Location: New York
Organization:UN Children's Fund
Country: USA
The world is the closest it’s ever been to eradicating a disease for only the second time in history. If you are
passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. Help UNICEF reach the final 0.1% of the world’s children, and eradicate polio forever.
Purpose of the Position
Under the guidance and supervision of the Senior Communication Manager, Health, the incumbent will:
• Provide over-all leadership on media, external relations and communication product development, in support of the UNICEF polio eradication interventions globally. This entails providing analysis on media and public relations opportunities and threats, and providing guidance and strategic planning and inputs for the Polio Unit and across the GPEI partnership and with multiple sectors, including, External communications, Communication 4 Development, Training, Media and Advocacy, EPI, and Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Lead the design and implementation of a coherent UNICEF work-plan for media engagement and public information.
• Lead the polio eradication team in the design of electronic media, web pages, social media and publications.
• Provide guidance, standards and quality oversight for Regional and Country Offices media relations, and monitoring and messaging for polio eradication;
• Develop mechanisms and strategies for compilation, dissemination etc of experiences, lessons learned and partner coordination on public communication;
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic development of external communications objectives and key messages, including collaboration with other programme sections, DOC, PARMO, PFP and C4D, and other health section priorities and cross cutting initiatives. Provides overall guidance to the polio team on public relations and stakeholder engagement, including technical and policy advice to C4D and advocacy, resource mobilization focal points to ensure UNICEF polio objectives are reflected in public communication activities and events. Supports implementation, monitoring and evaluation of public communication / media engagement activities for the polio eradication initiative.
- Leads the polio team in oversight and management of communication and media products, including social media (web stories, infographics, PSA’s, film, photography) in line with the objectives and messages of UNICEF’s polio communications strategy. Develops a system of information sharing and repository for all products and supports knowledge management among UNICEF Regional and Country Offices and the GPEI partnership.
- Develop and manage UNICEF polio team media engagement strategy and serve as the focal point, together with DOC, for outreach and media relations. Conduct media landscape analysis, monitor coverage in international media, identify opportunities to improve coverage of GPEI and UNICEF activities and develop strategies and mechanisms to ensure accurate and positive media coverage. Provide policy guidelines and technical support to Regional and Country Offices on media relations, including training and direct contributions to their programme strategies, implementation and evaluation.
- Lead in the development and finalization of external publications, reports, internal and external briefing notes and other written documentation. Develop templates for summarizing UNICEF and GPEI information for knowledge management, to inform UNICEF senior management, partners and to support advocacy activities.
- Lead on GPEI partnership coordination on external communication strategies, messages, activities and press releases. Participates in global forums for communication, advocacy and external relations, provides updates on partnership issues, challenges and events to the polio team and UNICEF senior management.
Qualifications
• Advanced university degree in journalism, public relations or communication sciences (PhD/Master level). Demonstrated understanding of current developments in the field of public communication, knowledge management, development planning and processes, media, strategic communication media monitoring and evaluation. Technical knowledge of methodologies for media analysis
• 8 years of solid experience in public relations and external communication planning, implementation and evaluation across different cultural contexts, with at least 3 years in developing countries. Proven successful experience in strategic media engagement and relations and developing large-scale media strategies. Proven successful experience in knowledge management and communication product development. Knowledge of UN and/or UNICEF’s mandate and work in health and polio eradication
• Fluency in English
How to apply:Closing date: 17 Jul 2013
Please go to http://bit.ly/14MpL8U or visit us at www.unicef.org/about/employ to register in our e-Recruitment system, and search using keyword “polio” for additional details/to apply before deadline.
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