Digital Communication Specialist (U-Report Country Specialist), P-3, Fixed-Term, Post Number 116910, Valencia, Spain

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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, innovation

Within UNICEF’s Division of Global Communication and Advocacy (DGCA), the Youth Engagement Team works to strengthen the organization’s capacity to engage young people as advocates and campaigners for children’s rights through our flagship campaigns and initiatives and ensure that the perspectives and voices of young people are an integral part of our communications and advocacy.

U-Report is one of UNICEF’s flagship initiatives to engage and empower young people. It is designed to strengthen community-led development, citizen engagement and access to and use of real-time monitoring and participation platforms. U-Report allows youth to speak out via SMS and other channels – through polls and unsolicited messages – on what is happening in their communities. It provides a forum to amplify their voices through local and national media and acts as a citizen-sourced, real-time data point for key stakeholders, service providers and decision-makers about the issues being faced in communities. The platform also feeds back useful information to the U-Report participants, so they are empowered to work for change and improvements in their localities themselves.

Currently with over 27 million U-Reporters in 91 countries across 95 platforms, the platform serves as a real-time avenue for young people everywhere to speak out on issues that concern them and receive useful information on a wide range of issues.

The U-Report Country Support Specialist will report to the Digital Communication Manager (Global Coordinator).

How can you make a difference?

Under the guidance and supervision of the Digital Communication Manager, the Digital Communication Specialist (U-Report Country Specialist) will be responsible for the scale up of the platform, implementing, monitoring and evaluating the growth and roll-out in countries, across regions and National Committees. The incumbent will be responsible for implementing the country support strategy to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people and boost scale and engagement on the platform.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

  1. Overall Project Management and Country roll-out and implementation support.
  2. Project Management of new and existing partnerships on U-Report scale.
  3. Knowledge Management and Capacity Building
  4. Provide strategic and technical support to colleagues at country and regional level to implement U-Report.

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks:

1. Overall Project Management and Country roll-out and implementation support.

• Keep an updated database on U-Report countries. Support planning, launching and implementing U-Report at country and regional levels, national committees and other platforms.

• Engage with Country Offices, Regional Offices and National Committees, reviewing concept notes and start up documents for new countries.

• Coordinate with Country and Regional Offices on U-Report plans, activities and results.

• Prepare and track correspondence with countries on key U-Report initiatives.

• Update the U-Report community contact lists.

• Provide technical support to countries aiming to close U-Report operations.

• Support the use of the U-Report KPI and monitoring systems for key initiatives and activities with country offices.

2. Project Management of new and existing partnerships on U-Report scale.

• Develop a partnership strategy and guidelines for working with organizations and other youth networks and steering committees to support scale.

• Support countries and regions on partner collaboration with U-Report.

• Work with countries to produce detailed and timely narrative reports and financial budgets and expenditure reports on scale.

• Financial management and budget tracking of grants and ensuring all deadlines on reporting are met in a timely manner.

• Develop strategies and prepare advocacy and information materials for U-Report for maximum impact and outreach to promote partnership and increase U-Report program awareness, establish partnerships, alliances and enhance resource mobilization for U-Report.

• Support U-Report countries with activation of platforms for their partners.

3. Knowledge Management and Capacity Building

• Update/create guidelines and repositories of information for Country and Regional Offices to use in UReport and Youth Engagement strategy.

• Responsible for SharePoint update, yammer and other platforms of communication.

• Update, maintain and translate U-Report guidelines and assets.

• Monitor and provide best practices and guidance, particularly when associated with a U-Report Guideline or Key Principle.

• Plan, organize and schedule U-Report Global calls, webinars, scale cafes and documentation of case studies on best use cases.

• Provide support as needed in overall platform management.

• Develop standard materials for country level engagement (onboarding decks, guidelines and other supporting materials) and maintain a clean and updated repository of all documents

• Facilitate learning across countries, roasters of professionals and other forms of cooperation.

• Support the organization with learning events on youth engagement,

• Identify, capture, synthesize and share lessons learned for knowledge development and to build the capacity of stakeholders.

• Participate as resource person in capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of clients/stakeholders.

• Coordinate inputs for Youth Engagement team, divisional and other reports.

4. Provide strategic and technical support to colleagues at country and regional level to implement U-Report

• Support technical requests from countries. Track country requests to ensure they are responded to, and follow up with Country Offices

• Work Collaboratively with Business Analysts, Regional ICTD leads, EMOPS teams, Programme, and Communication and Advocacy teams

• Support the establishment and maintenance of global reference groups for youth engagement

• Ensure the strategic and technical support caters to local programming, advocacy and emergency needs and reflects that of the young people who will use it.

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

Education:

  • An advanced university degree in Public Policy, Political Science, International Relations, International Development, Communication, or other relevant fields is required; or *A first level university degree with an additional two years of experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

  • A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible and relevant work experience in advocacy/ campaigning and communications is required.
  • Experience in leading the development and implementation of youth engagement strategies, with clear theories of change, with specific, measurable and timebound objectives and performance indicators.
  • Proven experience in deploying a range of youth engagement platforms based on a clear theory of change.
  • Experience in building and maintaining a network of stakeholders, and in working with coalitions or partnerships.
  • Experience in digital and social media content and audience trends as well as in managing online platforms and channels.
  • Strong communicator with emphasis on being able to present complex policy ideas in succinct, engaging ways through campaign narratives and creative tactics.
  • Demonstrated experience in design and management of projects, including budget management and monitoring and evaluation of results.
  • Knowledge of children’s rights, public policy, international development and humanitarian issues.
  • Experience in training and facilitation is an asset.
  • Experience in working in a developing and emergency environment is an asset.
  • Experience working on and scaling U-Report and other youth engagement initiatives at country level, is an asset

Language Requirements:

Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

  • Builds and maintains partnerships (1)
  • Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (1)
  • Innovates and embraces change (1)
  • Drive to achieve results for impact (1)
  • Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)
  • Thinks and acts strategically (1)
  • Works collaboratively with others (1)

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

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.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

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 is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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:

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

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 are also 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.

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

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