Visual Asset Management Analyst - IPSA 9

Entry Mid

Overview

Manage visual assets and enhance communication through strategic photo use.

You have:

• Master's degree (or equivalent) in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Media or related area.
• 2 years of relevant experience in communications for Master's degree holders.
• 4 years of relevant experience in communications for Bachelor's degree holders.
• Experience in extracting information from research to write photo captions for corporate communications products.
• Knowledge of intellectual property rights and copyright law.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.

Contract

This is a IPSA-9 contract. This kind of contract is known as International Personnel Services Agreement. It is normally internationally recruited only. It usually requires 2 years of experience, depending on education. More about IPSA-9 contracts.

Background

Instructions to Applicants: Click on the "Apply now" button. Input your information in the appropriate Sections: personal information, language proficiency, education, resume and motivation. Upon completion of the first page, please hit "submit application" tab at the end of the page. Please ensure that CV or P11 and the Cover letter are combined in one file.

The following documents shall be required from the applicants:

Personal CV or P11, indicating all past positions held and their main underlying functions, their durations (month/year), the qualifications, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate, and at least three (3) the most recent professional references of previous supervisors. References may also include peers.

A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page) indicating why the candidate considers him-/herself to be suitable for the position.

Managers may ask (ad hoc) for any other materials relevant to pre-assessing the relevance of their experience, such as reports, presentations, publications, campaigns or other materials.

Office/Unit/Project Description

The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. UNV works with partners to integrate qualified, highly motivated and well-supported UN Volunteers into development programming and promote the value and global recognition of volunteerism. UNV is active in around 130 countries every year. With field presences in over 60 countries, UNV is represented worldwide. UNV is administered by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The External Relations and Communications Section (ERCS) builds and nurtures corporate donor relations, strategically leads the donor resource mobilization platform and conducts coherent communications efforts to highlight the value of volunteerism for peace and development and the contributions of UNV and UN Volunteers.

The Communications team focuses on clear and effective messaging to increase the visibility and impact of UNV. It raises awareness on the work of UN Volunteers and of volunteerism and its contribution to development among UNV stakeholders, encourages support of volunteerism for development, including observation of IVD, and produces and promotes materials (social media content, graphics, videos, website, annual report, etc.) to highlight UNV’s work, its contribution to partners’ objectives and support for volunteerism for development.

In order to increase and sustain UNV’s social media and online presence, UNV conducts regular sourcing of photos, which need to be duly stored, classified and tagged on UNV’s visual management system, Chorus. Moreover, UNV’s stock of historical visuals needs to be uploaded to Chorus so that all visuals are stored in one place, and a thorough research of published web stories from unv.org so appropriate photos can be transferred to Chorus.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Sort through photos regularly uploaded to Chorus by Regional Offices, classifying, tagging and rating them with relevant info for future use.
• Provide guidance to Regional Offices on how to use Chorus and ensure that photos are uploaded with required metadata and information.
• Research web stories on unv.org and upload appropriate photos for communications products to Chorus with correct captions.
• Upload a selection of the best old UNV photos and visuals to Chorus from SharePoint, classifying, tagging and rating them with relevant info.
• Select the photos that will stay on Chorus and store other on UNV’s Archives (platform to be agreed).
• Compile collections with best 2023 photos for use in various communications products.
• Ensure transfer to Chorus of photos uploaded by UN Volunteers to the Volunteer Reporting Application.

Institutional Arrangement?

The Visual Asset Management Analyst will report to the Communications Specialist/Team Lead (P4) in the Communications team of ERCS, which is comprised of two Communications Specialists, one Communications Analyst and one Social Media Campaigns & Multimedia Analyst.

The External Relations and Communications Section (ERCS) leads and manages UNV's corporate strategic partnership relations and alliances with Member States, intergovernmental, non-governmental organizations, financial institutions, civil society, academia, media, and the private sector to promote UNV's mandate and initiatives, raise awareness and stimulate action to advance UNV's global agenda and resource mobilization.

Competencies

Core

Achieve Results:

LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work

Think Innovatively:

LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking

Learn Continuously:

LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning

Adapt with Agility:

LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process

Act with Determination:

LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously

Engage and Partner:

LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

Business Management

Communication

• Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience
• Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels

Business Development

Knowledge Generation

• Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need

Business Management

Customer Satisfaction/Client Management

• Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers' needs. •Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy. •Look for ways to add value beyond clients' immediate requests
• Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns

Communications

Multimedia production

• Ability to create and combine images, text and audio- visuals to produce multimedia content

Communications

Social Media management

• Ability to represent and promote the UNDP brand in virtual communities and networks

General (across the functions)

Public relations

• Ability to build and maintain an overall positive public image for the organisation, its mandate and its brand, while ensuring that individual campaigns and other communications and advocacy initiatives are supported in reaching the public

Digital & Innovation

Data literacy

• Understand the potential as well as the limitations of using data driven innovation
• Ability to use a mix of data sources (quantitative, qualitative or real-time techniques) to develop understanding, identify patterns to inform decision making or identify opportunities for further exploration

Required Skills and Experience

Min. Academic Education

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Media or related area;
• A Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Media or related area in combination with additional four years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Min. years of relevant Work experience

• For Master’s degree: 2 years of relevant experience in communications, including experience managing Digital Asset Management systems and visual assets.
• For Bachelor’s degree: 4 years of relevant experience in communications, including experience managing Digital Asset Management systems and visual assets.

Required skills and competencies

• Experience in extracting information from research to write photo captions for corporate communications products;
• Knowledge of intellectual property rights, personal property rights, and copyright law. Knowledge of the stock image industry;

Desired additional skills and competencies

• Creative open-minded team player with strong initiative and excellent interpersonal skills;
• Previous experience woring in an international environment would be an asset;
• Previous experience in collaborating with internal and external partners would be an asset;
• Previous experience working for the UN is an advantage;
• Knowledge of Photoshop and other Adobe programs is an asset.

Required Language(s) (at working level)

• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.

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