Communication Specialist, P-3, WCARO Dakar, Senegal #117290

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

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, in every single place, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

For each youngster, Hope

West and Central Africa gives a portrait of the world’s unfinished improvement agenda and plenty of difficult humanitarian conditions. Inequalities and poverty, armed conflicts or weak governance characterize many nations, resulting in an setting by which youngsters’s survival and future well-being face every day challenges that usually overshadow the area’s achievements and nice potential.

The UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Workplace’s (WCARO) communication and advocacy crew works to make sure that the regional workplace and nation places of work within the area are outfitted to hold out efficient communication and public advocacy work by way of three built-in areas: 1. Media outreach and partnerships; 2. Story-telling by way of initiatives and merchandise; and three. Engagement with youngsters, youth and influencers. The crew works to facilitate and create synergies, alternatives and change amongst communication workers in 24 nation places of work, performing as a facilitation power with headquarters, nation places of work and nationwide committees to make sure coherence and consistency within the implementation of communication and public advocacy methods which can be aligned with world methods and related to regional and native context. One other vital focus of its work is inner communication, in coordination with HR and the RD entrance workplace.

To realize higher outcomes for kids, it’s crucial to determine new methods of collaborating throughout the group and leveraging digital media. For these causes, UNICEF West and Central Regional Workplace is seeking to recruit a Communication Specialist to develop and implement regional inner communication methods with the goal of contributing to the acceleration of organizational outcomes, whereas leveraging the digital and rising data applied sciences ecosystem.

How will you make a distinction?

Objective of the job

Beneath the supervision of the Regional Chief of Communication, the Communication Specialist is accountable for growing, managing, coordinating, implementing and monitoring the inner communication methods, and related merchandise and actions. The incumbent can even lead on technical assist to inner communication initiatives and merchandise, in shut collaboration with the Regional Director’s Workplace and Human Assets crew. Networking with inner and exterior audiences, with the objective to advertise UNICEF’s work to interact the better public, particularly younger individuals, in addition to workers, thereby sustaining a cohesive workforce and a way of neighborhood. The Communication Specialist will assist a broad vary of communication actions as a part of the inner communication efforts, together with writing, modifying and producing prime quality communication and advocacy merchandise, and supporting coordination with sections throughout the Regional Workplace. The Communication Specialist will help in planning, designing, rolling out and evaluating communication and advocacy tasks and initiatives.

Key features, accountabilities and associated duties/duties

1. Inside communication technique
   • Facilitate the event and implementation of a West and Central Africa/regional inner communication, advocacy utilizing proof and information from programme sections;
   • Strategically plan, execute and measure the affect of focused inner communication that fosters engagement and connectedness amongst all of UNICEF’s workforce;
   • Partaking and mobilizing purposeful networks to assist the achievement of the worldwide Inside Communication and Workers Engagement (ICSE) targets, and aligning and integrating purposeful regional SharePoint websites to create a extra synergized digital ICSE ecosystem with the goal of enhancing inner communication in WCAR;
   • Foster inclusive, clear, constructive and genuine exchanges between workers in any respect ranges of the group, for enhanced consciousness, agile collaboration and connectedness – advancing UNICEF’s programmatic priorities and co-creating a value-based organizational tradition.
2. Consciousness elevating and engagement
   • Proceed elevating consciousness of the Regional Workplace for West and Central Africa communication and advocacy work and its position in supporting Nation Places of work and driving organizational modifications amongst UNICEF workers within the area;
   • Promote UNICEF’s values and its mandate throughout the Regional Workplace to interact workers, thereby sustaining a cohesive workforce and a way of neighborhood;
   • Improve workers consciousness and follow of UNICEF’s Core Values to assist guarantee all behaviors’ of workers are absolutely aligned with them;
   • Improve workers consciousness and engagement on the best way to speed up the achievement of UNICEF’s world targets in all SP Purpose Areas;
3. Communication supplies
   • Produce high quality communication and advocacy merchandise, displays, a regional publication, speeches, and different and multimedia belongings that inform the story of UNICEF’s affect on youngsters within the area from a regional workplace perspective;
   • Assist the communication part by engaged on social media outputs, growing, as wanted, media releases, key messages, reality sheets, Q&As, speeches, displays and different communication merchandise to assist efficient inner communication;
   • Enhance inner communication and workers engagement (ICSE), and collaboration amongst all workers globally by way of user-friendly and built-in digital ICSE websites, channels and instruments.
4. Capability constructing and data sharing
   • Present coaching and assist the enhancement of communications and data expertise amongst workers to allow them to carry out their duties in a constant method with prime quality;
   • Advocate for a proactive information-seeking strategy amongst workers and spend money on capability enhancement to realize a sustainable and efficient inner communication;
   • Coordinate data administration round photograph and video protection of UNICEF’s programming within the area and preserve a regional communication product library;
   • Keep and replace inner WCAR web site in collaboration with ICTD and Focal factors in Nation and Regional Places of work
   • Be sure that communication and advocacy merchandise are disseminated and built-in throughout the Regional Workplace’s processes and aligned to organizational targets;
   • Guarantee sufficient incentives are in place together with recognition of communication and advocacy data champions;
   • Improve capacities of workers members on inner communication and advocacy;
   • Assist coordination and liaise with the worldwide ICSE Workplace within the Division of World Communication and Advocacy (GCA), UNICEF Nation Places of work within the Central and West and Central Africa area, and Regional Workplace colleagues

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you’ll have…

• A sophisticated college diploma in Communication, Public Relations or associated discipline.
  *A primary College Diploma in a related discipline mixed with 2 extra years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma.
• 5 years skilled work expertise in communication, conventional and digital media or associated discipline.
• Confirmed expertise in utilizing professionally social and digital media
• Glorious writing expertise in English and French.
• Expertise in producing function tales for conventional and on-line media.
• Technical competence in producing visible content material for varied media codecs (audio, video, pictures).
• Capacity to handle relationships with photographers, videographers, media representatives, authorities officers and different UNICEF companions.
• Planning and monitoring expertise; potential to prepare work and tasks.
• Dedication to steady studying for skilled improvement.
• Initiative, ardour and dedication to UNICEF’s mission {and professional} values.
• Earlier communications expertise in emergencies is very fascinating.
• Fluency in French and English is required. Information of one other official UN language or native language of the responsibility station is taken into account an asset.

For each Baby, you show…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin the whole lot 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 affect (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

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 youngsters and our world workforce should replicate the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some 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 goals 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 youngsters. 

Remarks:

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Solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.