridge differences, considerate in decision making.

Functional Competencies

  • Ability to prioritize tasks and plan, organize, and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals (project management skills).
  • Willingness to think outside of the box and bring new and creative approaches to evaluation products.
  • Functional Competencies
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in English required.
  • Excellent design and presentation skills are required.
  • Proven experience of video editing required (After Effects and/or Final Cut).
  • Use of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint.
  • Proven experience using Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Premier required.
  • Experience curating corporate social media accounts required, including use of analytics tools.
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Office Package (word, excel, PowerPoint) required.
  • Good research skills required.
  • Experience managing websites an asset (HTML coding not required).

Development and Operational Effectiveness

  • Time management and ability to handle a large volume of work.

Required Skills and Experience

Min. academic education

  • A university degree in Communications, Visual Arts, Design or other relevant areas.

Min. years of relevant work experience

A minimum of 2 years of experience in creating visual/digital content and/or working in social, digital or new media, with:

  • Demonstrable experience in producing and editing video and/or animations.
  • Experience in creating visual assets for online and social media use.
  • Experience in curating corporate social media platforms, including using analytics tools.
  • Experience managing and maintaining online archives and websites.
  • Prior work experience at or familiarity with the work of UNDP and/or other UN agencies is beneficial.
  • Knowledge of latest international development issues in UNDP’s areas of work is an asset (e.g., poverty reduction, democratic governance, human rights, environment and natural resources management, climate change, disaster risk reduction and resilience, gender equality and women’s empowerment).

Development and Operational Effectiveness

  • Strong oral and written communication skills in English.

Desired additional skills and competencies

  • Additional working knowledge of French and/or Spanish is preferred.
  • Competence in other UN languages is an asset.
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