Communications Specialist (Home-Based)

Overview

The Communications Specialist will manage the Fund Secretariat’s digital communications, media relationships and vendors, as well as facilitating communication and knowledge sharing.

Tasks Summary

Manage the Fund Secretariat’s digital communications, media relationships and vendors.
Facilitate communication and knowledge sharing.
Maintain Joint SDG Fund presence in public dialogue.
Develop relationships with key partners to maximize visibility and traffic to digital platforms.
Coordinate the production and publishing of daily content.
Lead on the production of high-quality communications products for print, audio/visual and social media.
Work closely with the Development Coordination Office, Funds and UN Entities to collaborate and share effective communications strategies.
Lead on the identification of new communications opportunities and products.
Cultivate strong internal relationships and partnerships with third party vendors.
Design attractive, engaging and modern visual materials.
Design and develop infographics, posters, leaflets, logos, brochures, reports and any other design required.
Promote optimum visibility of Joint SDG Fund activities through effective media relations.
Produce communication products and materials to support the work of the Joint SDG Fund.
Edit and create short video clips for social media and larger campaigns.
Develop and produce multimedia content, including infographics and video editing.
Conceptualize and implement visual identities and brand guidelines for global campaigns.
Ensure all visual materials align with UN Joint SDG Fund communication strategies.
Lead design projects from conceptualization to completion.
Work in close coordination with design comprehensive workflows for tasks.
Contribute to overseeing and coordinating the design and production of the Joint SDG Fund’s projects.
Participate at various internal and external meetings.
Organize or participate in working groups to streamline graphic design production and workflows.
Ensure the visual’s compliance with all the potential uses needed.
Create robust visual content for campaigns and manage Trello boards.
Develop communication messages into existing Joint SDG Fund initiatives.
Lead the effort of country office’s knowledge management and dissemination.
Identify and synthesize best practices and lessons learned.
Provide substantive and sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
Organize and provide training, consultancy, and advice to UNDP staff on internal and external knowledge management.
Work with the team to ensure all knowledge products are captured, updated, readily available and in the right order.
Perform other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary.

Experience Requirements

Minimum 5 years (with master’s degree) or 7 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant work experience in the field of communications preferably at an international level is required.
Experience in designing communications strategy and materials, public advocacy campaigns, editing articles, and human-interest stories.
Experience in sharing stories and creating boards for social media posts.
Experience forming relationships with web designers/coders, graphic designers and videographers.
Experience managing and working with teams of people particularly in civil society engagement.
Experience in the use of computers applications and software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc) as well as web-based management systems.
UN field experience at the international level is desired.
Knowledge or experience using Drupal is desired.
Experience in private sector engagement is desired.

Qualification Requirements

Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Social Science, Communications, Journalism, or related field is required.
A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.

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