Background

The period of the project is till 31 December 2024. Whereas an exterior candidate might be provided a brief appointment; topic to launch agreements, employees members in UN Girls could also be administered as a brief project and employees members within the UN Widespread system could also be administered beneath a mortgage association.

UN Girls, grounded within the imaginative and prescient of equality enshrined within the Constitution of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination in opposition to girls and ladies; the empowerment of girls; and the achievement of equality between men and women as companions and beneficiaries of growth, human rights, humanitarian motion and peace and safety. Putting girls’s rights on the middle of all its efforts, UN Girls will lead and coordinate United Nations System efforts to make sure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into motion all through the world. It would present robust and coherent management in assist of Member States’ priorities and efforts, constructing efficient partnerships with civil society and different related actors.

The Coverage, Programme, and Intergovernmental Division (PPID) is liable for offering the imaginative and prescient and strategic path on UN Girls’s programmes and coverage initiatives globally and built-in assist to regional and nation places of work. UN Girls’s engagement with Worldwide Geneva displays the deep partnership between the UN System and Switzerland, and an evolving ecology of worldwide help and growth. UN Girls, because the acknowledged chief throughout the UN System for gender equality and the empowerment of girls and ladies, companions with Geneva-based UN Businesses and Organizations to leverage UN-System large assets and capabilities. UN Girls Geneva presence is concentrated on invigorating its function on this vibrant community and contributing important data and affect to catalyze progress in step with worldwide commitments and agreed-upon requirements for gender equality and the empowerment of girls and ladies throughout the fields of humanitarian motion, human rights, catastrophe threat discount, financial empowerment, in addition to peace and safety. Among the major targets of the workplace are:

• Lead the United Nations System dedication to gender equality, girls’s empowerment, and the Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs) in a brand new means that leverages the highly effective complementarity of normative, coordination and operational components of the group’s mandate; and guarantee linkages throughout the humanitarian-development and peace/resilience agenda.
• Affect normative, inter-governmental decision-making processes to include a gender perspective within the resolutions of the Human Rights Council and different related mechanisms and platforms, rising collaboration amongst UN Girls’s companions and stakeholders together with member states, UN companies and civil society organizations.
• Catalyze outcomes for advancing gender equality and girls’s empowerment commitments in sudden onset humanitarian emergencies and protracted crises by UN Girls’s membership within the Inter-Company Standing Committee for Coordination of Humanitarian Help.

In 2023, a document 339 million folks want humanitarian help – a big improve from 274 million folks at first of 2022.[1] Throughout humanitarian contexts, the gendered impacts of crises are starkly evident, and too usually ignored. In recognition of this, there’s a sustained name for UN Girls to strengthen its function within the humanitarian system, notably in mild of its ascension to the IASC in October 2022.

UN Girls’s Humanitarian Technique 2022-2025 guides its response to the world’s most complicated humanitarian crises, looking for to leverage its triple mandate to assist humanitarian actors ship for girls and ladies. By means of this technique,

UN Girls seeks to:

1. Facilitate the mixing of gender equality, and the management of disaster affected girls, into the coordination and implementation of UN-led humanitarian and refugee responses, to strengthen accountability to gender in humanitarian motion commitments (Gender in Humanitarian Motion coordination); and
2. Strengthen safety and livelihood assist to crisis-affected girls and ladies.

Strengthening strategic communications on gender impacts of humanitarian crises and UN Girls’s approaches and partnerships is included as a high precedence within the operational plan guiding the implementation of UN Girls’s humanitarian technique over the past two years of the International Strategic Plan.

Below the steerage and direct supervision of director of UNWOMEN Geneva/Chief of Humanitarian part, the communication specialist will lead the communication and advocacy actions of the UNWOMEN Geneva workplace and can collaborate intently with the Headquarters, Regional, Multi-Nation Workplace and Nation Places of work’ (RO/MCO/CO) colleagues to make sure communications methods, media relations and organizational outreach efforts are aligned with company communications insurance policies and initiatives. The Communications Specialist additionally collaborates with RO/MCO and CO colleagues to assist outreach campaigns, useful resource mobilization and donor relations initiatives with a robust deal with sudden onset emergencies and protracted displacement/humanitarian crises; The Communication Specialist mobilizes assist along side intergovernmental processes and assist the actions and particular occasions organized for UN Girls.

[1] OCHA (2022). International Humanitarian Overview 2023. https://reliefweb.int/report/world/global-humanitarian-overview-2023-enaresfr.

Duties and Duties

1. Lead the event and implementation of communication and outreach/advocacy methods and plans, with a particular deal with media, together with on communications in humanitarian crises

• Conduct communication wants assessments for UNWOMEN Geneva workplace hosted thematic programme areas together with tasks, programmes and company change initiatives.
• Design, develop, and implement communication and outreach/advocacy methods, together with media methods; guarantee gender perspective;
• Combine communication, advocacy and outreach methods into proposals for undertaking/programmes and different initiatives;
• Monitor and analyze print and social media and put together stories;
• Launch in-country UN Girls/ UN system company and native/regional campaigns and particular occasions;
• Present recommendation and steerage to and coordinate with programme managers and staff leads on the programme /undertaking particular communication instruments & methods.

2. Lead the event and dissemination of advocacy supplies within the UNWOMEN Geneva workplace with focus -among different areas- on UN Girls’s humanitarian programming in relation to GIHA coordination and repair supply in addition to partnerships with native actors, together with native girls led organizations

• Develop and produce communication and advocacy devices and supplies, together with briefing supplies, press releases, and articles and coordinate its dissemination by efficient channels;
• Establish and launch info alternatives, actions, approaches and platforms and companions;
• Present recommendation on advocacy supplies and coordinate launching flagship initiatives and publications within the area;
• Lead the engagement and supervision of video producers and different communication specialists to provide audio/ visible materials on UN Girls’s work;
• Develop brochures, factsheets, tales from the sector to tell media and basic public on the regional degree;
• Comply with pointers from and report back to HQ.

3. Handle media relations for the UNWOMEN Workplace

• Lead relationship constructing with press in nation; keep and replace database of related press;
• Reply well timed and clearly to media inquiries and to quite a lot of inquiries and data requests; put together associated correspondence; determine matters, background info, news-related growth and protection of curiosity;
• Manage roundtable discussions, press conferences, and briefing periods with press;
• Facilitate interviews with senior managers; join media with UN Girls topic consultants;
• Finalize speaking factors.

4. Construct and keep partnerships and keep relations with donors

• Establish and develop new communication partnerships and alliances to boost visibility; handle and nurture current partnerships together with making certain visibility of UN Girls’s approaches, outcomes and partnerships in humanitarian settings;
• Liaise with advocacy companions and undertake outreach to civil society organizations, governments, and different teams to make sure that newsworthy info reaches the general public and donors;
• Information and collaborate intently with communication colleagues in different places of work to make sure consistency with company insurance policies, messaging and initiatives;
• Submit packages for programme initiatives for donor evaluate.

5. Oversee the UNWOMEN Geneva workplace on-line presence

• Oversee and keep UNWOMEN Geneva workplace web sites and interanet web page, together with creating design and content material;
• Coordinate the workplace web-presence within the line with company internet coverage;
• Oversee and handle Geneva workplace social media accounts in step with company social media coverage.

6. Facilitate data constructing and sharing

• Establish and synthesize finest practices and classes discovered from UNWOMEN Geneva workplace straight linked to programme targets and actions and guarantee trade of knowledge;
• Design and facilitate coaching on emergency communications additionally facilitating joint initiatives and dialogue with RO and CO communications specialists overlaying emergencies and humanitarian disaster contexts.
• Present coaching and workshops on communication and advocacy as applicable.

The incumbent performs different duties inside their practical profile as deemed obligatory for the environment friendly functioning of the Workplace and the Organisation.

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Range
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies:

• Consciousness and Sensitivity Relating to Gender Points
• Accountability
• Artistic Drawback Fixing
• Efficient Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Main by Instance

Please go to this hyperlink for extra info on UN Girls’s Core Values and Competencies: https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment/application-process#_Values

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:

• Skill to speak sensitively, successfully, and creatively throughout completely different constituencies.
• Robust data of managing web-based data administration programs
• Robust understanding of manufacturing, graphic design, and pictures requirements
• Robust data of social media platforms and expertise in social media outreach
• Robust oral and written communication and enhancing expertise
• Robust communication, networking, and advocacy expertise
• Skill to supply recommendation and be strategic and analytical, together with on points associated to speaking in disaster contexts
• Good data of native nation media panorama
• Data of gender and human rights points is fascinating

Required Abilities and Expertise

Training and Certification:

• Grasp’s diploma (or equal) in communications, public relations, journalism or related area is required
• A primary-level college diploma together with two further years of qualifying expertise could also be accepted in lieu of the superior college diploma.

Expertise:

• Not less than 5 years {of professional} work expertise at nationwide or worldwide degree in public relations, communications or advocacy, together with in media relations;
• Expertise in the usage of social media;
• Expertise in media relations is an asset.

Languages

• Fluency in English is required.
• Data of one other official UN language is fascinating (French, Arabic, Chinese language, Russian or Spanish).

Utility:

All functions should embody (as an attachment) the finished UN Girls Private Historical past type (P-11) which could be downloaded from: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form.doc. Kindly observe that the system will solely enable one attachment. Functions with out the finished UN Girls P-11 type might be handled as incomplete and won’t be thought-about for additional evaluation.

Be aware:

In July 2010, the United Nations Common Meeting created UN Girls, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Girls. The creation of UN Girls happened as a part of the UN reform agenda, bringing collectively assets and mandates for better influence. It merges and builds on the essential work of 4 beforehand distinct elements of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which targeted completely on gender equality and girls’s empowerment.

Range and inclusion:

At UN Girls, we’re dedicated to creating a various and inclusive setting of mutual respect. UN Girls recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes no matter race, faith, colour, intercourse, gender id, sexual orientation, age, means, nationwide origin, or some other foundation lined by applicable regulation. All employment is set on the idea of {qualifications}, competence, integrity and organizational want.

For those who want any affordable lodging to assist your participation within the recruitment and choice course of, please embody this info in your software.

UN Girls has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UN Girls, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All chosen candidates might be anticipated to stick to UN Girls’s insurance policies and procedures and the requirements of conduct anticipated of UN Girls personnel and can subsequently bear rigorous reference and background checks. (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 test.