Communication Officer, NO-1, FT, Cairo, Egypt (Nationals only)

Contract

This is a NO-1 contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. More about NO-1 contracts.

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, a Voice

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programs, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life — in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.

How can you make a difference?

Under the supervision of the Digital Communication Officer, the incumbent will assist in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating an advocacy and communication strategy to get children’s and women’s issues into the public domain, strengthen political will in support of UNICEF's mission and objectives in the country, and enhance the organization’s credibility and brand, on both traditional and social media.

Summary of key results:

Communication materials: Execution of production of communication products and materials and following up to support country communication strategy, regional and global campaigns.

Duties & Tasks

• Implementing country communication work plan and strategy, gathering content and coverage of relevant country efforts to identify effective relevant country programme activities.
• Supporting the production of communication materials (e.g., briefing notes, images, video. Web pages etc.) that meet the country and global standards.

• Assisting in drafting and editing articles, press releases, human interest stories, materials for both web-based and traditional media.

• Following up on production of advocacy and communication materials (e.g., films, videos, audio-visuals, etc.), maintaining an up-to-date documentation center for communication materials including publications, press releases and clippings, photographs, audio-visual materials, web resources.

  Media relations: Professional support in developing, drafting, and maintaining contact information, materials and relationships with journalists and media outlets covering all media – print, TV, radio, web in the country.

Duties & Tasks

• Updating media relations contact list/database, ensuring rapid and accurate information dissemination to the media.
• Assisting in developing and maintaining close collaboration with mass media, as well as with groups and organizations.
• Preparing background communication and promotional materials for briefing and visits of media and other special interest groups.

• Assisting the media through activities such as organizing project site visits, facilitating photo coverage and TV footage and utilizing both web-based and traditional media.

  Monitoring and evaluation: Regular monitoring and evaluation to ensure maximum impact and continuous improvement of country communication efforts.

Duties & Tasks

• Assisting in coordinating appropriate audience research and compiling and analyzing relevant data.
• Monitor and evaluate the dissemination of advocacy and communication materials to target audiences and participate in the evaluation of their impact.

• Monitoring the public perception of UNICEF in the country and recommend appropriate action to maintain a positive image for the organization.

• Assisting in the feedback to DOC on the use and appropriateness of global communication materials such as publications, images and multimedia products.

Celebrities, partners and special events: Ensuring the contact list of individuals, groups, organizations and fora (including Government, UN, and bilateral counterparts), are maintained and developed.

Duties & Tasks

• Helping in organizing and generating public support for special events and activities to promote country programme goals.
• Maintaining, updating celebrity and partner contact lists/database for country office.
• Monitor/document process of effectiveness of working with these individuals/organizations.
• Preparing background communication and promotional materials for briefings and visits of media. Goodwill Ambassadors, donors, National Committee representatives and other special interest groups.

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

• University degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, or related field.
• One-year practical professional work experience in communication, print and broadcast media, or interactive digital media.
• Field work experience is required.
• Background/familiarity with Emergency situations.
• Fluency in Arabic/English is required.

Selection Criteria:

• Knowledge of current theories and practices in communication research planning and strategy.
• Fundamentals of working in various media formats – print, audio, video, web etc.
• Computer systems, including internet navigation, office applications, and specifically, interactive digital media.
• Good understanding of world affairs, global human rights issues, specifically relating to children and women, and current UNCEF position and approaches.
• Knowledge and expertise in management, communication strategy and networking.
• Basic or intermediate knowledge of Adobe Premiere or other editing programme.
• Experience in reporting on qualitative and quantitative analytics using management tools of social media (Hootsuite, Tweet Deck, Later, Icon Square, Google Analytics).
• At least 1 years of relevant professional work experience in content management, as well as maintaining and coordinating digital and social media channels.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are; Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness, Works Collaboratively with others, Builds and Maintains Partnerships, Innovates and Embraces Change, Thinks and Acts Strategically, Drive to achieve impactful results, Manages ambiguity and complexity.

View our competency framework 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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

“UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”.

“UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable [underrepresented demographic group, e.g., women from programme countries -or male candidates-] will be prioritized.”

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