Raise Awareness on UN Volunteer Vacancies and Boost Applications – UNICEF South Africa

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UNICEF South Africa has three strategic focus areas which are prevention and response to violence, adolescents, and Early Childhood Development. The UNV would be working with the Social Policy and Child Protection Section, an integrated section focusing on social policy as it relates to children rights and development in South Africa, and the care and protection of children from violence. The section is working to link cash with care, in an effort to maximize the impact of investments of key services, including social grants, health, education, social welfare and nutrition, and better link these services through integrated child wellbeing tracking tool to enable early identification of children and families’ needs and referral to relevant multi-sectoral services. UNICEF child protection section focuses its investment on deepening the quality of childcare in the country through strengthening home visits, parenting, and Safe Parks in the country and to bring levels of violence against children down. In the area of Social Policy, the section develops child-sensitive budget and poverty analysis and engages in advocacy and capacity building with the government on these issues. UNICEF South Africa consists of the following sections, in addition to the senior management: Operations, Education, Health, Social Policy and Child Protection and Communications and Partnerships. The UNV will be working with the Child Protection. The team consists of five colleagues: Section Chief, three child protection staff, one administrative assistant. Key partners include Department of Social Development, Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, the Parliament and civil society organisations. The section also works with a wide range of partners from the private sector, academic institutions, and sister UN agencies.

The expected result of this online volunteering support is to raise awareness on UN Volunteer vacancies and boost applications in UNICEF South Africa. The final product of this online volunteering should present a list of UN Volunteer vacancies re-posted from UNV regional facebook and twitter; analysis of social media engagement on the shared posts; documentation of good practices of sharing the vacancies and raising awareness on the vacancies; and risk analysis identified while managing the social media posts, etc. Upon selection, the online volunteer will receive further guidance to carry out this online volunteering. The online volunteer will assist over the period of 7 days. Upon completion, the online volunteer will receive a Certificate of Appreciation for his/her contributions.

This task requires experience and skills in social media management. Candidates who comprehend the local language(s) will have advantage to carry out the tasks. People who have background in social media management, HR, talent acquisition will be also regarded highly for this online volunteering assignment. Shortlisted candidates might be contacted by email or zoom/teams as part of the selection process.