- Country: Dubai, UAE
- No of vacancies: N/A
- Salary: N/A
- Organization: UNDP
- Gender: Both
- Deadline: 2024-01-15
Key Functions:
a) Communications and advocacy:
• Design and facilitate the implementation of a robust marketing and communication strategy aimed at increasing awareness about the project and its achievements among the target audience.
• Produce and design various communication products, including press releases, briefing materials, fact sheets, videos, infographics, banners, and social media materials.
• Facilitate the drafting of a regular newsletter, incorporating updates, achievements, and key learnings from the project.
• Coordinate the organization of physical and virtual events and organize promotion and dissemination to raise awareness and visibility of the project.
• Advise on the use of the project’s branding and adhere to the latest internal editorial guidelines in all communication and marketing materials.
• Advise on various designs and layouts used for advocacy and communications tools and ensure quality.
b) Stakeholder engagement and digital media management:
• Manage the project’s social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube), ensuring they are frequently updated, improved, and maintained.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in communications, social media and algorithm changes to maximize outreach and engagement.
• Utilize Google Ads and social media ads (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) to boost visibility and engagement, planning and managing campaigns effectively.
• Facilitate effective communication with a wide range of stakeholders, including governments, private sector organizations, academic institutions, civil society groups, and the general public.
• Manage the knowledge community, encouraging interaction, and ensuring that the latest and most relevant information is shared.
• Ensure that the project’s communication channels, such as the portal, event page, and social media accounts, are updated, improved, and maintained regularly.
• Collect and categorize photos and pictures by theme for use across various communication platforms and materials.
• Leverage collected and categorized content to enhance communication and storytelling, providing a visually appealing experience for the audience.
c) Internal communications:
• Facilitate contact with other projects, country offices and Regional Hub in Amman for communications- related matters, ensuring effective and timely internal communication.
• Source, edit, review, and translate reports, press releases, presentations, or any other project document to ensure accurate and consistent internal communication.
• Implement effective knowledge management practices, ensuring that key information and learnings are captured, organized, and made accessible for team members.
• Facilitate the drafting of monthly reports reflecting analytics of the portal and social media accounts in coordination with the web editor.
d) Evaluation and reporting:
• Monitor media to analyse the effectiveness of the communications strategy, making necessary tweaks for continuous success of the visibility.
• Draft monthly reports reflecting analytics of the portal and social media accounts in coordination with the web editor, ensuring all communications efforts are trackable and measurable.
• Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of advocacy and communications strategies and adjust as necessary.
INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT
The Communications Associate will be working under the general guidance of the Chief Technical Adviser/Project Manager and under the direct supervision of the Project, Research and Communications Specialist. Collaboration and coordination with the rest of the Knowledge Project team, Regional Bureaux and Country Offices as well as the Donor will be required.
Core:
Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking
Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning
Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process
Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously
Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships
Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making
| Thematic Area | Name | Definition |
|
Business direction & strategy |
Strategic thinking |
Ability to develop effective strategies and
prioritized plans in line with UNDP’s objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, potential risks and opportunities; linking the vision to reality on the ground, and creating tangible solutions. |
| Communications | Social Media management | Ability to represent and promote the UNDP
brand in virtual communities and networks. |
| Communications | Multimedia
writing/editing |
Ability to create and/or edit written content for
multimedia. |
|
Communications |
Digital strategy |
Ability to plan the use of resources through
digital channels to reach and engage target audiences effectively and to achieve particular objectives. |
| Digital & Innovation | Data storytelling
and communications |
Skilled in building a narrative around a set of
data and its accompanying visualizations to help convey the meaning of that detain a powerful and compelling fashion. |
| Communications | Multimedia
production |
Ability to create and combine images, text and
audio-visuals to produce multimedia content. |
| Prosperity | Inclusive
Growth |
Future of work, automation and technology |
| Min. Education requirements | Secondary Education is required or;
University degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) in communications, marketing, digital marketing, journalism, social science, international relations, or other related fields. |
| Min. years of relevant work
experience |
A minimum of seven (07) years (with secondary education) or ;
four (04) years (with Bachelor’s degree) of relevant work experience in delivering communication services to promote the activities of an international development organization is required |
| Required skills | Previous experience in developing communications strategies. |
| Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section | Familiarity with creative desktop tools such as Canva, Photoshop,
Adobe Premiere, PaintNet, Illustrator, InDesign, Lumen5 or other graphics applications.; Experience working in the field of development or communications for a social development purpose is desired; Extensive experience working in the Arab States region; Previous experience in UN agencies or international organizations. |
| Required Language(s) | Written and spoken proficiency in Arabic and English.
French is a plus. |
| Nationalities |
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| Professional Certificates | Any certificate related to communications for development or
creative writing are considered valuable assets. |
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