Project Associate, ES, Communication

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.

In September 2020 UNFPA started a 3 year Project: Equality Springboard (ES): Project on Social Norms Change and Gender Stereotypes Elimination for Better Resilience and Prosperity of Women and Men in Ukraine funded by the Government of Sweden and target at the following: Objective 1. To enhance capacities of the education system to integrate gender sensitive and non-discriminative content and approach in the school curriculum, textbooks and education materials and teaching practices and to support educational practitioners to promote stereotype-free gender norms among young Ukrainian men and women; O2. To support men and boys’ engagement into advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment at the community level through applying equal distribution of duties in family life, including care of their children and participation in fathers programmes; O3. To engage corporate sector and provide it with guidelines and tools to introduce family friendly gender sensitive approaches in their corporate policies and programmes for staff and corporate social responsibility programmes, including domestic and gender-based violence prevention practices. UNFPA CO in Ukraine conducted a number of studies to support its programme design with evidence-based information, in particular: 1. UNFPA analytical research on women’s participation in the labour force in Ukraine (2014) 2. UNFPA study on child marriage in Ukraine (2015) 3. UNFPA study on GBV prevalence (2015) 4. UNFPA study on economic cost of violence (2017) 5. UNFPA study on masculinity (2018) 6. UNFPA study on gender equality and response to domestic violence in the corporate sector (2019) 7. UNFPA study on gender biased career choice (2020)

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of UNFPA Program Analyst or her designated mandated representative(s), the National UN Volunteer will: • Support UNFPA team in the implementation of project activities and in preparation of budgets, arranging venues, materials and helping in preparation of the presentations. • Providing quality inputs to the monitoring and reporting documents; regular preparation of newsletters. • Contribute to drafting of media briefs, social media communication, and documentation of good practices, human stories and stories of success as well as organization of public events and preparation of supporting documents such as talking points. • Maintain close working relationships with the media, including editors and journalists in key national and international news outlets. • Regularly and consistently monitor media publications in the thematic areas related to the Project, providing timely advice to the Project Coordinator and UNFPA Communication and Advocacy Manager, flagging the issues of concern, suggesting corrective actions to address them. • Contribute to the development and implementation of behavior changing campaigns and awareness raising information materials. • Maintain solid working relationships with the companies-signatories to the Declaration for Gender Equality and Prevention of Domestic Violence. Provide technical support to those signed the Declaration to better implement SDGs (Goals 5 and 8) in their day-to-day operations and business strategies, and document good practices for experiences sharing. • Explore opportunities and mechanisms for engaging civil society and private sector in responding to the needs of vulnerable groups of population affected by COVID-19. • Help to maintain 4 Hands Happiness web-site and social media through drafting news items and event reports. • Perform any other duties as required by the Country Office, Regional Office and HQ.

Professionalism, Integrity, Teamwork and respect for diversification, commitment to continuous learning, planning and organizing, communication, flexibility, Genuine commitment towards the principles of voluntary engagement

areas of public-private partnership, communication, public relations or marketing.

• Demonstrated knowledge in gender mainstreaming, combating gender-based violence, communication for development.
• Technical knowledge in one or more of the following areas is desirable: women’s economic empowerment, gender equality, behaviour change campaigns.
• Understanding of the SDGs is recommended.
• Understanding of the corporate social responsibility concept would be considered as an asset.

The UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials.