Communications and Admin Assistant

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.

In 2019, UNDP built the world’s largest and fastest learning network on sustainable development challenges, the Accelerator Labs, thanks to the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany and the Qatar Fund for Development as founding investors, and support from Italy and UNDP core donors. There are 90+ labs around the world situated within UNDP country offices, bringing skills and methods that are relatively new and unusual to the development sector, such as prototyping, citizen generated data, artificial intelligence and machine learning, mapping local solutions, exploring trends and signals, and more. The Accelerator Labs are designed to test a new model of working that contributes to decreasing the gap between the current practices of international development and the uncertain, complex challenges that the world is facing. To read more about the Labs’ network, please refer to https://acceleratorlabs.undp.org/.

UNDP Jordan is one of the country offices that hosts an Accelerator Lab. The Accelerator Lab’s main functions are exploration (finding existing data on the focus areas, looking for new sources of data, data analysis, identifying trends and signals, etc.), solutions mapping (finding people or grassroots groups who are working on potential solutions to the challenges, evaluating them, and identifying which ones are promising, designing and running co-creation sessions, mapping stories, etc.) and experimentation (designing a set of interrelated experiments for the potential solutions, evaluating the experiments, extracting learnings, etc.). This year, the Jordan Accelerator Lab is working on tourism and work/self-reliance in Madaba governorate, a focus that emerged after listening to the perspectives of various stakeholders on Jordan’s main challenges and a request from Madaba Municipality to UNDP for help on improving tourism in Madaba governorate. Currently, the Lab is in the exploration and solutions mapping phase.

National UN Youth Volunteers in Jordan are entitled to: - Monthly Volunteer Living Allowance (VLA) at the amount of JOD 716.92; - Annual and learning leaves; - Free Medical and life insurance; and - Free access to different learning platforms.

For more information on UN Volunteer benefits, entitlements and support, please visit: https://www.unv.org/volunteer-your-country-conditions-service

Under the direct supervision of the heads in Accelerator Lab, the UN Youth Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Revise and manage the delivery of the Accelerator Lab communications plan for 2022. And support in developing the communications plan for 2023; • Draft and design high-quality communication materials such as: blogs, human stories, weekly reflections, short reports, social media posts, and newsletters; • Manage the copyeditor’s work; • Support in creating simple visuals and media (videos, posters, banners, etc.) for the communications and branding materials (e.g. branded calendars, notebooks etc.) using Adobe Suite, online platforms such as Canva, Sway, etc.; • Support in building relations with editors, journalists, and key media focal persons in Jordan and prepare any materials related to this task such as briefing notes, PR packages, etc.; • Lead on organising and managing the Accelerator Lab events such as Brown Bags and Speaker Series (from planning to execution); • Lead on the admin work for the Lab such as: managing field trips logistics, booking cars, booking hotels, preparing Terms of Reference, following up on recruitments, following up on consultants’ payments, and managing the Lab’s archive; • Support Portfolio Initiation Framework (PIF) on communications tasks, including documentation of the insights, report writing, report design, social media, etc.; • Support the Accelerator Lab with any other tasks as needed.

• Accountability; • Adaptability and flexibility; • Creativity; • Judgement and decision-making; • Planning and organising; • Professionalism; • Self-management.

the sphere of communication, media, marketing or public relations context at national and/or international level; • Excellent creative writing, storytelling and content creation skills; • Basic video editing skills; • Basic design and data visualisation skills; • Experience in managing logistics of small events.

Amman, the capital, is a peaceful city with over four million residents. People are friendly to visitors. Services in terms of banking, transportation, health and communications are easily available. Though Arabic is the official language, English is widely spoken among the majority of the population, especially in Amman. Road network is good both in terms of spread and quality of the roads. Public transportation in Amman is limited. Taxis are relatively cheap and easily available. There are a number of shopping malls, restaurants, gyms, and cinemas. A large variety of accommodation options can be found; however, it is worth noting that prices in Amman have generally increased in the past few years. There are no specific security threats. Amman is a very easy city in which to live; large, many amenities, very modern and serviced by an international airport with direct flights to most capital cities. According to the assessment of the UN Department of Safety & Security (UNDSS) Jordan is a family duty station (category A hardship).

As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials. National UN Volunteers are part of the malicious insurance plan.