Communication Officer, (NO-1), Temporary Appointment, ECARO O/P Bratislava- Slovakia, #127243 (until 31 December 2024)

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each baby, in every single place, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

For each baby, a voice

Because the escalation of conflict in Ukraine in February 2022, kids’s lives and well-being stays underneath menace. Hundreds of thousands of individuals, primarily ladies and kids, have been pressured to flee their properties and nation seeking security, 100,000 of whom reside in Slovakia.

 In response, UNICEF mobilized organization-wide help to upscale its actions in Nation Places of work and set-up programmatic presence in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia. After an preliminary humanitarian response, carried out in coordination with the federal government, municipalities and civil society, the UNICEF Refugee Response Workplace (RRO) in Slovakia is now transitioning from emergency interventions tailor-made in the direction of addressing quick must interventions aimed on the longer-term inclusion of refugees, whereas addressing residual humanitarian wants of refugees within the areas of Little one Safety, Training, together with Early Childhood Improvement and Adolescent Improvement, Well being and Social Coverage in addition to Social and Behaviour Change .

How are you going to make a distinction?

The Communications Officer will: 

• assist in implementing, coordinating and monitoring of the RRO communication and advocacy actions and related merchandise on on-going foundation with public audiences, UN and civil society companions, and key personal and public sector donors.
• develop and implement communication actions to advertise consciousness, understanding, help and respect for youngsters’s and girls’s rights, and help for UNICEF’s mission, priorities and programmes within the nation and at regional and international stage.
• help within the coordination of Scenario Stories, growth of donor proposals and studies and guarantee efficient communication of UNICEF outcomes to key private and non-private sector companions, together with donor recognition and Social and Behaviour Change actions.

The incumbent will work carefully with UNICEF Slovensko, the UNICEF Basis for Slovakia (Nationwide Committee), on social media technique and replica.   

Key duties and responsbilities embody: 

1. Communication supplies    

• Assist the event, implementation and monitoring of the RRO communication and advocacy actions.
• Collect content material and protection of related RRO efforts to determine efficient related nation programme actions and outcomes. Develop complementary, country-specific and area people supplies and actions.
• Assist the manufacturing of communication supplies (e.g. briefing notes, pictures, video. Internet pages and many others.) that meet the nation and international requirements.
• Help in drafting and modifying articles, press releases, human curiosity tales and different advocacy/info supplies for each web-based and conventional media, as acceptable.
• Comply with the manufacturing of advocacy and communication supplies (e.g., movies, movies, audio-visuals, and many others.), and oversee the qualitative elements of manufacturing, (e.g., high quality management, translations, opinions of structure and graphic design and many others.) to satisfy requirements as set out within the Communication Toolkit.
• Preserve an up-to-date documentation centre for communication supplies together with publications, press releases and clippings, images, audio-visual supplies, net sources and many others.

2. Media relations

• Preserve and replace media relations contact checklist/database. Guarantee speedy and correct info dissemination to the media.
• Help in creating and sustaining shut collaboration with mass media, in addition to with teams and organizations whose help is important to the achievement of advocacy and communication aims.
• Help in researching, drafting and modifying articles, press releases, human curiosity tales and different advocacy/info supplies in all media codecs, as acceptable.
• Put together background communication and promotional supplies for briefing and visits of media and different particular curiosity teams. Help within the planning, logistic and administrative preparations for them.
• Help in collaborating with the media via actions comparable to organizing venture web site visits, facilitating photograph protection and TV footage and using each web-based and conventional media as acceptable.

3. Monitoring and analysis

• Monitor the attain and influence of advocacy and communication actions and supplies to focus on audiences, and take part within the analysis of their influence. Monitor and consider the use and effectiveness of media supplies. Preserve a library of protection (clippings, protection and many others.)
• Monitor public notion of UNICEF in nation and advocate acceptable motion to keep up a constructive picture for UNICEF’s work.
• Guarantee good high quality information assortment, evaluation and analysis and reporting to make sure efficient communication methods, planning and efficient and environment friendly advocacy.
• Undertake classes realized evaluation of profitable and unsuccessful communication experiences as directed by supervisor.

4. Networking and partnerships

• Assist manage and generate public help for particular occasions and actions to interact audiences in UNICEF’s work for youngsters.
• Help in creating and sustaining shut collaboration with influencers and with teams and organizations whose help is important to the achievement of advocacy and communication aims.
• Preserve and replace influencers key audiences contact lists/database for nation workplace. 
• Put together background communication and promotional supplies for briefings and visits of media, Goodwill Ambassadors, donors, Nationwide Committee representatives and different particular curiosity teams. This contains getting ready info supplies (e.g., press releases, programme summaries, nation reality sheets and media kits), and helping within the planning, logistics and administrative preparations.

5. Donor Reporting & Useful resource mobilization help

• Assist the coordination of inputs into communication supplies by programme colleagues, in addition to the proof-reading and modifying of standard scenario studies, donor proposals and donor studies.
• Help in creating and sustaining snapshots and different programme visibility paperwork, together with PowerPoint displays, for use throughout conferences with potential donors.
• Assist the Nation Coordinator and part chiefs in figuring out and seizing fundraising alternatives.

6. Capability constructing and help

• Assist programme colleagues and implementing companions in elevating the standard of communication merchandise.
• Assist the group of conferences and workshops to debate particular matters inside the areas of Communication and Advocacy as wanted.

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have…

• Bachelor’s diploma in communications, journalism, public relations, political science, worldwide relations or associated area.
• At the very least one 12 months {of professional} expertise in communications, media, or digital media.
• Confirmed expertise designing, launching, managing and reporting on conventional and/or digital campaigns, each in-house and thru companies is an asset.
• Robust writing and storytelling abilities in English and Slovak are a robust asset.
• Expertise in pictures, videomaking and/or graphic design is an asset.
• Background/familiarity with emergency conditions is an asset.
• Discipline expertise is an asset.
• Fluency in English and Slovak are required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

For each Little one, you reveal…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every little thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to realize outcomes for influence (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others (8) Lead and Nurture individuals.

Throughout the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should mirror the range of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. 

Remarks:

It is a nationwide officer place, open to Slovak nationals solely. 

This Non permanent Appointment (TA) contract will probably be issued via to 31 December 2024, whereas any potential extension will probably be topic to continued organizational or rising programmatic wants, obtainable monetary sources and passable efficiency.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which will probably be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Do you have to be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. In any other case, the choice will probably be cancelled.

All chosen candidates will endure rigorous reference and background checks and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background examine.

Authorities staff which are thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an inexpensive interval for any purpose.

Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.