Communication Specialist (WASH), P-3, Office of Innovation, Copenhagen, Denmark #127803

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

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

And we by no means hand over.

For each youngster, innovate…

UNICEF has a 70-year historical past of innovating for youngsters. We imagine that new approaches, partnerships, and applied sciences that assist the conclusion of kids’s rights are key to bettering youngsters’s lives.

Worldwide, we innovate to sort out probably the most urgent issues confronted by probably the most weak youngsters. We take a scientific method to innovation, making use of expertise and vitality throughout new instruments and applied sciences, merchandise, progressive financing, and new methods of working to spice up our affect.

The Workplace of Innovation (OOI) is a artistic, distinctive, and agile staff in UNICEF. We sit at a novel intersection, the place a corporation that works on enormous world points meets the startup considering, the know-how, the instruments, the know-how and the companions that flip concepts and vitality into scalable options for youngsters.

The imaginative and prescient of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a worldwide residence for constructing, accelerating, and scaling transformational local weather resilient options for a WASH safe way forward for common and equitable entry to providers, addressing the complete ambition of the SDG6.

The WASH Hub will supply, pilot and scale transformational and frontier local weather resilient improvements that reply to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock quicker progress for a water safe future for youngsters and younger folks.

One of many key world challenges that the Hub will handle by exploration and scale of progressive options will likely be tackling foreseen local weather change impacts on WASH providers and supply entry. The Hub may also assist analysis and innovation on the hyperlinks between local weather change and water, sanitation, and hygiene.

The hub will convey collectively a passionate neighborhood of strategic companions together with youngsters and younger folks, academia, non-public entrepreneurs, public coverage makers, social growth and humanitarian actors, and our world UNICEF WASH / CEED and innovation colleagues in 150+ nations. Collectively we’ll co-create, advocate, allow, convene, and encourage for progressive sustainable options to long-standing limitations and rising alternatives for a WASH safe and local weather resilient future for each youngster.

The WASH Hub will likely be a part of a distributed community working in shut partnership with youngster impacted native ecosystems in nations internationally, whereas concurrently participating a number of the most impactful world innovation ecosystems.

How will you make a distinction?

The incumbent is positioned throughout the newly established Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (‘the WASH Hub’), reporting to the Partnership Specialist (WASH Hub) with matrix reporting to the communication lead in OOI Stockholm. Their will work intently with different divisions on innovation and WASH.

Inside the delegated authority and the given organizational set-up, the incumbent could also be accountable for all or assigned areas of the next main duties and finish outcomes.

1. Communication technique

Make sure that the WASH Hub has a transparent communication technique and related work plan to assist the WASH Hub programme goals and get youngsters’s points into the general public area, strengthen political will in assist of UNICEF’s mission and goals, and improve the group’s credibility and model.

Duties & Duties

• Develop, keep, and replace the WASH Hub advocacy and communication technique and related work plan. Technique and work plan embrace: an environmental and stakeholder evaluation; goals; goal audiences; messages and media combine; sources; particular actions, actions, and merchandise; monitoring and analysis of affect; success and alternative for enchancment; ongoing refinement of the technique.
• UNICEF’s rights- and results-based programming method is appropriately mirrored within the communication technique, work plan and merchandise.
• Keep shut collaboration with OOI Stockholm, Regional Communication Advisers and HQ Communication Officers for efficient general coordination.

2. Media relations

In collaboration with related UNICEF Nationwide Committees and Headquarters leads, make sure that the WASH Hub has a nicely maintained and frequently developed contact checklist of journalists and media retailers protecting all media – print, TV, radio, net and many others. – and a profitable strategy of speaking and sustaining common contact and shut collaboration with the media to speak the story of UNICEF’s cooperation to a wider viewers.

 Duties & Duties

• Promote a greater understanding of respect and assist for youngsters’s and ladies’s rights and points by finishing up media, data, and schooling actions in assist of UNICEF-assisted growth programmes or humanitarian efforts within the nation.
• Develop, keep, and replace media relations contact checklist/database.
• Set up, doc, evaluation and refine strategy of speaking with media contacts, together with press conferences and occasions, issuing of media supplies and many others.
• Guarantee speedy and correct data dissemination to the media, Nationwide Committees, NGOs, the sphere and different applicable audiences.
• Determine, develop, distribute, and consider number of media supplies in a number of, applicable codecs. Guarantee or improve the standard, appropriateness of nation particular communication supplies, actions, processes, and messages transmitted to the press, companions and public.
• Collaborate with mass media by actions reminiscent of organizing undertaking web site visits, facilitating photograph protection and TV footage, and using each web-based and conventional media as applicable.
• Monitor and consider the use and effectiveness of media supplies and share outcomes and findings.
• Keep shut collaboration with OOI Stockholm, Regional Communication Advisers and HQ Communication Officers for efficient general coordination.

3. Networking and partnerships

Make sure that the WASH Hub has a nicely maintained and frequently developed contact checklist of people, teams, organizations, and fora (together with Authorities, UN, and bilateral counterparts), whose assist is crucial to/can help in reaching the advocacy and communication goals of the communication technique.

Duties & Duties

• Develop, keep, and replace companions contact checklist/database.
• Assist set up, doc, evaluation and refine strategy of working collaboratively with companions, together with conferences, joint tasks, data sharing and many others.
• Guarantee or improve the standard, consistency and appropriateness of country-specific communication supplies, actions, processes, and messages shared with companions.
• Determine alternatives to strengthen the capability of companions by applicable advocacy and communication coaching, entry to data, provides and tools and thru data sharing.
• Monitor, consider and share outcomes and findings with companions.

4. Celebrities and particular occasions

Make sure that the WASH Hub has a nicely maintained and frequently developed contact checklist of applicable, nationally recognized personalities who’ve been recognized, engaged and assist UNICEF’s effort and who actively take part in particular occasions and actions that assist nation programme targets.

Duties & Duties

• Develop, keep, and replace celebrities contact checklist/database.
• Assist set up, doc, evaluation and refine strategy of working with celebrities, together with particular occasions, media alternatives, area journeys and many others. 
• Take part in world advocacy actions by planning visits of Goodwill Ambassadors, Nationwide Committee representatives, Govt Board members and many others. together with making ready data supplies (e.g., press releases, programme summaries, nation truth sheets and media kits), and vital logistic preparations. Spotlight the achievements of the nation programme. Keep shut collaboration with OOI Stockholm, Regional Communication Advisers and HQ Communication Officers for efficient general coordination.

5. International priorities and campaigns

Along with native/nationwide/regional campaigns, make sure that the WASH Hub has an efficient course of in place for integrating and taking motion on UNICEF’s world communications priorities and campaigns, each disseminating these components in a domestically applicable means, in addition to offering/enabling protection of the work of the WASH Hub for world use.

Duties & Duties

• Help the UNICEF world communications goals and methods by growth of complementary nation particular and local people supplies and actions. Work plan ought to anticipate the inclusion of labor on world priorities and campaigns.
• Develop and deploy WASH Hub communication capability to collect/facilitate the content material and protection of related WASH Hub efforts. Use the chance to determine/spotlight efficient programme actions and outcomes.
• Guarantee common communication and co-ordination with related communication focal factors in OOI Stockholm, regional places of work, and headquarters divisions.

6. Useful resource mobilization assist

Make sure that WASH Hub and OOI fund-raising actions are supported by efficient advocacy and communication technique and actions.

Duties & Duties

•  Mobilize nation workplace communication capability to assist/facilitate the gathering of content material and protection of related nation efforts. Use the chance to determine/spotlight efficient programme actions and ends in assist of fund-raising.
• Mobilize sources for fund-raising assist by common communication and co-ordination with related communication focal factors in regional places of work and headquarters divisions.

7. Administration

Make sure that human sources (the communication staff) and monetary sources (price range planning, administration, and monitoring) are each successfully managed and optimally used.

Duties & Duties                                                                                                                

• Develop a piece plan for communication actions, monitor compliance and supply assist and steerage to make sure goals are met.
• Plan and monitor using communication budgetary sources. Approve and monitor the general allocation and disbursement and liquidation of funds. Take applicable actions to optimize use of funds.
• Determine, recruit, and supervise employees, technical sources, and consultants as vital. Conduct and implement efficient efficiency planning, monitoring, efficiency growth programme as required.
• Guarantee communication effectiveness, effectivity, and supply in addition to a rigorous and clear method to planning, monitoring and analysis.

8. Monitoring and analysis

Make sure that communication baselines are established in opposition to which the achievement of goals of the communication technique are often evaluated; evaluation is undertaken to constantly enhance the effectiveness of communication technique, method, and actions; outcomes and stories are ready and shared on a well timed foundation.

Duties & Duties

• Present technical assist to make sure that a set of communication efficiency indicators is recognized and adjusted as vital, and these communication indicators are included or fed forwarded within the Annual Administration Plan, Annual Work Plan, and many others.
• Conduct well timed and correct monitoring and analysis actions to make sure the communications goals are met and the technique is efficient.

• Undertake classes realized evaluation of profitable and unsuccessful communication experiences and share observations/findings with OOI, nation, regional and HQ communication colleagues in order that finest practices profit UNICEF’s communication work.

9. Capability constructing and assist

Make sure that the Senior Adviser (WASH Hub) and the WASH Hub programme staff are supplied with skilled experience and recommendation on all features of exterior relations communication as required; alternatives are recognized and addressed for constructing communication capability among the many WASH Hub communication staff, media and different related companions.

 Duties & Duties

• Advise UNICEF administration, colleagues and employees on media technique and implications for motion and insurance policies proposed.
• Help communication actions by data administration, data alternate and constructing capability of the nation communications staff. Allow applicable advocacy and communication coaching, entry to data, provides and tools, and creating coaching and orientation materials.
• Help the Programme Communication Officer within the growth of communication instruments and/or methods.
• Determine alternatives to strengthen the capability of companions by applicable advocacy and communication coaching.

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

• A sophisticated college diploma (grasp’s or larger) in Communication, Journalism, Public Relations.
• *A primary College Diploma mixed with 2 extra years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma within the area of journalism, communications, exterior relations, public affairs, public relations, or company communications.)
• A minimal of 5 (5 years) of related skilled expertise in progressively accountable and related skilled work expertise in communication, print, broadcast, and/or new media.
• Worldwide and nationwide work expertise.
• Background/familiarity with Emergency conditions.
• Expertise in WASH and/or innovation work is an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language (Danish) 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 part we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this put up 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.

Through the recruitment course of, we take a look at candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges: competency framework here.

 UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. 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 using 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:

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.

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All chosen candidates will endure rigorous reference and background checks and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer extra data to conduct a background verify.

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

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