Communication Officer (Digital)

Volunteering Communications & PR

Overview

Support UNICEF's digital communication and social media efforts

You have:

• Professional experience in digital communication.
• Proficiency in crafting compelling content for online platforms, managing social media channels, and leveraging digital tools for effective outreach.
• Experience working in the UN or other international development organization is an asset.
• Excellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting, formulation, reporting skills.
• Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners.
• Ability to work effectively in a multicultural team of international and national personnel.
• Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various Microsoft Office applications, email, and internet.
• Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision; ability to work with tight deadlines.
• Desirable: valid national driver’s license and proven ability to drive manual gear 4x4 over rough terrain.
• Sound security awareness.
• Affinity with or interest in UNICEF’s work, volunteerism as a mechanism for durable development, and the UN system.

Contract

This is a UNV National Youth contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV National Youth contracts.

UNICEF is working ‘upstream’ to build an enabling national policy and legislative environment for child rights, and ‘downstream’, with a focus on parts of the country and population groups that are the most vulnerable and under-served by essential social services.

Our programmes are run in the following areas:

•Child survival and development: we support interventions in health, HIV/AIDS, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene and early childhood development, that contribute to women’s health and the survival and development of newborns, children, adolescent girls and boys.

•Education: To ensure that all children, especially girls have access to quality education, we support pre-primary, primary, secondary and non-formal education to offer inclusive and gender-sensitive education.

•Child protection: we focus on building a protective environment for children, in particular girls, against violence, abuse and harmful practices, and on promoting birth registration.

•Social Policy and Social Protection: we aim to contribute to reducing poverty, vulnerability and inequity in access to basic social services for children and adolescents.

UNICEF seizes opportunities to work on emerging challenges that affect children such as climate change or the multiple challenges faced by adolescents and young people. Partnerships are key to advancing social change and advocating for children’s rights. UNICEF works with a wide range of national and local partners, as well as implementing joint initiatives with other UN agencies.

In addition, resources are leveraged from international development cooperation partners in accordance with the international principles and standards elaborated within the Paris Declaration.

1.Digital Communication Strategy implementation • Support the implementation of a digital communication strategy aligned with UNICEF's mission, objectives, and advocacy priorities. • Utilize data-driven insights to identify and target key audiences through digital channels.

2.Content Creation and Monitoring • Create and support the production of compelling and shareable content for digital platforms, including social media, websites, text and video stories and newsletters.

3.Social Media Management • Support the management of UNICEF Sierra Leone’s social media accounts, including content planning, scheduling, and monitoring. • Support the implementation of social media campaigns to raise awareness and promote UNICEF’s programmes and initiatives using various digital tools and platforms including online events. • Collaborate with influencers, online communities, and partners to amplify campaign messages. • Utilize analytics tools to measure the performance of digital communication efforts. • Provide regular reports on key metrics and adjust strategies based on data insights.

• Accountability • Adaptability and flexibility • Creativity • Judgement and decision-making • Planning and organising • Professionalism • Working with people

• Professional experience in digital communication; • Proficiency in crafting compelling content for online platforms, managing social media channels, and leveraging digital tools for effective outreach; • Experience working in the UN or other international development organization is an asset; • Other desired/mandatory required technical knowledge; • Excellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting, formulation, reporting skills; • Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing; • Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners, including grassroots community members, religious and youth organizations, and authorities at different levels; familiarity with tools and approaches of communications for development; • Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a challenging environment; ability to work effectively in a multicultural team of international and national personnel; • Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, among others), email, and internet; familiarity with database management; and office technology equipment; • Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision; ability to work with tight deadlines; • Desirable: valid national driver’s license and proven ability to drive manual gear 4x4 over rough terrain; • Sound security awareness; • Have affinity with or interest in UNICEF’s work, volunteerism as a mechanism for durable development, and the UN system.

The UN Volunteer will be based at UNICEF’s Sierra Leone Country Office in Freetown with periodic travels to the districts. Freetown is classified by the United Nations as Family duty station and living conditions are good. Currently, UNICEF's Sierra Leone Country Office has two Regional Offices: Makeni and Kenema covering 16 districts all situated in UN Security Phase Two conditions. Living conditions at both regional field offices are also good. UNICEF does not have any guest houses in those locations and visiting staff staying overnight are expected to stay at hotels.

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