Health Promotion/ Community engagement assistant

Contract

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

• As an active WHO team member, efficient, timely, responsive and high-quality support rendered to WHO Iraq in the accomplishment of functions, including: - Use listening to mechanisms and data collection and analysis methods to monitor and analyse information and address perceptions among key target audiences; - Developing written content for health promotion materials and ensure that content is culturally sensitive and tailored to diverse audiences. - Creating visual content to support various risk communication materials. - Map key areas of interest and concern in both refugees and host populations. - Based on listening data; • develop relevant health promotion/RCCE messages, materials, campaigns, and other initiatives, in languages and formats used by target audiences; • Respond to rumours and misinformation as needed. - Deploy RCCE messages, materials, campaigns etc. to key target audiences via trusted sources and channels; • Engage community influencers (e.g. community leaders, health mediators, faith-based organizations, civil society organizations) and co-develop and deliver effective RCCE interventions. - Support build and maintain RCCE capacity in the country (WHO Country Office, national authorities, partners, media, and other stakeholders) through trainings, coaching and on-the-job support.

A final statement of achievements during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of materials developed, programs supported, number of stories, products and different materials produced.

• Contribute to the development, elaboration, and implementation of the health promotion plan as part of the health response operations. • Support to liaise closely with the HQ and regional counterparts for risk communication ensuring coherence of strategy, materials, and messages. Support to ensure that technical material produced by the country office integrates health promotion principles and practice. • Support to monitor and proactively counter false rumours and misinformation, and ad-dress fears and concerns. • Work closely with the RCCE/ Health promotion officer to integrate findings from knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) surveys, focus group discussions and other feedback from community engagement activities into risk communication activities and products. • Develop health promotion products such as public information; brochures, leaflets, and posters; radio and TV scripts; guides for stakeholders for health promotion and ensure their translation into local language and their adaptation for the local context. • Support and contribute to develop and maintain standing RCCE/health promotion capacity in the WHO Country Office: a) map and engage risk communication stakeholders; establish and sustain coordination mechanisms for emergency risk communication. b) Support to organize risk communication trainings for WHO country staff. e.g., Brief, guide and coordinate risk community surge capacity personnel that may be deployed to the country.

• Professionalism • Integrity • Teamwork and respect for diversity • Commitment to continuous learning • Planning and organizing • Communication • Flexibility

relevant fields, such as online publishing and risk communications. • Strong creative and storytelling skills to convey our organization's health promotion mission effectively. • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, etc.) or equivalent software. • Experience with content creation and social media management across various platforms. • Proficiency in multimedia skills, including photography, videography, graphics designing, and video editing. • Fluency in both Arabic and English is essential to engage with our target audiences effectively.

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 receive a volunteer living allowance to sustain a basic, adequate and safe lifestyle. This allowance varies from one location to another depending on local living costs, but all national UN Volunteers in the same location receive the same allowance. Below is a summary of the Conditions of Service. Allowances The purpose of allowances for national UN Volunteers is to enable the national UN Volunteers to sustain a modest and secure standard of living at the duty station. The allowances are in no way to be understood as compensation, reward or salary in exchange for the volunteer work. Volunteer Living Allowance (VLA): All national UN Volunteers are entitled to a monthly volunteer living allowance of USD 1,952.49 The purpose of this allowance is to cover the basic living costs of the national UN Volunteer, and her or his family when applicable. The allowance is to ensure that the volunteer can sustain a basic, adequate and safe lifestyle. The monthly allowance rate is a fixed rate for the duty station as established by UNV headquarters. Resettlement allowance: Eligible national UN Volunteers are entitled to receive a resettlement allowance upon satisfactory completion of the assignment. The allowance assists the volunteer to reintegrate into society both professionally and personally upon completion of their UN Volunteer service. As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials