Regional Chief Advocacy & Communications, P5, Bangkok, Thailand, Parental leave cover

Contract

This is a P-5 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 10 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 156,880 USD and 196,606 USD.

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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, a vision

The Regional Office for East Asia and the Pacific is seeking a candidate to temporarily lead and manage a team to design and coordinate effective, and integrated advocacy and communication strategies for the region. S/he will also provide support to the country offices in the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation stages of the strategies. S/he will work collaboratively with colleagues across UNICEF at the country, regional and global level, as well build networks and alliances with external partners to drive changes in policy and practice, and secure political and financial commitments for children.

How can you make a difference?

This assignment is to cover the period during parental leave of the incumbent of the post. The P5 Regional Chief of Advocacy and Communication is accountable for leading the advocacy and communication strategies of the Regional Office, under the supervision of the Regional Director. The successful candidate will be responsible for the below areas:

Communication strategy

Ensure that the Regional Office has a clear, regional communication strategy to get children’s issues into the public domain, strengthen political will in support of UNICEF's mission and objectives; Awareness, understanding, support and respect for children’s and women’s rights are effectively promoted; UNICEF's work for children's rights are kept on the policy agenda; and the organization’s credibility and brand are enhanced.

Capacity building and support

Ensure that regional policy guidance, advice and technical support are provided to country offices in the area of communication on an ongoing basis. Opportunities to develop communication capacity among country communication staff, other colleagues, media and other relevant partners are regularly identified and addressed.

Resource mobilization support

Regional support and response to global and country level fund-raising activities are effectively provided and co-ordinated, ensuring DOC, GRO, National Committees and country offices receive required advice and support.

Monitoring and evaluation

Ensure that effective advice is provided to country communication teams for monitoring and evaluating their communication activities; regional communication strategies and activities are monitored and evaluated; regional results and lessons learned are identified, collated and shared with communication colleagues in the region and DOC in a timely manner. Opportunities for continuous improvement in communication efforts are identified and shared.

Communication, n****etworking and partnerships

Ensure that new ways are identified to increase positive exposure and leverage that achieve prominence to new opportunities for UNICEF among a range of organizations, media and high-profile individuals whose recognition level/influence extends beyond national borders. Ensure that close coordination and partnership are maintained with DOC, GRO, National Committees and country offices to extend their impact and use in a sub-region, region or globally. Ensure effective participation in the planning, implementation, materials and logistics of visits of Goodwill Ambassadors, National Committees etc.

Global priorities and campaigns

Ensure that opportunities are identified for the region to support UNICEF’s global communications priorities, campaigns and partnerships.

Management

Ensure that the human resources (the communication team) and financial resources (budget planning, management and monitoring) for the region’s communication are both effectively managed and optimally used.

Advisory support and communication for strategic results

Implementation of UNICEF programme (regional) plans, ensuring communication on gender and equity issues are mainstreamed across all programmes. Ensure that emergency preparedness and response plans addresses gender issues that may be expected to intensify during emergencies.

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

• Advanced university degree in Communication, Journalism, Public Relations or other related fields of disciplines.

  *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with at least 12 years of demonstrated professional experience in the field of journalism, communications, external relations, public affairs, public relations or corporate communications may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree

• A minimum of ten years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience
• International and national work experience in both developed and developing countries
• Background/familiarity with Emergency situations
• Professional experience in communication, print, broadcast, news media
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language 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…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others, (8) Nurtures, leads and manages people

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:

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children.

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.