Reporting and Communications Officer

Contract

This is a UNV International Specialist contract. This kind of contract is known as International UN Volunteer. It is normally internationally recruited only. More about UNV International Specialist contracts.

Assignment is with family (KINSHASA)

Under the direct supervision of the Senior Gender Adviser/Chief of Gender Affairs, the UNV/Reporting and Communications Officer will ensure the following responsibilities:

Reporting

• Draft and produce result-oriented periodic reports (quarterly, code cables…) and special briefs. • Review Mission’s strategic reports and include in them sex-disaggregated data from the Section’s compendium. • Classify and archive systematically reports and program-related documents as evidence for the purpose of audit, knowledge management and monitoring. • Create a gender profile of the mission and populate it regularly with updated gender statistics. • Assist in drafting and preparing official documents such as inter office memoranda (IOM); • Review daily, weekly and quarterly Mission reports and extract and compile gender events and developments into a weekly situational compendium. • Drafts, collates and edits specific inputs from field staff about progress achieved, and lessons learned for mission reports and the Section’s quarterly electronic information digest. • Support planning and implementation of outreach activities. • Collaborate with HQ and MONUSCO colleagues for inputs and the updating of (Comprehensive Planning and Performance Assessment System (CPAS) • Performs other duties if required.

Communications

• Ensure effective communications, visibility and knowledge management within the Gender Affairs Section, and position the communications products of the Section within the mission and outside it. • Develop, implement and monitor a communications and visibility plan drawing on inputs by sections and offices in the mission and facilitate better understanding of gender issues within the mission and the priorities of Gender Affairs Section. • Develop and maintain updated visibility material such as gender leaflets, gender posters, screen savers, a quarterly digital brief, as well as other advocacy materials targeted at mission’s personnel (Civilian, Military, Police) and external partners such as youth, politicians, civil society activists, and internet and radio audiences.
• Review and update inputs on the Section in MONUSCO’s website and in the COSMOS page for Gender Responsiveness resource library, • Identify and document best practices, in close cooperation with the Section’s team in Kinshasa and field offices and the Mission’s Gender Focal Points. • Support the team in drafting thematic presentations, surveys and calls for action under the guidance of the Senior Gender Adviser. • Update and populate the Section’s share drive, among others with policies, tools, training modules and the section’s publications. • Draft, as required, speeches, press releases, inputs to strategic documents.

• Client Orientation;
• Communication Creativity;
• Ethics and Values Integrity;
• Planning and Organizing;
• Professionalism
• Respect for Diversity Technological Awareness;
• Working in Teams.

communication or reporting

The Democratic Republic of Congo is the second largest country in Africa, and as a result is quite diverse. Living conditions therefore vary between MONUSCO duty stations, with all usual amenities present in the capital Kinshasa, but only very basic conditions in remote duty stations in the provinces, where, for instance, there may be no guarantee of public power supply nor running water. The ability to live and work in difficult and harsh conditions of developing countries is essential. Accommodation is very expensive in both Kinshasa and Lubumbashi. Supermarkets exist in the large towns (e.g. Bukavu, Kisangani), but consumer items are generally very expensive (as everything is imported). For food, local markets offer a much cheaper alternative. All MONUSCO duty stations are considered non-family duty stations, except for Kinshasa, Lubumbashi and Entebbe which are now considered family duty stations, and most are currently under UN Security Phase III (“relocation phase”: internationally-recruited staff are temporarily concentrated or relocated to specified sites/locations). In addition to insecurity related to the relatively volatile political situation as well as various conflict situations, certain places are subject to increasing street and residential crime, including in Kinshasa and Goma. Some degree of medical service is provided in all MONUSCO duty stations. Certain vaccinations are mandatory for MONUSCO personnel to enter the DRC, while others are compulsory for all other incoming persons. It is possible for incoming MONUSCO personnel, including UN Volunteers, to be asked to provide proof of some or all vaccinations, though this is unlikely. All UN Volunteers must ensure that they are up-to-date with all appropriate vaccinations, which should be clearly and properly endorsed in the International Certificate of Vaccination (“carte jaune”). Malaria is present virtually throughout the DRC, and it is therefore recommended to take prophylaxis. The unit of currency is the Congolese Franc. The US dollar is the other preferred currency. It may be impossible to exchange traveller’s checks away from the capital city. Credit cards are usually accepted in major hotels only in Kinshasa. In larger towns and cities (e.g. Kinshasa, Goma, Bukavu, Kisangani), UN Volunteers are recommended to open US Dollar bank accounts, while in other places, banks may be absent (including ATMs) and VLA payments will be processed in cash. UN Volunteers have the possibility to send part of their allowances to a bank account abroad. In addition to French, there are four major spoken languages in DRC, namely Lingala, Kikongo, Tshiluba and Swahili.