Regional Chief of Communication & Advocacy, P-5, ROSA, Kathmandu, Nepal

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 150,560 USD and 188,686 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 voice

The Regional Chief of Communication & Advocacy provides leadership and technical oversight in support of driving long-lasting change for children in South Asia through advocacy and communication. In a region in demographic and economic transition, ROSA focuses particularly on leveraging UNICEF’s unique convening power to bring together leaders around the child rights agenda, leveraging evidence generation to drive bold, data-driven public advocacy and communications, enhancing its audience-led approach to building digital reach and engagement, tapping into the demographic dividend and harnessing the power and authenticity of youth-led advocacy, and engaging and connecting the intrinsic passion, commitment, and talents of UNICEF personnel. He/she also provides leadership on UNICEF positioning and messaging on large-scale emergencies and climate-induced disasters in South Asia.

How can you make a difference?

Reporting to the Regional Director, the Regional Chief of Communication & Advocacy is accountable for developing, implementing, managing, and monitoring a regional advocacy and communication strategy and associated products, partnerships, and activities. Support resource mobilization, global priority, and campaign initiatives, especially those of importance to the work of the National Committees. Advise, provide guidance, and build communication capacity of staff and others throughout the region. Coordinate and guide regional monitoring and evaluation of communication. Provide recommendations on global, regional, and country communication policy development, support and advocacy, and communication activities.

Key Duties and Tasks

• Ensure that the Regional Office has a clear, regional communication strategy to get children’s issues into the public domain and 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.
• 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.
• Ensure regional support and response to global and country-level fund-raising activities are effectively provided and coordinated, ensuring DOC, GRO, National Committees and country offices receive required advice and support.
• Provide effective advice 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.
• Develop 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.
• Identify opportunities for the region to support UNICEF’s global communications priorities, campaigns, and partnerships.
• 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.
• Implement UNICEF programme (regional) plans, ensuring communication on gender and equity issues is mainstreamed across all programmes.
• Ensure communication and advocacy emergency preparedness and response plans are in place and address gender issues that may be expected to intensify during emergencies.

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Communication, Journalism, Public Relations, or other related fields of disciplines. A first University degree plus at least 12 years of demonstrated professional experience in the field of journalism, communications, external relations, public affairs, public relations, or corporate communications.)
• Ten years of progressively responsible and relevant professional work experience.
• International and national work experience in both developed and developing countries.
• Professional experience in communication, print, broadcast, and new media.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergencies is considered an asset.

For more details, please see attached JD: Regional Chief of Communication and Advocacy- Level 5- pdf.pdf

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 and (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:

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

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

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.

UNICEF is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. 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.

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.

“UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”