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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, joy

The Digital Strategy Section in the Division of Global Communication & Advocacy is seeking a Chinese Language Digital Producer to produce web content in Chinese for UNICEF’s global site, and to coordinate Chinese translations of multimedia assets and social media products in coordination with the China Country Office.

The Language Producer works in a cross-cutting role across teams at UNICEF HQ to support localization, as part of UNICEF’s dynamic digital ecosystem. Included is strategic localization of content, management of page production, and review of translated texts for accuracy and editorial flow.

How can you make a difference?

Scope of Work:

Web production

• Make production updates to UNICEF’s global site in Chinese (unicef.org/zh) to ensure the content is up-to-date on the home page, institutional pages, and programme pages.
• Use data and research to report on possibilities for new platforms or use of current platforms to increase audience engagement.
• Work with Web editorial and design teams to build new web pages to UNICEF and DSS specifications. Pages may include new programme modules, campaign landing pages, blog posts, emergency appeals, and special features.
• Coordinate website page production, including formatting text and assets containing text in Chinese. Perform final QA before publishing.
• Log and raise technical issues with the content management system (CMS) and related production technology with the technical team.
• Respond to inquiries made through unicef.org/zh.
• Coordinate production and coordination for special projects.

Focal point for China country office

• Coordinate with China country office, serving as a focal point for all Chinese content for social media, the global website and blog.
• Provide reports to China country office on upcoming campaigns and content, and coordinate translation and localization of social media packs and multimedia assets as required by the office.

Translation coordination

• Liaise on the translation process with third-party vendor and ensure quality and uniformity of content delivery.
• Track word count and related expenses in a shared format.

Duty Station

Remote-based.

Timeframe

Start date: 1 August 2023 End date: 29 December 2024

Deliverables

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field such as communications, marketing, journalism or similar.
• Fluency in Chinese, have a good management of English and excellent translation skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Five years of relevant experience in a media or digital media setting.
• Content management experience.
• Social media experience.
• Marketing experience in non-profit platforms.
• Project management experience in a multilingual environment.
• Ability to coordinate and manage Web content professionally.
• Proficient in Drupal CMS.
• Detail-oriented, creative, able to work efficiently under tight deadlines.
• Knowledge of technical implementation of Chinese language variant in digital ecosystem is desirable.
• Good understanding of world affairs, current events and development is highly desirable.
• Language: Fluency in English and Chinese is required.

Application Guidance All applications must contain the following (incomplete applications will not be taken into consideration)

1. Fully completed FINANCIAL PROPOSAL FORM Financial Proposal Form - Updated 10 April 2023.xlsx

2. Fully completed TECHNICAL PROPOSAL FORM Technical Proposal Form - Updated 10 April 2023.xlsx

3. Fully completed applicant online applicant profile

4. Cover letter

5. Resume

Assessment Criteria (applications will be evaluated based on the following criteria):

Each Proposal will be evaluated against a weight allocation of 80% for the technical proposals and 20% for the commercial proposal. The total maximum obtainable is 100 points. The minimum acceptable technical score is 49.

HEALTH INSURANCE

The Consultant is fully responsible for arranging, at their own expense, such life, health, and other forms of insurance covering the term of the Contract as he or she considers appropriate. The Consultant is not eligible to participate in the life or health insurance schemes available to UNICEF and United Nations staff members.

VISA REQUIREMENTS

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4, and the consultant’s household members (spouse) will require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G4.

IMPORTANT – G4 Visa is only valid if the consultant will reside within the tri-state area during the duration of the assignment. It is illegal to apply and obtain a visa for consultants who do not intend to reside within the tri-state area during the duration of the consultancy assignment.

FEE

Requests for services under an individual contract requires that the consultant indicates their all- inclusive fees (including lump sum travel and subsistence costs, as applicable) for the services to be provided.

When submitting their bid, the consultant is also advised to take into consideration as part of their bid for the assignment the cost of health insurance and/or photographic, video-graphic equipment if such equipment is needed to complete the deliverables of the assignment.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

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:

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

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

UNICEF is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.