Communication & Donor Relations Specialist (Health) (Roving) (P-3), Kabul, Afghanistan

Contract

This is a P-3 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 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 110,481 USD and 144,666 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, Safety

In light of the escalating humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and the office-wide scale-up, UNICEF Afghanistan is seeking a communication and donor relations specialist to support the Health and the Communication, Advocacy, and Civic Engagement (CACE) sections with public advocacy, content dissemination and communication on the humanitarian situation esp. in health sector facing children in Afghanistan and the results achieved and through these enhancing a positive relationship with the health section’s major donors (including the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank).

The position will be reporting to the Chief of CACE with a secondary reporting line to the Chief of Health.

How can you make a difference?

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Contribution to communication products:

• Map all UNICEF commitments to various donors (by grants) on communication and visibility and develop plans for addressing these commitments.
• Support Principal Advisor/ Chief -Health with social media engagement on key projects, donors, and events.
• Travel between field offices to gather content, and collaborate with CACE and Health colleagues to compile, produce, and disseminate human-interest stories based on donor/report.
• Draft health donor social media posts and online communication products for dissemination on ACO platforms.
• Draft/update key messages on UNICEF-supported health programmes.
• Ensure UNICEF and donor visibility requirements are met by implementing partners and collaborating with CACE to gather relevant donor visibility multimedia products.
• Ensure timely publication of donor acknowledgment and visibility products and contribute to donor reports, in collaboration with the resource mobilization team.

2. Donor relations:

• Support the enhancement of positive relationships with current and prospective donors to Afghanistan Country Office Health programmes through timely and accurate reporting and monitoring of donor communication interests and information needs.
• Work closely with Resource Mobilization colleagues, monitor donor trends, and maintain a database of key engagements on donor intelligence.
• Provides quality assurance of reports, proposals, and internal and external communication products including the drafting and editing of human-interest stories and donor-related social media posts.
• Serve as the focal point for health programme donors’ communication in collaboration with the CACE team.
• Support donor missions through the preparation of briefing documents and liaising with office administration for any logistical requirement.

SKILLS:

The ideal candidate is a seasoned communication and/or partnerships professional with emergency and external communication experience. Solid English language writing skills. Advanced ability to express clear, concise, and engaging ideas and concepts in written form; specific skills in report writing and editing. Proven ability to effectively manage relationships with donor partners and potential donor groups.

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Communication, Journalism, Public Relations, Public Health, or a related field.
• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience in communication, print, broadcast, and/or new media.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergencies is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

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:

* Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

* Kindly note that this is a non-family duty station.

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

* The successful candidate for this emergency recruitment MUST be available to commence work within 31 days of receiving an offer.

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 may also be 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.